Farmer Wannabe

  • Sausage on Curried Lentils and Rice

    This is one of those use-what-you-have recipes, so I don’t provide amounts. Continue reading

    Sausage on Curried Lentils and Rice

  • Grilled Tuna on White Bean Salad

    A super-quick and easy salad to put together, topped with grilled tuna. Canned tuna can be subbed, of course, just so happened that my local fresh fish monger (Seafood Station) had some fresh tuna and I couldn’t pass it up.… Continue reading

    Grilled Tuna on White Bean Salad

  • Sticky Toffee Pudding

    This is a dessert that not a lot of people talk about these days, though knowing that fads come and go, I’m sure one day people will remember it and start looking for the recipe again. I love this recipe… Continue reading

    Sticky Toffee Pudding

  • A Mother’s Prayer

    Years and years ago when my kids were still little, I came across this prayer in a newspaper (might have been Our Sunday Visitor), that a mom said she prayed every night after tucking her kids into bed. It was… Continue reading

    A Mother’s Prayer

  • The Fifth Joyful Mystery: A Tale of Two Vocations

    For the past several months I’ve been meditating a lot on the Fifth Joyful Mystery, more than I used to. For one thing, I had been wondering why this mystery is called JOYFUL. Whenever I read or hear the Gospel… Continue reading

    The Fifth Joyful Mystery: A Tale of Two Vocations

  • The Gift of Cancellation

    Cancel Culture isn’t new, though the phrase is (relatively). People have always cut off ties when relationships no longer work for them. Anyone who has lost friends/a significant other knows this. Social media just made it worse — “friendships” became “easier”,… Continue reading

    The Gift of Cancellation

  • Bulbs, Bulbs, Bulbs!

    It’s fall! BRRRRR….. Our garden is in constant need of improving. It causes me a good bit of stress because I *love* gardens and yet not much grows (that’s worthy of note, we do have plenty of weeds 🙂 )… Continue reading

  • Rabbits

    …. are really only lovely and adorable in books. In real life, they are mean things that deserve to be put in paella. Yesterday, I had 6 beautiful, unopened crocus buds. We were looking forward to taking pictures and sketching… Continue reading

  • Rod Dreher and Michael Pollan Table Talk

    Two of my favorite writers — Rod Dreher and Michael Pollan — talk food. Must read! Some helpful resources: Slow Food USA Local Harvest Eat Wild And information: a YouTube Playlist: Torn From the Land: The story of the take… Continue reading

  • April Shower of Photos, Day 15

    Playing with photo editing software Continue reading