What’s in the Pantry?

  • 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

  • Tea Reviews

    St. James Darjeeling Tea * Taylors of Harrogate Assam Tea * Harney and Sons Decaffeinated Earl Grey ** Bleh. You get what you pay for. This has spoiled me. Continue reading

  • Schokinag Drinking Chocolate

    If you have a chocolate lover on your gift list this Christmas, or maybe you’re a chocolate lover yourself, you can’t miss with these: Schokinag Drinking Chocolates My favorite: The TRIPLE CHOCOLATE DRINKING CHOCOLATE. The name says it all, don’t… Continue reading

  • Feast and Famine

    On the same day. Woke up quite late, because I had stayed up ’til 3 am migrating stuff. Decided to make “lazy suman” (rice cooker, glutinous rice, half a can of coconut milk, 2 teaspoons salt, enough water to reach… Continue reading

  • Storing Whole Foods

    From BloomingFoods.org – Storage tips for grains, oils, nuts, etc. Continue reading