Homemaker

  • 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
  • Poulet Basquaise (Chicken Basque-Style) for St. Bernadette’s Feast Day, April 16

    When we visited Lourdes in 2008, we ate a chicken dish at this restaurant, but I don’t remember much about it except that it had a winey sauce with a bit of bite, and that it had peppers, which I… Continue reading

  • Scripture, Beauty, Art, Chesterton: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    Today’s reading was a bit WOW for me, I’m kinda left speechless, so I’m limiting my “response reflection” to music and art. Here’s where I “journeyed” today…. some of my favorite Scripture verses. I thought it would be interesting to… Continue reading

  • A Summer Menu

    Last week, we spent a couple of days prepping and cooking for Saturday. We had some favorite people over as Aisa’s leaving for a 10-week internship in Michigan, Paco’s leaving for 7 (though he’ll be home on the weekends) and… Continue reading

  • Menu for the Week

    Sigh. So this gluten-free thing isn’t really working yet, as I still have a ton of stuff to get rid of from pantry, fridge, freezer. So next phase of the project is to get rid of everything. Hubby meanwhile (who’s… Continue reading