I made a tiramisu for our parish supper last night. (No pictures, sorry! Some day I'll get better at taking them.) I actually had people compliment me on it and at least two requests for the recipe I used. So here you go: Beth's Tiramisu 1 Sponge cake (I used the recipe here*, I used fresh milled soft white wheat and...
A friend of mine recently made a comment in passing about some of the things I do to keep the cost of running a family down. I started pondering the things we do around here to keep costs down, like buying in bulk or finding the store that has the best prices and wanted to share them. As with most families, your...
Nine years ago this week, we found out that I had miscarried our first baby. I wasn't very far along and I didn't know if the baby was a boy or a girl, but I was certain I was expecting a girl, so we named her Gianna Marie, in honor of the great St. Gianna and for Our Lady. We were blessed to have her with us,...
Yesterday we feasted while the Bridegroom was with us. After Mass we had eggs with bacon, potatoes and cheese, then worked on cracking some pecans for a cookie bar later. (Oh and watched the Red Wings lose.) Later in the day some friends came over and we did burgers on the grill. We make our burgers small, so you can...
Last night we went to Mass (which was followed by Stations of the Cross, Confession and Adoration, nice) so I needed to make something that could be made ahead of time but eaten as soon as we got home. Tuna casserole fits the bill for that need perfectly. My tuna casserole was a bit iffy when I took it out of the...
Ash Wednesday was a day of fasting, so there isn't much to tell about what we ate around here. The kids ate full meals at each meal time, oatmeal with peaches for breakfast, bread, butter, cottage cheese, and fruit at lunch, and leftover fish and peas for dinner. For my full meal (which Joshua and I had when we got...
This year, I have been working on ways to make my grocery budget less of the "I have no idea what I'm spending each month" and more of the "I have $X to spend on groceries this month and this is what I did with it" type. As we were nearing the season of Lent, I was thinking of meals we could have that would be...
I made a German Chocolate Cake for Joshua's birthday on Sunday. I will say I did a pretty good job. I didn't actually have a bar of the German chocolate, instead I used 16 tablespoons of cocoa powder, 6 tablespoons of sugar, and 4 tablespoons of coconut oil, heated in the microwave and stirred.) ...
Happy feast day to this little girl!