Saturday Evening Recipe

Andouille Sausage was on sale the other day, so we picked up a few packages. I've never had it, nor cooked with it, so tonight was experimental. Dinner was pretty good, so I decided to share with you what I did: Step 1: 1 c brown rice 2 c chicken stock 4-5 cloves of garlic I hate cooking rice. I while ago, I started...

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More Papal Conclave News

Check back here for links and information about the Conclave! I have posted a different article with the time tables for checking for White Smoke! Yesterday Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, SJ released a schedule for the sessions of the conclave to elect a new pope, set to begin Tuesday, March 12, including a...

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Pope Alarm

Those wonderful people over at Focus Ministries have set up the Pope Alarm. This is your answer to "what happens if the pope is elected in the morning??!!!"  All you do is sign up, give your phone number for a text message or your email address to have an email sent when the white smoke starts to appear. According to...

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7 Quick Takes – V

  Last night Joshua and I put together two lasagnas to bake and freeze. One has meat, the other doesn't. I don't know which one is which and you can't tell from the outside. Oh well, I guess that we won't be eating those on a Friday. Our noodles were homemade, as was the sauce. The filling is made up of ricotta...

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Hanging in There

The baby has not arrived yet, but I am not close to my due date yet. I had a midwife appointment today and that went pretty well. My blood pressure is nice and low, but not too low. I asked for an internal exam, partly because I wanted to know where I was, but also because my midwife lives 45 minutes away and I tend...

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Baby Baby Baby

Wow, just thinking about when the other babies arrived, I could have a new babe in arms in just over a week. Margaret and Benedict both arrived one week before their estimated due dates, while Karol was a bit late and Caecilia was four days late. My estimated due date with this baby is the Feast of St. Joseph (on the...

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Something that Bugs Me

The Church, in her Wisdom has given us the Ordinary Form of the Mass. We, as a Church, are currently blessed with the option (in most places) to attend Mass using the Ordinary Form or the Extraordinary Form. Both are valid in the eyes of the Church and both have beauty and both can be done well or done horribly. I've...

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Cake Save

I managed to save the cake! I decided to just make the cake a trifle and set about putting it together. I managed to put too much milk in the frosting and ran out of powdered sugar, so I added cocoa powder and turned it into chocolate mint frosting. I then whipped up some cream, without sugar, to help cut  the...

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