Angels and food
We’ve talked already about how it’s silly for me to celebrate angel days with food, since angels don’t eat. Even though my children have learned to work the system. In the Bible we see angels bringing food to people. The…
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Tuesday morning, I prayed the rosary with a sick baby in bed with me, two cats curled up on either side, and a strange bird singing just outside the window. I’m not an ornithologist, but I recognize the commonly-heard bird…
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Would you walk a mile for a cinnamon bun?
Hey, the weblog tour is back! What’s the farthest you have traveled for food? Did you fly across the country just so you could have the perfect bowl of clam chowder? Did you cross the state line just for a…
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Little House on the Mass Market
Laura woke up bright and early on Thursday morning, pulled her blue cotton dress over her head, and raced down the ladder. Mary was already eating breakfast, and Ma greeted her cheerfully while ladeling oatmeal into a ceramic bowl. “Brush…
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Monday morning silliness
About three years ago, I participated in a mother’s group where we usually brought our own coffee. Just starting out, we had no budget for snacks and no coffee maker, plus we never knew how many moms would attend. Could…
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A tale of two carrot peelers
At Thanksgiving, we forgot our carrot peeler at my mother’s house. Easily remedied, I thought: I would buy another one. Yeah, because if it were that simple, I’d be writing a weblog entry about it six months later, right? Hah. …
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Easter Bread!!!
My kids long for Easter. The glory of the Resurrection? That’s nice, but what they really crave is Easter Bread, also known as “casarella” (which is pronounced, for some reason, “casadeel” in my family’s special Foggianese dialect that makes the…
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In which I reveal a Great Theological Truth(tm)
After careful observation of the four Philangelus children, I’ve reached a conclusion: Jesus must have been fully divine. Bear with me on this. All four Gospel accounts talk about Jesus multiplying bread to feed thousands of people. And the Gospel…
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An unrepentant food thief
On Saturday night, the baby woke up at 10PM and threw up all over me. He’s not a spitty baby, so this augured Bad Things. Sure enough, when I woke up Sunday morning, everyone else’s breakfast smelled like compost, and…
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Death by cookbook
Kiddo#3 saw my copy of the Settlement Cookbook. “Why you have another cookbook?” he asked. I said that some recipes weren’t in every cookbook, and that this had been Grandma E’s cookbook. He said, “She gave it to you?” No,…
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