He Is Risen!

We had the privilege today to celebrate the Risen Lord with a number of friends. The no-longer-blogging Gorfchild kept our guests from being too impatient while waiting for me to finish cooking by playing his guitar and leading us in some worship songs. I forgot to put the sweet potatoes in the [...]

A Visit to Santorini

We didn’t fly off to Greek Isles yesterday, we just drove up to Chicago. The Husband needed to pick up a rather large box of ’stuff’ for work and he’s been wanting to make it a Romantic Outing for about 2 wks. Yesterday we were finally able to get away, many thanks to [...]

Flattery Bread

“They” say that imitation is the highest form of flattery so Helen should considered herself praised from afar. And she passed on the recipe from Saffron so there’s all sorts of flattery going on here.
I made the chappatis tonight as the replacement for pita in my pseudo-gyros. Next time [...]

Respite from Rice

When I was shopping on Saturday I found they had dropped the price of a bunch of lamb shoulder steaks by 40% b/c they were a day from expiration.  Any time you have some lamb about to expire, I’ll take it.  I grew up eating lamb b/c we raised them but I’m too stingy to [...]