Friday the 29th: Food for Easter

 *From the bottom: chickpea and rice dish

*Flourless chocolate cake with whipped cream and berries

*The joys of Easter dinner

*Lemon cream cheese coffee cake

*Just the chocolate cake without the toppings 

Thursday the 28th: Food of the Week

 *Tomorrow will be Margarita Pizza or Rigatoni with Meatballs.

*Today is going to be leftovers or food out, depending if we have house showings tonight or not.

*Yesterday was sweet and sour pork chops.

*Tuesday was a sheet pan dinner of gnocchi and veggies (including butternut squash). It needed more onion but otherwise was very nice.

*Monday we had beef stir fry with rice.

*Sunday we did a lemon roast chicken with lemon oregano potatoes.

 

Wednesday the 27th: Music of the Week

 *I'm down to my last two Masses here in the area before our move. One was added at the last minute, but I'll have a good cantor, and the other is at one of my long time parishes. It will be bittersweet, but every day I'm becoming more reconciled to the adventure that moving will be.

*I've also been able to go back to my personal music, so I'm back to C major 4 octave scale, part of Widor's Toccata, and part of FFIX music. 

Tuesday the 26th: Food and Hair

 Sometimes I get on a roll of taking pictures of our food, whether it be burgers and fries or sheet pan gnocchi with lots of veggies and sausage. I also got probably my last hair cut before the move in April.

 

 

Monday the 25th: Saint of the Week

 Today is St. Bede the Venerable, given that title even in his own lifetime for his learning and preservation of knowledge. An English Benedictine monk of the 7th and 8th centuries, he wrote the history of the Anglo-Saxon Church for his time.

Quote from one of his homilies about Mary: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, any my spirit rejoices in God my savior." With these words Mary first acknowledges the special gifts she has been given.
Above all other saints, she alone could truly rejoice in Jesus, her savior, for she knew that he who was the source of eternal salvation would be born in time in her body, in one person both her own son and her Lord.
"For the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name." Mary attributes nothing to her own merits. She refers all her greatness to the gift of one whose essence is power and whose nature is greatness, for he fill with greatness and strength the small and the weak who believe in him.
She did well to add: "and holy is his name," to warn those who heard, and indeed all who would receive his words, that they must believe and call upon his name. For they too could share in everlasting holiness and true salvation according to the words of the prophet: "and it will come to pass, that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." This is the name she spoke of earlier when she said "and my spirit rejoices in God my savior."

 (Picture from Pinterest traced to https://www.stbedes.org/about/st-bede?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic)

  

Friday the 22nd: Food of the Week

 *Tonight is meatballs and mashed potatoes. The Husband likes his with a red sauce, and I use the Potenza Meatballs recipe from The Bread Monk. The mashed potatoes are a little difficult since we don't have a masher, but I think I will make them more smashed and trust they'll come together.

*Yesterday I made a dill and horseradish potato salad. It had no mayo, which was nice, and instead used olive oil and horseradish and mustard and lemon juice and herbs to make a nice creamy sauce. We had it with parmesan chicken from Aldi's. This was also the day that the boy cleaned out every leftover from the fridge for his lunch.

*Wednesday we had peanut butter, honey, cayenne pepper, and bacon sandwiches on cinnamon bread. 

*Tuesday was sausage patties and a fruit salad. I used apple, banana, grape, mango, nectarine, and plums. 

*Monday the boy made hash brown sheet pan casserole and green beans with shallots and lemon from hi Betty Crocker cookbook. He did a great job.

*Sunday we had cornmeal fried pork chops with goat cheese smashed potatoes. I definitely have more energy for cooking as we reach the end of the school year and my looming unemployment.

Wednesday the 20th: Music of the Week

 *Tomorrow is my last day of work so I played notes for some choir builders today. Last Wednesday was the last time my choir director directed me, which may sound minor but felt like a big deal. It was also the last time I heard the school sing the Alma Mater, which affected me more than I thought.

*I play three Masses this weekend and two of those will be my last time at those parishes.