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Happy Easter
Apr. 9th, 2023 10:11 pmTo those who celebrate, Happy Easter
Mostly I spent it editing and grading and cooking. ALL of that took me longer than anticipated.
My parents sent me the YouTube of the last Sunday Mass at St. Anne's (Call it Isidore the Farmer all you want, no one is calling it that. It was St Anne's for 100 years) I'm sharing it (who knows maybe one of you author types wants to see what a Catholic mass looks like).
Mostly sharing it for me and I still love that statue of Mary. I took care of her for decades. I also like the play of light through the stained glass on the walls on either side of the altar.
Trader Joe's Beer bread with cheese. Underwhelming (though to be fair I messed up a three ingredient bake so there's that I'm seriously worried about my memory some days)
French Onion Soup. Yes I ran out of Swiss. I thought i had some. I was wrong. For my money this was the best part of dinner. Kroger has a habit of putting old produce in the red mesh bags and anything in the bag is 99 cents. Often it's still too much for how crappy the produce is but they had bunches of onions like this. Onions hold up well. I bought two bags, had a dozen onions. Tried to put them all in it but my electric skillet couldn't hold them all so I better figure out what else to do with this. (I was using Alton Brown's recipe)
Red wine braised lamb shank with asparagus alla Romana (with butter overrun!) Here's the thing in spit of having onion/carrots/celery/garlic in red wine, beef broth, tomato paste and multiple aromatics there was so much fat/collagen in that shank that the aromatics were lost. It came out well but was too much work to eat and there was SO much collagen my fingers ended up glued together. I don't think I'd do it again.
Mostly I spent it editing and grading and cooking. ALL of that took me longer than anticipated.
My parents sent me the YouTube of the last Sunday Mass at St. Anne's (Call it Isidore the Farmer all you want, no one is calling it that. It was St Anne's for 100 years) I'm sharing it (who knows maybe one of you author types wants to see what a Catholic mass looks like).
Mostly sharing it for me and I still love that statue of Mary. I took care of her for decades. I also like the play of light through the stained glass on the walls on either side of the altar.
Trader Joe's Beer bread with cheese. Underwhelming (though to be fair I messed up a three ingredient bake so there's that I'm seriously worried about my memory some days) French Onion Soup. Yes I ran out of Swiss. I thought i had some. I was wrong. For my money this was the best part of dinner. Kroger has a habit of putting old produce in the red mesh bags and anything in the bag is 99 cents. Often it's still too much for how crappy the produce is but they had bunches of onions like this. Onions hold up well. I bought two bags, had a dozen onions. Tried to put them all in it but my electric skillet couldn't hold them all so I better figure out what else to do with this. (I was using Alton Brown's recipe) Red wine braised lamb shank with asparagus alla Romana (with butter overrun!) Here's the thing in spit of having onion/carrots/celery/garlic in red wine, beef broth, tomato paste and multiple aromatics there was so much fat/collagen in that shank that the aromatics were lost. It came out well but was too much work to eat and there was SO much collagen my fingers ended up glued together. I don't think I'd do it again.
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