As a preacher’s kid, Elijah the Fishbite was one of my favorite elementary chapter books. My son Jared and daughter Manda loved the story as well. Cat-lovers, all, I have very fond memories of sitting on our old blue sectional all cuddled up cooing over the old fashioned illustrations and reading the story, one chapterContinue reading “Elijah the Fishbite by Agnes Sligh Turnbull”
Category Archives: Domestic Bliss
Good Cheer
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness. Not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
Ease
Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff. — Robert Eliot, writer
Cat Ego
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. — Christopher Hitchens
July 24, 2021 Beefy Eggplant Parmigiana
About this time every year we face the challenge of using the remaining produce canned or frozen from last year. There are a few freezer bags of tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, peppers, and kale taking up real estate in the deep freezer from 2020. There are still several jars of pickled banana peppers and chutney fromContinue reading “July 24, 2021 Beefy Eggplant Parmigiana”
July 23, 2021 Air-Fried Herb-Crusted Salmon with Zucchini Curls
We had a nice piece of salmon thawed in the meat drawer of the fridge that I wanted to prepare tonight for dinner. And of course we have all this zucchini. I am challenging myself to come up with creative, delicious, novel ways to serve up this vegetable – after all I don’t want toContinue reading “July 23, 2021 Air-Fried Herb-Crusted Salmon with Zucchini Curls”
July 22, 2021 Chicken and Avocado Salsa
For tonight’s dinner I pulled a couple of chicken breasts from the freezer and put them in the roaster to thaw. James offered to grill them and that sounded like a good idea but he is so busy putting up the siding to our house that I didn’t want him to take the time outContinue reading “July 22, 2021 Chicken and Avocado Salsa”
Sticky Buns
the friar patch 