It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer […]
Category: Celebrate with Food!
Quirky holiday menus for family dinner fun! This is an expansion and fine tuning of my mom’s practice of celebrating big and little holidays at meal time, giving us insight into different cultures, exposing us to new foods and saving her sanity by making dinner fun.
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April Fool’s Day – April 1
Did you know that the new year used to be celebrated on April 1st? If you think about spring and new growth, this makes sense. When the Christian world changed to the Gregorian calendar, the new year began on January 1, and then the fun began. Because the world lacked internet and global news distribution, […]
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St. Patrick’s Day – March 17
O.K., so we have this celebration today, late but better than never. I must confess that I have a different perspective on St. Patrick’s Day this year. I grew up thinking that I was Irish, and every year we celebrated with corned beef and cabbage in March. This year, however, I found out that […]
Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday in French and is known in countries other than France and the United States as Carnival. What began as a pagan fertility celebration to ward off evil for the new year became a time of fun and merrymaking before abstaining from meat and making other sacrifices during Lent to honor Jesus’ […]
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Happy Birthday, PattyCake!
In honor of my youngest sister’s birthday today I’m posting the recipe she requested for Coconut Macaroons. Sure cake and ice cream may be traditional, but anything delicious is a celebration, especially when made with love! Coconut Macaroons Makes 8 large macaroonsAdapted from Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess Preheat oven to 325 […]
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Disclaimer
Let it be known that while I’m trying to include balanced menus, the recipes included in this blog are intended to be for FUN and to taste good according to me and my family, which means that any nutrition will be somewhat coincidental. Although I’m all for organic, low fat, whole grain, etc. that is […]
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Thanks to Mom
The inspiration? My Mom. Some people are cooks by choice and training; some have cooking thrust upon them. My mom fits into the latter category with six kids, fixing three meals a day for 20+ years resulting in over 175,000 meals! My own experience raising four children is that it’s a daunting and often […]