While the weather sometimes dictates how we eat, when it comes to Mexican spice it really doesn’t matter if its 40 degrees outside (best time for spice) or triple digits. Take a dip in the pool, stand under the fan, whatever it takes to let you eat spicy Mexican foods.
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Saint Veronica of the Veil
There are more Catholic recognized saints than there are days in a year. If we wanted to, we could celebrate each day with a dedication to a different saints for the next 27 years and not have celebrated them all. Yeah, that’s a lot of saints.
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When ordering breakfast at a diner, what do you typically order? Going out to breakfast is my absolute favorite meal, if after breakfast I’m just heading home.
Continue reading “Slow Down at Breakfast Time”Welcome to a Catholic Friday
When Fridays roll around one of the hardest things to do for me is to cook a meal for just two people. Oh sure, I could cook in my usual fashion, but that would create way, way more left overs than we could possibly eat.
Continue reading “Welcome to a Catholic Friday”Pampered Chefs and Sugar Cookies
Are Pampered Chef Parties still a thing? I wouldn’t know. These are the types of parties you attend when your kids are still kids. The invites seem to come from the mothers of classmates or women you know from the PTA.
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It’s a Wednesday – and that’s a Wild Card Day for us. It means thinking out of the box. Sometimes you just gotta break the mold. But with Hubby, it also means don’t go to extremes.
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I grew up in the shadow of a big city, Sacramento. While our mailing address said Sacramento, as a young girl tiny hamlet of Florin was truly home.
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Every now and again, I like to reach back into my bag of past inspirations – like celebrating a particular state. Today just happens to be Hawaii Day. There are a lot of ways to bring the feel of Hawaii home, but the Filipino in me wants to celebrate with a delicacy that once was a symbol of wealth.
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Growing up there are certain things you just take for granted without much thought to sentimental meaning. The 4th of July meant back yard barbecues, fireworks and running about with sparklers in our hands.
Continue reading “Celebrating 250 Years of Independence”A Saint Filled with Doubts
Saint Thomas should stand as a great example for all of us – those who have embraces faith with zeal right from the beginning, and especially those of us who have struggled with doubt.
Continue reading “A Saint Filled with Doubts”How ‘Bout a Navajo Tuesday?
Many, many moons ago, in a prior life, Hubby and I discovered what Mountain Man Rendezvous and Pow Wows were all about. I don’t know if Hubby was a history buff before we got together or if he caught the bug from me.
Continue reading “How ‘Bout a Navajo Tuesday?”The Callings of Peter and Paul
Saints Peter and Paul are two of the most unlikely pair to share a feast day, and yet they do. Peter, the Rock on which Christ established His church. And Paul, born a Jew, but as a Roman Citizens, persecuted converts to the new Christian faith.
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Growing up, I had never even heard of Eggs Benedict. At least I don’t think I had. It wasn’t until Hubby and I got married that my culinary world began to open up in a very strange way.
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Today is one of those rare feast days that comes to the Church through its rich oral tradition. Oral tradition is truly the building blocks of our faith. Before there was written scripture there were the oral traditions.
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It’s interesting to see opposing trends happing simultaneously. It’s a shame that these trends are also splitting much of the country in two. There’s the left and the right. Nearly all Christians aline more to the right. I don’t think that has changed over the years.
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