“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 The first year we were married, we heard about the German tradition of decorating the Christmas tree on Christmas eve. I was working … More Everything Beautiful in Time: a Welcome
In the past few years, I’ve developed a ritual of baking bread during Lent. Not only does a loaf of fresh bread round out a simple meal nicely, but baking bread has become a study in mindfulness for me. It is necessarily a slow process; laborious enough that the finished product begs attention, awareness, gratitude. … More Irish Soda Bread, two ways.
“Potaje de garbanzos y espinacas,” from Claudia Roden’s The food of Spain, is “the Castilian version of a thick soup that is eaten in many parts of Spain during Lent, when it is known as garbanzos de vigilia (meaning ‘chickpeas of abstinence’).” With bread and a salad (not pictured), it is a simple yet special meal. … More Greens, eggs, and the first signs of spring.
In Due Season 