today is st. joseph's special day and i am gonna celebrate by baking some bread pudding ... i guess that chunks of bread are close enough to bread crumbs, right? and i should probably find something red to wear ... i'm gonna just say no to the fava beans, though
st. patrick's day is Auntia's favorite holiday and she has been celebrating for the past week...
my two wee lassiesi wore my
who's your paddy? shirt ... and Auntia started out with the green hoodie ... she changed her outfit
at least three times on wednesday ... she has
too many green-shamrock-kiss-me-i'm-irish-blarney-stone outfits to wear in just one day ... she even shared two of her hats with NoJo and Gumdrop...
LuLu has about had it with those sproingy shamrocksthey wore them to school ... hats aren't allowed in the building except on holidays
- there were lottsa santa hats around christmas - and
my grandkids were the only ones with st. paddy's day hats ... Auntia has a green piggy bank
that she's saving pennies in for her trip to ireland someday ...
you'd think the woman was more potatoes than pasta, wouldn't you? well ... it just isn't so ... and LuLu likes to give it kisses...
that does not resemble the blarney stone in the slightesti didn't make it to the grocery store last weekend and there was no corned beef in the freezer ... there
was a can of beer left
in the back of the fridge from the six pack that Michael Myson bought for beer bread last year ... but i didn't get the beer bread made, either ... i
did manage to defrost the package of green-tinted snoballs that i found in the freezer ... and Auntia baked some
very special brownies (
no - not that kind) from a recipe that she found on the land o'lakes website ... we drank irish coffee
heavy on the irish and ate the brownies for dinner ... i heard Auntia mumbling something about
what kinda feast was it gonna be without corned beef and beer bread and i thought
the kinda feast that doesn't make the house reek ... anywho ... yesterday i went out and bought corned beef and cabbage and potatoes and green powdered sugar donuts ... the corned beef is finally on the stove
- making its presence known by the nasty smell of boiling meat and foamy scum ... i like corned beef, but i think someone else should do the cooking for me - and soon
after i've boiled the h-e-double-hockey-sticks out of it i will put it in the crock pot and slather a glaze all over it ... then i will stir up a loaf of beer bread and bake it next to the bread pudding ... i think that saints should play nicely together
tonight is the
Friday Night Sew-In ... my jammies are already calling to me
