Vespers at Etzelsbach

  Let us look upon her likeness: a woman of middle age, her eyelids heavy with much weeping, gazing pensively into the distance, as if meditating in her heart upon everything that had happened.  On her knees rests the lifeless body of her son, she holds him gently and lovingly, like a precious gift.  We [...]

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Crostata

Discovered this a couple of weeks ago. A very common, standard Italian dish. Made it on Saturday. Will be making it again.  You should try it. It plays a tart or pie-like function but it’s made with a shortbreadish-type of dough.  Very easy and wonderful.  The filling for this one was some blueberry filling I’d made [...]

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Oriented

Here’s the thing: I went to Mass. Not here in the ‘Ham. Somewhere else. When I go to Mass I try very hard to leave any Critic Hat I might be harboring at the door. Often unsuccessfully of course. (I say that as a caveat. As an attempt  to divert the Giant Internet Hand of [...]

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