What a full day.
I am having a hard time falling asleep at night,
but manage to sleep in so I am not terrible sleep deprived per say,
Thank God for that.
I was able to do some laundry, pick up house, read,
including a bit on in the large biography on Fr Seraphim Rose which is
quite enlightening about what is going on in the word.
So many things I had questions of for so long and Fr Seraphim is going
very far in answering them.
I am taking notes in my lovely new journal...
***
I saw a friend for lunch, which was really nice and full.
Came home, talked to my Mother,
Husband came home.
We talked.
I made a simple beef stroganoff from my new Amish cookbook.
It was basic ~ make a meatball with the 1 lb of beef (I need to mince the onions finer I think),
brown the meatballs and then add can of cream of mushroom soup
and 1/4 cup of water, simmer, covered, for 30 minutes and serve over buttered hot noodles.
It turned out well, but I accidentally let the gravy part burn down.
So I need to watch that next time.
I would like to make better meatballs (I need to look up my Mother's recipe)
and also make a better mushroom gravy sauce,
but this recipe, with the one change of not adding 1/4 cup water
but instead 1/4 cup milk, did flavour the meatballs in a wonderful way.
We went to a lecture tonight which has
produced a lot of discussion at home.
I always find myself thinking,
why did I not know these things when I was in my 20s?
why do I not remember any of my professors talking about what
is going on in current thought and culture?
I am glad, at any rate, that there are people still talking about things
like I heard tonight.
***
We are still being both challenged and taken care of in our
personal unbloggable hard.
Husband is thinking of reading some commentaries on Job.
I commented that a lot of our unbloggable hard came out of the blue,
totally unseen and unexpected.
Husband said Job's did too and that Job had it much much worse than we,
but I knew that....
***
I am sure that when I look back at this time,
I will see the mercy of God and how He took
such good care of us during these days.
***
Surely the mercy of God will follow us all of our days...
5 comments:
I have a super easy stroganoff recipe (it's not even really a recipe). I use 1# ground beef and brown it in a pan with an onion diced pretty finely. Let the onion get brown but not burned. Break up the meat as you go. Mix the onion and ground beef together. Add 1 tsp. of Better Than Boullion Beef base (no water, just the base) or use a boullion cube and mix it through. Add salt and pepper to taste (probably 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper, but I usually just eye it). Mix in 8 oz. of sour cream and heat through (but don't boil). Serve over buttered noodles or lettuce. I eat low carb, so I often have it over eggs.
Yes, HE is taking care of you two. Your home is warm and full. Your pursuit of Him is true.
Amen to what Pom Pom said. I don't know what the situation is, but God is with you in it. And you have many things to be thankful for. Praying for you! :)
I'll send along my favorite meatball recipe, too, as soon as I get it in a form where I can just send a link. My paternal grandparents were Swedish, and my grandmother's Swedish meatballs are absolutely wonderful. They bear no relationship whatsoever to that stuff hawked by IKEA! They involve sliced onions cooked until they're clear and sweet, and nutmeg, and a from-scratch cream sauce.
Having described them, I think I'm going to have to make them. They're that good!
Linda ~ I would LOVE to have your favourite meatball recipe!!! please do share it with me!!! YUM!!!
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