Friday and a blur of days

I made beef stroganoff. 

I think this is one of my most favourite pictures of this week.

The week has been good, busy and trying to not have it too busy

but it is very full. 

Lesson: if you forget and add the sour cream at the beginning of the cooking,

just add more at the end (what I did not do until had this again 2 days later)

and it will taste more like it should... 

These muffins are from an older Joy of Cooking recipe and

my local friend brought them to tea and I still have not had time

to make it myself, but hope to tomorrow...

I had a lovely lunch with this friend from our local church...

and a good walk too!

Cleo loving on my beloved red satchel. 

She's having some litter box issues.

I have researched it and am trying some new ideas

next week, once everything I ordered comes.

I had a very beautiful tea, that I want to share more about later,

with another local friend this week,

we had not had tea in months and it was so nice to catch up.

We are studying an incredible book at my local church:

Acquiring the Mind of Christ: Embracing the Vision of the Orthodox Church 

by Abbot Sergius Bowyer

My quilting friend and I tried the lovely

White Truffle (translated from Dutch) tea.

It's lovely, very rich, fragrant... 

 I got out every jam and dessert topping I have in the fridge for the lunch!

As you can see, I have a fridge full of goodies, just waiting for friends to come

and share them with! 

We had crepes for lunch on Thursday...

Did I mention that we had a mishap 2 weeks ago with a grocery delivery?

they are being much more careful with the kombucha bottles now...

Picture from last night's dinner of left overs.

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Pray for Issac Lamberetson (now tonsured as Monk Joseph) as he is 

battling cancer.

Many of the Akathists we have in English are his work

and we owe a great deal to him in this way!

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I've managed a walk Mon-Thursday.

Will keep trying...

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Don't worry if I don't always blog like I used to,

it's just that I am trying to balance a lot of things and still

have the rest and quiet I need...

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Thanks everyone for your encouragement on Monday and your prayers!

May God save and protect us!
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Edited to add:



Forgot to mention that thanks to Anna I have been
listening to some very lovely piano music that has brightened up this week.

Yesterday ~ One Month

Last Thursday I made crepes for the first time.
My husband and I had Breton crepes in
Quebec City
twice.
*
Later we were graciously gifted a
crepe pan, recipe book and mix
after the giver heard of how much
we loved the crepes
on our honeymoon.
*
Above is my first successful crepe!

It took two goes to get the batter to fill all
of the pan at once;
I realized that I needed more batter than
the instructions were telling me.

It took a while longer to learn to make
and fold them while cooking...
This is my savory crepe with
mozzarella and egg.
It was good and quite filling.

We also had the dessert crepes
that we had in Quebec City:
crepes with French Vanilla Ice Cream
and Strawberries.
*
We loved these so much that we went back
to the same crepe place the last day of our honeymoon!
*
Hard to believe how much has been done since we got home
and that yesterday was our
one month anniversary...
*
I have recipes for similar things from my
Ottawa-Ukrainian mother that
I hope to make soon as well.
It's a great pan,
a French blue steel crepe pan
and is a very unexpected blessing and gift!
One I hope to make use of for years to come.