{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, like of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
Having had a rather Spartan Lent (a function of having the kids gone), we truly enjoyed our Easter breaking of the fast!
We had a glorious dinner (and I see as I take a little spin through my Easter archives that I never do manage to record it, but trust me: roast lamb, asparagus, spring greens with fennel and orange, soft rolls, ba’lawa, cappuccino brownies made by Deirdre, and honey lavender chocolate chip ice cream — must post that one for you, which of course will entail making it again, what a hardship!).
The photos stopped at breakfast, and if you can manage to make the faux puff pastry and stash some away, this almond and chocolate tarte will be easy for you. I will post about it another day.
We had baked eggs, à la Suki (with prosciutto):
A good amount of thick-cut bacon:
Habou’s coffee cake with pears:
How was your Easter? (By the way, I was feeling particularly gratified that I totally got Deirdre yesterday with my April Fool prank here. She could not believe that we would change things so drastically without consulting her!)
On to our links:
We pray for the repose of the soul of Mother Angelica — may her memory be eternal! I wonder if people know what a rebel she was. Her TV network, EWTN, can seem very “church establishment” in a way that might throw us back to the pre-conciliar days, if church TV networks were a thing then. But they weren’t, and the story of how she came to rule that space — in direct confrontation with the bishops of the United States — is one that might surprise you. I always take heart at her feisty and outspoken ways. If you want to read her bio, get Raymond Arroyo’s book. It’s really inspiring — we need to be braver! I know I do.
Fr. Schall on Pope Benedict’s recent interview.
I just want to be sure that you know, for yourself or for a friend, about NaPro Technology. A woman’s body is a delicate and complicated thing — it’s not at all binary, yet most doctors approach it as such. A doctor we know once said, “If all you have is a hammer (The Pill), then everything is a nail.” As the trend in “women’s health” is more and more to treat women as if our bodies are machines that can be forced into functioning (and to define what functioning means apart from the reality), it behooves us to know that there is a better, simultaneously more scientific and ethical way to approach the female body.
Speaking of health matters, here is a paper about the inadvisability of extracting wisdom teeth as a matter of course (or rite of passage), from the National Institutes of Health.
Speaking of torture, while it’s always amusing to impute all sorts of horrors to the Medieval period, it turns out that it’s not factual: those torture devices aren’t really medieval after all.
It was quite a revelation to me when I realized that colors (not in photos) have to be made of something. There is a whole museum for that: an archive of pigments at Harvard.
From the archives:
Prosperity.
Make this eggplant dish.
Enjoy the last days of this Easter Octave — and beyond!
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