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Quiet on the Homefront
It’s a quiet day here on the homefront. I had a busy week at work and am glad to have a couple days of rest. I spent my Friday night running some errands, getting groceries, and picking up around the house. Not exactly what I used to do in the old days, but it suits me just fine now. I like the sound of silence. When there is quiet and openness around me then I feel quiet and open inside.
This morning I’m still doing some cleaning (after coffee and prayer of course). My buddy and fellow IHM is coming over. I’ve got a new recipe that I’m going to test out on her. It’s called Scrapless Scrapple and the recipe says it was adapted from Ina’s on West Randolph Street here in Chicago. Hmmmm … I think I’ll have to check out that restaurant. It looks very good. Anyways, I don’t remember what magazine I clipped the recipe out of, but you can find it online. I’ll let you know how the Sister Testing goes. Generally my cooking is quite good, but on occasion I have made some rather unpalatable things. Like the time (when I was younger) I made French Toast for my dad and for some reason decided it should be made with garlic. Not a good idea. There’s also the time I was at a friend’s house cooking pasta and sauce (Grandma’s recipe) and forgot to stir the sauce in a timely manner. The sauce overheated and was on the wall, ceiling and places that even God could not see. I’m pretty sure she had to repaint her kitchen after that but I’ll bet we can still find some sauce sticking around!
Have a happy Saturday whatever you do today! Cheers!
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Oh Sister, how I love scrapple! This receipe sounds a little unusual…not sure about it! I wasn’t aware that folks ate scrapple outside of the Philly area. Let us know how it turns out!!
Well, dear readers, this is the scoop. In my defense I would just like to say that my nun was sick BEFORE she tried any of my Scrapless Scrapple. I was putting a little lunch together and she said she wasn’t feeling so well. She didn’t really feel like ingesting anything until much later at which point she did try a couple slices of my recipe. She seemed to like it and said the recipe was a keeper. I personally thought it was pretty darn good though the texture is very, very odd (I’m a recovering texture eater so I can get a little out of sorts with odd textures or mixtures of food.) Still, having never had scrapple, I don’t really have any basis of comparison. Alicemary … is it a big thing in Philly? Anywhere else? Also, I don’t recommend eating it cold. I get pretty lazy about food sometimes and don’t like to go through the “trouble” of reheating stuff. But with the Scrapless Scrapply, it really has to be eaten warm, ideally a little crispy on the outside. That way the cheese re-melts thereby creating the strangely wonderful texture experience. My nun didn’t stick around for long so I packed a chunk of Scrapless Scrapple for her to take home with her. She still wasn’t feeling great, but seriously, it wasn’t my cooking!
Sr. Julie:
I have to say, that recipe sounds very good. It seems like a cross between polenta and Mexican cornbread with vegetarian chili. My daughter is a vegetarian so we experiment a lot. She loves beans, cheese and cornbread! I think I’ll give that one a try one of these days.
donna
Oh for a crispy slice of Habbersetts Philly scrapple……with ketchup.
Drool…..thanks for reminding me.
Reminds me of a first cooking experience with a new local community. Our first meal in the new house was our Christmas celebration. My part of the meal was scalloped potatoes and biscuits. Throughout the meal prep, sisters from the motherhouse were coming up to tour the newly renovated residence. Well the scalloped potatoes bubbled over, of course, and there was smoke pouring out of the oven – I was so embarrassed. Then the biscuits…well, let’s just say we had a new creation that I called “biscuit TOPS”.