26 Saturday–Easter Activities

Every year St. Mary’s Sunday School does an activity with the young people around the story of Gethsemane.  The result is a beautiful flower display that the children create with potted blooming plants.  Above is this year’s result.

“Maverick” and I had lunch with friends in the afternoon, as well as spending the afternoon with them.  

With Meat on the left–and beans on the right

On Thursday I’d cooked two pots of chili; one vegetarian and one with meat but no beans. 

Cooking two pots of chili wasn’t too difficult.  I cut up celery, onions, carrots (Yes, carrots, okay!), and bell / sweet pepper to brown in oil.

To the two pan I added a packet of Old El Paso taco seasoning.  This shortcut helps with getting the flavour just right–but can easily adjust if someone wants to add tobasco sauce.  

At this point I added the meat to one pan.  Once the meat was browned, I added to both pans one tin of chopped tomatoes and 1 tin / box of passata (sieved tomotoes).  To the pan without the meat, I added one tin of pre-cooked kidney beans.  After stirring well, I let it come up to a soft boil and then turned it down to simmer for about half-an-hour.  

When it was cooked through, I turned off the heat.  I let it cool overnight on the stove.  The next morning “Maverick” was kind enough to find containers to transfer it into.  It sat in the refrigerator until Saturday.  

 I knew it would taste better after a couple of days.  All the soup was eaten, which did please me.  I made a double batchof cornbread (as I was feeding 13 people), of which there were three pieces left over.  Now that is a complement.   

Most of Saturday afternoon was spent inside just talking.  That’s because the weather was cloudy and raining.  

 I went to bed kind of early, as the clocks were due to turn an hour forward.  So I wanted to make sure I was refreshed for our Easter Sunday.

Serving Jesus, Author of our faith.
“Lady Helene”