Double post due to glitch yesterday, but here’s this week’s prompts. A tiny bit of an obsession kinda pulled together this week, hope it ignites a spark of inspiration for you, too!

Carrie and I LOVE Lazy Cabbage Rolls. I’ll make this recipe, and that’s what we’ll eat for the week – seriously. It stores really well in the fridge, and it’s even good cold, if the ground beef used is very lean, or it’s pre-cooked and drained before adding to the casserole.
(This missed posting yesterday for some reason, so here it is today!)

I’ve had a lot of wishes over the years. Some as simple as “I wish I would stop stubbing my toe every five minutes” to as complicated as “I wish I could build a time machine and go back four hundred years and tell my families to stay in England/Ireland/Scotland and wait if I had a time machine, why would I tell them anything, I’d just stay put and blend in but hang on a second what about electricity and the internet and who would feed the menagerie and…”

I’ve been given a lot of cards and poetry, a lot of sympathies and hugs, a lot of nods and shared tears over the past couple of weeks. It’s been harder on other folks, I think, than myself or my family.

I’m trying to get things back into line after being away so much of May and June. It’s going to take a while, and I appreciate the private comments and emails folks have sent. It means a lot to me that I had the opportunity to spend as much time as I did with my mom at the end, and now through the grieving process – more for what could have been than what was – it’s nice to know I’ve got people I can sound things off of…
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Still on my low and no sodium recipe searches! I use the following spice mixes – well, the commercial ones, anwyay – regularly, and the sodium content in them is astronomical! So between google, cookbooks and fiddling around on my own, here’s my top four. Now if I could only find low-salt Frank’s Red Hot, I’d be a happy girl.

Yesterday, my mom took her last breath and is now – finally – at peace.