So, earlier today, jennybean42 mentioned that apparently, God's been telling the new Pope that it's okay to eat meat on Friday, providing that Friday is St. Patrick's Day, and the faithful are eating corned beef ( Read more... )

You know, it's been a long, long time since I've dreaded a holiday. I think the only thing that comes close was the one year we did the Feast of Padraig for nineteen people in our basement apartment--three whole briskets, six heads of cabbage, two loaves of homemade soda bread, colcannon, fadge, braised leeks, whole buttered red potatoes...and it ( Read more... )