Easter Yummies

For Easter, we had some people over and I made this:

It's a butternut squash casserole, and it is amazing. (I'll post the recipe at the end if this post.)

And I wore a dress to church today. Because all my pants have holes in them. (Some people wondered why I didn't go shopping for pants when I went shopping the other day. My answer: Because it is going to be shorts weather soon. Duh.) I did not get a picture of me in the dress because I had to take it off so that I could nurse shortly after I got home from church. But Dave said it looked nice. Vernon didn't say anything about how I looked, but he did act like he wanted to have sex with me (which is his way of saying that I look nice).

Here is what Peace looked like today:

And now, the recipe:

Butternut Squash Casserole

• 3 1/2 pounds butternut squash
• 1 large red bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 large garlic cloves, minced
• 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley leaves
• 1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary leaves
• freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan (about 2 ounces)
• 4 oz feta cheese

Preheat oven to 400°F. 

Make your husband cut the squash crosswise into 2-inch-thick slices (You could do this, but you're a dork with the knife and your husband makes fun of you every time you use one.) Working with 1 slice at a time, cut side down, cut away peel and seeds and cut squash into 1-inch cubes (about 9 cups). 

In a VERY large bowl stir together squash, bell pepper, oil, garlic, herbs, black pepper, and salt to taste. Transfer mixture to a 2- to 2 1/2-quart gratin dish or other shallow baking dish and sprinkle evenly with Parmesan. 

Bake casserole in middle of oven until squash is tender and top is golden, about 1 hour.

And now, THE BEST PART, top with 4 oz. of feta cheese. It's heavenly!

Lent - Day 40 - The Last One

Yesterday, I went shopping at Sears. I bought these five shirts for $16.96:

I got a Sears card, which gave me a $15 credit, so I actually spent only $1.96 on those five shirts. Here is a picture of one that cost $0.99. Yes, ninety-nine cents, people! That gives me such a hard-on. (I apologize for the way Peace looks in the picture. I obviously care more about how I look than she):

Today, Easter egg hunt:

Lent - Day 39

We dyed Easter eggs today, with friends:

Aren't they beautiful?

Lent - Day 38

For clean children (because it means they spent the day getting dirty):

Gooney Bird Greene

by Lois Lowry
96 pages

There are actually four of these books total, this is the first (the other three are  Gooney the Fabulous, Gooney Bird and the Room Mother, and Gooney Bird the Absurd), and they are all extraordinarily delightful.

Gooney Bird is a funny and confident second-grader who does not get embarrassed. She wears funny outfits and she has funny reasons for everything she does.

Newbury award winning author, Lois Lowry, is a favorite from my childhood (the Anastasia series, anybody?). She writes these Gooney Bird books as wonderfully as she has written anything else. These are also great books to learn things from... in the first one she talks about what it takes to write a stories. In subsequent books, we learned about fables, acting in plays, and poetry. I couldn't recommend Gooney Bird more!

Ocean, age 7, says, "I like that she tells stories and she's really funny."

Ezra, age 4, says, "I like that Gooney Bird puts a suddenly in her stories."