Prayer and the Feast

Usually I start every Friday by saying Happy Friday. But I have to admit I'm not feeling very happy today. I got word late yesterday that my grandfather was taken to the hospital and had emergency surgery Wednesday evening. He is diabetic and had a blockage which blocked him from the waist down. They think that the nerves in his left leg may be gone and today they are discussing doing surgery to amputate. I just can't even imagine. I am so upset and feel very helpless because I live 3 hours away. We just saw him a week ago Monday and he wasn't feeling well and then I had called at the beginning of this week. I just haven't had a good feeling about how he has been doing.

So, if you wouldn't mind saying a prayer today for my papa, I'd appreciate it. And for my mom as she tries to be there for him. Here he is with my boys and I am hoping he comes out of this so he can be around to see them a bit longer.


Yesterday I blogged that I was cooking a feast. I have to admit I didn't feel a lot like eating, but we did sit down and have a family dinner. I thought I'd posted some pix of how things turned out. These are the Rhodes yeast rolls that I mentioned. I love bread, so I love it when you can find a good yeast roll.

Here is the roast I made. I seared the outside of it in a frying pan before putting it in the oven to cook. I cut up carrots, potatoes, and onions. I cooked the onions in the frying pan when I seared the meat to give it some of the meat flavor and then put them in my roasting pan. I added a little bit of beat stock to the bottom of the pan and put the top on the roast and cooked it in the oven. The meat was flavorful and tender. DH really liked it.

I like cooking comfort food like this in the winter time. I don't do big meals like this all the time, but I think it might be nice every few weeks to have something like this. Who wouldn't like to have a spread that looks like something Aunt Bee would put on the table for Andy and Opie?

The snow came last night and put a dusting on the ground. Just enough to be pretty and hopefully not cause any problems.

Hope you are having a great day in your neck of the woods.

Feast

I declare today feast day! It's a new year and I'm just bopping through it. Can you believe we are already on day 7 of a new year?

I told dh that today was going to be feast day. They are calling for snow here today, (won't move in until late) but with the weather turning yucky I thought we should have a good meal. So I'll be cooking a roast. I've got yeast rolls out and ready to rise. And I have to say that to me the best yeast rolls in the world are the oens by Rhodes. I buy them in the freezer section of Wal Mart. They have a orange header on them. They take a couple of hours to rise, but are so worth it. If you don't have a nanna who can make you some good home made yeast rolls then you've got to get these.

One of my new year's goals is to do better planning with our meals. We want to get Sawyer eating a better variety of foods besides eating peanut butter for every meal. So I'm trying to plan our meals a little more. Also, I'm having him help me prepare dinner as much as I can. I'm trying to find little ways for him to help. I'm hoping that by helping he may be more excited to try things because he helped make it.

So tonight we will have a roast with some veggies and yeast rolls for the feast. I may try to pull together a dessert variation I saw on the Pioneer Woman's blog. She is my new favorite blog I'm following. http://thepioneerwoman.com/ I'll let y'all know how it turns out.

Hope you are having a great day in your neck of the woods!