Anne Thériault

Good idea! I put some chili crisp on it last night, but didn’t think of sour cream or croutons. You’re a soup genius! Merci!

Oh he would hate that SO MUCH

Hahaha definitely hard to tell!

True! Life is a rich tapestry, you never know when someone might break out the scuzzbucket mystique

Hahaha I remain neutral, I do not describe it as scuzzbucketry, I simply smile and occasionally ask him to shave

Oh hell yeah! He’s dying to go to the pyramid and stay in the hotel there (which will make a fun trip someday, once the long American nightmare is over)

I did actually suggest that, but certain members of my household wish to use it for easy weekday lunches for the foreseeable future. To be fair, it does taste really good — it just looks whack as hell.

There is no parenting handbook for the period when your teenaged son desires to grow a patchy mustache and look like a little scuzzbucket

Anyway, even though I made 1.5 times the recipe to use up extra coconut milk I had from last week’s butter chicken project, it all came to under $10. Now we will have green slop soup leftovers available for the next week and a half! (My childhood nightmare)

Made lentil soup in the slow cooker yesterday. For some reason the grocery store was completely out of red lentils, so I used green lentils and just cooked it for a bit longer. It tasted really good but between the lentils and the spinach, it kinda looked like dystopian green slop. Yum!

Yeah, I just saw my kid every time I looked at Hamnet. Could only think about how losing him would absolutely rip my life apart. Such a gorgeous film, but I’ll probably never be able to watch it again haha. And I knew what I was signing up for because I’d read the book!

Yeah, I just saw my kid every time I looked at Hamnet. Could only think about how losing him would absolutely rip my life apart. Such a gorgeous film, but I’ll probably never be able to watch it again haha. And I knew what I was signing up for because I’d read the book!

It’s a travesty that cheese and onion isn’t really an available flavour in North America. We have strayed so far from God’s light…

Oh dang, those both sound incroyable!

Saw Hamnet with my mom this week & towards the end of the movie she wordlessly passed me a tissue because we were both silently weeping. I read the book in the early pandemic days & the movie was just as devastating.

But also I think this video of the cast dancing to Rihanna might have healed me.

Right? Living the dream!

Ohhhhh that sounds heavenly. Going to try it tomorrow, will report back. Thank you!

I’ve never tried Brets, but now I need to!

Omg you are in for a treat. I became obsessed with them when we were in Ireland a few years ago

An impossible choice! I loved them both so much. I think Spain was extra fun because my kid was there and I can’t wait to bring him to Italy someday.

A bag of cheese & onion Tayto crisps on my night stand

BREAKING: A STORE IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD HAS JUST STARTED CARRYING TAYTO CRISPS. MY GOD THAT CHEESE AND ONION GOES DOWN SO SMOOTH, I FEEL LIKE IT’S A CRIME TO BE EATING THESE DURING LENT.

Aw ❤️

It goes well with my other fav Catholic food fact, about your buddy the pope who died from too many delicious melons (seriously, I think about the article you wrote about those melons all the time!)

God, I love his work so much. Utopia Avenue came out right around my birthday in 2020 and I wish I could read it again for the first time!

An absolute dream. I wish I could live there forever 😩

Heh, thank you, I’d appreciate that. Also a good reminder that most other people aren’t even thinking about me, because we’re all just too wrapped up in the stuff going on in our own lives

Hahaha I mean, I could try harder!

A little table on a patio with a bottle of wine, a wine glass, and a vase full of flowers. In the background there is an umbrella stand and a little pool for fish 🐟

Also wildly self-indulgent: the patio at the place where we stayed in Cordoba, where I would drink wine and read my little book every night before bed (please, God, send me back to Spain soon)

Hah, true, good point!

My fifteen year old kid with super long blond hair just giddy with excitement to eat his first real meal in Spain (which was, ironically, Italian food)

My fifteen year old kid entering the colosseum at Italica, an incredible Ancient Roman archeological site just outside of Seville

My fifteen year old kid posing in a window at the Alhambra and giving a thumbs up

My fifteen year old kid casting some kind of spell at the alchemy museum in Cordoba

I’m so tired of this effing weather that I’ve been (self-indulgently) looking at photos of our trip to Spain last fall. Anyway, here are a few of my favs of 15yo: giggling over dinner on the first night while super jet lagged, entering the Italica colosseum, thumbs up for Alhambra, alchemy museum