Monday Supper … and poetry

16 Responses to Monday Supper … and poetry

1. Tom in NY says:

   7 March 2011 at 5:05 pm

   Please accept my thanks for suggesting carrots as a sweetener in tomato and other acid soups and sauces. Most weeks I’ll cook 5# carrots in a pressure cooker in two sessions. One use is to eat immediately and the other is to add to other dishes.

   Salutationes omnibus.
2. Mike says:

   7 March 2011 at 5:06 pm

   Hopkins. Yes, there’s a rich fare for the linguistic palate, at once lush, chaste, soaring, and humble…gee, wonder what form of the Mass he celebrated? :)
3. Sid says:

   7 March 2011 at 5:45 pm

   What poems by Hopkins? Surely “The Windhover”. What else? My favorites: “The Wreck of the Deutschland” — good for this season of Lent — and “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo”. And see his sermon on the Sacred Heart.
4. AnnAsher says:

   7 March 2011 at 6:20 pm

   Be right over!
   Actually my 17 y/o son and I have been discussing Francis Thompson of late and The Hound of Heaven. We will be having Stroganoff for dinner; I will enjoy some Gnarly Head old vine Zin. Bought it because the name was funny- find it rather deliciously plummy.
5. Grabski says:

   7 March 2011 at 6:32 pm

   some day a primer on what pasta goes with which sort of sauce would help!
6. crowe4519 says:

   7 March 2011 at 9:09 pm

   For my money, the best Hopkins poem for Lent (or pre-Lent) is “The Habit of Perfection” (1866) — a lovely lyric about fasting and self-denial.
7. James Joseph says:

   7 March 2011 at 9:26 pm

   I just ate lasagna.
8. pablo says:

   7 March 2011 at 9:55 pm

   At least Strozzapreti (“priest choker” in Italian) Spaghetti isn’t on the menu.

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9. APX says:

   7 March 2011 at 10:09 pm

   I’m attempting your Rainbow trout and fennel recipe, and I stress the attempting part seeing how despite going to two grocery stores I could only get three of the ingredients: olive oil, an onion, and a lemon. It’s not even rainbow trout; it’s fillets of some random fish I’ve never heard of. I fear what the results will be. I’ve never had to make so many substitutions before.
10. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf says:

    7 March 2011 at 10:48 pm

    APX: never fear! It’ll be great!
11. APX says:

    7 March 2011 at 11:09 pm

    Fr Z: Anything is great when you’ve been living off spaghettini with ground beef and mushroom soup sauce. (FYI: Mushroom soup is the answer to all life’s cooking disasters.)

    Actually, it didn’t taste half bad. The sauce just seemed a little too runny and I had nothing to thicken it with. It looked good, so my roommates are all impressed by my adept cooking skills.
12. abiologistforlife says:

    8 March 2011 at 12:18 am

    Hopkins is wonderful … though not easy. He is one of those poets who is completely one-of-a-kind. (My favorites are ‘In the Valley of the Elwy’, ‘Spring and Fall’, and the “As kingfishers catch fire” sonnet … right now anyway. In a different mood I’d probably pick different ones — and anyone who can produce a title like “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection” certainly has something going for them!)
13. irishgirl says:

    8 March 2011 at 10:44 am

    I’ll probably have pasta with frozen veggies [broccoli] tomorrow night for dinner.
    Wish I could get some friends to come to my house to discuss good books-not many around here who would understand them, however!
14. JARay says:

    8 March 2011 at 6:56 pm

    The “Divine Office” as used in England and Australia has three of G.M. Hopkins poems in.
    “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire….”, “Pied Beauty” and “God’s Grandeur”.
    He certainly is one-of-a-kind. I studied him at College and wrote a thesis on him. I love his work.
15. Christophe says:

    8 March 2011 at 9:30 pm

    Must have been a wonderful evening, dinner and Hopkins. My favorite line, from Though Are Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend:

    birds build—but not I build; no, but strain,
    Time’s eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.
    Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
16. Maltese says:

    9 March 2011 at 6:19 pm

    Wish I could be there! In absentia, here is “Pied Beauty” (to think this Priest didn’t publish until after death!) :

    GLORY be to God for dappled things—
    For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
    Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
    Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

    All things counter, original, spare, strange;
    Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
    He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
    Praise him.

    Also, if you haven’t read “Exiles” by Catholic author Ron Hanson (http://www.amazon.com/Exiles-Novel-Ron-Hansen/dp/0374150974), also about Hopkins, it’s drop-out brilliant!”

    Finally, if I were attending I would come armed with an old port off winebid; my wife and I have had mixed results with their regular wines, but every old port we’ve acquired has been wonderful!

    E.g.: http://www.winebid.com/Item/3476376 Trust me, I’ve never paid this for a Port, but 20 people pitching in $20 a piece would be in for a tasting of a lifetime! I have paid $35 for a port from the 70′s, though, that was fantastic.