We were supposed to be walking on the Via de la Plata in Spain now. Instead, we comfort ourselves with memories of prior Camino walks and Spanish foods. Not tortilla this time! We had tapas for dinner last night: made barra bread on Friday, sliced it thin on Saturday and half of the slices got a piece of manchego cheese and a piece of prosciutto (no serrano ham available at the grocery store these days) on top. The other half of the slices got a new-to-us recipe for topping:
Sliced "Baby Bella" mushrooms cooked in butter with garlic and parsley from the garden. Simply wonderful, and easy too.
In other developments, this is the current pile of completed masks in the house:
It was a bit of a surprise to get 6 of them from that 9 inch wide strip of quilting fabric. It was left over from a big quilt. Then there are 3 of the roses print and a couple of odd ones.
I have enough elastic in the house to finish all the cut out blanks in my workroom. I am using a piece of plain fabric on the inside so the quilting muslin will better contain the germs being breathed-out by the wearer. It's still not hard to breathe and no more "steamy" I think than one-layer ones or paper ones.
In honor of Divine Mercy Sunday today, for the Latins, and Easter Sunday, for the Orthodox, a picture of last year's Easter lily, the one that survived and came up again:
I had thought the buds would open today but it appears there are still a couple-few days to go.
A blessed holy-day and much happiness to all my readers.
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