Now I’m sure many of you don’t know what St. Albert the Great day is, but if you had a Dad named Albert and a son’s middle name Albert – well you get to know November 15th really fast! Quick history lesson for the day : Albert the Great was one of the Church’s greatest intellects. He studied at the University of Padua and later taught at Hildesheim, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Regensburg, and Strasbourg. He then taught at the University of Paris, where he received his doctorate in 1245. He was among the first and greatest of the natural scientists, gaining a reputation for expertise in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geography, metaphysics, and mathematics. So you can just about imagine why we had to celebrate the day if you have someone named Albert in your Catholic family right?
And in our family we usually celebrated it in not your normal way. See Dad always loved homemade beef and barley soup, but us kids would much rather eat the homemade beef noodle soup. So when November 15th would roll around we would always have to pray twice for supper because more than once we would be having soup. And just to keep the fighting down – Ma would have make both kinds.
Well with just Daryl and I at home now, and Daryl not necessarily liking homemade noodle soup so much – it makes figuring out just what kind of soup to make on November 15th pretty easy. Yup, you guessed it! Homemade noodle soup. Now where are my sweat pants?
Noodles drying on the counter