Grandma Frolander’s Angel Pie Meringue Crust: 4 egg whites 1/4 t. cream of tartar 1 cup sugar Beat egg whites and until foamy. Gradually…
Margie Haack
Margie Haack with her husband, Denis, are co-directors of Ransom Fellowship, a ministry helping Christians engage postmodern culture in ways that are both authentic to the Christian faith and winsome in its expression. Margie is the author of The Exact Place, blogs at toadsdrinkcoffee.blogspot.com, and is editor of a quarterly newsletter, Notes From Toad Hall, where she writes about being faithful in the ordinary and the everyday. She is also a columnist for Comment Magazine, a grandmother, a lazy gardener, and a chocolate freak.
Cream of Asparagus Soup
Cream of Asparagus Soup 2 cups chicken broth 1½ cup chopped onion 6 T. butter 6 T. flour ½ t. dill weed 1½ lb.…
Christmas 2008 Gift Suggestions from Toad Hall
Books / Hospitality / Ordinary Life
A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie, Fireside Edition, 1949. (devotional) Teach us to pray. If this has ever been a desire of…
Margie’s 2015 Christmas Gift List
Books / Hospitality / Ordinary Life
Please Note: all books can be ordered through www.heartsandmindsbooks.com Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Non-fiction) Author: Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books,…
God in the Sink (Margie Haack, 2014)
Excerpt from God in the Sink Last summer in the space of a few weeks, I received more invitations to speak than I had…
Emergency in the Garage
You do not want to begin your day finding a note on the counter that reads “Emergency in garage. Freezer door left open. Everything…
Spring, please come
Community / Family / Ordinary Life
We live in a climate where the seasons are sharp. There is no mistaking them. Winter freezes everything including our senses; but they waken…
A Gentle Madness
Community / Family / Hospitality / Maturity and Flourishing / Ordinary Life / Work and Rest
“People have always collected things. Whether a vestige of our hunter-gatherer days, a need to forge order amid chaos, or a simple desire to…
I Really Like Your Shoes
The first year of The Exact Place being out there is done. There were a few fleeting moments when I thought this could turn…
Margie’s 2013 Christmas Gift List
Art / Books / Safe Place
I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro, Grove Press, NY, 2013. (Short story collection) Quatro writes short stories like a post-modern Flannery…