Posted on 02/25/2009 12:56:41 PM PST by NYer
Some additional inspiration.
Lenten ping!
Rattlesnake for dinner tonight.
Ugh. I hate fasting. It is a very healthy spiritual practice and nothing makes me more grateful for the amount and quality of food at my fingertips and empathy for those who go hungry. But oh does it suck.
Rattlesnake doesn’t count as meat??
I always wondered about that. We always had fish on Fridays, but I didn’t know *why* fish wasn’t considered meat.
We’re having eggs for dinner. :)
Surely eggs are okay?
Pierogis, sauteed in butter with onions, sweet’n’sour red cabbage, and sour cream. I don’t really like fish except for shellfish, and scarfing lobsters every Friday is kinda missing the point.
We’re having eggs for dinner. :)Caviar, I presume : )
Pierogis, sauteed in butter with onions, sweet’n’sour red cabbage, and sour cream.Yum, yum, yum!!!
They are NOW - used to be that's why everyone ate pancakes on Mardi Gras, to use up the eggs before Lent. I wonder if that's part of why baby chicks are associated with Easter - since they couldn't eat the eggs, they'd let them hatch?
My mom has a cookbook with recipes reprinted from the old abstinence directives. It used to be much stricter. This is basically just hungry enough to keep you mindful of what day it is.
Where is the biblical warrant for lent?
Matthew 6: 2-4, 16-18
Matthew 17: 20
Thank you. I went looking around. I have 25 dozen eggs right now (my hens won’t quit until fall) and it would be a shame if we couldn’t eat them! We’re pretty hungry, I hear lots of stomach growling going on. LOL.
I just discovered the most awesome clam chowder recipe. I wanted to make it for Ash Wednesday and for Fridays. I wanted something simple and easy. Oh my gosh....
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/My-Best-Clam-Chowder/Detail.aspx
The only changes I made were, I used a cup of flour (instead of 3/4) and stirred it with the melted butter for about 4 minutes until it was really thick, then I added 1 pint (2 Cups) of cream and approx 3 Cups of Whole Milk. After everything is combined. I used a stick hand blender on the simmering vegetables and clam juice, then added it to the mik mixture until it was all creamy. I did add about 10 baby carrots instead of the 1 Cup of carrots.
This is a keeper!!
Not in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches where they fast from meat, eggs, oil, and a lot of other foods during Lent. Then again, these traditions are cultural where they have developed dishes over the years that are filled with grains, beans and greens. (I had an egg for lunch ;-)
?? I am afraid I see nothing of Lent in those passages. How do you see that?
ugh. The problem with being an uncatechised convert is that I forgot and had bacon and eggs right after noon mass.
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