Food!
I am on a quest to 1) eat out less, 2) eat healthily and 3) keep Orthodox fasts more or less properly (I'm not picky about oil right now).
So, pursuit of this quest, I decided I needed fasting food for lunch tomorrow at work. And I just made this. It is really really good. I am eating it instead of the beef/bean/barley stew leftovers, which I should be eating tonight. So. Good. I got home late and cleaned a bit, and made this, so I just ate it now for dinner, and it's getting really late.
Tonight I went over to the Old Calendar Greek bookstore (hey, they're nice people, and they have a lot of books), and bought several things:
1). Pocket Psalter According to the Seventy
2). A night in the desert of the Holy Mountain by Met. Hierotheos Vlachos (somehow, I have managed never to read this book)
3). The Akathist to St. Xenia of Petersburg (Can't find my copy. Chances are I will now immediately find it, so let me know if you want a copy :) )
4). The English Valaam CD (I used to have a copied tape of this, but I lost it a long time ago. I love it))
I spent too much money. I hadn't been there or bought Orthodox books in a really long time though. I am super excited about the Pocket Psalter, and having an edition of the Psalter I can take with me places.
Interesting things I saw:
1) Supplementary Lenten Triodion. St. Tikhon's is putting this out now, and it's the same size as the regular Lenten Triodion, which is much more convenient than the bigger format, I think. I thought about buying it, but I have a photocopied version of it (from back when it was out of print and you couldn't find it) and I thought that buying two books I already had because of a different format (since I bought the Psalter) in one trip would be a bit much.
2) Jordanville Akathist book Vol. 2. I paged through it and it looks good. I have the first volume though, and I didn't really want to spend that much right now, especially since I'm not sure how much I'd use it.
3) Old Rite Horologion from the Erie ROCOR parish. Now this I want. Seems to be nicely laid out, Old Rite is not that different, so it would be pretty useful, and it has troparia and kontakia for most days of the year, in the back (though probably doesn't have a for a bunch of saints we might want). However, $75, so I didn't get it today.
4.) Something about the Order of Divine Services, according to the Russian church, which is basically a Typicon explanation thing. Looked fascinating, but I couldn't justify $35, especially for something where I have the equivalent in Russian, and looking things up in Russian is only marginally harder than looking them up in English.
I think those "interesting things I saw" shows how ridiculously geeky I am.
So, pursuit of this quest, I decided I needed fasting food for lunch tomorrow at work. And I just made this. It is really really good. I am eating it instead of the beef/bean/barley stew leftovers, which I should be eating tonight. So. Good. I got home late and cleaned a bit, and made this, so I just ate it now for dinner, and it's getting really late.
Tonight I went over to the Old Calendar Greek bookstore (hey, they're nice people, and they have a lot of books), and bought several things:
1). Pocket Psalter According to the Seventy
2). A night in the desert of the Holy Mountain by Met. Hierotheos Vlachos (somehow, I have managed never to read this book)
3). The Akathist to St. Xenia of Petersburg (Can't find my copy. Chances are I will now immediately find it, so let me know if you want a copy :) )
4). The English Valaam CD (I used to have a copied tape of this, but I lost it a long time ago. I love it))
I spent too much money. I hadn't been there or bought Orthodox books in a really long time though. I am super excited about the Pocket Psalter, and having an edition of the Psalter I can take with me places.
Interesting things I saw:
1) Supplementary Lenten Triodion. St. Tikhon's is putting this out now, and it's the same size as the regular Lenten Triodion, which is much more convenient than the bigger format, I think. I thought about buying it, but I have a photocopied version of it (from back when it was out of print and you couldn't find it) and I thought that buying two books I already had because of a different format (since I bought the Psalter) in one trip would be a bit much.
2) Jordanville Akathist book Vol. 2. I paged through it and it looks good. I have the first volume though, and I didn't really want to spend that much right now, especially since I'm not sure how much I'd use it.
3) Old Rite Horologion from the Erie ROCOR parish. Now this I want. Seems to be nicely laid out, Old Rite is not that different, so it would be pretty useful, and it has troparia and kontakia for most days of the year, in the back (though probably doesn't have a for a bunch of saints we might want). However, $75, so I didn't get it today.
4.) Something about the Order of Divine Services, according to the Russian church, which is basically a Typicon explanation thing. Looked fascinating, but I couldn't justify $35, especially for something where I have the equivalent in Russian, and looking things up in Russian is only marginally harder than looking them up in English.
I think those "interesting things I saw" shows how ridiculously geeky I am.