It's too difficult to do a full liturgical eating planning post on my iPad, so instead I'll just focus on the next few days (id est: Santa Semana ( Read more... )

One of my recipes has been posted on Catholic Cuisine! I am excited about this because I love that blog.

Today is Sts. Perpetua and Felicity and I'm keeping it REALLY simple. We have leftover meat and rice to eat, but for a vegetable I'm going to make Carrot Strips Cooked With Cumin from the book Roman Cookery, which is a translation of the 1st ( Read more... )

Yesterday (at least by the time this gets posted) was the commemoration of St. Katharine Drexel. As I wrote in my monthly planning post:St. Katharine is kind of a hilarious story. She was an American heiress (think Paris Hilton with a brain) who read books about the plight of the poor, and in particular about the suffering of American Indians. So ( ( Read more... )

Catholicculture.org's Liturgical Year site is down. I'VE GOT FOODS TO PLAN, PEOPLE. So I might update this with ideas from them later ( Read more... )

An African-inspired Meal for St. Josephine Bakhita
African Peanut Chicken (in the slow cooker)
Roasted Cinnamon Squash (in the oven)
Sudani Rice (in the rice cooker)

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The February feasts are all bunched up, with practically the last week empty, but I guess that will give one time to contemplate Lent.

Don't know what we'll be giving up yet. We already do meatless Fridays year-round.

1. St. Brigid, Opt. Mem. This is fairly easy; something Irish. Of course when St. Brigid was alive there were no potatoes in ( Read more... )

I won the contest! :D ( Read more... )

My New Year's Resolution is TO GET BACK ON THIS TRAIN, SUCKAS.

(Skipping the first as it's today and already over and I didn't really do anything. Also I stripped out some optional memorials because January has too many people.)
2. Basil the Great; Gregory Nazianzen, Memorial - Is this the year for Vasilopita? Probably not. Any recipe which ( Read more... )

October -- Dedicated to the Holy Rosary ( Read more... )

Back when her baby was ~4 months, azora posted about wanting to try solids but being torn because the recommendation is to wait until 6 mo, and I commented encouraging her to wait, that it seems like the phase will never come when you're waiting for it, but it'll happen before you know it and you'll be glad you didn't rush. IIRC she decided to wait ( Read more... )