Vegan Turmeric Lentil Instant Pot Soup Recipe
Turmeric Lentil Soup is one of the most popular soups in our home. If it’s winter or rainy outside and I want a budget-friendly, real…
Lent
St. Peter’s Spicy Fish Seasoning Recipe
Salmon has been one of those foods that have increased in our meals a lot as our healthy journey has progressed, especially as we did…
Monday Mission: One Simple Lent
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to celebrate Lent intentionally to improve yourself – spiritually, physically, emotionally. Lent has always been a major…
Friday FAST Food: Cooking Fish at Home (& a Recipe for Creamy Alaskan Halibut with Caramelized Onions)
Ever made rubber in the oven? Let’s just say my first experience cooking unprocessed fish at home didn’t go so well. I was in college…
How Did we Do on the Lenten No Grains/No Gluten Challenge?
When I told my mother-in-law that we would be going without grains for the first half of Lent and remaining gluten-free for the second half,…
Monday Mission: Spend Time with Your Family
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something special with your family this week. Special family time doesn’t have to be anything…
I Don’t Believe in Giving Up Pizza for Lent
Lent is designed to be a time for sacrifice and self-denial, the point of which is to deepen one’s relationship with God and strengthen habits…
Mary and Martha Moment: How to Keep up on Daily Prayer
Lent is over. The joy of the Resurrection is here! With that joy, for me, came sugar, gluten, unsoaked grains, a bloated feeling and a…
Mary and Martha Moment: On Sacrifice and Suffering
Why sacrifice? Why suffer on purpose? During the season of Lent, Catholics and many others choose to accept suffering, even bring it on themselves through…
Mary and Martha Moment: To Solemnity or Not to Solemnity?
Do you take Sundays “off” during Lent? Sundays aren’t counted in the 40 days of Lent because they are solemnities, or holy days of celebration.…
Mary and Martha Moment: Celebrating Lent with Children
When my almost-five-year-old son heard that Lent was coming, he exclaimed, “I remember Lent! I hate Lent!” Surprised at his fervor, I fought to remain…
Mary and Martha Moment: Soul First, Body Second
This is the third of a three-part series to build you up in your quest for stewardship of all God’s resources. Part One: Trust in…
No Sugar for Lent: a Mary and Martha Moment
Give Up or Do More? The query, “What are you giving up for Lent?” just doesn’t cut it with me. It falls short of recognizing…
Mary and Martha Moment: On Lenten Sacrifices
Mary and Martha Moment My Standard Sacrifice Since I was a child, I remember my father doing the same things for Lent every year. He…