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Lenten food 'doesn't mean boring,' says Catholic chef

Summary by National Catholic Reporter

Discipline and deliciousness aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, said certified executive chef Jim Churches, president of the American Culinary Federation's Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association and a member of St. Patrick Parish in Brighton, Michigan.

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National Catholic Reporter

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Lenten food 'doesn't mean boring,' says Catholic chef

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pillarcatholic.com

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Keep moving, real time, and school ties

Happy Friday friends,It’s still Lent, if you’ve already forgotten and find yourself eyeing the salami in the fridge at 10.30am wondering if that’s what will make you feel a little bit better about the rest of the day.Something I have always been told about entering the season fully and properly, and not settling into a period of more-or-less muted everyday life, is the spirituality of moving. Our Lenten disciplines are meant to shake us out of o…

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Lenten food ‘doesn’t mean boring,’ says Catholic chef

(OSV News) — While the season of Lent is marked by fasting and abstinence, cooking for a hungry family in this season of prayer and penance “doesn’t mean boring or ‘fish all the time,'” a Catholic chef told OSV News. Catholics fast and abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and forego meat on all the Fridays of Lent as well. In the Latin Catholic Church, those norms are obligatory for the faithful ages 18 through 59. Members of the …

22 days ago

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Northwest Catholic

Fasting through Mom’s Lenten meals

It’s OK, we can say it (you know it, and I know it): Compared to our Orthodox brethren and our Muslim friends, the Catholic idea of required fasting is — let me be diplomatic here — not terribly impressive.The Orthodox start fasting before Lent even begins, adapting a restrictive, very nearly vegan diet throughout the holy season. During Ramadan, followers of Islam fast from everything, even water, from sunrise to sunset, although they do feast …

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Catholic Five 03-14-25 – EpicPew

SUBSCRIBE TO CATHOLIC FIVE 1.Blessed Friday! Don’t forget! It’s a Friday in Lent. Roman Catholics are bound to abstinence from meat unless you are otherwise exempt. 2. Meatless Meals Need some inspiration for dinner tonight? Check out these meatless meal recipes from A Catholic Mom’s Life. 3. Why Meat? 4. Questions about Fasting? Ar…

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Front Porch Republic

It Wouldn't Be Lent Without a Bar Jester Chronicle - Front Porch Republic

… in which FPR resuscitates some of its old low unseriousness. The season of Bright Sorrow can get a bloke thinking about all the things he won’t be allowing himself for a while. One of them is prime rib cooked properly, which is to say hardly at all. (Beef, said the great Michigander Jim Harrison, is a comfort food we deserve because our lives are miserable enough already. And if that mountain of appetite ever denied himself anything, I’ll be a…

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