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Light little post.
What did/does your family do for Friday dinners during Lent? Are you a pizza family, grilled cheese and soup, maybe you go the breakfast route with pancakes, french toast or eggs..... or do you prefer pasta or fish?
We're having fish tonight. What's your dinner looking like?? :)
Oh boy, when I ate wheat and dairy I could easily eat a whole tomato pie!! Room temp thick bread crust smothered with sauce, man that stuff was awesome on Fridays.
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I started out the morning with great intentions of defrosting some vegetarian chili and had some really nice day-old rolls I picked up yesterday at 1/2 off to go with it. But then I forgot to defrost the chili so we ended up with 'fish and chips.'
Generally we do a lot of breakfast type stuff (Ash Wednesday was omlets) or pasta.
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We go to the Fish Fry as well...
We also do tuna noodle salads, egg salad, grilled cheese and or cream of broccoli soup, etc.
People who aren't Catholic think I'm foolish for observing the lenten tradition, but I must admit that I look forward to the Friday's of lent. I've never seen it as a burden.
THis is my first year as an "official Catholic" - I converted last year & though I was gonig through the conversion during lent I wasn't really understanding it. I'm kind of excited about it this year. Though- DH hates fish so I don't know if I'll be able to go that route much. Our church has a fish fry so I'm going to go to at least one even if DH has to stay home. Last Friday was pizza - I think this Friday will be some type of pasta.
Yum! Veggie Chili sounds soooo good. And egg salad, we love egg salad that might be a good one for this Friday! I do a huge homemade veggie lasagna once during lent...that's an event in my kitchen :D
Steph-Jason, welcome to your first official Lenten Season!
Love, I've never thought it a burden either...what do those folks think about "giving up something for lent". They must think that's wonkified foolishness:p
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I'm not Catholic but I LOVE Fish Fry!
I grew up Presby. and my mom observed "partial lent as borrowed from Catholics" so we always had fish options on Friday and forbidded to eat meat on Good Friday.
Anyway...just crashing the thread b/c I love fish.;) (not to make light of your religious observations!)
In our area we have Friday fish fry all year round!
I am no longer Catholic, but was brought up Catholic. I converted to Baptist a little over a year ago. But those "don't eat meat' rules are hard to break.
We had creamed tuna, fish sticks & fries, and my favorite - MAC & CHEESE! Those were for dinner. Lunch was grilled cheese and cream of tomato soup, cheese pizza, PB & J.
Now we like quite a few things, even though we aren't required to be non-meat, old habits die hard.
One thing we LOVE (other than fish fry) is white pizza! A friend of mine loves baked cheese sub sandwiches.
Hey Crick crash away!! :)
I think even those who don't like fish can be won over when it's fried up! :D
A few of the supermarkets around here with full out food courts do a really good fish fry during Lent. So even if you're not Catholic check out the local markets if you like a good fish fry!
(what I don't like is stewed tomatoes....-bleh-. Parents always made those as a side during Lent and as much as I LOVE tomatoes in general you stick a bowl of stewed in front of me and I'm gagging)
yum, baked cheese sub sandwiches sound goooooood :) I bet my hub would love that!
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My one sis lived across the street from this really cool cafe at one point. They made "college" food fast and with really good ingredients. I was addicted to what they called mexican pizza. I still make it now, without the cheese for me..with for everyone else.
It's a tortilla base (wheat is standard, I use corn for me). Then a thin-ish layer of refried beans. A layer of cooked rice and red beans (seasoned or unseasoned according to your tastes). Then cheese on top. (add any veggies you like from onions to peppers too)
Pop in the oven to warm and melt the cheese. Everything is pretty much room temp or precooked so your just heating and not "cooking" for a long time. Maybe 15 minutes on 375, little longer for a crispy tortilla crust.
Cut into wedges/slices and top with either sour cream or salsa. This is really filling and really yummy.
Now I'm hungry.....:p
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q's mom - when you say you have fish fry all year long, are you talking about churches or at your house?
I could TOTALLY get into going to fish frys throughout the year! :banana:
And I have to go OUT for fish because for some reason, I just can't seem to cook it right. I've tried about 10 different fish recipes, and they just always seem "off"...Either over cooked, under cooked, too "fishy" tasting...I don't know...
And Crick - feel free to join us.
We welcome all...but we can't promise that we won't try to convert you... :eyebrows:
lovemy2boys
Is this the way you get your DH to eat his veggies??? :evilgrin:
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