Lent

Lent is all about giving up something. Sacrificing so to speak. So what is your friend giving up for lent?

Otherwise most foods are prepared the same way. Though I always liked Hot Cross Buns

some up here give up meat on fridays during lent, you could make this layered as a casserole without the chourico if thats the case. recipe is in there someplace and go light on the allspice if you are not used to it. thick and served on good bread is the way to go
http://www.greeneggers.net/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&func=view&id=239447&catid=1
you want a couple types of fish for the different textures. haddock, cod, pollock, halibut, flounder, sole all work well

Since we is goin all religious an whatnot...

I had me a grate uncle what was a preest. He hadda big jug what he farted into for somethin like a year..an then at won of our family gatherins at his cottage..he pulled the cork out and had my gramma smell it. I seen my gramma eat all kinda strange things in mine life..but that's the only time I ever done seen her throw up..usually when folks throw up..nobody is laffin none..cept that day...it sure was funny i guess...but for somethin like a year all i had in mine mind is mine uncle the preest stickin that jug up to his big ole behine and lettin the air biskits in...i'm thinkin maybe what my gramma smelt was not so much an air bisket...or even a collekshun of air biskits...but i'm guessin the very rim of that there jug was prolly tainted somethin fierce..I didn't get reel close to it none..but i'm guessin it prolly done lookt like it was dipped in high fructose corn syrup and dragged threw some cocoa powder or somethin...that's shagnasty rite there..there's a dog gonned good reason hot air rises and men folks have big ole butt cracks inna back to sorta gide hot air..and our noses is inna front..perfict..but women folks is difrent..them gotta be careful cuz they got somethin inna front AND inna back what can gide their air biskits..i think maybe thats why they dont go off an fart as much as us men folks doo..cuz ifn they aint careful..them air biskist wood be guided up inna fronta them..rite at their noses..then theyd smell it somethin awful..i dont know..but i think maybe whoever invented women folks made a mistake or somethin...

StumpBaby

Celtic Wolf wrote:

They don't like fish!!

Drink beer... wait till midnight... grill steaks. :evil:

it's not any meat, it was more accurately red meat. but there never really was a 'rule' per se. in a time when red meat was an extravagance, to not have it was seen as a sacrifice. the idea wasn't that red meat was bad, it's just it was the most expensive thing, and given up as a token of sacrifice. on sunday, in celebration, they would go ahead and partake again.

for example, if a follower believed they shouldn't have red meat on friday, being true to the spirit of the whole thing, they would also not have lobster, or a big pork roast, or some other "fancy" dinner.

over time, people simplified it to "no (red) meat on fridays. and as long as they avoided beef, they felt they had a holy "get out of jail card", and were free to indulge otherwise. not so (if you are a believer). many people who practice it have no idea why, but that's like a lot of things religious!

the "eat fish on friday" thing grew out of the tradition of 'well, if we can't eat meat, let
's eat fish". further legend has it that the catholic church made it an unofficial 'rule' during a time when the italian fisherman were suffering, and it bolstered the fishing industry.

many folks will raise a hue and cry if they see you eating red meat on a friday around here. 9 out of 10, though, can't tell you why they don't other than "we're not supposed to"....

last time i checked into this, you could actually eat meat on friday as far as "the church" was concerned. but you should still observe some form of sacrifice on friday. a catholic could eat a rare ny strip steak, and refrain from a nice glass of scotch or red wine, and have met the spitirt of the 'rule'.

during lent you fast, but on ash wednesday and good friday you fast and abstain. fasting allows 2 small meals and one large meal, abstaining means no meat or poultry, fish not being meat. drinking is allowed in fact from my catholic school days before these rescent laws came into effect fasting meant no food during the day during lent, but as soon as the sun went down you were to celebrate eat and drink, thats how those guys in the old testiment fasted for 30 years and survived. now if i got that wrong i hafta watch out for the thunderbolts

they changed the rules once again in the 80's

i could probably give up the food, i can drink that much beer.

heres the new and abridged cannon law
http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm

I really need to work on my sarcasm :woohoo:

Morning Okeejohn:

One of our favorites is ShrimpBurgers, will probably be doing some tonight for dinner.

Here are a couple of pictures of some followed by the link to my webpage with the recipe (at the bottom of the page).





http://mysite.verizon.net/respulq1/id4.html

I hope this worked.