Food: It's What's For Dinner

by Sherry Antonetti in Food on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:41 AM

Each week I post a menu, including Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks, plus notes of who has hot lunch and if there are any specials – like a team Pizza Night or some such. When I first started “The Menu,” there were of course, complaints.

“I …DON’T…LIKE…CHICKEN!”

Ignoring the fact that pasta was also listed for that evening, so that he wouldn’t have to eat the chicken, this one howled at the injustice of it all. The fact that chicken was even available was tantamount to a poisoning of the dining... READ MORE

Rise and Shine Recipes

by Kate Wicker in Food on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:00 AM

(Ed. note: Today we’re sharing the Easter brunch recipes Kate Wicker included in her What’s Cooking feature in the Spring 2010 issue of Faith & Family magazine. We hope they will inspire you and your family to celebrate in a glorious way this Easter season.)

Fr. Leo’s Warm Lemon and Mint Cream With Fruit
Father Leo Patalinghug is the faith-filled foodie behind Grace Before Meals, a movement that strives to build stronger families and communities one meal at a time. He’s also one good cook. Fr. Leo... READ MORE

Pass the Prosciutto

by Sherry Antonetti in Food on Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:00 AM

I have foodie obsession disorder but it’s okay, I have it under control now.

It all started last summer when I went to the pick your own produce farm. I began by picking too many strawberries, prompting me to once again consider learning how to make jam. I bought the fancy jam jars and pectin and little hand produced book on how to make jellies and preserves. Then I started reading the recipe and my brain froze up, so I just fed the kids waffles with berries for dinner two nights in a row and used... READ MORE

Hold the Beef!

by Kate Wicker in Food on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:00 AM

Once upon a time I was a vegetarian. Then I married a carnivorous man and for the sake of our marriage, I started eating more meat. These days I no longer fill up on tofu or veggie burgers rounded off by a tall glass of soy milk. However, I still continue to serve vegetarian meals two to three times a week.

During Lent even the most meat-loving Catholic families join me in serving up meatless meals as part of following the laws of abstinence. While it might be tempting for the family chef to prepare... READ MORE

The Real Thanksgiving Turkeys

by Sherry Antonetti in Food on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:00 AM

Family lore across the country, across tax brackets, across religion and region, color and creed, includes several eternal debates on the food to be served on the fourth Thursday of November. 

Magazines this month offer helpful solutions and recipes for the big family meal, but none of them addresses the very real problems that surface in the potent cocktail of family, excessive food, and four days off.

Here’s the real deal—the meat of what makes Thanksgiving such an anchor of oral history and... READ MORE

Tastes Like Heaven

by Lori Hadacek Chaplin in Food on Monday, November 23, 2009 6:00 AM

It’s not even Christmas, and I am fantasizing about fruitcake—I’m a new connoisseur of this rich sticky cake.

I, too, used to believe all the clichéd jokes that fruitcakes never get eaten—just re-gifted. A monastery gift guide editorial (Handmade by Monks and Nuns: Monastery Gifts for Christmas) I wrote for the National Catholic Register last year changed my mind about fruitcake and introduced me to other superior foods made in monasteries.

Though I’d whole-heartedly recommend any food made in a... READ MORE

Meat in the Middle

by Kate Wicker in Food on Monday, August 17, 2009 6:00 AM

Before I got married, I heard the classic kibitz from wise, old married couples warning me to never go to bed angry and to always remember that the key to a healthy marriage is compromise.

Even before we exchanged our vows, my dearly beloved and I became experts on keeping the fire alive, having joint checking accounts and our love languages, thanks to the Pre-Cana premarital boot camp we attended. In short, we weren’t jumping into marriage with our eyes closed. We knew what to expect.

That is,... READ MORE

Eat Chocolate!

by Susie Lloyd in Food on Monday, June 15, 2009 2:30 PM

LIFE’S HARD. Eat chocolate.

I admit, this is not exactly what most Catholics would call a spiritual motto. Yet, as the mother of several children, chocolate was at times the only thing that stood between me and 500 years in purgatory.

I have long suspected the healing power of chocolate.

Beyond its exquisite flavor lies the presence of some mysterious ingredient which instantly releases tension and floods the body with a feeling of well-being. So it came as no surprise to me when the American Medical... READ MORE

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