During Lent, many families prepare modest meals. Soups, eggs, fish, beans, lentils and vegetables take center stage. Simplicity rules. Lent is a season in the Christian church that begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter Sunday. It lasts for forty days, commemorating the time Jesus ...

“I never met a lasagna I didn’t like.” — Garfield Indeed — what’s there not to love about lasagna? It’s a favorite winter comfort dish. No matter how you make it, it’s a popular crowd-pleaser. Made with alternating layers of pasta, cheese, and sauce, with meat and/or ...

“I never met a lasagna I didn’t like” — Garfield Indeed – what’s there not to love about lasagna? It’s a favorite winter comfort dish. No matter how you make it, t’s a popular crowd-pleaser. Made with alternating layers of pasta, cheese, and sauce, with meat and/or vegetables ...

Beans. Lentils. Split peas. Garbanzo beans/chickpeas. Black-eyed peas. These are pulses or legumes. A pulse is a seed; it grows in a pod of one to 12 seeds. After harvest, it is dried and becomes a legume. These include beans, lentils, peas and other little seeds. Lentils are small, ...

“Mix a pancake, stir a pancake, pop it in the pan. Fry the pancake, toss the pancake, catch it if you can. — Christina Rossetti In Poland, Fat Thursday came on Feb. 11 — time to eat donuts and fatten up before Ash Wednesday and Lent. Throughout the British Isles, Shrove Tuesday has ...

It’s Carnival Time! So many fun-filled outdoor events! This winter has been unrelentingly cold. It’s great for snow activities like skiing, snowshoeing, sledding and skating. But it’s good to have a hot beverage to warm up with! To help you stay warm, bring along a thermos! A ...