Today is Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of this year’s Lenten season. For those of us that celebrate, we know Ash Wednesday to be a day of fasting and abstinence from meat. It begins a 40-day period which includes 7 meatless Fridays, where again, we abstain from eating meat, though seafood is allowed. If […]
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Simple Lenten Recipes: Shrimp & Vegetable Noodles
During this Lenten season, it’s customary to cook and eat meatless recipes, but also seafood recipes! Fridays during Lent are known to be meatless Fridays, which can include vegetarian dishes, as well as fish and seafood dishes. While I have a few staple lent recipes that I grew up eating, I’ve been adding some variety […]
Start the Lenten Season with Bacalao en Salsa (Codfish Fricassee): A Meatless Lent {Recipe}
The Lenten season begins tomorrow, with Ash Wednesday kicking off seven weeks of Lent this year. If you’re not familiar with Lent, it is a religious time period leading up to Easter and one that is quite often observed by Catholics and other Christian denominations. I grew up attending mass in a Catholic church and […]
