Recipes for Lent

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

2 slices of white bread
JIF Peanut Butter (creamy)
Welches Grape Jelly

Cover one side of a piece of bread with a thick layer of peanut butter. (use a knife for this) Cover one side of the other piece of read with the jelly. It could be substitued with Apple Jelly or others. Being careful to keep the bottom crusts aligned with each other, put the 2 pieces of bread together so the peanut butter and jelly are touching.

Important Serve WITH a beverage.
 
pbj recipe is great, can be enhanced with varieties of special jams and jellies, interesting whole grain breads, maybe we can come up with a CA PBJ cookbook.

Bisquik has a recipe book for easy pies and quiches, where basically you mix the bisquik/milk/egg mixture all in one and pour over the “filling” whether fruit type or main dish type–cheese, crabmeat, spinach etc. Does anybody have that cookbook? I gave it to DD when I went lo-carb but it was easy, fast and cheap way for a no- meat main dish.

I am also looking for a recipe for something we used to make for GS camp a family size “souffle” with an egg mixture over cheese, cracker crumbs or pepperidge farm bread, potatoes, chopped veggies etc. It was called a farmhouse breakfast. This would make a good main dish as well for lent. you could add fake bacon bits as well. any former girls scouts out there know this recipe?

anybody have a good Welsh rabbit recipe? I used to use campbells cheddar cheese soup over toast, top with toasted almonds or scrambled eggs, and served with tomato soup. For some reason my kids regarded this as a “fancy” meal.
 
Potato Gnocchi
Gnocchi (pronounced nee-okkee) are an excellent alternative: They’re fantastic with all sorts of sauces, from a simple summer tomato sauce to the richest winter meat sauce. Florentines call them topini (field mice), because the home made ones vaguely resemble mice in size and shape. This can produce a certain amount of confusion outside of Tuscany; one of my wife’s aunts once caused a stir in a restaurant in Rome when she saw someone else eating gnocchi and asked for topini. The waiter said there weren’t any, and when she insisted there were, went to get the owner, who stiffly informed her that there were no mice in his restaurant. Eventually the misunderstanding was cleared up and she had her topini.
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Basic Recipe

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I could make pots full of escarole and beans and live off that all of lent. 😃 Really…this is high among my favorites.
PS. Make the broth a vegetable broth…not chicken broth…although chicken is tastier …remember it is lent.
 
Egg gravy -

Plain white gravy, add crushed/chopped hard boiled eggs - and serve on toast.
 
I, like many other Catholics, abstain from meat on Friday as an act of penance. I have a major problem with this because I really don’t want to eat the same thing every Friday, it would get very boring very fast and be less of a penance because I would be likely to complain. There’s another problem that I personally have, no doubt some others on these boards have the same problem: I cannot cook. Well, I just haven’t learned to cook good food yet, especially dinners. So, in order to help me both on Fridays and in the future, I decided that I would cook my own meals on Friday. My problem now is that I don’t know many Friday friendly recipes.

So who can help an unskilled cook? What are your favourite Friday friendly recipes? I’m sure many of you have your own secret weapons to spice up the average meals, so let’s share them! It would be great to see what everyone eats on a Friday.
 
Lentil soup over a baked potato. Try allrecipes.com and search on things like vegetable soup, lentil soup, pasta recipes etc. I’ve found the recipes to be fairly simple w/ few hard to find ingredients. —KCT
 
Breakfast foods work well: breakfast buriitos, french toast, waffles, pancakes, etc. And some of those things you can make with chocolate chips!
 
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Aureole:
I, like many other Catholics, abstain from meat on Friday as an act of penance. I have a major problem with this because I really don’t want to eat the same thing every Friday, it would get very boring very fast and be less of a penance because I would be likely to complain. There’s another problem that I personally have, no doubt some others on these boards have the same problem: I cannot cook. Well, I just haven’t learned to cook good food yet, especially dinners. So, in order to help me both on Fridays and in the future, I decided that I would cook my own meals on Friday. My problem now is that I don’t know many Friday friendly recipes.

So who can help an unskilled cook? What are your favourite Friday friendly recipes? I’m sure many of you have your own secret weapons to spice up the average meals, so let’s share them! It would be great to see what everyone eats on a Friday.
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We had meat free tacos on Friday:) We are traditional here, and
do not eat meat on Fridays:) 👍
 
Whole wheat spaghetti with home canned tomato sauce with lots of garden veggies, and --the secret ingredient–Morningstar Farms vegetable crumbles. (1 packet is about 12 ounces). Fry up the crumbles, add to the sauce. Tastes and texture of ground beef, but vegetarian! Add a nice tossed salad, soft breadsticks (I like to bake), wine optional (cranberry raspberry juice is colorful in a wine glass AND non-alcoholic). Finish with fruit and cheese arranged on a pretty platter, or fix sugarfree jello with fruit. (If you’re serving a vegan, don’t offer cheese or jello though, and be careful with the breadsticks (no butter or milk making them). Fruit is best; for them, I would add probably macadamia nuts for some texture contrast.
 
Here’s a chili I made up this weekend–it’s vegan, low fat, low sodium, and really, really yummy.

3 cups beans (this is equal to 2 cans, any kind of beans you like)
2 cans low sodium diced tomatoes
1 cup corn
1 or 2 sliced carrots
2 ribs celery
1-2 cups mixed bell peppers
1 teaspoon garlic
1 teaspoon cumin
1 or 2 chipotle peppers (depends on how spicy you want this)
water to get this the consistency you want–stewy or soupy

Toss everything together and simmer for about an hour or until veggies are tender. If you want to speed the process up, get the beans, tomatoes, and spices going. Then, steam the veggies for 10 minutes or so, then dump into the bean/tomato mixture.

I added bisquick dumplings to this, which was delicious. Next time I’m going to make fresh bread. Add a salad and you’ve got a feast!
 
You guys are hysterical. Some penance! This food sounds fantastic! I think all food is good, so a no-meat Friday (my practice) hardly makes a dent. Pizza? Totally “legal” by Friday standards. Fish: love it. Salad: bring it on. I’m on a chick pea and paprika soup binge at the moment, shortly to be veering off into split pea soup . . .

Can’t cook? Nonsense. If you can read, you can cook. Recommended. Fanny Farmer Cookbook. Great techniques.
 
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Aureole:
I, . My problem now is that I don’t know many Friday friendly recipes.

So who can help an unskilled cook? What are your favourite Friday friendly recipes? .
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check out the sticky on Lenten Recipes, which obviously are good for any meatless Friday, very extensive collection, very talented cooks and non-cooks here.
 
do you like stirr fry? I like to make this and it’s cheep and makes a lot of food if you need it too. I don’t know how many people you are feeding, so i"ll give you my recipe fo rmy hubby and me.

1/2 cup brown rice
cook this as directed on pkg. usually has to sit for a half an hour or so. so while that’s simmering, you can make your stirr fry.

olive oil
2-3 chopped cloves of garlic (depending on your love of this wonderful herb)
1/2 head of your favorite kind of cabbage
a cup of diced union
1 zuchinee squash
1 yellow squash
1 bell pepper (pick your favorite kind or more than one if you like)
either several “trees” of broccly or colaflower
feel free to add your favorite herbs I like salt, pepper, oregano and parcly
drizzle a little olive oil in a large sauce pan and turn up heat to medium high. add garlic with until it starts to smell yummy and toss it around in the oil a bit. porbably about three minutes. start adding your other veggies one at a time and toss with tongs. I like my veggies worm, but still crispy. you can do it how ever you want. it takes like15 minutes after you cut everything up and you only have two pans, a cutting board, a spoon, tongs and a kinfe to wash.
I also like beets in mine, but that’s just me. you can do it how ever you want, but it’s SO easy. and if you have a large family, it’s even better. if you have to do two rounds, it’s such a short time to get the beggies going, it really doesn’t matter. or if you have a wok (or how ever you spell that) even better!
 
Wow, thanks for all the recipes! It all sounds so good! I can’t waitt to try my hand at cooking some of them.
 
Let’s go easier (and lazier) for Friday:
  • Your favorite homemade pizza without the meat.
  • Egg and pepper sandwich!!! Chop up green peppers (and some onion, if you’re me), brown in pan with oil, add scrambled agg, maybe some cheese (don’t want to guild the lily here), slap in a hunk of french bread cut lengthwise to make a roll. This has been a staple in the Chicago area for Fridays since forever.
  • Cheese and bean tacos.
  • The Banana Dog. Spread some peanut butter on a slice of bread or hot dog bun. Slap in a banana, peeled. Add some more peanut butter (my choice) or jelly over the top.
    -Grilled cheese and tomato soup.
  • Pasta fagoli (pronounced “fazool”).
 
I agree that complicated vegetarian dishes aren’t really “Friday friendly.” One reason for the tradition of serving fish was that it was easy to prepare. The cook just fried it (or steamed it, or baked it, or grilled it), and that was that. He was free to concentrate on matters of the spirit, rather than matters of the body. :gopray2:

Here are some of my family’s favorites.
Fish and chips with coleslaw

Scrub some potatoes and cut them into French fry shapes. Toss with oil, salt, minced garlic, and finely chopped parsley. Spread on a baking sheet and put in the oven at 375. Set timer for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, arrange some Dover sole fillets in a single layer in a shallow, buttered baking dish. Top with breadcrumbs and a little melted butter. When the timer goes off, take the fries out and turn them over. Put them back in the oven, along with the fish. Set timer for 10 more minutes.

While the fish is cooking, make the coleslaw: shred some cabbage and carrots, and toss with a little sour cream and salt. Serve with lemon wedges on the side.
“Real” macaroni and cheese

Cook some macaroni. Meanwhile, make a white sauce (any general-purpose cookbook will have a recipe), and add plenty of grated cheddar and a little mustard. Combine everything in a buttered casserole dish, top with bread crumbs, and bake at 350 until bubbly and nicely browned (~ 20 minutes).

While it’s baking, make a salad or some steamed greens to serve with it.
Salmon burgers

Put some brown rice on to cook (~35 minutes). Meanwhile, mix a can of salmon with an egg and some breadcrumbs. Make into patties and coat with more breadcrumbs. Fry in oil or butter on medium heat, until nicely browned.

While burgers and rice are cooking, steam some carrots and greens to serve with them. If you’d like a sauce, plain yogurt works well.
Middle Eastern salad plate

Serve one or more items from each of the following lists:
  1. Hummus, cubed feta cheese, falafel, thick yogurt
  2. Tabouleh, baba ghanouj, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, red peppers
  3. Pita or other bread; rice with lemon juice
And a few that don’t need a recipe:
  • Tuna melts, with pickles or sauerkraut.
  • “Cheese on toast” – as above, but without the tuna. 😉
  • Canned baked beans, with grated cheese, toast, and sliced tomatoes.
Gotta go… I’m getting hungry! 😃
 
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mercygate:
You guys are hysterical. Some penance! This food sounds fantastic!
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I agree–all these things sound wonderful, too good for penance. I eat mostly vegetarian anyway, though, so a true penance for me would be an all meat dinner! 😃
 
**Rice and Beans **

Preparing rice and beans is very simple.
In its most basic form, a variety of dry beans can be soaked overnight (itself a reflection on our “dryness” and our need for “living water” to be restored).

A variety of ingredients are optional, but not necessary, to add different flavorings and cultural leanings to the beans.

It is common to sauté onions and garlic in a pot, and simply to add the beans along with enough water to cover them. This is brought to a boil and then let simmer for an hour.

This is served over a generous bed of rice. The rice is easily prepared by putting a cup or two of rice in a pot, with twice as many cups of water, and a touch of salt. This is brought to a boil and then reduced to a simmer for 20-40 minutes, depending upon the type of rice used.

Other ingredients:
Along with the onions, any of the following can be sautéd and added in a variety of combinations.

Sliced peppers - sweet or hot
whole or crushed olives
chopped cilantro
diced tomatoes
a variety of uncooked pastas
barley
 
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