Category: Lent

• Back in the kitchen, empenadas

  Eight weeks after my second hip replacement and I was ready this week to get back in the kitchen. Stoic the Vast does well at the stove (especially considering he started at Ground Zero), but he gets impatient, doesn’t like anything complicated. I live for complicated — as long as it’s healthy and fast. Not…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 10, 2016

  Building better habits, Easter, Exercise, Falling off healthy eating wagon when discouraged, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Lent, Starting over

  broccoli, Calzones, cheese, chicken, Garlic, Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown

• C.S. Lewis, gluttony and white bean dip

  For our Lenten reading/discussion, a few of us read C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” (1941). I only made it to one discussion but I did enjoy reading this, especially the devil’s letter on gluttony. Old Screwtape reminds his nephew Wormwood that there are two types of gluttony: Gluttony of delicacy and that of excess. Holy…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 12, 2014

  Appetizers, Beans, Family, Lemons, Lent

  C.S. Lewis, Dips, Gluttony, Olive oil, Oregano, Pita bread, Rosemary, The Screwtape Letters

• 40 days and 40 nights

  I thought I’d try not eating in front of the television for Lent. I know, right? How difficult can that be? Jesus didn’t even have television; it’s giving up a luxury only momentarily each day. I failed on the first try. Didn’t yet feel up to driving 35 minutes each way to go to church,…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 6, 2014

  Easter, Faith and religion, Food habits, Frederick Buechner, Lent

  Breaking a habit, healthy eating, Lousy habits, obesity, over-eating, why overeat