Tomorrow, we're going to celebrate Fat Tuesday with all the Crazy-Catholic-Creole-Polish-ness we can muster, because we're three of those four things and that's 75%, a solid C. We'll take it. Life is seasonally hard and perennially fragile, so when those goods times roll we like to seize them. Laissez les bon temps rouler? We say [...]
Tag: Lent
The real Paczki story, unabridged
I’m spot treating my mud-splashed pants while simultaneously doing deep squats in my laundry room, and I’m doing both to ward off the effects of an emergency Paczki run. Frankly, I’m a little cranky. Let me explain. I’m the granddaughter of a proudly Polish man. I know my way around a pieroghi. Halubki? I can [...]
Mea Culpa for mea gulpa of a good old fashioned hamburger — A post by Molly
It’s been a bit of a rough Lent. My Dad gave up talking on the phone with his college roommate… on weekdays… during work… but abandoned that before the ashes faded from our foreheads. After 39 days without meat, I’m pretty sure I’d hurl if I even looked at another cafeteria fish sandwich. No wonder [...]
Chili sin carne — a vegetarian feast (A post by Molly)
This year I gave up meat for Lent, and it’s been very hard… for my mother. As I do a significant amount of cooking in our house, my mom and dad have become fairly vegetarian themselves. It’s been a tough two weeks, but it’s just their cross to bear. Last night I thought I’d try [...]
Death (of my dignity) by Chocolate
Wednesday, a day before Valentine's, I did what every member of my family had asked me never to do again. I gave up chocolate for Lent. Why the family solidarity, you may wonder, why the passion? That I can trace to the 2002 Lenten season and an undignified incident in the freezer aisle of a [...]