Cooking & Baking

so we will be having leftovers of that, with rice. I'd love to have a cucumber raita with it, but the mint on my deck isn't up yet.

Like most Orthodox, I'm doggone ready for Lent to be over. Even with the dispensations of illness (last week, and I mostly didn't feel like eating anyway) and traveling (the two weeks before that) I tried to stick to the fast. But I am heartily sick of being vegetarian when I'm not normally, even with occasional fish! If you want a good description of how some of us feel about now, read the chapter in Frederica Mathewes-Greene's book Facing East rhat describes a grocery shopping trip with her teenagers just before Pascha (Easter). The first time I read it I laughed so hard I woke my late ex up.