Cooking with the Saints Liturgical Living Bundle Giveaway! ~ {bits & pieces}
Three books, three winners! {details of how to enter at the end of this post!}
Today with our {bits & pieces} we have a fabulous giveaway of three books for liturgical living. I wanted to be sure you saw Sophia Press’s new Cooking with the Saints book!
We love and treasure our old cooking with the saints books — foremost for me is Evelyn Vitz’s A Continual Feast (and you can find it hardcover second hand). So many European saints and culinary favorites, with some other cultures represented as well. Timmie (as she is known) has a sophisticated palate and a comforting presence in this book.
I find Cooking with the Saints will appeal to you too — the foodie who can’t help wanting those luscious photos we are so used to now with the internet. Many of the saints in this book are newer (but some are quite old) and the cultures are more varied than what you usually find in such books from the past.
I was excited to see some recipes for Kateri Tekakwitha! Not your usual offerings!
Since I think it makes a great wedding gift or any gift for someone who wants to live the liturgical year and also has some skill cooking, we just had to give it away here on the blog!
But since there are two other books I think the person getting this one also needs to have, we are giving them away in a bundle!
So today, if you leave a comment on this post here, you can enter to win all three books: Cooking with the Saints, The Little Oratory, and Around the Year with the von Trapp Family!
And I will be giving away two other bundles, one on my Instagram page and one on our Facebook page!
I got going on this giveaway when the other day, Deirdre pulled out the cookbook and made this dish for a weeknight supper on the deck (it wasn’t April 18 or the feast of St. Apollonius, but since we had a freezer full of sausages we had gotten on sale, it seemed like the thing to do, and it was the feast of St. Anthony!):
We all enjoyed it mightily. Here is the recipe — you can see that it’s written very clearly and helpfully. The authors even have included shopping lists, and of course, information about the saints whose days they are recommending the dishes for.
Strongly looking forward to the feast of St. Therese so that we can pull out this show-stopper:
Leave a comment here for a chance to win this bundle! These books would make the best gift for that couple who are marrying or having a baby or for a friend entering the Church.
On to our links!
Noted surgeon Dr. James Andrews wants your young athlete to stay healthy by playing less.
Also kids should ride bikes. (These long quotes are because I know a lot of you don’t subscribe to the WSJ.)
Please accept this wisdom from a not-very-wise man. Riding a bicycle is one of the best decisions you’ll ever make. Trust me: You’re going to make some bad decisions in your life. You’re going to take the interstate at 4 p.m. on a holiday weekend because you think “it doesn’t look so bad.” You’re going to buy a fancy hat that nobody will tell you makes you look like a detective in a school play.
Those are bad decisions.
Riding a bike is not.There are a million reasons why. We can start with the fun of riding a bike, what it’s like to put a pedal over a pedal and propel yourself down a roadway, or a dirt path—or the living room (I don’t care about your parents’s new carpet). It seems hard to learn, and it can be, but you just have to stick to it, maybe hit the deck a couple of times, and then there you go. For life. The cliché is true: You don’t forget. Ever. I cannot remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but I remember how to ride a bike, always.
A bike ride will clear the noise in your brain like nothing else. I’m assuming that since you’re a person living in 2019, surrounded by screens and drama, there’s a lot of noise in your brain. There sure is in mine.
It works in seconds, it really does. You get on a bike, and you feel more alive, instantly.
Maybe you’ll get into the gear, and, oh, how there is gear—the bicycle is a perfect machine, a wonder of efficiency and simplicity, and you can learn to fix pretty much all of it yourself.
But really the reason I want you to ride a bicycle is this:
You’ll be free.
A beautiful reflection on fatherhood. How fathers bring about the home in their wives’ and children’s lives. The first sentence struck me: “Because he is not related to his children with emotional or physiological ties of the same intensity as a mother’s, the father of a family is in an extremely precarious position.”
I want to visit every village in France. However, this one might make me a little dizzy: The French Town on the Edge of a Giant Hole. But I’d still go.
John Cuddeback’s reflections are always insightful — and brief. This one is possibly the best: The Key of Peace.
From the archives:
Should have posted this last week, but there is still time for some of these things in our fabulous father’s day gift guide!
Today is the feast of Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia. If you follow the link, you can also read about today’s Ember Day observance.
Leave a comment here for a chance to win this bundle; enter on my IG for another chance; enter on the Like Mother, Like Daughter Facebook page for another chance! Three winners in all!
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