Meat Free Fridays

Meatless Meals from CreativeCynchronicity.com

Since Lent has begun, so has my annual tradition of meat free Fridays here on the blog.  Here are three of my favourite meatless recipes as well as some from my blogging friends!  Join me each Friday of Lent for more tasty dishes. http://creativecynchronicity.com/2012/11/healthy-eating-with-loblaws-lentil-and-vegetable-quinoa-recipe/ http://creativecynchronicity.com/2010/11/sweet-corn-ravioli/ http://creativecynchronicity.com/2012/09/tasty-tuesday-pierogi-casserole/ More from my friends: InLinkz.com

What is Lent All About Anyway?

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“Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love…” Joel 2:13 Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, the day after Shrove Tuesday. It is determined, just as Shrove Tuesday and Easter are, by the lunar calendar and can occur anywhere from February 4th to March [...]

Happy Shrove Tuesday!

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Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday!  Or as my daughter calls it, Happy Pancake Day!  Or how about Happy Mardi Gras!   Or maybe Fat Tuesday?  Whatever you call it, it sure can be fun to celebrate it! Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday, which signifies the beginning of the Lenten season. Shrove Tuesday can take [...]

5th Sunday of Lent

  Then Jesus said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.  For those who want to save their life will lose it and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.” Luke 9:23-24 Family Activity:  Create [...]

4th Sunday of Lent

Flickr, Sean MacEntee “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 Family Activity:  Collect stones of various sizes and weights.  As a family member feels that they have committed a sin, they can choose a stone and place it in a predetermined box.  As an [...]

3rd Sunday of Lent

Flickr, Serenity by Lucid Dreams Recall the wondrous deeds the Lord has wrought.  Psalm 105:5 Family activity:  Create a basket of blessing eggs.  Each person in the family needs to decorate their own egg.  You can use plastic eggs that open up or make paper mache eggs, leaving a small opening that will allow for [...]

2nd Sunday of Lent

If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted, then light shall rise for you in the darkness and the gloom shall become for you like midday.  Isaiah 58:10 Family Activity:  Make Pretzels In earlier times, Roman Christians (of about the 4th century) observed a much stricter fast during Lent than we [...]

First Sunday of Lent

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.”  Psalm 51:10 A family activity:  Just as at Advent time, we’d light candles on the Advent wreath, in my family, we used a Lenten wreath as well.  To make the wreath itself, we would use a grapevine wreath [...]

Ash Wednesday Reflections

"You are dust…" Genesis 3:19 It was Ash Wednesday and I was explaining to the 5th person of the day that no that wasn’t dirt on my forehead and no thank you, I didn’t want it removed.  For the others, once I told them that it was Ash Wednesday and that these were the ashes [...]

Soft Pretzels

Here’s another of the recipes I made on last night’s In the Kitchen with Cyn.  I’ve been making these pretzels since university when my roommate taught me how.  This recipe was handed down through her family (she taught me a lot of fabulous German recipes!!!) and we used to go to the cheese shop at [...]