Featured picture of final dish of French Ratatouille

French Ratatouille from Julia Child

Hello everyone, You are in a process of your 15 min dinner fix, ignoring your one-year-old crying in his high-chair and yelling to him “please wait for two more min, my dear, mommy is almost done”, cutting the veggies in one bunch with the help of food processor while opening a tin of tomato sauce and dragging your foot to the fridge to quickly get a bunch of parsley (dragging, because your 3-year old is hanging on your leg asking…

veggie feijoada

Veggie feijoada

Hello everyone, We, Orthodox Christians, have just started our Great Lent and we are going to do our best to pray, to repent and to fix our weaknesses.  Abstinence from meat, eggs and dairy products cleans our body and helps us to move into “slow down mode” during which we can try to do a spring-cleaning of our souls. Regarding food abstinence, the beginning of the Lent is tough because our body is trying to adjust to a new diet and I…