Do you ever wonder if you were someone else in a prior life? I don’t mean someone famous like Napoleon or Cleopatra. I mean just an ordinary person living in a different time and place.
Category: Sunday Supper
Sundays are Made for Family Suppers
Once upon a time, families would drop off their Sunday Roasts at the local bakery on their way to Church. The baker would pop the roasts from his neighbors into his massive ovens, and there they would cook. After church, people picked up their roasts and headed home for a family meal.
Taking Back Sunday Supper with a Simple Chicken Dinner
Just for the record, today is National Sunday Supper Day. No offense, but that’s just plain sad if you ask me. What does it say about us if we need a National Day to sit down together for a nice Sunday Supper? Times certainly have changed!
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Sundays and Pork Roast Suppers
Sundays are special and Sunday Suppers should be special, too. Years ago I resolved to make my family Chicken on Sundays. It was how I grew up. Fried Chicken for Sunday supper during warm weather, Roasted Chicken when it was cold outside. That pledge to the past did not last long. I still like to resurrect childhood recipes few months, but eating fried chicken every week for months on end got old really fast.
Making Sunday Supper Special
So often, we reserve certain “traditions” for particular days. Turkeys at Thanksgiving and Ham at Easter are two great examples of this. Why Ham at Easter? There are all sorts of theories – most of which aren’t very flattering to the Christian believer who eats ham at Easter.