Ash Wednesday and Good Friday Meals

Gustavo P

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday Meals

            As a catholic, we don’t eat meat on Ash Wednesday or on Good Friday to show respect. So we have to come up with something to replace our delicious meat and poultry. Normal people would just go to fish instead but we like to make our meals a little more interesting and a little more flavorful. For Ash Wednesday, we did fry some fish and made a mashed potato with some peas as a side dish. Later that day, for dinner, we had more of the great fish we had made and we also had some corn on the cob to go along with it. But the food fun doesn’t stop there. Even though we could eat meat the other days, we chose to continue making meatless meals because they were so much more interesting and less mainstream. We made meals that included fried eggplant, other fried vegetables, and different kinds of fish and cooked different ways. With good Friday coming up soon, we already started our meatless grocery shopping to prepare our great meals ahead of time. We have salmon ready to be cooked and various kinds of vegetables to be fried, broiled, and other ways to be cooked. Cooking is such a big part of my family because depending on the occasion, the food we make is different every time. We don’t always eat the same thing which always makes dinner and lunch interesting. Without food variety, holidays and life at home would always be so boring.