Upcoming changes

Things are going to get very fishy on here in the next few weeks—literally. Practicing Catholics 14 or older who are medically able to do so are bound by liturgical laws not to eat the meat of warm-blooded animals on the 7th Wednesday before Easter (Ash Wednesday) and every intervening Friday (until and including the last Friday before Easter, Good Friday).  It is out of this liturgical law that the custom that Catholics eat fish on Fridays, especially during the season of Lent was created. Furthermore, Catholics who are at least 18 and who have not yet turned 60 who are medically able to do so are told to have 3 meals such that the two small meals do not equal or surpass the large meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

Since I definitely fit both categories (I’m 21 and healthy: this means that I’m older than 14, and I’m older than 18 but not yet 60) and you may also be in at least one of these categories, especially if you are Catholic, you will notice a number of changes coming to the content and difficulty level of the dishes being posted here between now and mid-April. This coming Friday, up until (and including) April 8, every recipe will contain fish. The recipes will all be shorter, simpler, and will all be designed to have smaller portion sizes. In addition, there will not be any recipes posted on Friday, April 15, but at least one recipe will be posted instead on Saturday night, April 16.

Beginning Friday, April 22, portion sizes will increase back to normal, and, if the dish is a main course, the protein will no longer necessarily be fish. Recipes will return to their normal complexity.