It’s lambing time in the Cooking for Jesus kitchens. Legs of lamb are being ritually prepared, Mollie is getting to grips with some lamb meatballs, and I am all about the butter. It’s traditional in Poland and likely other Eastern European countries as well to have a butter lamb on Easter. (Also sugar lambs, and [...]
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Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?
Posted in Easter, tagged butter lamb, Easter, make on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bunkered in Fort Easter
Posted in Easter, Lent, tagged culture wars, Easter, popular culture, resurrection on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Years ago, in the now sadly defunct Re:generation Quarterly, the ever delightful L. Penseur had a Christmas article wherein he had something rather compelling to say about that OTHER great feast, namely Easter. Well, it’s the season to be jolly, of Bing Crosby crooning, “Chestnuts roasting o’er an open fire,” neighborhood competitions to develop the [...]
Posted in Easter, tagged Easter, george herbert on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Easter wings Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With thee Oh let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me. My tender age in sorrow did [...]
The Apotheosis of the Naked Lemon
Posted in Easter, tagged bread, Easter, Lemons on April 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every Easter my mother would be rummaging around in the vegetable drawer, as mothers are wont to do, and invariably a small wail of despair would emanate from her lips. “There are NAKED lemons in my refrigerator!” Pause for calculation. “ALL my lemons are naked!” This bothered her to no end. I myself was and [...]
