Grace Before Meals {review}

Grace Before Meals: Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life by Leo Patalinghug

With just a few ingredients and your time, your kitchen can become the perfect setting not only for a delicious meal but for experiencing the greatest blessings in life.

In Grace Before Meals: Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life, Father Leo Patalinghug (yes, the same Father Leo who defeated Bobby Flay on Throwdown!) helps you make family meals a way of life. Combining more than 30 simple but delicious recipes related to personal milestones, family holidays, and faith observances, along with scriptural references and short essays offering wisdom on faith, values, and family togetherness, Father Leo shows that mealtime is the perfect setting for discussing the major issues all families face. In fact, research shows that frequent family dinners can reduce many risks facing children, including drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, depression, eating disorders, and poor academic performance. These are meals that nourish body and spirit.

This book has not only great menus for all kinds of special occasions but easy to follow recipes. Alot of the recipes involve fish and seafood since you can eat that year around and during lent. I only the veggie recipes  first, since I'm vegetarian and  wanted to try those first. I do plan to make several of his menus for thanksgiving, Christmas and mothers day. The menus use most ingredients you probably already have in your house and if you don't they won't cost an arm and a leg to get. I remember seeing the throwdown between him and bobby flay (I love bobby flay and watch all his shows even my girls love bobby flay).

The Menu we tried this last week:

Suggestions for Ash Wednesday:

Spaghetti Aglio e Olio (spaghetti with garlic and olive oil)
Caprese Salad
then we made his Garlic Bread too :)

I made this and me and the girls ate this up with no leftovers :) this is now on our main menu!! :) YUMMY!

this is a great cookbook to have in your collection for those special meals when you want to make something  more then your usual meals. 

This review was written as part of the Catholic books reviewer program from The Catholic Company. Visit The Catholic Company to find more information on Grace Before Meals