Classic Mary Moments: Easter Cooking!!!!

Friday, March 25, 2016

Easter Cooking!!!!

Soooooooooooo there is an Italian tradition in our family to make what we call Easter Pies! Easter pies are NOT a dessert, but a meal! Kind of like a calizone, buuuuuuuut BETTER, waaaaaaaaaayyyy BETTER!!!

The long ones are my favorite, you fill them with ricotta cheese and sausage or ham...these ones are my favorite!!!! The round ones are filled with muenster cheese and all kinds of meats, solidified together with egg...these ones are good, but a little to rich for my liking!!!

I believe the round ones are from my mom's mom side of the family and the long ones are from my mom's dad's...buuuuut it could be the other way around!!! Traditionally speaking, Catholic Italians would make these pies on Good Friday and eat them on Saturday before Easter to break their period of fasting from meat during lent! Obviously our family doesn't do this that way, we just enjoy them during this time of the year!!! :)))

I admit that we are a little bit stingier with passing these Easter pies out than we are with our Christmas cookies! The reason being is that they are quite pricey to make, annnnnnnnnnd NOT EVERYONE LIKES THEM!!!! We don't want them to go to waste, so yeah!!!

BUUUUUUUUUUUT ITALIANS KNOW, how good these pies truly are. This was my uncle's response when I sent him a pic...

YUP, HE'S ITALIAN!!! :))))

Today we started a NEW Italian-Easter tradition....

HOMEMADE RAVIOLI!!!!

I went to my brother John's this afternoon, we're a pretty good team in the kitchen, pretty much cuz I do whatever he says!!! LOL

Little Bethany, MORE THAN READY to help out her daddy!!!

Working...

WORKING....

YUMMMMMMMMM!!!!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!

With the dough we had left, I said, lets make ONE really big ravioli!!! My grandpa said his mom used to make them just ONE really big ravioli, the size of a bowl!!!

Its as big as my hand!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd of course we taste tested our ravioli,

it was SOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!

Makes the store bought stuff really dim in comparison to THE GINTYS!!! Olive Garden ain't got NOTHING on us!!!

Mom would've been SOOOO PROUD!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!