Put Your Faith Where Your Mouth Is
St. Francis of Assisi said, "It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."
Feeding people is the perfect way to walk out our faith and share the love of God and family. There is nothing more welcoming than time around the table. There is no greater way to reach a hungry person, than to feed them. Is there someone who attends your church that eats alone? What a tribute to our Master it would be to invite them to Sunday dinner, even if you've never spoken to them before. How wonderful would it be if we PLANNED to invite a lonely person to dinner on Sunday. With just a little effort we can share the love of God easily.
Here's a quick, easy recipe to get you started. This is one of my husbands favorites. I love to do this because it’s SO simple, yummy and good for your body. From this light delicious sauce you can add most anything…
Let’s get started!
In a big pot, put your pasta water on to boil; Must be a rolling boil. Add a tbsp of salt.
In another large pan, add Extra Virgin olive oil, twice around the pan. Add to this oil, 2 cloves of garlic crushed and chopped. Turn the heat to medium and wait for the sizzle (the house will really smell yummy).
Add 4 large tomatoes or a nice sized container of cherry tomatoes or Campari tomatoes sliced, flesh side down.
Hopefully, by now, you’ll be able to “drop your pasta” (put the macaroni in the water).
Put the lid on the pan and let the tomatoes melt. Once they’re soft you can squish them with the back of your spoon or spatula. Add 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/4 tsp. pepper. Let them cook 1 or two minutes longer, until they become a chunky sauce.
At this point, if you’d like to add fresh basil… go to town!!!
Drain your pasta, but first take one ladle full of pasta water, and add it to your sauce. It will make your sauce nice and smooth and even more yummy!
Toss pasta in your sauce. Go ahead! Add it right on in there. Top it with a good handful of fresh basil if you want. Serve with Parmesan cheese for your family to add on their own, or, my favorite, Pecorino Romano. Mmm!
Nice crusty bread goes great with this entree. Say grace, eat up!!!
A ministry of hospitality is such a wonderful thing.
Grace and Peace!
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I grew up in a house full of people; Mom and Dad, four brothers and two sisters, plus an array of aunts uncles and cousins. I’d say we are a typical Italian American family. We did everything together, work, school, chores, Catholic church and especially golf; because golf was our family business. Every night we would gather around the dinner table, no excuses.
I met my husband Jeff in my twenties. I told my girlfriends he was the one guy I knew who I could NOT bring home to my parents. At the time, he had long hair and knowing my ultra conservative parents, well, let’s just say I knew they wouldn’t approve. So I married him. A few years back, we started Refuge Ministries a platform from which we counsel and speak.
I credit my love of writing to my love of reading, and this I learned from my mother. Wisely, mom steered me towards the classics, especially C.S. Lewis, which changed my life. I began writing at a very early age; but I never took it seriously.
About ten years ago, I noticed that all the kids I knew were obsessed with a particular vampire series. Being a career kid person and an avid reader, I try to at least keep up with what’s going on in order to have intelligent discussions with those around me. So I read this series. I was both drawn in and repulsed at the same time. The hero’s were selfish and shallow and the story, overall, a bloody mess. This, I noticed, was a I found nothing in these books worth living up to. I began to pray and I began to write.
I write as a direct answer to the dilemma and common theme among popular books: No sense of right and wrong, no firm, guiding moral compass and definitely no God to keep motives pure. There is a God and He is good. He urges us on to be more than we think we are, and to live with reckless abandon for Him. Real adventure begins when you commit your life to Him and follow His lead. It’s my prayer that through the stories I write, you will see more clearly who the author of life is, and how we are called to follow Him.
Here is the link to my website http://www.lizgalvano.net
