Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations is a cookbook with 125 recipes for grain-free, dairy-free, gluten-free comfort food recipes for holidays and special occasions. When people adopt a new diet for health or personal reasons, it's the
parties, holidays, and events with strong food traditions they worry
about most. Against All Grain provides recipes and menus for twelve special occasions, from a child's
birthday party and baby shower, to a backyard barbeque, romantic
Valentine's Day dinner for two, and even a Halloween party. Of course,
Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, New Year's Eve party, and
Easter/Passover brunch are also covered -- along with suggestions for
beverages and cocktails and the all-important desserts. Nearly every
recipe is photographed, and food and party images shot on location
provide beautiful and creative entertaining ideas. Delicious and
easy-to-prepare dishes encourage the whole family to get into the
kitchen and create lasting memories -- no matter what the occasion.
Jason Stellman's Misfit Faith: Confessions of a Drunk Ex-Pastor was not quite the book I had expected it to be. It was so much better! Jason Stellman was a Presbyterian pastor, but he became a Roman Catholic. I expected Misfit Faith to be, therefore, a semi-autobiographical work of Catholic apologetics. I read of Scott Hahn's mentorship of Stellman, and expected Misfit Faith to be a new, milder version of Hahn's scholarship. But I did not see any defense of Peter being the first pope in Misfit Faith , or any criticism of Sola Scriptura, or an explanation and defense of the Catholic understanding of justification. Instead, I read the story of Stellman's own spiritual journey. From the opening confession that Stellman had flirted with Christian universalism, I knew this wasn't going to be a Catholic apologetic. I wouldn't even characterize Misfit Faith as an apologetic at all. Because if there's one thing Stellman isn't sure on...
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