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Lent. Abstention. Easter. Feast.

By Connie Veneracion | Last updated: 07.08.2025

Meatless recipes for the rest of the Lenten season, and meaty recipes for Easter.

Vegetable and seafood recipes

First of all, the last three newsletters weren’t meant to get sent out. They’re actually old newsletters which needed editing and which got resent to subscribers due to my carelessness. Newsletters normally go out weekly, sometimes twice as often, but not three or four in a day. If you’ve read them before, I hope you enjoy re-reading them. If you’re a relatively new subscriber, I hope the deluge of emails didn’t overwhelm you. Mea culpa.

So, anyway… Lent. People are always looking for good meatless recipes for Lent. We don’t abstain from meat on Lent, so, I won’t play the hypocrite by writing anything that insinuates otherwise. In the past, when commenting was still on, and readers asked for meatless recipes for Lent, I just pointed them to the seafood section and vegetable section (although, in the latter, vegetables are often combined with meat, seafood or chicken) where there are already dozens of recipes to choose from.

Meatless

This time, however, I have new-ish meatless recipes to share. There is the ever-growing list of recipes with mushrooms and tofu. And I have republished four recipes from the old blog that qualify as dishes that can be enjoyed by Catholics without violating the no-meat tradition.

  • Sichuan-style potato stir fry
  • Chow mein with shrimps and quail eggs
  • Squash and zucchini pancakes
  • Salmon, papaya and moringa (malunggay) leaves soup
  • Tilapia fillets and baby portobello in lemon cream sauce

Meaty

Abstention from meat ends on Easter for Catholics. Do check out the meat and poultry archives. If you’re having an Easter brunch, you might also want to see the list of sweets and summer drinks. And eggs, of course.

If you’re looking for new ways to enjoy meat, see the following (the two chicken dishes, I have mentioned in an earlier newsletter but I’m including them in the list anyway).

Recipes with meat
  • Blanched Chinese broccoli with ground pork adobo
  • Creamed spinach, bacon and mushroom spaghetti
  • Sichuan-style bang bang chicken
  • Chinese American-style bang bang chicken

About Connie Veneracion

Home cook and writer by passion, photographer by necessity, and good food, coffee and wine lover forever. I write recipes, cooking tips and food stories. More about me and my umami blogs.

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