¡Con Gusto! can help you eat right during Lent
TOPICS: ¡Con Gusto! Cookbook Lent Recipes POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM JANUARY 23, 2016 Lent comes early this year. Ash Wednesday will be on February 10, less than three weeks from now. Now is the time to pull out your ¡Con Gusto! cookbook and start looking for recipes. Capirotada, a Lent favorite. Of course, the most traditional Lenten dish in South Texas is capirotada or “ sopa ” as we called in our home. Different cooks use different ingredients, and you can find four recipes in ¡Con Gusto! . Edna Rios of San Diego uses cinnamon sticks, brown sugar margarine, anise, slices of toast, cheese slices, raisins, apple and pecans. Esmeralda Garcia’s capirotada has sugar, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, buttered toast, seedless raisin and shredded cheese. The book also has recipes from Evelyn Garcia Tobin of Edinburg and Blanca Perez of San Diego. Albondigas, salmon patties. Another popular Lenten dish is albondigas, or salmon patties. Lydia Canales f...