This weekend, Food Network is re-airing the episode of the Steak Fajita Throw Down. If you’re visiting our website for the first time, please know how happy I am that you visited.  WELCOME! Please sign up for the free weekly inspiration, recipes, tips and ideas to strengthen faith and family.

People always ask:  ”was it really a surprise?”  and, “where can I get that fusion fajita recipe?”  To answer that question and so many more simply go to your local book store and purchase the newly released book:  Grace Before Meals, Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life.  Again, it’s available where books are sold and also at our website.

On our website, you can also learn a ton about our movement, where I’ll be appearing next, and how to book grace before meals  at your event.  It’s tons and tons of delicious food, faith and fun!  Just ask Kiran Burgess of Hagerstown, MD, where I recently judged a chili cooking competition.  Her delicious duck and masa chili took home the bragging rights. You can get her recipe on this site too!

Just to keep y’all updated.  I recently returned from a little foodie excursion in San Francisco.  I know Chef Maureen of the City College Culinary Arts Program.  She’s the head instructor for the culinary program.  She’s a great chef and even better friend!  Thanks Maureen for allowing me into the kitchen, to help where needed, and to sample the foods!

It was fantastic to observe her class, visit and chat with students, help out when needed, and more importantly to go to the student run restaurant in the heart of San Francisco in order to feast on the new students’ cuisine!

Their enthusiasm in the kitchen inspired me to write a series of articles called “Food Disciple”, in which I’ll chronicle some of the experiences I had in a culinary kitchen and test restaurant.  It was an intense opportunity to see students working in real life kitchen experiences, but under the watchful eye of the instructors, it was nothing like Hell’s Kitchen.

The foodie extravaganza continued with two fantastic dinners with food bloggers.  My first blog dinner was with Catherine Enfield (center of photo) of Munchie Musings of Sacramento, CA.  She took me and two other friends (Joe and Dottie Narvaez) on a food truck excursion. Talk about a gourmet truck stop!  I’ll definitely talk more about that in future email blasts (but you gotta sign up to receive these musings).

And, just last evening I had a wonderful dinner with other foodies and food bloggers, including Angry Asian Creations, Sweet Mary, and Inspired Taste. You gotta check our their blogs and recipes.  We were all hosted by the delightful Wendi Mosteiko of Bon Appetite Hon.  For a whole evening we talked about food, and ate some pretty tasty stuff too! (Wendi is in the middle of the authors Adam and Joanne from Inspired Taste Food Blog).

Now that I’m back, I have to “digest” all of these incredible food experiences and somehow share these wonderful moments with all of you.  In the midst of teaching, I’ll also be reminiscing about this past week’s food pilgrimage. So stay tuned to more email blasts, some changes in our format on recipes, silly facebook posts, and yes, even an occassional blog – which you all know, I’m horrible at doing!

Cheers to this beautiful time of the year, the festivities that will keep us hopping, and the faith that nourishes our souls!

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