Martha addresses the preparation and anticipation for the Nativity in our kitchens, and elsewhere. Here is the link to the recipe for preserved lemons. 

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Preserved Lemons and the Nativity

What happens when we become burned out on cooking and end up in a recipe rut? Martha shares some ideas on reinvigorating your cooking and prayer life. 

Recipe Rut - Part 2

What do you do if you're in both a recipe and prayer rut? Martha has some solutions. 

Recipe Rut - Part 1

Martha explores food as an expression of love. 

Food in Stages

Martha Condra interviews firefighters Ryan and Thomas Wells about the claim that firehouse food is some of the best, as well as what the daily life of a firefighter is like. 

Firehouse Food

Simplicity has been a prevalent part of host Martha Condra's holiday season. Link to this episode's recipe. 

Simplicity

Martha takes a second look at college cafeterias. 

Campus Dining 2.0

Martha describes a program hosted by her local library that accepts food items as payment for library fines in support of a neighborhood food bank. 

Food for Fines

Martha reminds us that the reason we cook is for love. 

In the Kitchen with Thomas Wolfe

Martha offers a suggestions for planning Lenten menus and then compares a favorite, reliable cooking spoon to the saints from who she seeks intercessory prayers. 

Of Saints and Spoons

Martha is back, and she recounts what she has been doing since her last episode, including experiencing a car crash, preparing mercy meals, and celebrating a wedding. 

A Car Wreck, Mercy Meals, a Cooking Class, and a Wedding

Martha looks back on 2011, remembering the many relationships she built through food. 

Building Relationships Around Food

Just as there are different degrees of vegetarianism, there are varying degrees of our spiritual commitment in the Orthodox faith. In this episode, Martha looks at these levels from her perspective, as a convert to Orthodox Christianity. She instructs us to encourage one another as we complete our Lenten journey. 

V is for Vegan

Martha begins the new year listing a few basics she hopes her children learn before entering adulthood. 

Change a Tire, Roast a Chicken, Say a Prayer

In this episode of Wheat Wine and Oil, Martha contrasts Orthodox Advent with the secular holiday season. She also shares a fasting recipe. [Open in new window] 

Tis the Season

This series of programs follows faith through the market to the kitchen and the family table.

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