Description:

• Two book set
• Grace Before Meals
• More than 30 healthy, easy-to-prepare recipes and dozens of family-friendly cooking and parenting tips
• Spicing Up Married Life
• Revive your date night - include recipes and prayers

Grace Before Meals: Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life:

Father Leo Patalinghug (yes, the same Father Leo who defeated Bobby Flay on Throwdown!) helps you make family meals a way of life. Combining more than 30 simple but delicious recipes related to personal milestones, family holidays, and faith observances, along with scriptural references and short essays offering wisdom on faith, values, and family togetherness, Father Leo shows that mealtime is the perfect setting for discussing the major issues all families face. In fact, research shows that frequent family dinners can reduce many risks facing children, including drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, depression, eating disorders, and poor academic performance. These are meals that nourish body and spirit.

Fr. Leo's cookbook includes:
* Short reflective essays
* Questions and topics to discuss during the meal
* More than 30 healthy, easy-to-prepare recipes
* Scripture references
* Dozens of family-friendly cooking and parenting tips

Spicing Up Married Life: Satisfying Couples' Hunger for True Love:

Priest & award-winning chef Fr. Leo Patalinghug serves up his newest cookbook, Spicing Up Married Life, offering coupleswhether dating, engaged, young parents, empty nesters, or celebrating their golden anniversarythe chance to renew their love for each other and to God. Each of these 12 chapters encourages couples to discover faith-filled lessons about Gods invitation to love each other more deeply. Thoughtful questions to engage intimate dinner conversation, topical prayers, and of course, delicious recipes from Fr. Leo make for a wonderful month-a-versary dinnerbecause married love should be celebrated more than once a year! Drawing from his priestly background, theological study, experiences with marriage preparation, and combined with his penchant for creating delicious, affordable, easy-to-make culinary masterpieces, Fr. Leo offers a fresh message to couples filled with inspiration, hope and Gods love! So spice things up with this wonderful dinner-date opportunity and fall in love with your spouse all over again as God calls us to love.

Fr. Leos joyful living of our faith is a gift to all of us who know him! And that is the same spirit you will find in Spicing up Married Life. Its insightful lessons and delicious recipes will deepen your love for God and for one another.

-Fr. Jonathan Morris, Fox News Analyst

With Grace Before Meals, Fr. Leo already inspired us to make family dinners an absolute priority. But now with Spicing Up Married Life, hes challenged us even further to improve and grow upon the foundation of our family: our marriage. Whether you have no kids or twenty, Fr. Leo stirs the pot and shows how making your marriage better than ever can bring you, your spouse, and your entire family closer to God.

-Greg and Jennifer Willits, founders of NewEvangelizers.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Fr. Leo Patalinghug is a priest of the archdiocese of Baltimore, author ofGrace Before Meals: Recipes & Inspirations for Family Meals & Family Life, host of EWTNs cooking show, Savoring Our Faith, radio personality, and winner of the steak fajitaThrowdown! With Bobby Flay on Food Network. Fr. Leo is on a mission to strengthen relationships and marriages through the most effective means: food, faith and fun! To learn more, visit www.gracebeforemeals.com

Dimensions & Specifications

Grace Before Meals:

• ISBN:9780307717214
• Author:Father Leo Patalinghug
• Format:Softcover
• Pages:176
• Language:English

Spicing Up Married Life:

• 8.6 x 6.9 inches
• ISBN:9780979603532
• Language:English
• Format:Softcover
• Author:Father Leo Patalinghug