Friday Tasting Menu (On a Saturday)
Issue #11-Jamaican Beef Patty History and Tasting, The Power of Books, A Lesson From My Wife & more!
Hey everyone, happy Saturday!
I’m sorry for the delay. Got home super late last night and was straight up exhausted so I didn’t end up finishing the post. Clearly I still havent figured out how a good cadence but nevertheless we press on!
It’s start of Spring next Sunday and Daylight Savings begins tomorrow. Brace yoursleves! I feel the year slipping through our fingers.
If you remember one of the takeaways from my failed goals of 2021 that,
“I did no type of check-ins to review my progress.
I just hit start and the Temple Run through the year began and didn't stop. It’s a great idea to incorporate pauses & checkpoints.”
It’s a great time to do a check-in on our goals.
Have a great weekend & Happy Sandwiches 🥪
Enjoy Today’s Tasting Menu!
On Today’s Menu
📖a read: What Are You Holding That Has You In Its Grips?
📱a watch: Mini Documentary on the naming of the Jamaican Patty
🎧a listen: J Monty-Beat The Block Up
🍴a bite: First Time Trying Beef Patty in Coco Bread
💭a thought: A Lesson From My Wife
🗯a quote: The Character Paris from the Show SEE on Books
🍞a verse: Psalm 18:2
📖 a read
Suffer the Loss of What Has You in Its Grip by Paul David Tripp
Lent is a time I remember growing up. I never fully understood it though. Back then it was more so about not eating meat on Fridays for like a month and a half. I never questioned it and just did it because it was what our family did.
This article is a great read any time of year but seems to be right on time for this year.
“What do you tend to attach your identity to?
Is there a place where you’re asking the creation to do what only the Creator can?
What does your use of money tell you about what’s important to you?
Lent calls us to remember once again that sin reduces us all to idolaters somehow, someway. It gives us a season to take time and reflect on things that have taken too strong a hold on us, things that we have come to crave too strongly and love too dearly. It reminds us that often things that we are holding tightly have actually taken an even tighter hold on us.”
Tripp gives fresh perspective and clarity and asks some penetrating reflective questions that I need to ponder and that I would encourage you to take a look at and to ponder for yourselves.
📱a watch
A slightly longer watch than usual but well worth it. The production of this mini-documentary kept me captivated. It gave me a deeper sense of appreciation for the Beef Patties I ate this week, knowing a little bit more about the journey and struggle for the name. It also compelled me to highlight the beef patty in this week’s bite.
They aren’t turnovers, meat pies, hand-held pockets. They’re Jamaican Patties! 🇯🇲
🎧a listen
J Monty-Beat The Block Up
Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Instagram
I said it earlier and I will say it again! J. Monty’s wordplay is outta this world Anointed!
Say lil' homie, the rеason you buy bull (Bible) is prolly 'cause you ain't reading the Testament
It would lessen your lessons unless sin is just your element
That's elementary like L-M-N-O-P…
The flow up and down like Crypto market
The way my body covered in the blood(of Jesus), I'm just prayin' a Crip don't mark it, this gon' spark it
My boy Jonathan called it first though. Throwback Thursday to our YouTube channel called Breaking Truth, J Monty was Jon’s number 1 pick and I’ve recently found out why and this track did it for me! I miss my guys!
🍴a bite
I grew up on corner store Beef Patties. My boy Nick and I would get Chicken Patties with Pepper Jack cheese on them. *Chef’s Kiss*
But, I had never had the infamous combination of a Beef Patty in Coco Bread. Now at first glance, it may raise an eyebrow. How could you put a pastry dough in between bread?!
To be honest, I had my own doubts but I’m here to report, it works! I can’t quite explain how or why it just does. I had it for the first time this week from the well-known chain Golden Krust and it did not disappoint.
The Coco bread brings a sweetness to the spice and seasonings from the patty and the patty filling provides the moisture to this seemingly yet far from a dry combination.
If you haven’t tried it yet, I’d highly recommend it!
If you have: Where can I find the best Beef Patty and Coco Bread?
💭a thought
I was gonna share a thought from a conversation I had this week but my amazing wife, sobered me up this morning.
We woke up to some gloomy, wet, windy weather here in New York City. The weather has been all outta wack lately. 74 and sunny and then just when think Spring’s arrived, here comes Winter to smack us in the back of the head with some gale winds and hail.
I was particularly grumpy this morning because I had planned to take my family to see the latest Batman movie.
Here’s a glimpse into the conversation (with some paraphrasing don’t remember word-for-word):
Me: Esta tan feo afuera! (It’s so ugly out!)
Diana: Don’t say that. I’m sure my father would wish to be able to see the rain today.
Me (Internally): Woah, she’s got a point Reggie. You’re over here complaining about some bad weather. There are people who literally didn’t wake up with the breath in their lungs to give complaint about the weather. Smooth.
*fast forward to hugging it out later*
Me (Internally): Thank God for my wife.
We can be so quick to get flustered over the most insignificant things. (Me) But let us remember in the crummy mornings when things don’t go our way, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” —Psalm 118:24 We have a new morning with new mercies that God has given us, there is reason to be grateful and there is a purpose to be lived out.
The beauty of marriage is that it reveals all the blemishes of our and our spouse’s hearts. But in that exposing there is love produced. Unconditional Love. Feeling it now.
🗯a quote
“Books are in the holy shape. They are silent, and yet they speak directly into the imagination. You can burn them, but they are more powerful than fire.”
-The character Paris from the Apple TV+ Series See
This was a thought-provoking quote and I plan on fleshing it out in a future Monday post. Stay tuned for that!
🍞a verse
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O LORD, my strength.