As you try to come up with creative dishes to deal with the traditional fasting from food and abstaining from eating meat during Lent, consider this new dish for the Purple Forty Days: Daily eat your own words. Eat them before they are spoken, and find in this hidden meal a unique penance. Instead of savoring those sweet tasting words of criticism, sarcasm or complaint-or those deliciously rich words of rudeness-swallow them. While healthy for the soul, you may find this meal sour and difficult to swallow.