So this is my all about food blog. I will start by saying this is not your ordinary food blog!
My family loves food. They love great food even better. They love many restaurant dishes best!
I am a stay at home homeschooling mom who does work within a food budget. It is not skimpy but not extravagant either. It is probably lower than some for a family of 6 people. I have found that with internet there is not one single dish you cannot duplicate from your favorite restaurant.
We regularly enjoy some of the following dishes:
Chicken Marsala
Chicken Gnocchi Soup
Olive Gardens Bruchetta recipe
Awesome pork tenderloins with marinades.
Beef Wellington
and much more.
All of my recipes I have found online and the majority through allrecipes.com I have found very few items that make a total flop. I will share one and that was chocolate flavored waffles. We thought that would be tons of fun but it was just horrid tasting. We decided to just add chocolate syrup to our waffles if that is a taste we desire.
You can eat well, you can eat well on a reasonable budget. You can find all this online. My family has gotten so picky about the chicken gnocchi soup that when we go to the Olive Garden it does not taste as good to them. That is what cooking great food for your family is all about. Food is a gift from God. It is like many of his other gifts in its ability to bring great pleasure to someone. It can be good, great or bad.
I had no clue how to cook when at 17 I found myself on my own due to both my parents having passed away. I ruined a lot of food. I burnt a lot of food. My husband suffered through much of this bless his soul. If you can follow directions I promise you can follow a recipe and make great food. Check them out online you may find some great new ones to jazz up your week.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Helping others/witnessing
So this will surely bring some negative feedback. However God has told me this is a topic of concern.
We all know that as mom's that the first mission field is at home. We also have an obligation to help and be there for others. A huge trend among Christian moms seems to be that we are really selective about our willingness to help others or witnessing to them.
Example : That mom down the road is nice, her daughter is nice and sweet as pie and it is easy to entertain her for awhile and give her mom a break. However that little monster boy who lives down the road also whose mom is single and every time he drives by he runs over my toes with his bike and sneers at me... I would never offer to take him or invite his mom to coffee. OUCH! The problem is that I did not see Christ spending a lot of time with the nice, perfect, easy, pleasant, good looking people in the bible. What I see time and time again is that he actively sought out those people we would turn our backs on and chose not to associate with.
Maybe the single mom down the road is in desperate need of a break so she can build her resolve to go at it one more day. Maybe the man at the beach with his little boy just needs someone to pray with him or over him. Maybe that little girl with the dirty clothes and the head lice YES I said that. Just needs someone to show her a few minutes of love so she feels worthwhile and not like she is a reject. Maybe all these people who don't fit into our world view of people we want to witness to need it the most. The nice people, nice looking people who are not Christians certainly are not less worthy of our time but it seems to be that we spend too much time focusing on them.
When we see these less then desirable people ..... the mean little boy, the dirty little girl, the single mom or the pregnant teen I think we need to command our thoughts. I think we need to take them captive and try just once to see them the way Christ did.
I was that little girl with a single mom. A mother who was widowed, A mother left with and 11 yr old son and a 1 year old daughter. I was kept clean however growing up in the 70's without a dad lead many to assume my mom was divorced. They did not take the time to find out that her husband had been a brilliant engineer with Bell Labs making cutting edge strides in his job. They looked and saw......"Single Mom". The most wonderful nonjudgmental people I had consistent contact with were the Mennonites. Caring, kind, compassionate and filling Christ's great commission. Let us strive to be those people. Search your heart, control your thoughts and try to view people with the value Christ saw in them not the world.
We all know that as mom's that the first mission field is at home. We also have an obligation to help and be there for others. A huge trend among Christian moms seems to be that we are really selective about our willingness to help others or witnessing to them.
Example : That mom down the road is nice, her daughter is nice and sweet as pie and it is easy to entertain her for awhile and give her mom a break. However that little monster boy who lives down the road also whose mom is single and every time he drives by he runs over my toes with his bike and sneers at me... I would never offer to take him or invite his mom to coffee. OUCH! The problem is that I did not see Christ spending a lot of time with the nice, perfect, easy, pleasant, good looking people in the bible. What I see time and time again is that he actively sought out those people we would turn our backs on and chose not to associate with.
Maybe the single mom down the road is in desperate need of a break so she can build her resolve to go at it one more day. Maybe the man at the beach with his little boy just needs someone to pray with him or over him. Maybe that little girl with the dirty clothes and the head lice YES I said that. Just needs someone to show her a few minutes of love so she feels worthwhile and not like she is a reject. Maybe all these people who don't fit into our world view of people we want to witness to need it the most. The nice people, nice looking people who are not Christians certainly are not less worthy of our time but it seems to be that we spend too much time focusing on them.
When we see these less then desirable people ..... the mean little boy, the dirty little girl, the single mom or the pregnant teen I think we need to command our thoughts. I think we need to take them captive and try just once to see them the way Christ did.
I was that little girl with a single mom. A mother who was widowed, A mother left with and 11 yr old son and a 1 year old daughter. I was kept clean however growing up in the 70's without a dad lead many to assume my mom was divorced. They did not take the time to find out that her husband had been a brilliant engineer with Bell Labs making cutting edge strides in his job. They looked and saw......"Single Mom". The most wonderful nonjudgmental people I had consistent contact with were the Mennonites. Caring, kind, compassionate and filling Christ's great commission. Let us strive to be those people. Search your heart, control your thoughts and try to view people with the value Christ saw in them not the world.
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