Finally have a new computer that works and all my connections (FB and Blogger) recognize me. What a relief!!! Still don't have email set up -- don't really know how!!! I am so computer illiterate -- but at work someone else does all of that!
Sunday night again -- tomorrow starts a whole week of work! Need I say more about that???
It was great to be back at Shiloh today -- didn't realize how much I had missed everyone until I got back. Mark had another great sermon -- had definitely missed his preaching too!!
Yesterday I attended our Red Cross Retreat at one of the board member's house on Lake Palestine. IT is a wonderful place and she has the most awesome bathroom -- it is about the size of a big bedroom and the open shower is about the size of my entire bathroom! IT is a truly great place!! She is a great lady too! We plan our year's work, goals, and how to raise enough money to cover all of the local disasters that happen - primarily single family house fires! We provide shelter, clothing, food - and all of the necessities to get back on one's feet when they have lost everything and have no means of helping themselves.
Glenda and I took breakfast and lunch. Glenda did all of breakfast and then she brought all of the trimmings for hamburgers, Travis made the hamburgers and brought them out at lunchtime and I did the desserts, chips, buns, etc. My desserts were a great hit -- with the winner the Sopapilla Cheesecake (in my blog on March 7! I also made another great dessert and got to bring some of it home. IT is:
VERY BERRY PIE BARS
CRUST AND CRUMBS
3/4 Cup sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
Zest of 1 lemon
1-1/2 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup unsalted butter, cut into cubes
3/4 tsp. almond extract
1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
FILLING
2 Large eggs
1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons sugar (11 tablespoons total)
1/2 cup light sour cream (I used Daisy brand)
1 tsp. vanilla extract (I used Mexican, of course!)
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 - 6 oz. box fresh raspberries
1 - 6 oz. box fresh blackberries
1 - 6 oz. box fresh blueberries (store didn't have fresh and I found our that if you run cold water on freshly frozen blueberries, drain and dry well, they are just like fresh -- so that is I did! GREAT DISCOVERY!!!)
(Together - this should be about 3-1/2 cups of mixed berries)
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mist a 9 by 13 baking dish with nonstick spray and set aside.
MAKE CRUST AND CRUMBS: Add sugar, salt, and lemon zest to bowl of electric mixer. Mix on medium speed until combined and fragrant, about 1 minute. (This infuses the sugar with some of the lemon oils!) Add flour and and butter and mix on medium until crumbs form. (DON'T TURN YOUR BACK AS I DID OR LIKE ME YOU WILL HAVE CREAMY CRUMBS!) With mixer on, dribble in almond extract. Continue mixing until crumbs get more moist and look like they might begin to clump!
Press about half the dough into the bottom of prepared pan, Place pan in hot oven and bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool 10 minutes, while working on the rest of the recipe.
Meanwhile, add nutmeg to the remaining crumbs, and mix until combined. Remove crumbs to a separate bowl and set aside.
MAKE FILLING
In same mixing bowl (no need to wash it), beat eggs, sugar, sour cream, and vanilla until well mixed. Add flour and stir in until combined. Genly fold in berries by hand, taking care not to mash them.
Pour berry mixture evenly over partially baked crust. Sprinkle with remaining crumbs and bake 60 minutes.
Remove from oven and cool about 1 hour.
Cut into 24 to 30 pieces.
MADE me want to go get a piece just writing about it --- but I won't!!
I bought two new cookbooks -- one in the little Teralinga Ghost Town trading village and another in Ruidosa. Both have some great sounding recipes and finally the man is through painting in my kitchen and I can cook again! I want to find a recipequickly for what I want to make next Wednesday night (the 22nd) -- I know I want to do some type of Mexican and do the Sopapilla Cheesecake for dessert!
These sound great and I want to fix them soon!
CHILE BREAKFAST WHIRLS
4 Cups biscuit mix
1/2 Cup butter
1 Cup milk
1 lb. hot pork sausage
1 lb. regular pork sausage (I would probably use 2 hot)
1-1/2 cups green chiles, chopped (or 2 cans)
Mix the biscuit mix, margarine and milk well; refrigerate 1/2 hour.
Meanwhile, mix the sausage and green chiles and let stand to room temperature
Divide the dough in half. Roll out each piece to a large rectangle about 1/4 inch thick. Spread half of the sausage mixture completely over each piece of dough; roll up like a jelly roll. wrap in plastic wrap and freeze for 1 hour.
Remove from freezer and slice 1/3 inch thick. Freeze until ready to use. Then place the frozen slices on a cookie sheet and bake in preheated over 400 degrees - for 20 minutes.
Makes 50 to 60!! I THINK IT SOUNDS GREAT!!!
In Proverbs - verse 24 says: "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones!" Ever thought about how your words can affect someone? They can lift one up, or tear one down! Have you every experienced this? It can be like "honeycomb" to have someone sincerely praise you or acknowledge you and it can break your heart if the words are mean or critical. Please - for your own salvation and for the sake of others -- watch your words and be careful not to hurt someone intentionally or unintentionally!
May God bless and protect each of you through out tonight and tomorrow and please - find a good deed and do it for someone! I will also look for an opportunity!
Good night!
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