Good Sunday Evening!!! I almost put "good Sunday evening Mate"! Coming home from church tonight Maura, my little 8 year old niece has discovered her 4th dialect -- she was speaking with a real Irish brogue. Every sentence ended with "Mate!" She now adds that to her "real country dialect" and "most proper English" dialect. She really is a talented little girl! We went to Longview after church and ate at Caces, then went to Ellis Pottery where we saw lots of really neat and expensive things (didn't buy anything) and then came back by Jordans and found a couple of "must have pots" and ferns, and day lilies! My backyard is beginning to come alive again! The fruit trees are beginning to have blooms, flowers are blooming and I am loving it! God makes such beautiful gardens!!!
I had a delicious salad for lunch (had to do salad after El Charro's last night.) The salad was a spinach salad with a pecan vinagerette with grilled shrimp on top. Really tasty!!! It would be very easy to make -- very healthy too!
I guess you have probably guessed by now that one of my favorite things to make is Salsa -- any and every kind. I will try it once! I made salsa for a party on Friday at work and I had a bag with frozen onion, peppers, and black olives. I dumped all of it in the processor! Then I added the diced tomatoes, garlic, bell pepper, red onion, cumin, -- all the usual stuff! My boss actually said it was really good - and normally he finds something wrong with it!!! Here is another salsa recipe:
CRANBERRY SALSA
1 Cup whole-berry cranberry sauce
1/3 cup fresh chopped fresh cilantro
2 Tablespoons chopped green onions
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1 Anjou pear, cored and finely diced
1 Jalapeno pepper, minced
1/2 tsp. salt
To prepare salsa, combine 8 ingredients. Cover and chill.
This is delicious served with turkey sandwiches or turkey/cheese wraps. It also goes well with these Jack Quesadillas.
Cooking spray
1/4 cup (2 inch thick) slices green onions (or red onions)
1 Cup (4 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeno peppers
8 (8 inch) flour tortillas
2 Cups chopped cooked turkey
1/2 cup fat free sour cream
To prepare quesadillas, heat a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add 1/4 cup sliced onions to pan; saute 3 minutes or until tender. Remove onions from pan; reduce heat to medium. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons cheese over each of 4 tortillas. Top each cheese covered tortilla with 1/4th of onions, 1/2 cup turkey, 2 tablespoons cheese, and top with another tortilla.
Recoat pan with cooking spray. Add one quesadilla to pan; cook 2 minutes on each side or until lightly browned and cheese melts. Repeat with remaining quesadillas. Cut eacg quesadilla into 6 wedges. Serve with cranberry salsa and sour cream. A grill pan and press works wonders!!
You could always used sauteed vegetables in place of the turkey. Think how portobello mushrooms would be!!!
I am Proud to be an American, aren't you? Some of these guys are too!!
At a time when our president and other politicians
tend to apologize for our country's prior actions,
here's a refresher on how some of our former patriots
handled negative comments about our country.
These have been around before,
need to be repeated often.
JFK'S
Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when
DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US
military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded,
"Does that include those who are buried here?"
DeGaulle
did not respond.
You
could have heard a pin drop.
When in England ,
at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of
'empire building' by George Bush.
He answered by saying,
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of
its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom
beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for
in return is enough to bury those that did not
return."
You
could have heard a pin drop.
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There was a conference in France
where a number of international engineers
were taking part, including French and American. During a break,
one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you
heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft
carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he
intend to do, bomb them?"
A Boeing engineer
stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three
hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are
nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to
shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to
feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a
dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and
from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships;
how many does France have?"
You
could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A U.S. Navy Admiral
was attending a naval conference that included
Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French
Navies At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large
group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many
languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that
we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than
speaking French?"
Without hesitating,
the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the
Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't
have to speak German."
You
could have heard a pin drop.
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AND
THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
Robert Whiting,
an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport
in his carry on.
"You
have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked
sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting
admitted that he had been to France
previously.
"Then
you should know enough to have your passport ready."
The American said,
"The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
"Impossible..
Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !"
The American senior
gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in
1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen
to show a passport to."
You
could have heard a pin drop.
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If
you are proud to be an American, pass this on! If not, delete it.
I am proud to be of this land, AMERICA
May God continue to bless this Nation and all of us that serve Him! Have a blessed week by blessing someone else! Good night!!!
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