Wow - I am starting late - but just could not let the night go by without you seeing my new blog structure and tell you that now it will be easier to find desserts, sides, main dishes, miscellaneous, and my thoughts! Not sure yet just how it works -- we will find out together - but thanks to a great computer geru friend - I now have my own domain -- www.joncarole.com and you can find my blogspot either way - old or new!
Just finished cleaning the kitchen after cooking after a very long Red Cross meeting. I prepared Pork Tenderloin (having been marinated in lots of stuff), fresh squash casserole,and a brocolini salad. I never had cooked broccolini before -- but just let me say - I will never cook plain ole broccoli again - this is so much better. I let it cook a few minutes and then dumped it in ice water. I added fresh Noonday onion, fresh Jacksonville tomato, a dash of crushed red pepper, a tad of Texas Olive Oil Ranch Rattlesnake Olive Oil, and two dashes of Texas Olive Oil black/red balsamic vinegar - with a dusting of Penzey's minced garlic, black pepper and salt. It was so crisp, but tender, and delicious! IF you haven't tried it -- please take my word and try it. I think it would be equally delicious to just cook slightly, dumped into ice water and season with salt, pepper and a little lemon juice. The dumping into the ice water keeps the greens bright green!! A great tool to have beautiful and delicious veggies!!!
I sent my Mom the most beautiful bouquet this morning -- picked fresh from my backyard. Two blue hydrangas, one small purple hydranga and one huge purple hydranga, one very different blue and white hydranga, a chocolate daylily and one mauve daylily. IT truly was gorgous, and although she didn't feel good, she said she could not take her eyes off of it - that it was so beautiful. I made sure the daylilies had several blooms that will continue to bloom! My backyard continues to exclaim God's beauty!!
Here is a recipe given to me several years ago that is really easy and really good.
GRAHAM CRACKER BREAKAWAY
12 Honey Maid full graham crackers
1 stick butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup swirl chips (white and dark)
1/2 cup toffee chips
1/2 cup pecans
Put parchment paper on jelly pan. Lay graham crackers on pan with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Heat butter and brown sugar in sauce pan. Boil 2 minutes. Pour over graham crackers making sure crackers are completely covered, Bake 6 to 7 minutes.
Put chocolate chips and heath chips on crackers.
Put back in oven about 1 minutes or until chocolate melts.
Drop chopped pecans over melted chocolate, taking spoon and making sure pecans are in chocolate. Let sit and then break into pieces.
Enjoy!
Half way to end of week - and only a few more days to the end of May, 2011. Life is flying by - we each need to realize this and live each day as Jesus asked us to - helping others and teaching them about Him. Do your part - so you will have a home with HIM! May God bless each of you tomorrow with a blessed day.
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