Val from Fun, Crafts and Recipeshosts Four Foods on Friday. Since election day was this week, Val went with a red, white and blue theme. She said that the choice of what we share a recipe for represents a vote. I’m curious to see how that works!
#1. Name a food you like that uses a red sauce or anything red in it.
Enchiladas, Lasagna, Spaghetti, Pizza #2. Name a food you like with whipped cream in it or on it.
Strawberry Short Cake, pie, banana split, hot chocolate (lol-I just realized the question said “food”)
#3. Name a food you like with blueberry in it.
Cereal with a handful of blueberries on top, blueberry muffins, blueberry yogurt with added blueberries #4. Share a recipe for pasta or dessert or a beverage.
“Homemade” cookies on the run! If you need cookies in a hurry and you have a cake mix (any flavor), eggs, oil, and vanilla on hand then you can make a batch of cookies in less than 30 minutes if you use the same cookie sheet twice. If you use two cookie sheets then you can make a batch in less than 20 minutes. .
Mix the following ingredients:
1 box of dry cake mix – any flavor *
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-11 minutes. Now how easy is that! .
* My favorite is chocolate fudge with added dark chocolate chips which remind me of the cookies in the mall. Also, butter pecan is really good with added pecans. Cherry is good, too. In fact, I haven’t tasted a flavor I didn’t like. 🙂
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Now, if you have some extra time and would like to make homemade Hershey’s Cocoa Fudge Frosting to frost the chocolate cookies, then I highly recommend it. Reminds me of what my mother used to make when I was growing up. So good!
. Hershey’s Cocoa Fudge Frosting:
* 1/4 cup butter
* 1/4 cup Hershey’s Cocoa
* 1 3/4 cup confectioner’s ….sugar (or 1 cup sugar *)
* 1/4 cup milk
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Melt butter over low heat. Add cocoa and salt ( * if you use regular sugar then add that now). Heat, stirring constantly until mixture begins to boil. Let the mixture boil gently for one minute. Remove from heat. Add confectioner’s sugar alternately with milk and blend in vanilla. Let cool a little bit and then frost cookies while frosting is warm.
Abortion, Roe Vs Wade, Right to Life, Pro-Life, and Pro-Choice are definitely being talked about in the political arena. I’m not one to write about politics, but there is something that I believe so strongly that I feel the need to write about it now. I do not want to offend anyone, please understand that is not my style.
I believe that we can not play God, that life is in God’s hands – not ours, nor do we have the right to take the life of an unborn baby, nor do we have the right to do nothing when a baby survives a partial-birth abortion and just leave it alone to die. In the state of Illinois during the past several years, there have been cases of babies (some healthy) who survived partial-birth abortions and were left to die on a table or in a soiled linens utility room.Click here to read testimony from nurses involved.
Obama says that after teaching his daughters morals, “if they make a mistake he wouldn’t want them punished with a baby.” A baby is NOT a punishment, though…it’s a precious little person! Click here to watch a video of Obama himself saying that he wouldn’t want his daughters punished with a baby.What about teaching that we are responsible for our actions and we do not have the right to take someone else’s life? (There are a lot of people wanting to adopt babies and give them loving homes. That’s a great option!)
Most importantly, here are words from the Bible in the book of Psalms 139:
(David is talking about God)
“For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful (notice this does not exclude special needs children),
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came
to be.”
God is the One who forms us, and we do not have the right to kill what God has created.
I want to tell you a funny story about my grandfather and dog food. When I was a little girl and my grandparents were visiting, my grandfather got up during the middle of the night for a snack. My mother got up and found him in the kitchen unknowingly eating dog food. I guess he thought it was some crunchy kind of cereal or snack. We laughed and laughed about that many times in the years to come. I’m sure a lot of you have funny family stories, too.
Have you ever been talking on your cell phone and then lose connection? That happens every once in a while, and it’s so frustrating when that does. It usually happens to us when we’re traveling out in the middle of nowhere. Some people have a cell phone repeater that operates on a dual band and different frequencies, and so I guess they don’t have that problem. Must be nice to have a stronger cell phone signal!
I have been looking atcomputer desks, and someday I want to get a small desk that wouldn’t take up much room. Right now, I’m using a medium-sized antique table that belonged to my grandparents, and although I like the combination of the antique with modern technology, the table does not have a special place for the keyboard. That makes it uncomfortable at times, so I end up getting out a wooden TV tray on which to place the keyboard. That’s more comfortable but doesn’t look so great. I like this cute little green desk, but maybe a more neutral color would be better for the longrun. The style sure is cute!
Hmmm…probably honey mustard. #2. What’s your favorite way to eat pancakes?
With butter and maple syrup! We rarely have pancakes anymore, so it’s a treat when we do have them. #3. Do you make garlic bread from scratch or buy frozen?
I do both. #4. Share a recipe that calls for mozzarella cheese.
Are you thinking about engagement rings or maybe anniversary rings? Seems like a lot of people are right now.
Our son-in-law is so creative (I guess that’s the graphic design artist in him) when it comes to giving our daughter rings. When he proposed at their favorite coffee shop several years ago, he had previously been there and bought one of their chocolate candy eggs, taken it home and carefully opened it so he could place an engagement ring inside, and then closed it up so that it looked like new. Our daughter, knowing nothing about this, opened the candy egg at the coffee shop thinking that our s-i-l had just purchased the candy. When she saw the ring, he got down on one knee and proposed to her. So sweet!
Well, recently they celebrated their five year anniversary, and so our s-i-l being the creative person that he is, bought a book and cut out a section in the middle of it so that he could place an anniversary ring inside of it. You can imagine our daughter’s complete surprise when she opened the book!
I don’t think I need to tell you what a great s-i-l we have!!
Some of you may have been to the website for Ezekiel Bread and tried to get coupons unsuccessfully. On one page, they do have a place to click for coupons. However, it won’t respond and take you to coupons. So I went to “Contact Us” on their site and wrote them about my problem. Within a couple of days I heard from them saying that they would mail the coupons to me.
If you are wanting coupons, then you have two choices:
Call Food For Life directly for coupons at 1-800-797-5090
Go to the Food For Life website atwww.FoodForLife.comand go to “Contact Us” at the top of the home page. When you write them, give your name and address and ask them to mail coupons to you.
It was easy, and I received 50 cent coupons in the mail for Food for Life products.
Here’s a recipe for FOOD FOR LIFE/ EZEKIEL 4:9TORTILLA PIZZAS.
Below is a video that Heather made with her dad using Dragon Naturally Speaking to preserve family stories, memories, life experiences and history. I wish I had had something like this when my parents and grandparents were still alive. One neat thing about the program is that it willType at $150 Words Per Minute for $99!Watch the video and read below to find out more information!
Press Release:
The above video is not the typical Dragon NaturallySpeaking video. It was created by a blogger named Heather from British Columbia. She writes a blog called Boating in Beautiful British Columbia.
In the video that she has created, she talks about Dragon NaturallySpeaking. She talks about using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. In fact in the video, she is using Dragon NaturallySpeaking while she’s talking about it but you don’t quite realize that until the video is about halfway done.
The thing that’s REALLY interesting about this video, is not the fact that Heather is using the software and it’s not the fact the software works for her so much as HOW she chooses to use it. She took Dragon NaturallySpeaking and sat down with her father who is 95 years old. She spent a few minutes with him getting the software tuned to his voice so that the computer recognizes his sentences and words. Then she’s lets her father tell some of his great stories to the computer which transcribes everything that he says.
You can tell just by watching the video and listening to her father that he really does have some interesting stories to tell. I have a feeling that I could probably listen to the stories myself quite a bit, enjoying them immensely. And that too is not really the cool thing about this video. Although I’d love to hear her father tells more stories, the COOL THING is that she’s using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to capture a piece of her family’s oral tradition.
I can think of hundreds of different stories that my family has shared with me over the years that have not been documented. Our family is slowly losing some of those great stories and unfortunately, as we are losing some of our family members. We survivors don’t know all of the stories ourselves that our parents or grandparents or our great grandparents knew. But this video shows that you can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to help capture some of those great stories that your parents and grandparents and great grandparents have probably told you dozens of times.
It’s something that we don’t always think about, but in a lot of ways those stories are some of the most cherished memories that we will walk away with from our family. And the sad thing is that our family cannot Be with us forever, but their memories can live on and this is where Dragon NaturallySpeaking really shows us its value. It’s true for $99 you can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking and you can type 150 words a minute. That’s a pretty good value for the software. It’s not too expensive and the benefit is tangible.
Now, you can get a useful tool at any computer store or Home Depot or Lowes, and if you don’t know how to use it well, then it really doesn’t matter what you pay for it. It is a waste of money.
Heather shows us a great way to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to capture some of the most valuable information and stories from her father that she might ever be able to record not only for herself but for her daughter and her grandchildren someday and great-grandchildren and many other branches of the family even.
So that’s just another great reason why they Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a pretty cool piece of software. $99 could help you capture your family history easily and even make it indexable too, so that you can search it from your computer. That’s just amazing.
My name Brett Bumeter, and I write about Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I’ve been writing reviews about it for almost 2 years now. You could say that I’m sold on the software, and I hope that this article and this video helps show you the value of using it as well.
Sincerely,
Brett Bumeter
Softduit Media
www.softduit.com
PS this article is about 630 words long and it took me five minutes to write and another minute or two to edit with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10. Even with editing time that’s close to 100 words per minute!
If a recipe calls for sour cream and I have plain yogurt on hand, then I will definitely use yogurt. #3. Macaroni salad. What do you like/put in yours?
I don’t make macaroni salad. However, one time I was asked to make and bring some somewhere, so I bought a boxed mixed and made it. Turned out good! #4. Share a recipe that you use sour cream in.
I don’t use sour cream much. Here is a recipe I make that has optional sour cream:
Wouldn’t it be nice to take a trip during this busy season? Seems like there is just so much going on, and a lot of people are experiencing this hectic pace. Some may be planning a trip soon and may be making airline reservations, hotel reservations, and arranging fortravel insurance. That would be nice, but I would settle for a day trip somewhere to just get away.
