"Fun,Nacho Bake"

My Dear Friends,

The other day I talked about veggiegal.com, well here is another healthy fun meal.

Fun, Nacho Bake,

You take a whole bag of BAKED Tositos chips.

crush the chips into small pieces, not dust,

You then take a can of diced tomatoes, MEXICAN Style, put them into the bowl over the chips, then you add TWO cans or jars of Picante sauce, (We used hot, which looses a lot of it's hotness with all the other ingredients.)  We also added a small pinch of fresh cilantro.   And a small can of hot diced green chilies  (4 oz)

you then mix all the sauces into the chips, making sure it all gets moist.

The ingredients call for Mexican style frozen corn, but at this time we only had a small amount of frozen corn, so we put that plus a can of whole kernel corn into the mix. (We drained the can)

We then added a big 290z  can of black beans, drained.

Once everything is mixed and moist, put into a 13 inch casserole  dish  and cover it with cheese, you can use soy cheese. 

but we used shredded mild cheddar and Monterey jack cheese cuz it's cheaper.

Cover the top with cheese and put it into the oven at 350, uncovered.  Cook for about 35-40 minutes.

Voila, enjoy a great healthy fun meal.  (I added a few sun chips on the side) 

Sassy Salad

Hi, My Dear Readers,
I made a sassy salad, that I served with dinner guest.  It turned out so good, that I thought I would share the list of ingredients with you.

I cut up Romaine lettuce put in the big bowl, then 3/4ths of a cumber cut in slices, then in half.  I cut up radishes, some red cabbage, small tomatoes, a package that had baby carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, which I then cut up into small pieces.  The salad was a big hit.  My guest had seconds and raved how good it was.  It's nice to have a big healthy salad that meets the expatiation of dinner guest.  Served with a few different style dressings.   

"Avocado Health Drink" / Getting Healthy

My Dear Readers,

My husband did some research on the internet to find ways of eating healthier. He found this one site called veggiegal.com on Net Flex. She has a video on eating vegetarian, and different recipes and links to other sites with more recipes. We started to check these sites out and have used a couple of her recipes, they are very good.

One of the things that we are doing is eating Ezekiel Bread, (Sprouted 100% Whole Grain Bread) it is very healthy and has no flour in it. Also, if we have cereal like Raisin Bran, we just use apple juice instead of milk. (It's not bad) We also put a few shakes of cinnamon and ginger into our food or drinks. It is an anti inflammatory, and has helped my husband walk again. At one point he was almost in a wheel-chair.

Since eating very little meat and lots of fruit and veg. We both have lost weight and are healthier.

So I thought I would share this healthy avocado breakfast drink that we got from veggiegal.com We drink it almost every day.

you take a handful of fresh spinach

you then chop it up, and put it in a blender.

you take a quarter size pinch of cilantro, and chop it up, then  put in blender.

you then take a lime, and cut it  into eight pieces

you then fa-lay it (taking out the insides and cutting it up.)  when you put into the blender you add the juice that squirted out.

you take about a fourth of a cumber, and cut it up. add to blender.   We add a little ginger, cayenne, garlic, onion powder, and  sea salt, or regular salt.  I then add a whole ripe avocado.  Spooning it out of the skin.  If you are like me, I leave a touch of it in the skin, so I can eat it!.  I then add about a cup of water and turn the blender on.  You don't need to mix prior to this.   

Our little blender makes almost two full cups.   It is very filling and healthy.  Please let me know if you have tried this and what you thought of this.  Enjoy!

  

"Strangle or Love"

Last night and this morning I have been having a hard time dealing with my husband. God has been dealing with me in crucifying the flesh. In my morning prayer this morning I was going over the fruits of the flesh and the fruit of the spirit, again. ( Found in Galatians 5:19-25)  I realized that in my flesh I wanted to strangle My husband. I knew that God loved him and wanted to use me to show Crickett His love. Again, If I couldn't love my husband how could I love the world, it starts with the home. 

 Anyway, I also knew that before I could love my husband, I had to receive an abundance so God's love could over flow to Crickett. I spent some time thinking and  receiving God's love.  While I was still a sinner, God loved me. I went through the list, receiving God's love,joy, kindness, gentleness, long-suffering.....I was doing good as long as my husband was sleeping.

When Crickett got up, I asked him if he would like some waffles.  He said, " sure."  I noticed that I only had enough eggs to make cookies, but not waffles.   I called my neighbor, an older single guy, and asked if I could borrow a couple of eggs. The first thing he said when he knew it was me, was," Hi there beautiful."  Boy did that make my day.   I happily told Crickett what he said, as I was going out the door. to go get them. When my neighbor got to the door, he had four eggs, he asked, "what's for breakfast."

 I said,  "waffles" then I asked him if he wanted to join us.  He said, yes.

I made breakfast as he talked with Crickett. After he ate and left, I was thinking, boy, I think I'll call him up everyday, just so I can hear those words. ( I sure don't hear them from my husband.)  Then the Holy Spirit reminded me that, that was the flesh!   Another realization of how strong the flesh is.  How I like those complements!  I then spent some time repenting. I had a hard time calming my flesh down. I prayed that God would help me to love the things that He loves and to hate what he hates.  

Before dinner my husband and I went for a walk.  It was starting to get dark and when I heard a dog barking I got scared,and grabbed for his belt loop. I was still a little raw, regarding dogs.   Crickett gave me a little lecture,and when I commented, he came back with you can be a big B---- why don't you use that energy to go towards the dogs. That hurt!   I wanted to respond.   In the past, I would bring him up, especially if he does the same thing.   I remembered that I was working on the fruits of the spirit. So, for the first time, I kept my mouth shut.

Oh it is so hard to crucify the flesh!   

“Chocolate Chip Cookie Lovers”

 My dear readers,
To all of you who like chocolate chip cookies. 

I was encouraged to put a little food on my site. so here goes.  I just made a double batch of chocolate chip cookies for my husband.  It was so good, (actually, the best I've ever had.) I thought I would share it with you. I used Hershey's Special Dark, real mildly sweet chocolate instead of the Hershey chunks.  I used the recipe on the back of the package.  I  used for the first time, unsalted sweet cream Butter, (which the body digests easier than the imitation ones.)  The butter made them very creamy, it was perfect. The cookie melted in my mouth.   Now, I like my cookies pretty flat and chewy.  And that's just how they turned out.   I try not to stir more then necessary because the more you stir, the more air gets in the mix, the fatter the cookies.   Also, I try to use a little less flour for the same reason.   In the past, I would have trouble with the bottoms of the cookies burning, so, I now use a smaller baking sheet inside a bigger one, so I have a double layer of protection.   I let the cookies cook for 12 minutes instead of the 8 to 10 minutes the package calls for. The cookies come out golden brown,   Perfect.    So, for all you chocolate lovers enjoy!