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Sweet & Sour

28 Saturday Dec 2019

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Yesterday morning I opened the refrigerator, and suddenly the top shelf on the door collapsed to the floor. The plastic tray that held my pickles and leftover sweetened condensed milk gave way. Both glass jars shattered everywhere, spilling sweet and sour over my feet, the floor, the cabinets, and my soon to rush in 16-year-old Shitzu who lightning-fast found a piece of glass with condensed milk invitingly dripping off the edges. My quick hands removed the jagged and deadly morsel, much to Miss Daisy Mae’s chagrin.

What a mess.

As we move through the twelve days of Christmas, I’m examining my sweet and sour.

Examine the sweet, which may be good competing with the best?

What are the sours? What needs tossing out of my life?

Proverbs 27 verse 25 states, “When hay is removed, new growth appears.”

 

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Healing – Part 4

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Yesterday I fell off my bike carrying too much on the way home from our mailbox. It was a pretty hard fall, contents of my basket flying everywhere, and blood dripping from scrapes on my wrist and leg as I rode home.

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Share your load with others.

Todd would have been glad to swing by our box and pick up some of the bigger items on his way home from work.

Our family lost three loved ones in four years.

Multiple loved ones passing away or one is too much of a burden for anyone to bear alone.

Grief Group helped me lift my heavy heart.

Surrounded by people who have suffered the loss of a loved one, and a leader, the group gently persuades you to share your imperfect memories, portraits,  all while putting you at ease.

Our leader had us write letters to our loved ones sharing that we wished they would have remained alive longer, our anger that they missed an important event, regrets, anger and how lonely we feel without them. We then read those letters at the cemetery or somewhere significant to the two of us. We then burned or buried the letters.

Somehow I felt lighter and more at ease with each letter.

In the Jewish faith when a loved one dies, they sit Shiva for seven days.

They stay home and allow others to listen to them, care for them, and bring them food.

When others are in pain, you will find yourself more compassionate and confident to walk through it with them.

Sit beside them quietly.

No advice needed.

When others are happy, be happy with them.

If they are sad, share their sorrow.

Romans 12:15 TLB

A Quiet Place With God- Part 11

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Outside my window tonight the rain is coming down sideways.

A night storm with a morning dove perched her nest.

Protecting her eggs

My stomach lurches.

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I’m involved.

Asking God to hold her steady.

Gazing any chance I can to see if she is at her post.

The challenges and opportunities our children face, develop the gleam in their eye.

A confident step.

They often have circumstances with wind and rain pelting sideways and days the clear blue sky smiles and kisses their lives.

They’ve had to struggle through many surprises and challenges, just like the baby doves will to fight out of the shell.

If we’ve done our job we’ve been close by at our post praying, encouraging, and standing guard, but breaking off that shell is their job.

The shell breaking and the flight that follows is all theirs.

Gluten Free Sweet Potato Latkes

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cooking, eco-fashionable food prep, Flour, Gluten-free, Gluten-free diet, Hanukkah, Home, Homemaking, Potato pancake, Southern Belle Recipes, Southern Hospitality, Sweet potato, Texas Recipe's, Thanksgiving

1 very large sweet potato shredded in food processorIMG_4440

1/2 c Gluten Free All Purpose Baking FlourIMG_4441
1/2 ts salt
2 eggs

Toss flour around shredded sweet potatoes until coated. Add 1/2 chopped onion and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Set in the refrigerator until ready to fry and add two eggs to coat all before frying in coconut oil or similar high heat frying oil.

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The guide for my recipe came from Amy Sherman‘s recipe from  Tablet,

A New Read on Jewish Life.

Check it out! http://www.tabletmag.com/

*There are many sweet potato latke recipes, but hers seem to be the best with gluten-free flour.

Serve with roast chicken.

 

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Sweet Potato

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Sweet Potato

Chased home
Lush humid drops pounding
Path blown cool
Sweet rain sting
Crimson green fluff
Oven warms
Biscuits weep
Breaking autumn

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A Quiet Place With God

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Packing lunch in the motionless morning

Spreading  seedy jam out to the edges

Bread always frozen and free of gluten

Cut by sharpest knife

Feet rooted to my kitchen spot

Sweet hush of fur waits for a walkIMG_3997
Snuggling with the neighborhood cats

Greeting Daisy as we sniff and stroll

Riding my heavy bike in the rain

The plump tires displace the puddles

Black water submits under the seam

Rubbery tire clenching to still muddy rain.

Gluten Free Baked Beans

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Bacon, Bean, Brown sugar, Chiffonnade, Cook, Gluten-free diet, HEB Borracho Beans with Shiner Bock, Home, Molasses, Natural Foods, Natural Grocers, Navy Beans, Onion, Recipe, Scrambled eggs, Slow cooker, Soups and Stews, Tablespoon, Tail gate, Tailgate, Tailgate Food, Texas, Turkey bacon

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 package of dry navy beans

1/4 c brown sugar

4 pieces of  turkey bacon ( I’ve found some excellent nitrate free at Natural Grocers)

1 tsp. salt

3 tbsp. molasses

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Rinse and sort out the strange beans from the bag. Boil beans in 6 cups of water for two minutes.  Set for one hour.

Place beans in a crock pot and add 1/4- 1/2 pound of cooked turkey bacon, 1/4 c brown sugar, 1 tsp. salt and 3 tablespoons of molasses.

Fill up crock pot with water covering beans with at least several inches of water and cook on low overnight for 6-8 hours.

Seems like a lot of work, but I was bringing dinner over to a friend who comes down with migraines after consuming pork and she is restricting salt.  The recipe is from HEB a food market in Texas near our home. The only changes I made to the recipe was to increase the bacon and use a crock pot instead of boiling on the stove for several hours. Canned beans contain trigger items for my sweet friend, but I love HEB Borracho Beans with Shiner Bock Beer.

The beans are just lightly sweet and perfect with eggs topped with basil leaves cut “chiffonade style” or thin strips with a scissors( a full leaf is too much for breakfast faire) and salsa in lieu of toast.

The meal I made for her had baked chicken and rice with a little chicken broth for flavor. The beans placed in a couple of mason jars.

This also is a perfect way to serve for a tailgate. I’ve transported beans unsuccessfully in my trunk, even placing the crock pot in box.

Pour beans into the jars, seal the tops and place in a pot with a hot brick (wrap in foil) and snuggle the glass with napkins.  The beans are easily consumed with a fork, standing at your tailgate.

Gluten Free Fried Chicken

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IMG_3872Our family has missed enjoying fried chicken together and we have been unsuccessful creating a mix that tastes like Mee Maws recipe.

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We made fried chicken following directions on the package precisely and the chicken was scrumptious, making that wonderful crunch sensation as you bite into it.

The recipe I’m sharing takes the chicken to the level  served in Virginia down in the country.  Ready a bowl with two eggs and a little milk to coat the chicken in before dipping in the batter as per the box. We then rested the batter dipped chicken on a plate for 5 minutes, rolled it on a plate of the dry ingredients that come in the box, and re dipped it in the batter before frying.

Frying chicken is an art form in the south and I’ve found the key is not taking your eyes off it for a second or it gets too brown. Crispy fried chicken cannot be timed, it just has to look right and depending on how hot your oil becomes(most set the fryer to 375 degrees) my fryer broke so it was tricky to gauge the temp and fry.

We drain the excess grease off with old newspapers and serve hot or cold.

The five guys that have developed Choice Batter  have a website http://www.ChoiceBatter.com

We found Choice Batter at Target.

On the top of the box it states it is USDA patented batter.

Five guys with a fryer founded Crisp Tek in response to consumer demand for reducing fat in their diets, as well as the need for gluten-free and allergen-friendly cooking alternatives.

Well done men.

This Mom is very grateful, teen choice winner of the week!

Tex-Asian Chicken Bowl

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Chop 3 celery stalks                                                2 red potatoes

Saute in coconut oil till potatoes are golden brown.

Set aside and pour 1 cup of chicken broth on the veggie mix as it cools and one tablespoon of peanut butter,(Natural Grocers has fresh ground nuts that the guys and gals there have sold me, it’s nutty good).

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Shred 2 leg and thigh combinations of baked chicken

(Todd grilled a chicken with rosemary on monday to enjoy all week)
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Todd garnished with limes, cilantro, and Sriracha sauce.

IMG_3850Perfect saturday night dish to chow down while watching a movie.

The teens picked this as our top dish of the week!

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Sunday Pot Roast with Gluten Free Gravy

23 Friday Aug 2013

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First, take back your Sunday.

Pick up a pot roast this afternoon, and by tonight you will have a delicious prepared meal for friends and family for sunday dinner.   Pull up a few carrots from your garden or find a bunch at your local market, slice a Vidalia onion and 6-8 red potatoes.

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Sear your roast in a very hot sizzling frying pan. I use coconut oil or peanut oil with a little butter.

Take care to turn and brown all sides.
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Our mothers breaded the roast with flour before

searing.

Yes, I had a hard time letting go of the flour.

Just pour a bit of water on the crunchy meat slivers stuck on your pan, and bring up all the yummy brown glaze for a tasty gravy on your meat and veggies after removing from the crock pot.  Deglazing(what I’ve described above) helps capture the flavor. Pour this gravy over the meat just before serving.

Place meat and cut up carrots, potatoes and onions in a crock pot for 6-8 hours on high.  Gluten free goodness!IMG_3230

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