You guys! I ruined yet another meal and had another kitchen-freak-out-moment. So much so that our eight year old wrote out a prayer for me to put in her War Room - "Dear God, help my Mom not to be so frustrated. Amen." Arggghhhhhh!!!!!! I hate it when that happens. I mean.....I'm ever so thankful for the opportunity of growth and maturity that lies before me. (bull) So ... Read More »
Culinary Fails
I freaked out and told him he should’ve married someone else.
It was a fabulous Missions Conference at our church this past week. I love it so much every year. And every year I say it's the best one. This year we decided to have the small group of Missionaries and pastoral staff over to our house for lunch. So fifteen minutes before the Missionaries get to our house for lunch I exclaimed to my husband who was frantically helping me get ... Read More »
Hope for Hospitality
Do you ever feel overwhelmed at the thought of having people over to your house for dinner? Like you want to really bad but you're pretty certain you'll burn the beans, send the twice baked potatoes flying across the room (true story) or forget to put out silverware along with sending your guests home with salmonella? Confession: I do. I haven't always felt that way but in ... Read More »
Plantation ferns, cucumber sandwiches and peonies = Simply Southern
I've never done one of those home parties before where you have a representative come and sell their product and people that are interested come by and look and purchase if they want. I have a friend who asked me about hosting one for Jamberry Nails and I agreed and asked if we could also combine it with a Silpada party and so we did. And it was a lot of fun! Sophie was a ... Read More »
I’m that ‘well she tries’ girl in the kitchen
It was a long-time-waiting warm Spring day outside yesterday. And those kinds of days make me do crazy things all in the name of warm weather. I dreamed up this visual in my head of our family rocking on the rocking chairs of our Southern front porch eating warm pound cake with strawberries and watching traffic drive by. As if any of us have time for that but it sure sounded ... Read More »
I Quit Sugar
Okay, no I didn't quit sugar but I read the book I Quit Sugar by Sarah Wilson. And honestly, I was disappointed in this book. It's more like a magazine/cook book of impossible recipes. This author's perspective of eating too much sugar meant eating a lot of fruit and sweetened granola in a day. Okay, let me get this straight, she's addicted to fruit and granola and that's a ... Read More »
A few things I never thought I’d see in our kitchen
1) Ground Flaxseed I don't have a clue what this stuff is I just hear it's good for you. Apparently I overdosed the family on it though when I put waaaaaay too much in a fruit smoothie. It didn't exactly go over so well and was very grainy. It was evident nobody like it. I'll cut back the next time I make one. Nobody knows this is in the cabinet but me. I tried one of those ... Read More »
Culinary Disaster
Introducing my most recent culinary disaster….. char grilled, char-colate chip muffins. It’s easy. All you do is cook them on 425 for about ten minutes longer than they should be and whah-lah there you have it. Let’s just put it this way – the pans are still soaking in my kitchen sink. And these were the muffins I was supposed to offer at Bible Study last night. Our first ... Read More »