This recipe appeared in a 2004 issue of Real Simple magazine. I’ve made it several times through the years, but only recently felt that I tweaked the recipe enough to make a good gluten free version. I love making it to go with soups – especially Minestrone. It is also great as a side dish… Read More Gluten Free Friday – Rosemary Olive Oil Bread
So much has been happening here that I want to blog about….field trips to wind turbines and apple orchards, visitors from Texas, football games, back to school stuff, half marathon training, etc., but this event was so special that I’m skipping over lots of things for now to give you a peek into our church’s… Read More A Special Birthday
The kids and I have been apple picking twice in the last month. Once with dear friends and visitors from Texas, and once on a homeschool field trip. I think I have made a total of 5 apple crisps since then for various occasions. You just can’t beat it served warm with ice cream on… Read More Gluten Free Friday: Apple Picking = Apple Crisp
I remember being introduced to this dish quite a few years ago as an appetizer at a restaurant and really being surprised at how good it was. Years later, my kids had the same experience…as an appetizer at a restaurant….and surprisingly delicious, even to them. So, I decided to try and make it myself this… Read More Gluten Free Friday – Hot Artichoke and Spinach Dip
Not gray matters like whether or not you should wear white after Labor Day, the recording label of Jars of Clay, or even the way that the color gray/colour grey is spelled, but rather the gray stuff that grows out of my head creating a silver halo around the other gray (and white) matter which… Read More Gray Matters
In case you haven’t noticed, quinoa is quite the rage lately….one of the top ten “superfoods” of late, as listed in every health and foodie magazine out there. I had only used it in “flour” form until a few weeks ago, but then decided to try it cooked as a whole grain and a side… Read More Gluten Free Friday – A Couple of Quinoa Recipes
This morning I was ready to wring his neck over homeschool work, chores, and general bad attitude….but as usual, by the afternoon he had me smiling. Humor can be so helpful on hard days. I had to leave him ALONE at home for about 45 minutes this afternoon. He never has to do this, because… Read More Life With My Middle Child
A few days ago I was talking to my friend Sherri on the phone. Sherri lives in Georgetown, TX. Her husband, Kevin, was my husband’s college roommate at The University of Texas. Their oldest son and ours are the same age, and we were commiserating about having children old enough to be high school freshmen.… Read More How to know you are not in Texas anymore #101
Eight years ago today, I was doing the breakfast dishes and watching the Today Show on our small kitchen television when they started to show footage of the World Trade Center on fire. They said it was an airplane that caused the fire. Kory, who was 6 at the time, came running through the kitchen,… Read More Remembering the Day….Remembering Jessica
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.I Corinthians 9:24-25Some of… Read More In Training