Recipes!

Pomegranate chicken with walnuts

5 skinless, boneless thighs (about 1 lb.) cut into quarters

Salt and pepper

1/4 C. EVOO

1 large onion, halved and sliced

1 clove of garlic

3/4 C. Chopped walnuts

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 1/2 C. cranberry-pomegranate juice

2 Tablespoon chopped flat leaf parsley

1. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. In a large nonstick skillet, heat oil over med-high heat. Add the chicken and cook, turning once, until browned, about 7 min; transfer to plat. Add onion,garlic and walnuts to the skillet and cook, stirring often, until the onion is tender, about 5 min. Stir in the cinnamon, scraping up any browned bits. Return the chicken and any juices to the pan, add the cranberry-pomegranate juice and simmer until the chicken is cooked through, 3 to 4 min; transfer the chicken to a serving platter.

2. Cook the sauce, stirring occasionally until thickened slightly, about 3 min; stir in the parsley and pour over the chicken.

Serve on top of white rice:)

Sweet potato wedges

1 large Sweet potato

1 Tablespoon EVOO

1/4 teaspoon garlic salt

1/4 teaspoon paprika

Heat oven to 500 degrees.

Cut sweet potato into wedges and put on a baking tray.

Mix above ingredients together and toss onto wedges. Bake for 18 to 20 min.

Baked stuffed apples

Apples

Brown sugar

Cinnamon

Raisin's

nuts (optional)

Butter

Heat over to 350.

Cut out core of apple leaving just a bit behind so that the apple has a bottom to it. Peel off the apple peel only to about half way from the bottom. Place about 1/2 tablespoon of butter into each apple.

Mix together desired amount of ingredients together and stuff into the apple. Place in a baking dish and bake for 45 min covered. Then another 30 min uncovered. Serve with vanilla ice cream or cool whip!

I don't the exact measurements because I just eye ball it!

Sept 10th

School has started and we are only on day 3 and I find myself bored already. Now that both kids are in school all day long its weird having all this time to myself. As of last night ( after church ) I made a list of things that I plan on doing to keep me busy. We will see how fast I fly through that list! I tend to work faster when I have a lot of time on my hands!

We have had a crazy busy summer. It really has gone by fast. We really had no time to be bored, which was great. The weather has been getting cooler, I can feel fall making its way in. Its a bitter sweet goodbye to summer. Summer and fall are my favorite seasons. I'm sad that the long days are over and the hot weather is turning into the wet season.

I'm getting excited for the pretty colors of fall, the crisp air, warm blankets and hot tea, pumpkin patches, baking treats, and the best one of all the Starbucks pumpkin spice latte! Mmmmm! Mmmmm! good!

As we transition into fall our lives are also transitioning. We feel the Lord really moving in our lives and in a new direction. We having been helping out in the Jr. highers at church the timing was perfect we slipped in as a couple that have been helping out for years slipped out. It just kind of landed in our laps too. Funny how God does that. I was very hesitant to do it and mike was a little scarred. Now after 1 "camping expedition trip" with the group and helping out 3 times he loves it and I'm very much out of my bubble. I currently work in the 2 yr old class and I love it. I love the couple I work with and the kids. They are so cute and fun to work with.

Jr highers are like aliens. I have been in the class 3 times now and I still cant seem to figure them out. What an awkward age! was I like that?!?

I know that this is where God wants us. I know that just when you are feeling comfortable with where you are at God likes to pull you out. I know that he does it to change you and mold you but man! its painful! I'm excited in a scared kind of way. I have been learning each kid names, family back ground and some I must say have sad stories.

Just when I thought that I was going to jump ship and go to my comfortable 2 yr olds the Lord gave me a compassion for these kids. Last night as I was watching them run around out side before the service the Lord told me, I put you here to minister into their lives. To help, to be encouraging, to teach and the big one... to love on them like Christ loves us. I remember having those people in my life as a teen that I looked up to and respected. If I have the chance to be that for someone else then this is where I need to be.

It will be an interesting road but it will be good. God has a plan and who am I to say no?