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Favorite Ingredients Friday: Freezer Edition

Posted in Gluten Free, and Homemaking

Freezer Lasagna Ingredients: 1 1/2 pound lean ground beef OR Italian sausage OR mix 1 onion, chopped OR 1/2 cup celery, chopped 2 cloves crushed garlic 1 large can tomato sauce 1-6 oz. can tomato paste salt to taste 2 tsp. dried Italian spice 1-12 oz. carton ricotta 2 eggs mixed with 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon dried parsley 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 10-12 oz. gluten free lasagna noodles, uncooked 3 cups (12 oz.) shredded mozzarella cheese Directions: 1. Brown ground beef,onion/ celery and garlic in skillet, drain excess meat fat. 2. Stir in tomato sauce,tomato…

Booking It Through Thursday: Paper or Plastic

Posted in Blogging

Do you read e-Books? if so, how? On your computer, or a PDA? Or are you a paper purist? Why?I love e-books because they are instantly available, but I tend to print out the e-books that I read as I like to be able to look at them where ever. (I don’t have a pda) I will occasionally read them on the computer, but for the most part, I like to print them out. Kinda defeats the purpose in a way doesn’t it? lol!In all honesty, most of the books I read are the print version. But, recently, I’ve been…

Thankful Thursday: Spiritual Growth

Posted in Family

“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6 As a parent, any time you see spiritual growth in your child you rejoice. Well, we experienced a big spiritual growth moment with our daughter this week. On Tuesday, we sat down to do devotions with Munchkin in the evening; she announced that she wanted to start doing these devotions on her own. We told her that was wonderful, but we would also continue to do family devotions in the evening. Wednesday morning, she woke up and asked…

Works for Me Wednesday: Sweet Tea

Posted in Gluten Free, and Homemaking

D absolutely loves sweet tea which is funny since we grew up in the North and sweet tea just isn’t the norm. Well, move ahead a few years to when we were living in the South. D started drinking sweet tea, but I didn’t personally know how to make sweet tea. So, it was restricted to when we went out to eat or went to someone’s house that had made sweet tea. Fast forward again to when we moved to Northern Va… It was not easy to find sweet tea. And no, tea with added sweetener is NOT sweet tea.…