After sharing my basic meatball recipe, I thought I should also share my shredded chicken recipe. It isn’t really a recipe, but more like a timesaving shortcut. My motto in the kitchen is cook once, eat at least twice and preferably three or …
Banana Grape-Nuts Bread is my absolute favorite banana bread recipe that goes all the way back to my childhood. Whenever I share this with other people, they always like it. The Grape-Nuts add a nice nutty flavor and texture. I also like the way the …
Deviled eggs with green olives is my mom’s deviled egg recipe and so it is the one I grew up with. It was quite some time before I realized some people made “sweet” deviled eggs. This recipe has a tangy yolk filling and I vastly …
This is my basic meatball recipe. I cook up a couple of batches at a time and freeze them. Then I just pull out however many I want to use. I use them with spaghetti sauce and pasta, in meatball subs, or just to eat them plain. This is one of the …
I have gradually realized that the simplicity we are finding here is less linked to our setting than to our direction – our spiritual commitment to live more simply, our determination to make simplifying choices, and our willingness to clarify …
The deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. …
Yesterday my husband and I picked out Mother’s Day cards for our moms. We are both blessed to have our parents still married to each other and have good relationships with our moms. Celebrating our moms and being thankful for them is the easy …
In June 2003 I started a daily discipline that has been a very powerful experience in my life. Each night before I go to bed I write in my Journal of Thanksgiving. I jot down a brief list of five things I am thankful for from that day. They can be …
The feeling that “if nothing is happening, nothing is happening” is the prejudice of a superficial, dependent and hollow spirit, one that has succumbed to the age and can prove its own excellence only by the quality of pseudo-events it is …
I’m offering my first stint as Sallie’s guest columnist! I’m David, the guy mentioned in Sallie’s profile. Today is Sallie’s birthday, as she alluded to in her posting from yesterday. And for her birthday, I pay tribute …
