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Christmas (or Thanksgiving) Cranberry Cake
Last Thursday we ventured into Trader Joe’s to see if their wonderful cranberry sauce was in stock! On the way to the back of the store (which I never saw the chilled cranberry sauce) I passed a bag of fresh cranberries and grabbed a bag! Immediately thought of this cake that we now make every… Read more
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Butter Pecan Cake
This past week we had two celebration of Life’s for some very special people from our class at church. One service was Wednesday for our most loved teacher, Charles Hebert! What a special person he was! After the second service on Friday, for a dear lady in our class, we sat and talked about what… Read more
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Today 102 years ago a lady was born! This lady grew up to become my mom! It wasn’t until she died that I became aware that I could still honor her without feeling a great love for her! I have written about her before, a few years ago, but as I age, I have realized that even though she was not the easiest person to get along with, and yes, she had probably been depressed for years, she taught me so many things! I remember her always telling me “don’t use the word hate” anytime I said I hated something. She taught me to respect myself and others! She taught me to “honor the Sabbath and keep it holy”
She taught me to put God first in my life! To allow Him to guide me and to live to reflect Him with my life! Did I always do that? Absolutely not! Did I try to make excuses to get out of going to church every time the doors were open? You bet! Growing up… Read more
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Chicken Wild Rice Bake
This is a casserole we use to serve at the Ministers Wives Luncheons and it always went over so well with Sister Schubert Rolls and a Spinach Salad! Made it tonight for the first time in a while! Was as good as i remembered! Halved the recipe for just us and still had enough to… Read more
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Cake 4 Four
Last week Avenida (our new home Community for us Golden Oldies) had a class for decorating cakes. You don’t have to invite me twice to this fun and yummy class! Little did I know that when I signed up for it, I would be making 10 chocolate cakes for the ladies while one of the… Read more
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Late Night Angel
This past weekend we have been reminded in several ways that we are always suppose to share Gods wonderful love and acts of grace! We often have these moments when we just think, “ oh weren’t we lucky when they came to our rescue!” Or, “ can you believe that we were just in the… Read more
Chocolate Castles 