Friday, January 16, 2009
Another reason (#15)
Well, you crippled creep, God cannot heal you when you are not surrounded by a loving church family. He only heals people who are completely loved and embraced in a church. You see, I asked God about healing you and he said, "No. It's more important that she be in church." Now you crippled mess, in addition to your pain, your agony, and all the things you need to think about, you need to spend what little energy you have left looking for a group of people to love you. My first responsibility is to the people in my church. I don't have time to pray for you. Praying for you will get me nothing, and keep me from writing my next sermon. Real quick, let me pray for you on the phone. I sure hope the prayer works for you. And if it doesn't, well perhaps the Lord wants you in a wheelchair. You must learn to be soft towards his will. Remember, God is grieved not so much by your illness, as he is by your lack of church attendance. Find a church....quickly.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Potato Cheese Soup
In the days of old, back in the early eighties, my sister and her then new husband made a big pot of potato cheese soup for our family. One bite of this magnificent soup, and I was sold for a lifetime.
Several months later I made this soup for my boyfriend, and I'm not saying anything other than this: He eventually married me. The soup is that good.
So for any of you ladies wanting to impress your man, here is the recipe.
Potato Cheese Soup
2 1/2 cups water (add salt as desired)
2 cups potatoes, peeled and diced
1 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup celery, diced
2 cups milk
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. powdered mustard
1 1/2 tsp. soy sauce
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes (or 1 8 oz. can tomato sauce)
8 oz. cheddar cheese, grated
1 tsp. parsley flakes
Dill weed
Place potatoes, celery and onion in the 2 1/2 cups salted water in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for at least 15 minutes, or until vegetables are soft. In another saucepan, blend flour into milk with a wire whisk. Gradually heat this mixture adding salt, pepper, powdered mustard, and soy sauce. Stir constantly until mixture is thick. Add butter, and stir until the butter is melted. Then pour the thickened milk mixture into the pan of cooked vegetables. Add tomatoes and grated cheese. Stir until cheese is melted. Add parsley flakes and dill weed. Simmer soup for about 10 minutes. It is delicious with crackers or with warm french bread.
Just a note: My sister and her husband don't really measure the veggies. They just throw in a bunch, and cover them with water. I, on the other hand, being a perfectionist, carefully measure everything. Also a word about the salt...since the recipe calls for salt and soy sauce, I often cut this down even further. You salt fanatics can go nuts though. You can use as much as 2 1/2 tsp. salt. It just depends on how much you can tolerate salt.
Several months later I made this soup for my boyfriend, and I'm not saying anything other than this: He eventually married me. The soup is that good.
So for any of you ladies wanting to impress your man, here is the recipe.
Potato Cheese Soup
2 1/2 cups water (add salt as desired)
2 cups potatoes, peeled and diced
1 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup celery, diced
2 cups milk
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. powdered mustard
1 1/2 tsp. soy sauce
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes (or 1 8 oz. can tomato sauce)
8 oz. cheddar cheese, grated
1 tsp. parsley flakes
Dill weed
Place potatoes, celery and onion in the 2 1/2 cups salted water in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for at least 15 minutes, or until vegetables are soft. In another saucepan, blend flour into milk with a wire whisk. Gradually heat this mixture adding salt, pepper, powdered mustard, and soy sauce. Stir constantly until mixture is thick. Add butter, and stir until the butter is melted. Then pour the thickened milk mixture into the pan of cooked vegetables. Add tomatoes and grated cheese. Stir until cheese is melted. Add parsley flakes and dill weed. Simmer soup for about 10 minutes. It is delicious with crackers or with warm french bread.
Just a note: My sister and her husband don't really measure the veggies. They just throw in a bunch, and cover them with water. I, on the other hand, being a perfectionist, carefully measure everything. Also a word about the salt...since the recipe calls for salt and soy sauce, I often cut this down even further. You salt fanatics can go nuts though. You can use as much as 2 1/2 tsp. salt. It just depends on how much you can tolerate salt.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Watch these videos, learn, weep and pray.
Bone chilling. I think the USA is firmly in the "destabilization" phase, a process that takes only two to five years.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Nice to be Missed
Nearly every day for the past five years I have walked around my block. I leash my dogs, Sasha and Ross, and I take off around my neighborhood. I have gotten to know a few people along the route, but for the most part my walk is a solitary thing.
I think of the older couple with the two beautiful golden retrievers. They planted a new lawn in the front last year. I always imagine that their dogs are going to come right through the window and start a fight with my dogs. I pass the house where Jennifer grew up. The neighbors with the pond in their back yard always offer me a cold beer. (Would drinking a beer sort of ruin all the benefits of walking? I've always wondered.) Their next door neighbor gave me two Chicago-style sausages and told me the best way to barbeque them. There is the man who filled my walker basket with peaches fresh off the tree. Finally there is the family who has the german shepherd who broke his leash in order to come greet my dogs.
But most days the walk is quiet, and I rarely talk to anyone except my two pups. Today though a man limped out of his house and asked me where I had been. I told him I had been too sore to walk for the last week or so. He told me about how his back was injured, and how he understood that it hurt me to walk. He gave me a bottle of water, and we talked about how to live life in spite of pain. (Like I know.) He and his wife watch me walk by every day, and they miss me when I'm not there.
It's really nice to be missed.
I think of the older couple with the two beautiful golden retrievers. They planted a new lawn in the front last year. I always imagine that their dogs are going to come right through the window and start a fight with my dogs. I pass the house where Jennifer grew up. The neighbors with the pond in their back yard always offer me a cold beer. (Would drinking a beer sort of ruin all the benefits of walking? I've always wondered.) Their next door neighbor gave me two Chicago-style sausages and told me the best way to barbeque them. There is the man who filled my walker basket with peaches fresh off the tree. Finally there is the family who has the german shepherd who broke his leash in order to come greet my dogs.
But most days the walk is quiet, and I rarely talk to anyone except my two pups. Today though a man limped out of his house and asked me where I had been. I told him I had been too sore to walk for the last week or so. He told me about how his back was injured, and how he understood that it hurt me to walk. He gave me a bottle of water, and we talked about how to live life in spite of pain. (Like I know.) He and his wife watch me walk by every day, and they miss me when I'm not there.
It's really nice to be missed.
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