Faith and Food Friday

Gluttony…too much of a good thing!

I remember some wonderful advice we were given in culinary school six years ago, “Quantity changes quality.”  In other words, we’re gonna be cooking with a whole lot of real nutritious and tasty ingredients but if you over indulge then it won’t be very good for you.  Like that dish above, beautiful pasture-raised beef stew and a pile of asparagus…all …

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Me & Lucy crashing after another long day in the kitchen!

I don’t know what came over me this last week but I was a cooking fool!  Do you ever just get yourself so wound up doing something that you almost can’t stop?  That is called the “disease to overachieve.”  I have been battling this my whole life and in particular the last few years.  Coming up on 50, you really …

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I'm even asking God to give me His Grace to be patient with my garden!

Hey All…so sorry I have been “missing in action” lately but, it has been a bit of a time to say the least.  Paralyzing muscle spasm in my back and couldn’t sit at computer, vertigo, gut issues ongoing and still trying to figure out what ails me, mother-in-love in the hospital twice last week, trip to Atlanta, blah, blah, blah.  Basically, life.  Isn’t that the truth?  …

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Rhett, Betty and Shane!

  Grab a cup of tea because this is a bit of a long one. Alex and I went to visit our very dear friends, Shane and Rhett over Memorial Day down in their “neck” of the woods in Madison, Mississippi which is just north of Jackson.  Yes, I have a best friend named Shane and so to cut down on …

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Re-thinking Kid’s Snacks at Church

It’s “Faith and Food Friday” and I want to talk with y’all about something that weighs heavily on my heart almost every time I hear about or see what our children are snacking on at church. Last Sunday Alex and I were visiting some dear friends in Knoxville, Tennessee and we attended church with them before heading home on Sunday.  What got …

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