Recipes

Okay, my friend Erin challenged me to post some recipes. I'm going to start by saying that if you're looking for some healthy food to serve your family, you're looking in the wrong place. Now if you're looking for some really yummy recipes, you're in the right place. Here you go:

Enchiladas

1 lb. hamburger
1 can refried beans
1 can enchilada sauce
1 pkg. tortillas
1 can chopped olives
shredded cheese
lettuce
sour cream

Brown hamburger and drain. Mix in refried beans and chopped olives. Fill tortilla shells and put in 9X13 pan. Cover with enchilada sauce and shredded cheese. Cook at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

Southwestern Eggrolls

1 lb. hot italian sausage
1 can (15oz.) black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (11 oz.) Mexicorn, drained
1 can (10 oz.) diced tomatoes and green chilies, undrained
1 pkg. (8.8 oz.) ready-to-serve Spanish rice
19 egg roll wrappers
oil to fry

Cook sausage and drain. Stir in beans, mexicorn, tomatoes, and rice. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, simmer, uncovered for 5-10 minutes or heated through. Place 1/3 cup mixture in egg roll wrappers and fold together as instructed on package. Fry egg rolls in 1 inch of oil heated to 375 degrees for 30 seconds on each side or until golden brown. Drain excess oil.

Sloppy Joes

1 lb. hamburger
1 can chicken gumbo soup
1/4 c. ketchup
1/8 c. mustard
2 T. Worchestershire sauce

Brown hamburger and mix ingredients.

Ham and Potato Soup

4 or 5 potatoes
3 T. butter
3 T. flour
crushed red pepper flakes
pepper
3 cups milk
4 oz. velveeta
sliced or cubed ham

Peel and cube potatoes. Cook until tender in pot of water. Drain potatoes, but reserve 1 cup of the liquid. Melt butter in saucepan. Add flour and season with pepper and red pepper flakes. Gradually add potatoes, reserved liquid, and milk. Add velveeta and ham. Simmer over low heat 30 minutes or until cheese is melted stirring frequently.

Hope you enjoy!!

The Outflow of God's Love

At Sunday school we're reading the book Outflow by Steve Sjogren and Dave Ping. It's about outward-focused living in a self-focused world. I can't explain the whole book in a single post, but it's about showing God to others through various acts of kindness. The hope is that someday each of us will constantly be thinking of how to help others in our daily lives, building relationships with others, and using those relationships to introduce others to God. Each week it encourages you to find simple ways to show God's love. I keep thinking I should do this or that, but never followed through. Today I was going to so something. Since it was so cold outside and it was trash day, I decided to make hot chocolate for the trash guys(I'm not sure what the politically correct term is for trash guy?). Simple, right? Making hot chocolate is simple. Walking to the curb is simple. Giving them the hot chocolate is simple. But for some reason I started having anxiety as I waited for the trash truck to pull up. Some of my thoughts were "They don't want your hot chocolate." and "They're going to think you're crazy." But I knew this was what God called me to do today, so to be obedient I followed through. I made the hot chocolate, carried it to the curb, and asked the man if he would like some hot chocolate. What happened next totally shocked me. That man, the one that was supposed to laugh in my face, thanked me and gave me a hug. A HUG!! I walked away feeling so good that I'm left wondering if I was showing God's love to him or if he was showing God's love to me??

Father, I can't thank you enough for letting me have this experience today. Thank you for giving me the courage to do something unexpected. Thank you for the response that the man had. Please allow me to continue to help others to your glory. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Friend: So Sissy what did you get for Christmas?

Sissy: A Jump-o-line (trampoline).


Sissy also wanted to make sure we went shopping at the "fake mall." I still haven't figured this one out. I think she's talking about Kohl's because it looks like a mall. I told her Kohl's wasn't a mall, so I think she started calling it the "fake mall."