Everyone makes mistakes.
“How we cope with and learn from our own, and our willingness to forgive others, shows our true depth of character and reveals our heart.”
May your mistakes be few and your forgiveness readily available.
You will need:
You can cook this one of two ways. You can cook it in a slow cooker on low for 5 to 6 hours, or you can cook it as a traditional casserole. For a traditional casserole, see the topping and baking instructions below. If you choose to cook it in a slow cooker, you can double the batch and “can it” if you are ambitious. Mmmmm …. tasty. I suppose you could freeze it too, I haven’t tried that.
For Topping:
Baking Instructions: Mix the apples, cranberries, white sugar, orange juice and cinnamon together and place in a buttered 9 * 13 casserole dish. Mix together the melted butter, brown sugar, corn flake crumbs and pecans. Stir and pour over the top of the apple/cranberry mixture. Cover with foil. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 – 2 hours. You want the apples to be tender, and some cook faster than others. Uncover the casserole for the last 10 – 15 minutes so the crust can get “crusty”. Enjoy!!
Well, … now everyone is trying to save on the food budget and stretch the dollars a little farther. So now I just appear normal, and my budget friendly habits seem timely. Whereas before, I believe the word “cooky” might have been slung in my direction.
Here’s a tip for your freezer. If you eat vegetables at your house, you probably don’t always finish the dish. For plain vegetables (served with butter and salt – or alone) toss the extras in a gallon sized freezer bag in the freezer door. Every time you have some leftovers of this nature, toss them in the bag. It doesn’t matter if they’re different. You’re making a collection of veggies. When the bag gets to capacity – you’re ready to make vegetable or chicken soup.
If you choose Chicken Soup, here’s another money saver. Use inexpensive thighs or legs to make your broth and provide the meat for the soup. These pieces are less popular, but they make a much richer base for your soup; no one can really tell what part of the chicken little shreds of meat came from in the bowl anyway. As a bonus, you can usually get those cuts of meat for MUCH less than cut up birds or chicken breasts.
Happy cooking!!!
Those of you who have been following our progress, or lack there of, this fall and winter will not be shocked to learn that we’ve had the stomach flu. That’s the only reason for the delay in the snow day pictures. The stomach flu arrived on the heels of the snow.
We did have about 5 inches before it “sank”. It was a very wet and cold snow. Would you believe that just five days later it was 82 degrees here?
So much has been happening here over the last month or so. I did a terrible job keeping up the postings. Mark had a wonderful missions trip to Haiti, and hopefully we’ll have some photos from that soon.
In the mean time, here’s a look at some of what we’ve been up to in January and February.
Enjoy!
Sounds of racing and screaming…..
“You okay, Wils?”
“Do I look okay? I keep getting run over by cars.”
“Oh, sorry.”
“It’s like I’m a pancake or something, a really flat pancake.”
So much for MarioKart.
“Well, you wouldn’t go up to an apple tree and expect to find bananas. Would you?” – Sam (12/30/08)
Join us for a little photo tour of the holidays. You can’t really see all the decorations, but you will see some of the fun. I just recently figured out how to do this photo stream, so somehow I got the photos in the show backwards. Sophie was in The Nutcracker, and then we had Christmas. Ooops…..
Happy New Year to you and yours. I’ll see if time permits any reminiscing on the blog tomorrow.
Today, Sophie (Princess Elizabeth) had a TEA PARTY with Claire (Princess Pipsqeak), otherwise known as Princess Pip. I did not know that this party was going on here today, until I walked down the very quiet hallway and was greeted with this….
Princess Pip made her debut moments later in the computer den.
I was told that modesty prevented the Princess Pip from being able to wear her “gown” as intended. It was too risky. It might slip down. So, she wore a lovely white turtleneck and pink play pants under her party gown… just in case the party headed outside.
As the ball worn on, Princess Pip was seen to give Princess Elizabeth a BIG love.
And sporting the “trademark” pouty lips……
I’ve been receiving all kinds of catalogs in the mail the last few weeks. Some of them have actually had some good deals on shipping and decent discount amounts on purchases. So, if you shop with any of the following retailers – check out these discounts.
Christian Book Distributors 10% OFF your order of more that $35 with CODE 251523FF until December 24th, or Free Shipping until November 14th with CODE 275405.
Snapfish is offering 20% OFF until December 31st with CODE – WINTER08.
Get four free Greeting Cards from Shutterfly until November 20th with the following CODE : TCCA-AET0-H1JA-NM2UFK.
FREE shipping at Landsend on ANY SIZE order placed by November 18th. Now, this CODE can only be used twice, so if you want to use it, email me and you can have the PIN number.
Also, if you are a BELK’s Department Store shopper, there is a coupon in the Sunday paper for $10 OFF your first $25 purchase on Sunday, November 9th and Monday, November 10th, 2008. It’s on the front of the Veteran’s Day add.
Have fun and save, save, save…..