Happy Sunday! I loved seeing some fluffy clouds surround our mountains this week. The weather was a bit chilly, but beautiful.
So, I don’t think I’ve ever shared one of my favorite songs “Consider the Lilies”…so consider the message from this song as today’s Sunday sermon. If you’d like to, go ahead and review The Sermon on the Mount which is where the lyrics originated. Have a great day! Do something NEW!
Happy Tuesday! Here’s a recipe I tried from a NEW cookbook that hubby brought home from work. All the recipes are ‘healthy’ recipes in this book, so I thought I’d try them all out. For these Crustless Mini Quiches, I used my no-stick silicon baking cups. I’m not sure they browned up as nicely as they would have if I hadn’t have used them, but they tasted fine. I’m keeping a few of these in the freezer so I can pop one or two quickly in the microwave on busy mornings.
Son #3 also recently gave me a NEW cookbook that he got from work. What is going on here anyway? I have more NEW recipes than I can try in a lifetime…but it’ll be fun to do what I can. I’m hoping for some “keepers”! Here’s the recipe for Mini Quiche:
Have a great day! Do or bake something NEW!
Happy Monday! We recently spent some time in Philly and NYC. Here’s a few miscellaneous things I gotta share. We really need to go back, because we only scratched the surface of what is available to see and do there!
My grandfather was a Mason, and we attempted to visit the Masonic Temple…but they closed early the day we went. Here’s an interesting video tour though:
While in Philly, we took my sister’s recommendation and ate at the City Tavern Restaurant where the servers wear colonial-period clothing and the food and atmosphere is excellent! Check out their ‘History Timeline’. Quite a bit of history happened in that tavern!
I’m happy to have waited to see Wicked until I could see it on Broadway. Excellent production! I felt like the last person among my friends, family, neighbors and acquaintances to see it, but it was worth waiting to see it in the Big Apple! :o)
Have a great day! Do or see something NEW!
Ah! It’s finally Spring! Wonderful, beautiful colors to photograph….finally! :o)
Happy Sunday! This photo is simply a snapshot of an original Gutenberg Bible that we saw in the New York Public Library recently. It’s hard to get impressive photographs from behind a glaring glass box and florescent library lighting. Sorry about that!…and the display write up (below) is even worse quality – but if you click on it, you can probably read it ok. It was interesting.
I thought about how it must have been like to live in the dark ages – how it must have finally felt like Spring when beautiful opportunities started coming about….like having printing presses and hence the Holy Bible and other scriptures available for common people to read. It must have felt like…Ah! Finally Spring! :o)
Unlike this bad quality photo above…for today’s sermon, you can read a good quality message about The Miracle of the Holy Bible.
And lastly, here’s some murals from the NY Public Library. That building is quite the place!
Have a great day! Do something NEW!
Happy Thursday! I had to share this little guy who lives in Philadelphia. We got up early one morning and he was scampering around the Independence Hall grounds. I like the back light on his fluffy tail. :o)
Have a great day and learn or doing something NEW!
Happy Tuesday! Here’s a new taste at our house: Quinoa. (Although I’ve had a couple of bags of it sitting around for probably over a year…with good intentions on incorporating this nutritious ingredient into our meals!) Better late than never, right? Here’s a pic of the cooking process:
And here’s the recipe (gorgeously-styled photograph from my phone):
Have a great day! Do or cook something NEW!
Happy Tuesday. I’m in love!…with chia seeds. I’m in love with how easy it is to get these nutritious seeds into my bod. I remember being on vacation and needing something ‘healthy’ to drink. (You know, sometimes vacation food can feel like….YUK! As in, ‘I need some good homemade REAL food’) Well, that day I bought my first chia seed ‘health-drink’ and it was kind of weird – the texture was different. It cost a pretty penny. And the taste was, eh…ok. But my homemade chia drink…I think is delicious. I am now used to the texture and love that making this drink is so easy. Basically all you do is soak the chia seeds overnight then add them to cran-grape juice (or juice of your choice) in the a.m. Yum! It waters down the grape juice, which is good, because it has too much sugar anyway. Win-win!
Chia seeds have more omega 3’s than salmon, more potassium than bananas, more calcium than milk, and are loaded with antioxidants. They’re a complete protein. Nice!
Have a great day! Do or drink something NEW!
Happy Monday! So, now everyone knows the exact view I have from my office at work! I just walked straight from my desk about three steps and clicked this pic out the window with my phone. How’s that for random?!?
And…some other random stuff:
We went to a NEW restaurant last month and really liked the hummus they served there…so I’m going to try this Taco Hummus and see if it even comes close. I’ll keep you posted.
We went to see the King’s Singers recently and I learned that they performed some of their very best pieces as encores! (They did about four encores!) I really liked the “I’m A Train” piece. Wowza! This group is obviously not the same group we saw last week, but they sang just as fast!
Lastly, I want to take TheGenealogyGirl’s challenge and write down 10 family history story ideas/prompts every week – an idea she got from former Governor Leavitt’s Keynote speech at RootsTech:
Mike Leavitt told us that he tricked himself into writing his personal history by making a quick list of stories worth telling – just a word or phrase that would remind him. This list started with 10 items, then 100, then 1,000. Eventually he wrote these stories out.
So here’s this week’s
1. In honor of Gov Leavitt’s little brother (whom I spent a lot of time with in High School)…memories of band ( H.S. and College).
2. Dad’s frugality (examples of)
3. Learning to drive (and being in car while older siblings learned to drive.
4. Horseback riding (everyone’s stories of getting bucked off :o)
5. Memories of Grandma Anderson
6. Most embarrassing moments
7. Meeting the in-laws for the first time
8. Kindergarten (can anyone remember?)
9. Favorite school teacher
10. Memories of Sacrament Meeting (Frank tells the story of someone trying not to laugh out loud, but someone plugs their nose so then they snort even louder. Getting sherbet for a treat, if good in church.
Have a great day! Do or learn something NEW!
