Category: Recipes

Groceries Gone Wild!

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Oh my goodness! It’s the beginning of a new month and I just sat down to do my monthly orders plus place my weekly grocery order and I about fell off the kitchen stool when I saw the totals in my carts!

SERIOUSLY! I moved to the dining table so the fall wouldn’t be as bad and where I could settle in with a fresh cup of coffee and figure out what the ‘essentials’ also were and make sure to cut out the ‘extras’ which have already been pretty slim on my budget.

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Oily Chat – February

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I haven’t really talked a lot about essential oils lately but they are still a big part of our lives. I had gotten away from the boxes that I used to receive from Simply Earth but I have signed up again as the quality of the oils I’ve been getting from other places just isn’t as good.

I love lemongrass and lavender but Mr. Awesome prefers the grapefruit and other citrus scents.
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Peanut Butter Icing

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This is so good and it is often requested in our home for birthdays and such but for some reason, I’ve just never posted the recipe but here it is now…

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Biblical Feasts: Holy Days vs Holidays

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I’ve been extremely interested in the Biblical Feasts and Holy Days that are mentioned in the Bible, but it can be a little overwhelming to try to figure all of this out. Check out Leviticus 23 for more information.

The Sabbath is probably one of the most well-known of these Holy Days, and I would like to start keeping it the way it should be kept

Check out our Perpetual Meal Plans for ideas to celebrate some of these Holy Days!

These are some of the other Holy Days and Feasts that I want to learn more about so that they can be properly celebrated.

  1. Passover (Spring)
  2. Unleavened Bread (Spring)
  3. Feast of Weeks / Shavuot / Pentecost (Spring)
  4. Trumpets / Yom Teruah (Fall)
  5. Atonement / Yom Kippur / The Fast (Fall)
  6. Tabernacles / Sukkot (Fall)
  7. Eighth Day / Last Great Day (Fall)

The first three are about things that have already come to pass while the last four are telling us of things that are yet to come. It is more than a little exciting to think of all that we have to look forward to!

There are other days that I find interesting as well and I would like to research them a little more.

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Granny’s Red Beans and Rice

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Mr. Awesome loves his Momma’s Red Beans and Rice, This is the recipe, as she wrote it down for us. I know I have a DIY version of the boxed mix but I’ll have to look it up later and edit this post when I find it. This is one of those meals that is even better the next day.

Granny’s Red Beans & rice

As written down by Granny 😊

Ingredients:

  • 1 box of Zatarain’s Red Bean Mix
  • 3 bouillon + 6 cups water
  • 1 pound Jimmy Dean ground sausage, cooked and crumbled
  • 2-3 links Nettles sausages, cooked and sliced into rounds
  • (1 c. rice)**

Directions:

Add to crockpot. Cook on low until done.

 (high for 4-6 hours or low 6-8 hours)

**I use 1 cup (uncooked) rice to fill crock pot up.

I also like to use a little onion and Bell or sweet peppers.

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