It's an apple chocolate-chip lilac pie for Spring... From a pesticide-free lilac bush, blooms are edible for pastries and delicious pie. The lilac represents wisdom and remembrance; promotes harmony. It resides in the olive family. I made the standard Crisco pie crust recipe; all shortening, no butter. I baked outdoors, so I pressed the dough into the pie plate … [Read more...]
The Victor
God needs no help. He's not a wimp. He's fierce. He's "all man" but not human. He's the builder of strength because He is strength. He's not a pansy. He is valiant without having an ego problem. He is The Victor. God does not forsake or abandon his own, not ever. His commitment level is forever. The common man fails; He is unfailing. He doesn't break up with you or … [Read more...]
A Soiled Place
Unsoil me. Pass over thy countenance to search the inward stain. Rid me of soil that is unpleasant. Clean to remove unclean. Let not thy hands hold debris of matter that is unworthy. Plead my cause, oh, Lord, and hold me above a soiled place. Don't let me sink and fall into darkness that is covered with vile, the waste material of a fetid smell. Pick me up, God, my … [Read more...]
Holy Roller
It's good to lose. It's the polishing of a stone, roughing out the jagged edges and making the lines smooth. It's the sanding of wood to remove splinters for a clean surface for the beauty and safety of a wood-grain. It's growth of a plant plucked from poor soil to be placed in fertile ground to grow strong so that it bears fruit. It's a broken glass getting glued to … [Read more...]
My Father’s Eyes
Skirt in the Kitchen/My Father's Foods 'My Father's Eyes' - Song & Artist: He Knows My Name by Francesca Battistelli Mercy Ministries, Nashville, TN … [Read more...]
She Will Survive
'She Will Survive' - Rose-Colored Glasses (28) Song & Artist: Flower by Jewel … [Read more...]
Rose-Colored Glasses (28)
Come take a walk with me through rose-colored glasses. Put on a pink lens, let's walk into Spring. Open the door. We'll go up a long road and walk the afternoon away, no particular place to be but here--with you. See purple blooms and clover, green grass and crop rows ... white gravel under our feet. We can make it a rose-colored world. Let's run … [Read more...]
Cabbage Breakfast Wraps
This is good for a late breakfast on Saturday, when you don't have to run out the door in a hurry like you would a weekday--when you've got plenty of time to cook breakfast at home and enjoy it. When I think of Spring, I think of crisp greens with morning bacon--particularly cabbage. There must be onion. And, of course--peppers. Have either apple or pear for … [Read more...]
Spring Fling
Spring Fling on Skirt in the Kitchen, All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You by Halestorm on SKIRT RADIO … [Read more...]
Oat Pecan Fruit Muffins
(Grandmother Anita and Mother) My mother's mother, Grandmother Anita, clipped recipes as often as she cut coupons and sale ads. She was always writing on paper--notes of ideas that she had thought of doing; some of them dreams. Those dreams became plans, whether or not she got to live them through or simply just kept them on a writing tablet or loose notebook … [Read more...]