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Gingerbread House by Remy & Abuelita

A Menu List for Kids

Menu Plan

Roast Beef Tri-tip in Crock Pot
Roasted potatoes and carrots
broccoli, carrots & cauliflower
green salad
 

Tuna Noodle casserole
peas
applesauce
 

Chicken legs in crock pot
rice or noodles or potatoes
Broccoli
 

Spaghetti with meat sauce
french bread
green salad
 

Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
Rice
green beans
peaches
 

Meatloaf with gravy
mashed potatoes
corn
green salad
 

Chicken patties
fried potatoes or Alfredo noodles or rice
peas
peaches
 

Home-made pizza
salad
soda
 

Sliced Ham
mashed potatoes or Alfredo noodles
mixed vegies
biscuits
 

Sliced Turkey Breast w/ gravy
Stove top stuffing or mashed potatoes
vegies
 

oven Fried chicken
mashed potatoes
vegies
biscuits
 

Chicken breast strips
fettuccini Alfredo noodles
Broccoli
 

Hamburgers
chips
soda
 

enchilada casserole
refried beans
Spanish rice
 

Pork Chops
mashed potatoes or rice
vegies
green salad
 

chicken Stir-fry w/ vegies
white rice

More Recipes From Mom's Recipe File

More Recipes

Tuna Noodle Casserole

I've been making Ranger Cookies lately

I've been making a bunch of Ranger Cookies lately to satisfy my sweet tooth. They are not too sugary and have mostly healthy ingredients.

RANGER COOKIES

Ingredients:
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup flake-type cereal (like Special K or Total, etc)
1/2 cup flaked coconut
Directions:
1. Cream shortening with sugars. Beat in egg and vanilla.
2. Mix together dry ingredients and stir into wet mix. Place by heaping spoonfuls on an ungreased baking sheet.
3. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 10 minutes. Remove immediately to cool.

Try it. It is almost like Mom used to make.

Texas Flour Tortillas (adapted from The Border Cookbook by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison)
Ingredients:
Two cups of all-purpose flour (can make them whole wheat by substituting one cup of whole-wheat flour for white flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of vegetable oil
3/4 cups of warm milk

Method:
Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and oil.
Slowly add the warm milk.
Stir until a loose, sticky ball is formed.
Knead for two minutes on a floured surface. Dough should be firm and soft.
Place dough in a bowl and cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap for 20 minutes.
After the dough has rested, break off eight sections, roll them into balls in your hands, place on a plate (make sure they aren’t touching) and then cover balls with damp cloth or plastic wrap for 10 minutes. (It’s very important to let the dough rest, otherwise it will be like elastic and won’t roll out to a proper thickness and shape.)
After dough has rested, one at a time place a dough ball on a floured surface, pat it out into a four-inch circle, and then roll with a rolling pin from the center until it’s thin and about eight inches in diameter. (If you roll out pie crusts you’ll have no problem with this.) Don’t over work the dough, or it’ll be stiff. Keep rolled-out tortillas covered until ready to cook.
In a dry iron skillet or comal heated on high, cook the tortilla about thirty seconds on each side. It should start to puff a bit when it’s done.
Keep cooked tortillas covered wrapped in a napkin until ready to eat.
Can be reheated in a dry iron skillet, over your gas-burner flame or in the oven wrapped in foil.
While you probably won’t have any leftovers, you can store in the fridge tightly wrapped in foil or plastic for a day or so.
Makes eight tortillas.

A retired husband is a wife's full time job.

Chaos?

There was a doctor, a civil engineer, and a computer scientist sitting around late one evening, and they got to discussing which was the oldest profession.

The doctor pointed out that according to Biblical tradition, God created Eve from Adam's rib. This obviously required surgery, so therefore that was the oldest profession in the world.

The engineer countered with an earlier passage in the Bible that stated that God created order from the chaos, and that was most certainly the biggest and best civil engineering example ever, and also proved that his profession was the oldest profession.

The computer scientist leaned back in the chair, and with a sly smile responded, "Yes, but who do you think created the chaos?"

Gospel
Mt 10:24-33
Jesus said to his Apostles: "No disciple is above his teacher,no slave above his master.It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher,for the slave that he become like his master.If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,how much more those of his household!
"Therefore do not be afraid of them.Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed,nor secret that will not be known.What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light;what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;rather, be afraid of the one who can destroyboth soul and body in Gehenna.Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin?Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge.Even all the hairs of your head are counted.So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.Everyone who acknowledges me before othersI will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.But whoever denies me before others,I will deny before my heavenly Father."

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15ab
R. In you, my God, I place my trust.
You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High,who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,Say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress,my God, in whom I trust."
R. In you, my God, I place my trust.
For he will rescue you from the snare of the fowler,from the destroying pestilence.With his pinions he will cover you,and under his wings you shall take refuge.
R. In you, my God, I place my trust.
Because he clings to me, I will deliver him;I will set him on high because he acknowledges my name.He shall call upon me, and I will answer him;I will be with him in distress.
R. In you, my God, I place my trust.

2 Cor 12:7-10
Brothers and sisters:That I, Paul, might not become too elated,because of the abundance of the revelations,a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan,to beat me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me,but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you,for power is made perfect in weakness." I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses,in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults,hardships, persecutions, and constraints,for the sake of Christ;for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Aebleskivers Recipe from Donna

For breakfast on Christmas morning, brunch really since it was 1030, I made Aebleskivers just like the kid's Aunt Donna makes them. Well, maybe not that good, but very edible anyway. Here is a copy of her delicious recipe to go along with the Danish guy makin' em in the video previous to this post. Yummmy (hint: click on the pic to get a large version)

Christmas

How was yours?

How to make Danish Aebleskiver

Yes, it is that time of the year again to make Aebleskiver.

And then you can be a Lumberjack!

Christmas quote

The following quote has been going around lately:

"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"-- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Cough, cough, sneeze wheeze.

Trafficman became closely acquanted with a box of Kleenex and cough syrup today at home. I went to work briefly, determined that work could get along without me today and came back home to rest. I think I have the same thing that many at work have had over the past three weeks, as well as some of my kids, both at home and at their own homes (you know who you are).

Excuse me, I have to blow my nose and take some more cough syrup.

Another kitty loss

Only a few weeks ago we had to put Tigre to sleep (she is the one on the right) and now we have lost another one. Botas (on the left) died of complicatons from liver failure. She had been lethargic since Tigre died but got worse. We took her to the vet but she was too far gone for help and we determined it best to put her to sleep. That was on the day before Thanksgiving. She was about 10 years old. This picture is about 5 years old and you can see that both Botas and Tigre looked fat and sassy. We miss our little friends. Now we are down to just one cat, our 18 pound male cat - Oso.

Only in America

Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Genius reading level???

Hey, MountainPowerLineman! Must be hereditary.

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RVing at Angels Camp - Veteran's Weekend

Flying the Stars and Stripes














Enjoying the campfire












The owners have a new pet Emu named "Big Bird"













Cooking burgers












Yummy

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