Making Veggie Trays

Fill your basin with cold water that will bathe the veggies as you clean them.

celery cauliflower broccoli tomato carrots onion radish

Now the carrots will sink to the bottom.

The things with more air float at there own level so they are so easy to seperate.

Trim down those things into bite size and set aside to drain on cookie sheets before assembly.

The only thing to cut then is the dedicates of cucumber and peppers.

reserve the bell peppers and the cucumbers to do alone.

 

Home grown radish

 

This is a tray for a smaller party

 

The larger one

In center is the fresh home grown basil

Curl onions by cutting them the long way to within an inch of the bulb part.

Cut twice so there is quarters soak in a bit of water a few moments and they will curl.

 

This was one of the other  dishes I offered to the meals of Thanksgiving.

a bit busy here

everything and everyone is fine
I will effort to catch up soon

Roasted Garlic Mashed Yucatan Gold Potato

 15 pounds made for Thanksgiving meals this year.

Four large bulbs of garlic with heads topped off and olive oil drizzedle.

Wrapped in foil they baked for an hour at 300*.

 

 Tools of the task.

Gloves are a must here.

The nut pick really works well for the cloves that were not cut.

For the the job pull back the layers of the bulb exposing all the cloves.

Any clove uncut set aside, then just turn the bulb over a bowel and squeeze out the cloves.

They will be mushy and soft squeeze all out and your left with this shell.

 

Those cloves set aside are simply squeezed if open on one end.

Note the baked clove at the tip is a nice little tube if your to use this on toast.

Garlic mellows and is rich and sweet at this stage.

 

 Mash with a gloved hand by just using your fingers.

Then store in a GLASS jar until ready to use.

15 pounds of Yucatan gold potato

Pealed

A glass of chocolate/soy milk/coffee a treat for the labor.

:)

These are naturally buttery and mellow they mash with ease.

 

 Dice in uniform small 1 inch cubes to evenly and timely boil.

The small size will cook fast.

Here a citric acid water (R/O or filtered, if tap let the tap water rest an hour before using to air out the chlorine that is in it or it will spoil the spuds flavor)  bath  is used to retain color.

 

 My Glass top is not suited to use the big caner pot on it.

So out on the camp stove they cooked.

 

 Here they are ready to drain after cooling slightly they were mashed easily REALLY these things just melt when mashed, very naturally buttery I used 2 sticks of butter for a 15 pound bag of spuds.

Salt and then add the garlic.

They were placed in three chafing dishes to be heated in a 300* oven for an hour before taken to the events.

They were still warm.

 

Nothing wasted

The peals were boiled in the citric water bath

then they were removed and the water bath used to boil rice for the dogs.

 

 

 They were thankful too.

:)

 

 The compost had the garlic shells and the foil recycled.

It was a real treat for all.

We saved a portion for the family and I made sausage mushroom gravy for lunch today

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

Please join us for Marriage Monday this coming Monday (Nov. 30, 2009)

Dear Blogging Sister,

 

Please join us for Marriage Monday this coming Monday (Nov. 30, 2009). This time, we'll be covering the general subject of Men & Christmas. By majority vote, this month's group topic is "He Speaks: A Revealing Interview With My Husband."

Help your Husband Express His Feelings

This month our challenge is to get help your man express his honest feelings about Christmas. I suggest you come up with three to five questions. I've emailed mine to e-Dad, because I know he likes to write his answers down, rather than be questioned verbally. You can try that, or do whatever works best for the two of you.

Here are my interview questions. (You can use these if you want.)

1. Describe your ideal Christmas.
2. How do your think our expectations differ at Christmas?
3. Share your thoughts about exchanging gifts.
4. Some years you're just not into Christmas. Explain why.
5. How do you focus on the deeper meaning of Christ's birth at Christmas?

Let's make it our goal to create some wonderful memories for our husbands this year! I'm excited to find out what pleases e-Dad, and also what troubles him about the holidays. I hope you'll take some time to do the same for your own sweet man.

Bring a Friend

Feel free to copy any part of this announcement and post it on your blog. As always, the more participants we have, the better.

 

See you at Chrysalis on Monday!

 

Blessings,

Word Filled Wednesday

"Through wisdom is an house built; and by understanding it is established: And by
knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches."

Tackle it Tuesday *Flight Center

On Monday we had a wonderful field trip to a flight center

I had the thrill of being one of five volunteers that made the trip able to happen

We had four groups we were group four. We were on a rotation. My group got to have lunch first.

My young friend just sat alone.

The other boy in my group had left ill and the others were all girls.

He shared with me that he was embarrassed when I gave him the picture I painted in class last year, it gave me a change to apologize for his discomfort.

 We received our training as the children were being lectured on flight

The teacher of the class is in the gray to the left.

She made this happen.

 

 This is the class as they were in training

The cock pit seats were so cool

They used them first

 

 The information and science coverage was awesome!

 

 I had another child but as the lecture was occurring he did not look right to me.

I asked the child to come to me.

The teacher took him to the nurse just in time for him to repeatedly vomit!

Sweet boy missed out. I gathered him all of the experiment supplies and his flight Manuel and sent it on quickly with the teacher to the nurse.

 

 Dove did real well

 

This is so cool!

This is all on a volunteer basis.

 

This is a flight simulator program they used..

I got to take a turn and landed!

 

 

 

 As the kids who were training for the plane simulator part of my group was doing a study in night vision.

Using a grid system they had to identify the items on the field through the night goggles.

While the other part of my group shifted over and these guys went to the plane

 

 

 

 This fellow was a retired flight instructor as was one of the guardians who came with us a grandpa who was a retired flight instructor.

 

 

 We had a odd man out so I got to give it a try.

This is the same boy who I painted the dream catcher for last year.

This child keeps getting placed under my charge year after year.

I pray for him.

 

 

 

 

 

 This little girl is named Diamond. She is a real sweet heart.

The project only works if a class has enough adults to assist

So today I got to go do a little shopping.

That is where I have been folks .

Have a wonderful pause to give thanks for all the many many kindnesses God affords you day to day.

Wow, Dash does not HAVE to use hearing aides.

My boy has healed a hearing loss.

God has always given me so many reasons to give thanks.