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How to Make Sure Your Kids Are Happy Comments Off

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Written by Annie on 26th Dec -09

Attributes of Fools

Fools:

  • Despise wisdom
  • Despise instruction screamingkid
  • Hate knowledge
  • Are destroyed by prosperity
  • Inherit shame
  • Are clamorous
  • Are simple
  • Know nothing
  • Weigh parents down
  • Will fall
  • Are near destruction
  • Lie
  • Hide hatred
  • Utter slanders
  • Listen to gossip
  • Die for lack of wisdom
  • Delight in mischief
  • Are right in their own eyes
  • Make their anger known
  • Proclaim foolishness
  • Bring shame
  • Are destroyed

Raising Up Fools

Let’s translate that list into parenting.

When I ignore my husband, ridicule my pastor, and otherwise demean authority figures and teachers in my life, I am teaching my children to hate wisdom and instruction.
When I panic, yell, argue loudly, speak before I listen, nitpick, and quarrel, I am teaching my children to be clamorous. When I allow them to interrupt, argue, question authority rudely, and make demands, I am teaching them to be clamorous.
When I give my children silly answers to serious questions. I am raising them to be simple-minded.

When I give my children arbitrary rules with no underlying principles, I am raising them to be fools who know nothing.

When I don’t teach them how to communicate with respect, when I make excuses for them, I am turning them into children who will bring shame and weigh us, their parents, down.

When I allow temper tantrums…
When I give explanations for everything…
When I don’t set boundaries…
When I act like a fool…

I am raising fools.

That’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? Hang with me here. It gets better. continue reading…

Recipe: Mileah’s Cheesecake (Best Ever) Comments Off

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Written by Annie on 25th Dec -09

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My sister makes the absolute best cheesecakes in the world. Creamy, sweet but not too sweet, and beautiful. She adds all sorts of good stuff to her cheesecakes (she has a Caramel Apple version and a Reese’s version), but this is the basic recipe. Amazing.

Mileah’s Cheesecake

24 ounces cream cheese
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Topping
1/4 cup sugar
16 ounces sour cream
2 teaspoons vanilla

Graham Cracker Crust
1 to 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons melted butter

Preheat oven to 350.
Make pie crust: Combine graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, and melted butter. Pat into bottom of a springform pan.
Make cheesecake: Combine first four ingredients in mixing bowl and mix until smooth. Pour cream cheese into crust. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, then remove from oven.
Make topping: Mix the 1/4 cug sugar, sour cream, and 2 teaspoons vanilla together until blended. Gently spread the sour cream mixture over the cheesecake after it has baked for 18 to 20 minutes, then return it to the oven for 5 minutes or until cake only slightly jiggles in the center.

Let cool. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Image courtesy of bloggyboulga.

Keep This in Your Freezer (and Save Dinner) Comments Off

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Written by Annie on 24th Dec -09

freeze

It’s 5′o’clock….

Meat in your freezer is great, except when you forget to thaw it out soon enough to cook it for dinner. Great, frozen meatloaf. Mmmm. Kids love that one.

Keep This In Your Freezer

Here are a few items (plus a few ideas on how to use them) to keep in your freezer that will thaw quickly enough (in a morning, left out, or in ten minutes or so in the microwave) that you can still come up with something appetizing, even when you forgot to plan ahead. continue reading…

Holiday Recipe Round-Up: The Traditional Version 3

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Written by Annie on 23rd Dec -09

I want to eat you

So here’s the thing: I love fresh food, new cuisine, ethnic dishes, getting creative, organic and gourmet and simple and healthy and fresh, fresh, fresh.

Except at the holidays. Please do not bother me with your prosciutto-wrapped figs. Please do not wave your organic hummus under my nose. I will hurl on your hummus, and then I will hurl you and your hurled-upon hummus out the window.

The holidays are special. The holidays are all about going home, even if you can’t. Cooking up the food you loved and grew up with is a way of going home. That’s important to me, especially since I lost my Mom.
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My veritable plethora of holiday recipes includes nothing trendy and probably nothing healthy. This is my version of going-home food, and, well, I’m from the South. But you know what I’ve noticed? Comfort food speaks in many accents. I’ve served up dishes of my personal favorites from the deep South genre, and I’ve watched as they were consumed eagerly by folks who wouldn’t know a purple hull from a butter bean.

Christmas is a great time for comfort food.

Appetizers

Main Course

Dessert

Image courtesy of museinthecity.

Recipe: Why-Not-A-Cheeseball 1

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Written by Annie on 23rd Dec -09

It’s the holidays. Go for it. cheeseball

Why-Not-A-Cheeseball

16 ounces cream cheese or neufchatel, room temperature
2 cups finely grated sharp cheddar cheese
8 ounces real bacon bits or cooked bacon, crumbled
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons dry Ranch dressing mix
1 cup finely chopped nuts (pecans are nice)

Comebine all ingredients except nuts. (Use a spoon, a stand mixer, or a hand mixer, whichever you like.) Roll into a ball (one large) or, alternately, into about 24 individual-size balls. Refrigerate until firm. Roll in nuts to coat. (You may need more nuts if you rolled into the individual balls.)
Serve with crackers.

Image courtesy of michaelkmak.

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