by Melinda | Dec 27, 2015 | Get Real, Health, Let's Eat, Listen and Learn, Self Help, The Great Uncomfortable
One of the side dishes I served for Christmas dinner was Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Reduction and Cranberries. They were delicious, and this is coming from the girl who hated them so much, growing up, that she faced down her father at dinner and was...
by Melinda | Dec 6, 2014 | Christmas, Let's Eat, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, Living the God Life, Truth
I love bread. I wish I didn’t, sometimes, especially when I’m trying to stick to a healthy diet where too many carbs are not really my friend, but alas I still enjoy a slice from a nice bakery loaf now and then. There’s nothing quite like a...
by Melinda | May 22, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, Hope, Let's Eat, Life Abundant, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
Are you familiar with the morel mushroom? We weren’t until we moved to Iowa, back in ’98. We built a house on some heavily treed property, that sloped down to a creek. About this time of year, right after we’d moved in, we noticed some people...
by Melinda | Sep 19, 2013 | Home on the Range, In the Eye of the Beholder, Let's Eat, Marriage, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
It was an interesting afternoon. What started out as a pretty normal Wednesday, turned out differently altogether. I headed into the pregnancy center, like I do every Wednesday, and when the clinic turned out to be quiet, I helped out with sorting donations and...
by Melinda | Apr 21, 2013 | All in the Family, God Stories, Healing Hearts, Home on the Range, Let's Eat, Living the God Life, Marriage, My Man, Relationship, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Working Out Faith
My husband loves coconut cake. We had an amazing taste of one recently, and were given the promise of the recipe. But, yesterday, I decided that he needed to have that cake sooner than later, so I started looking up recipes on my own. There was a veritable host...
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by Melinda | Jan 1, 2009 | Let's Eat
Here’s my absolute favorite cheesecake recipe…deeelish!1 1/2 C flour1/2 C sugar1/2 C butter1/2 C finely chopped almonds or macadamia nuts4 (1 oz.) squares white baking chocolate, grated1 egg, beatenCombine flour and sugar; cut in margarine until mixture...
