Archives for June 2012

CSA Week 6

This week’s box included carrots, green beans, potatoes, cucumbers, squash, and onions.

I cooked the green beans with bacon…for a really long time.  Kevin seemed to like them but the kids disagreed.  Maybe I will deep fry them next week?

Pretty sure this is an eggplant.  What the heck do I do with eggplant?

We got a huge load of peaches.  The kids were at camp so I needed a way to preserve all this fruit.  Most of the recipes I found for freezing peaches involved copious amounts of sugar.  Ya’ll, I can buy peaches drenched in syrup at the grocery store.  Instead I improvised.  I cut an ‘X’ in the bottom. Dunked them in a boiling water bath for about 45 seconds.  Then submerged them in a bowl of ice water.  The skins came off pretty easy after that process.  Then I sliced them up.  (Caution:  Peaches are as slippery as snot without the skins.  DO NOT use a really sharp knife unless you just enjoy the emergency room.)  I drizzled the slices with lemon juice to keep them from turning brown, scattered them on a cookie sheet and popped them in the freezer.  Two hours later, I dumped them into freezer bags.  The Klines will be enjoying peach smoothies in January.  Yay us!!!

This was our cheese selection for the week.  It’s a spreadable goat cheese/honey mixture.  I have no picture because I ate it too fast.

Finally, Does anyone know what this is?  Is it a squash?  Zucchini?  Squashini?

Bible Thursday – David Part 11

(Blog Note – Bible Thursday is what happens when I can’t get a post written in time for Bible Tuesday.  Just go with it.)

King David decides to move the ark.  Much like those Nazi’s from the Indiana Jones’ movies, Dave is going to figure out that the ark is not an item to be treated lightly.

Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us, a]’> in the days of Saul.” All the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

1 Chronicles 13:3-4

The whole deal seems pretty simple, right? 

Yeah…no.

And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with c]’> and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. And when they came to the threshing floor of I)’> put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and d]’> to this day. And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?” So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside L)’> and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.

2 Samuel 6:5-11

Seems like a kinda harsh judgement for a stumble, doesn’t it?  But there is quite a bit of sin in this innocent sounding story.

And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that M)’> but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die.

Numbers 4:15

The ark was holy.  It’s wasn’t the kind of thing you just throw on a cart and haul around.  Even so, it still seems like maybe the dude deserved a second chance.  That’s the new covenant talking though, isn’t it.  Jesus is so merciful to us that we forget what life without mercy is like.  We want everyone to have a second, third and forty-seventh chance because we need that many ourselves.  But God doesn’t play by our rules. 

Thank You seems insufficient

It’s no secret that Nora Ephron is one of my heroes.  The world is diminished without her.

Quoted – Tozer Edition

“Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?”

AW Tozer

CSA – Week 5

Guess what happens when you go on vacation?

Yep.  You miss your veggies and you have no exciting photos to blog.  I donated my box to my neighbor and she spent a happy evening blanching the harvest for freezer storage.

I did find this link though.  And it looks like I may have enough squash and zucchini to try every dang one of these recipes before the summer is over. 

Be aware that one of these recipes is for zucchini cupcakes.  You heard me.  Cupcakes!