Monday, February 8, 2010

I have one?

Is it Spring yet>?  Tell me again how i am blessed by homeschooling my kids>? Iam sure I will get over this by tommrowSome days are just like that....

Beans view.. looking for spring flowers and May showers..

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Recipes from WIC 5

EGGS + Cheese = Yum!

Made these little treats for saturday breakfast.. Don't tell but I really made them saturday night just warmed them up this morning..

6 slices bacon, chopped or Bacon bits work well too or whatever meat you have on hand.


1 onion, chopped or onion powered to taste

3 eggs ( thank you WIC for our eggs)

Canned biscuts ( I made my own biscut from scratch)

2 cups shredded American cheese ( I just used my sliced from WIC cut into four pieces one pieces per quiche!)
 
Directions


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease muffin pan.

Place one biscut in each muffin cup or a good spoon full of biscut dough into greased muffin cups.

In a large skillet over medium heat, fry bacon and onion together for about 5 minutes, or until bacon is crisp. Drain and set aside. Or if useing bacon bits or some other meat sprinkle over biscut once they are in the pan.

In a medium bowl, beat the eggs. shredded cheese, bacon and onion. Spoon over biscuts.

Bake for 10 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the tops are lightly browned. Allow mini quiches to cool in the pan before carefully removing with a small knife or spatula.
 
Beans View is happy their are leftovers~!

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Recipes from WIC 4

This has to be the most yummy recipes to date! Chex Muddy Buddies or Puppy chow as some call it.. One thing is for sure if you make this it won't last long in your house! It is very kid friendly but easy pleasey lemon sqeezy as my kids say to make! Great after school snack or yummy after dinner treat! Great for Partys or to pack for a long road trip! This recipe is copied from Chex cereal web site.

 9 cups Corn Chex®, Rice Chex®, Wheat Chex® or Chocolate Chex® cereal (or combination)


1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Substitution

Peanut butter and chocolate are a favorite flavor combo, but peanut butter lovers can substitute peanut butter chips for the chocolate chips to intensify that flavor.
 I also add other yummy things like bite-size pretzels and what ever kind odds and ends of cereal I have floating around the house. Great way to use up cereal that may not be the house hold favoite but cover it in peanut butter and chocolate and watch it go!

1. Into large bowl, measure cereal; set aside.

2. In 1-quart microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter uncovered on High 1 minute; stir. Microwave about 30 seconds longer or until mixture can be stirred smooth. Stir in vanilla. Pour mixture over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Pour into 2-gallon resealable food-storage plastic bag.

3. Add powdered sugar. Seal bag; shake until well coated. Spread on waxed paper to cool. Store in airtight container in refrigerator. 

It is much better cold!!! but i would eat this anywhere anytime.. just like Sam likes green eggs and ham! hehehehe


Beans views for today is Muddy Buddies are very yummy!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Recipes from WIC 3

My family is not a big fan of brown rice but we try.. After all we are gettting it free!
We love Chinese take out but it is very costly.
 I thought maybe making fried rice would be a good way of passing the brown rice to them..Sneaky I know..I am a little fearful of homemade Chinese it never comes out just right! But I am trying to learn!

2 eggs


Dash pepper

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 pound ground beef, cooked and drained

2 cups cooked long-grain rice

2 small onions, chopped

3 tablespoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon sugar
 
Directions


In a bowl, beat eggs and pepper. In a skillet, heat oil. Add eggs. Cook until partially set. Lift the edges, letting the uncooked egg flow underneath. When eggs are completely set but still moist, remove from skillet. Cut into strips; return to pan. Add remaining ingredients; mix well. Gently cook and stir for 5 minutes or until heated through.
 
Beans view is dinner and man it smells good!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Recipes from Wic 2!

Came across this gem and boy are they yummy.. A diffrent take on Rice Krispie treats! We have a young lady in our church body from the UK who coin phares about us Americans is all we eat is flippin peanut butter! And its true now that i think about it! But it is SO yummy! Anda good kid friendly portien!
On Wic we recive two jars on peanut butter. It is all natural peanut butter( all oily on the top) I and my Ds don't mind but my Dh and Dd do! So I have been looking for other ways to use up the yummy nutty butter! Came across this great no bake recipes for Peanut butter krispie treats! Enjoy!

Peanut butter Krispies..


1 stick of soft butter or Marg( I do think Butter works better but have not tested it. Only because it hardens better)

2cups of sugar(can use powered )

2 cups of peanut butter

3 to 4 cups of Rice Krispes

Cream butter and sugar togather then add Peanut butter.

Mix in rice krispies last. press into 9x13 pan. Chill in ref before serving..


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Please let me know if you try and of the recipes!
Theres Beans View for today

Friday, January 22, 2010

Recipes from WIC

We just starting getting WIC.. Whats WIC you ask?

WIC provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children - better known as the WIC Program - serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, & children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health care. Here is a link to their site.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/

On WIC you recive monthly food such as the following
Milk
Formala
Beans
Peanut butter
Dry Ceral
Cheese
Tuna
Baby fruits and Veggies
Baby Ceral
And a Ten dollar EBT card to spend on fruits and Veggies only.

After eating dinner at some friends house we were chatting about how my Hubby is not a fan of the natural peanut butter but has a favoite brand Peter Pan Creamy Peanut Butter, 40-Ounce Jars (Pack of 3). But how I was teaching him to eat what God gives us for free. She and her Husband laughed about all the things they did when they were on WIC. She shared one recipes with me for Cheese Straws.. I went home and made then the next day. They were yummy treats! SO I got to thinking about all the things I have made using WIC food. SO the next few post will be recipes from using our WIC food. Now although not all the ingredients are from WIC they all use a item we recive from WIC. Just so you have a ieda of what we have to work with here is what my family my family recives over a one month timeThe first recipe is titled Glovers Wic cheese straws! ( Thanks Glovers!)


18 quarts of 1% milk

1 box of  Rice Chex Cereal, 12.8-Ounce Box (Pack of 6)

1 box of honey bunches of oats

5 cans of Tuna

2 pds of slices American Cheese

1  pds of Sharp Chadder Cheese

2 dozen eggs

1 qt of orange juice

1 can of concentrate apple juice

1 box of UNCLE BEN'S ORIG BROWN RICE

32 jars of Baby Fruits,Veggies and meat

2 boxes of Baby Ceral

2 jars of peanut butter




IngredientsI did not put cayenne pepper in mine but rather sprinkled Garlic Powered on top. They were a big hit at my house..


2 cups self rising flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 sticks butter, at room temperature

2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar, at room temperature

Directions

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Sift the flour, salt and cayenne into a bowl and reserve. With an electric hand mixer cream together the butter and cheese. Add the flour mixture 1/2 cup at a time until the batter is smooth. Scrape the batter into a 1 gallon resealable plastic bag. Cut a corner from the plastic bag and on an ungreased sheet pan, pipe 2 rows each for every straw, about 5 inches long and 2 inches wide.
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to racks to cool.


Beans view wondering what other yummy treats I will dicovered using my Wic blessings..

Sunday, January 10, 2010

A lost Ring

This is a guest post from my good childhood friend Ben. Read and enjoy. If you want to fellow what other great things God is doing in Bens neck of the woods go to his blog thttp://neighborhoodministry.blogspot.com
Beans view for today is Bens....
Friday, January 8, 2010
A lost Ring

Tim Sutherland’s life has come full circle much like the ring that spent 5 years in his pocket. Tim grew up in Northwest Indiana and as a young boy grew very rebellious. His family was very involved in Hobart Assembly of God church. Five generations of Sutherland’s have worshiped and been involved at that church. Tim did not enjoy this life he longed for the “normal” life all his other friends had. They would steal beer from their parents, smoke, and cause juvenile trouble.

Tim’s rebellion lasted much longer than normal teenage angst. He become heavily involved in drugs but he did well living a double life. He would work and by all appearances seemed to be doing well. The problem was his addiction kept growing and he was having to feed this addiction. He was married and had two children. Tim was spending time with a rough crowd including some who were part of the outlaw’s biker gang. One day he was spending a day partying and a group of them were sitting in a living room on a couch. All was normal until a ring fell out of the couch cushions. There was a mad scramble for the ring, Tim eventually ended up with this treasure.

The ring was big, very big. It looked to be a high school ring of some sort. It had a ruby in the center. Tim’s plan was to pawn the ring and use the money to buy drugs. That day passed and he ended up not pawning it. Tim would spend the next five years in teen challenge rehabilitation centers. He would go and get out, relapse and go back. This happened numerous times. This would take him to Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, and Alabama and ever state in between. He lost everything his family, job, car, house and everything else. The only constant material item he had was this ring. He thought many times of selling it but just never did.

Tim had forgotten about this ring when he packed his belongings to leave Muskegon Teen Challenge. He had spent the last couple of years there and it had been a great time of recovering. He was moving back to Indiana to live with his sister and spend Christmas with her family. Tim had two bags of clothes to his name. As he was unpacking at his new apartment in his sisters basement he remembered how he wanted to start wearing a cross that he had gotten from a Native American friend of his. He opened the box that held this cross and he saw this ring that had been with him for all these years and this journey he had been on. Seeing this ring may have reminded him of the time he was in Alabama trying to keep his son from going down the same path he had. He may have thought about the pride that had made him quit teen challenge only to fail and have to go back. That was in the past now. There was optimism this time though; he had left teen challenge on good terms. The staff was satisfied that Tim was ready to go back to the real world.

He picked up the ring and was admiring it when he began looking at it further. It was a high school wrestling championship ring. He put it away again not knowing what he would do with it. As he began preparing for a new life, he had asked different family members to write ten things about him that he needed to change. His father wrote some good things about Tim in pen and then some things that Tim needed to change in pencil. He wrote it in pencil so as God continued to work in Tim’s life he could erase them. On the top of this list: Tim needs to work on his capacity to love other people. As he prayed about how he could love people the ring came to mind. What if I found the person who this ring belongs to? He asked himself. He did some more research on the ring and found some initials on the ring. J.P. He looked at the ring and the year on the ring was 2001. It was from Portage High school. He did a google search and found the names to the wrestlers from that year. There was only one wrestler with the initials of J.P. The high schooler’s name was Justin Powell.

From all the information Tim could find Justin wrestled in the 275 pound weight class and had lost in the state finals. Now to find him, Tim had no idea if Justin still lived in the area. He did some research, asked many people to help and did social media queries. All to no avail no one seemed to know Justin or where he was. Tim was getting discouraged after 3 weeks of searching. Tim felt sure that God was going to use this ring for something great. Tim did not know how God was going to work, he was just certain God would work. One of the thoughts Tim had during this time was the word champion. He did quite a bit of research on the word and one of the meanings of the word champion is some one who goes between, an intermediaries.
Tim thought when I meet Justin I am going to share about the champion in my life: Jesus.

This Monday Tim’s brother in law inquired about the search. Tim was disheartened but his brother in law was not going to give up. He thought maybe some one else on the wrestling team still keeps in touch with him. Tim thought not a bad idea, but not a great idea either for that matter. They searched the web site and found one of the other wrestlers name. Tim did a google search on him and came up with a phone number. Tim was apprehensive at first, not knowing if he should call or not. Then the thought came you have nothing to lose. So Tim called and on the other end was an answering machine. Tim left a detailed message to the effects of “Hello my name is Tim Sutherland, I think you may have wrestled in high school with Justin Powell, I ended up with his ring and am looking to give it back.” That was that another dead end.

On Tuesday morning Tim was on the phone when a strange number tried calling. Tim didn’t think anything of it and ignored it. The person didn’t leave a message. Tim got off the phone and it rang again. Tim answered it and said hello. The other voice said "is this Tim Sutherland?" Tim knowing that many people in his past may be looking for him didn’t know what to say so he meekly mumbled yea. The voice on the other end said "this is Justin Powell, I heard you had my ring." Tim was in shock; this journey that lasted 5 years was coming to an end. Tim asked Justin to meet him at a pizza place that night.

Tim, his sister, Justin and his wife all got together. They met and Tim was excited, he was excited for what God had in store for this situation. Justin and his wife were both in their mid twenties. He was excited to see this ring that reminded him of the good high school days. Things had not been so good for Justin and his family since high school. There had been ups and downs since this wrestler had gotten this ring. There had been time spent in jail, there had been struggles in marriage, and there had been addictions. Tim asked Justin about how he lost the ring. Justin couldn’t remember in full detail but he thought maybe some friends had stolen it. Tim went on to explain his journey, he explained how Jesus had changed his life. Tim didn’t know what the outcome would be. Everyone at the table was crying as they all shared their stories.

Then Tim asked Justin about his spiritual journey. Justin and his wife looked at each other and said we were invited to Hobart Assembly of God and have been going for the past three weeks. This was the church Tim had grown up in. This was the church that had been such a support to the Sutherland family. This story like the ring came full circle. This lost ring represents in many ways the journey Tim was on. This is a God story because there was no possible way that this story could have happened any other way.

Tim is a part of Neighborhood Ministry