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happiest little boy in the world. Just looking at his pictures makes me smile. Happy Birthday Bradyn.
happiest little boy in the world. Just looking at his pictures makes me smile. Happy Birthday Bradyn.Random thoughts and pictures
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CELIA'S SANTA FE SOUP
1 LB. GROUND BEEF
1 CAN BLACK BEANS – DO NOT DRAIN
1 CAN WHITE BEANS
1 CAN ROTEL TOMATOES
1 CAN SHOE PEG CORN (Regular white corn works too)
2 CANS WATER
1 PACKAGE RANCH BUTTERMILK DRESSING MIX
1 PACKAGE TACO MIX
Brown the Ground beef and pour everything else into the pot with the meat. Heat. How easy can you get?
I'm getting a little more daring. This just plain sounded interesting so I tried it out on my family. Its a salsa type dip and is delicious. Serve it with corn chips that won't break easily.
WARNING: Wear latex gloves when preparing the jalapenos! My hands burned 24 hours after handling them. If you don't take the stems and seeds out this will be too hot to eat.
Classic Texas Caviar
2 (15.8 ounce) cans black-eyed peas, drained
1 (14.5 ounce) can petite diced tomatoes, drained
2 fresh medium jalapenos, stemmed, seeded and minced
1 small onion, cut into small dice
1/2 yellow bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut into small dice
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
6 tablespoons red wine vinegar
6 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
DIRECTIONS
Mix all ingredients in a medium bowl; cover and refrigerate 2 hours or up to 2 days. Before serving, adjust seasonings to taste, adding extra vinegar, salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl.
1 LB. GROUND BEEF
1 CAN BLACK BEANS – DO NOT DRAIN
1 CAN WHITE BEANS
1 CAN ROTEL TOMATOES
1 CAN SHOE PEG CORN (Regular white corn works too)
2 CANS WATER
1 PACKAGE RANCH BUTTERMILK DRESSING MIX
1 PACKAGE TACO MIX
Brown the Ground beef and pour everything else into the pot with the meat. Heat. How easy can you get?
I'm getting a little more daring. This just plain sounded interesting so I tried it out on my family. Its a salsa type dip and is delicious. Serve it with corn chips that won't break easily.
WARNING: Wear latex gloves when preparing the jalapenos! My hands burned 24 hours after handling them. If you don't take the stems and seeds out this will be too hot to eat.
Classic Texas Caviar
2 (15.8 ounce) cans black-eyed peas, drained
1 (14.5 ounce) can petite diced tomatoes, drained
2 fresh medium jalapenos, stemmed, seeded and minced
1 small onion, cut into small dice
1/2 yellow bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut into small dice
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
6 tablespoons red wine vinegar
6 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
DIRECTIONS
Mix all ingredients in a medium bowl; cover and refrigerate 2 hours or up to 2 days. Before serving, adjust seasonings to taste, adding extra vinegar, salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl.
FAVORITE QUOTES
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. — Carl Jung
"I didn't think I could get here from there. I couldn't but We could." Katy
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe.
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. II Timothy 1:7
"Man is not angry and resentful over what's been done to him but over what he has failed to do." Unknown
"We often choose to disqualify any statement that depends on extenuation because we so believe in the rightness of our judgement we invalidate evidence that does not confirm it. Nothing that can be called truth can ever be arrived at by such means." Paraphrase of Marilynne Robinson
"When we choose independence over relationship we become a danger to each other." Unknown
"We don't see other people as they are. We see them as we are." Robert A.
"I didn't think I could get here from there. I couldn't but We could." Katy
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe.
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. II Timothy 1:7
"Man is not angry and resentful over what's been done to him but over what he has failed to do." Unknown
"We often choose to disqualify any statement that depends on extenuation because we so believe in the rightness of our judgement we invalidate evidence that does not confirm it. Nothing that can be called truth can ever be arrived at by such means." Paraphrase of Marilynne Robinson
"When we choose independence over relationship we become a danger to each other." Unknown
"We don't see other people as they are. We see them as we are." Robert A.
AUTHORS I REALLY ENJOY (mostly mystery writers)
- Faye Kellerman
- Jonathan Kellerman
- John Grisham
- Sara Paretsky
- Janet Evanovich
- Lawrence Black
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Michael Connely
- Ian Rankin
- Tony Hillerman
- Jeffrey Deaver
- Robert Crais
- Lee Child
- James Lee Burke
100 THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE (Some of the 100 are done and not on the list)
- Ask women across America "What's in your purse?"
- Bathe in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland
- Drive across the US, coast to coast on non-interstate roads
- Eliminate profanity from my conversation
- Enable someone to accomplish a goal from their own list
- Feel an earthquake (from a safe distance)
- Get a tattoo
- Invest in a stock that multiplies my money by 10
- Learn conversational Spanish
- Learn to whistle through my teeth
- Place a wager on a horse
- Read 100 works of classic literature (NY Times List - 79 to go)
- Ride a cable car in San Francisco
- Ride a Harley Davidson alone
- Ride on the Orient Express
- Sail around South America via Cape Horn
- See a polar bear in his natural habitat
- See an ice berg calving
- See everything mentioned in "America the Beautiful" (I have 3 things left)
- See myself reflected in my grandchildren's eyes
- See the eagles in Alaska
- See the green flash
- See the Northern Lights
- See the southern cross
- Set foot on each of the 7 continents (I have 4 left)
- Spend Christmas in New York with my family
- Stand on the artic circle
- Stay in a mountain cabin alone for 5 days
- Take a hot air baloon ride
- Visit all the states (There are 19 I haven't visited)
- Visit an active volcano
- Visit area 51
- Visit Australia
- Visit Easter Island
- Visit New Zeland
- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- Watch a meteor shower in the desert
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