This is my friends recipe and is one of the best salads and dressing I have ever had! Thanks Syd for sharing such a great recipe!
SALAD
-Iceberg lettuce
-Red leaf or green leaf lettuce
-Mozzarella cheese
-Sugared pecans
-Sliced Strawberries
-Shredded chicken (optional)
DRESSING
-1 cup strawberries
-1 Tbs. chopped purple onion
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/2 cup rice vinegar
-1/2 tsp dry mustard
-1/2 cup oil
-1 Tbs. poppy seed
Add the first 5 ingredients in the blender. Blend until smooth. Continue blending while slowly adding the oil. Add the poppy seed and pulse a few times to mix. Drizzle, pour or smother salad with dressing!
Friday, July 30, 2010
I thought this poem had a lot to do with what I posted last night. I feel like God answers our prayers always... most of the time it is not in the way we would have wanted, but it is always in the way God feels is best for our progression in life. I have had so many prayers answered in my life, some immediately and most over a period of time, some times even years. But they have all been answered even when the answer was no. It is hard some times to accept the way God does things, but He is ALL knowing and truly is doing things this way so we can learn our lessons and become better people in the process. The key is to actually learn the lesson and not require Him to reteach you later on down the road! I know for me personally I have had to learn the same lessons over and over again and some times it takes learning it multiple times to reach the potential God always intended us to attain! Keep praying, keep believing and keep working towards BEING the soul He KNOWS you already are!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Life... hmmm...
It has been nearly 2 months since my last post and I almost feel like I am starting over! My life got pretty crazy this past May and I feel I have been playing catch up ever since. But the other day I had a ah-ha moment! This past spring I was complaining about NOT having enough time to get everything done... well, God must have heard my complaining and truly wanted to teach me a lesson. Now when I tell you what happened, I do NOT believe this incident happened just for me, but for many others as well including the star of the show.
I got a call just before 6am one morning towards the end of May from my dad. I was barely awake when I answered the phone and soon discovered it was not my dad on the other end of the phone. It was the paramedic who had picked my dad up from his house after he had called 911. Apparently my dad had fallen and had hit his head hard enough to cause a brain hemorrhage. From that moment on until now, life has been a whirlwind of the ER, intensive care, rehab therapy and once released being there to assist my dad wherever needed.
Now back to my ah-ha moment... I realized that although at first I had NO extra time to do ANYTHING for my family or myself I have slowly worked the chaos into my schedule and I now KNOW I had a large amount of time to do all the things I "needed" and wanted to do, I just chose to fill it with things that were not as important as I thought they were. Heavenly Father has his ways of showing you how much abundance you DO have in your life. Some times these lessons do not come in the way you would prefer, but they are lessons nonetheless and I feel I will be a far more organized person in my time from here on out.
I am striving to have a complain free life... NOT because I don't want the lessons... well maybe that's part of it! But more because life feels so much more satisfying when there is less complaining and more compassion, organization and service to others.
My dad is doing much better and each day I am with him I see more and more improvement. I pray every day he will continue to progress in his healing and return to his normal self. Life is so short and it goes by so quickly. It only takes a moment to stop rushing around and enjoy the small things, even if it is taking your dad for a drive around town because he is going stir crazy... or getting on the ground with your baby and crawling around with him... or jumping on the trampoline with your pre-teens and realizing how much work jumping takes these days! Enjoy life!
I got a call just before 6am one morning towards the end of May from my dad. I was barely awake when I answered the phone and soon discovered it was not my dad on the other end of the phone. It was the paramedic who had picked my dad up from his house after he had called 911. Apparently my dad had fallen and had hit his head hard enough to cause a brain hemorrhage. From that moment on until now, life has been a whirlwind of the ER, intensive care, rehab therapy and once released being there to assist my dad wherever needed.
Now back to my ah-ha moment... I realized that although at first I had NO extra time to do ANYTHING for my family or myself I have slowly worked the chaos into my schedule and I now KNOW I had a large amount of time to do all the things I "needed" and wanted to do, I just chose to fill it with things that were not as important as I thought they were. Heavenly Father has his ways of showing you how much abundance you DO have in your life. Some times these lessons do not come in the way you would prefer, but they are lessons nonetheless and I feel I will be a far more organized person in my time from here on out.
I am striving to have a complain free life... NOT because I don't want the lessons... well maybe that's part of it! But more because life feels so much more satisfying when there is less complaining and more compassion, organization and service to others.
My dad is doing much better and each day I am with him I see more and more improvement. I pray every day he will continue to progress in his healing and return to his normal self. Life is so short and it goes by so quickly. It only takes a moment to stop rushing around and enjoy the small things, even if it is taking your dad for a drive around town because he is going stir crazy... or getting on the ground with your baby and crawling around with him... or jumping on the trampoline with your pre-teens and realizing how much work jumping takes these days! Enjoy life!
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