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We are trying to eat more veggies so I, of course, am looking for some good ways to prepare them. Here is a new one we tried (and liked) this week
Quick Zesty Green Beans
1 pound fress green beans, stem ends removed
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon cajun seasoning
1/3 cup pecan pieces
Salt to taste
Bring a large or of water to a boil. Add green beans, return to boil and cook 1 minute; the beans should still be crisp. Drain the beans; don't rinse. In a large skillet or wok, add oil. Heat until very hot. Add beans and cook about 1 minute, turning often with tongs or spatula. Sprinkle on pecans and cajun seasoning. Turn the beans to coat with oil and spices; cook about 2 minutes more, or until beans and nuts are slightly browned. Salt to taste and serve.
I am always looking for more, so please share any you like!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Rich Family Heritage
At Bedstemor's funeral on October 18, 2008 we met Claire Field who shared the following with us
:
:Carlo Leth was living in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1945 as German refugees were placed in camps that had been occupied by German soldiers during World War II. Being an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he obtained permission to find LDS people in the camps-of-war to invite them to church services.
In 1945 Oma Kate Sprie (age 66) and her granddaughter, Leonore Kohler (age 12) were forced out of their home in Konigsberg, Germany, as the Russians moved in, bombed the city, and took over. Carlo found them and offered his assistance. He paid their trolley fare for them to travel from the camp to the church each Sunday for nineteen months.
At church the first Sunday, Carlo’s wife Melitta, who was German, was asked to look after Kate and Leonore. She invited them to lunch after the Sunday School meeting. They accepted. They became good friends. She fed them every Sunday for the next nineteen months.
Esther was Carlo’s daughter by his first wife, who had died. Esther helped too by giving Leonore some clothes to wear. Esther said, “We had nothing, no food, no clothes. The people in the camps had even less.”
Leonore filled out many Red Cross Cards to find her mother, Ella Sprie Srocka in Leipzig, and Kate’s other two daughters Leonore Sprie Field and Katie Sprie Paetz in New York. Leonore and Sam Field sold their car and sent the money to Melitta to pay the passage for Kate and young Leonore to immigrate to America.
In August 1946 Esther came to America to visit her sister, Marion, in Antonito, Colorado. Esther stayed with Sam and Leonore Field in New York for three weeks. While there she met and dated the Field’s next-door-neighbor Larry Johnson. After showing Esther New York for ten days, Larry proposed marriage to Esther. “No. That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. We don t know each other. We don’t even speak the same language”, was Esther’s reply. Larry spoke English and Swedish. Esther spoke Danish. Esther left New York for Colorado and stayed with her sister for three months as she thought about it.
In November 1946 the papers were ready for Kate and young Leonore to go to America, but the money (from Leonore and Sam Field) had not yet arrived. They could not stay at the camp any longer. Melitta allowed them to stay with her in her one-bedroom apartment for six weeks. They slept in Melitta’s bed. Melitta slept on the sofa. Her husband, Carlo, was on a mission in another city of Denmark at the time.
On December 16, 1946 Oma Kate Sprie and Leonore Kohler arrived in New York by boat from Copenhagen, Denmark. Oma went to her daughter Leonore Field’s home.
Fourteen year old Leonore went to Katie Paetz’ home. Oma was very ill and was put into a Catholic hospital.
Esther returned from Colorado on December 31st and stayed with Sam and Leonore Field until she married Larry Johnson on January 16, 1947. Oma Kate Sprie died on February 9, 1947, fifty-five days after arriving in Zion. She had declared in 1937 she would return to Zion to die.
All this was learned by Claire Field, wife of Bob Field, son of Leonore Field, in December 2000. Young Lee (Leonore) Kohler, now Tish, remembered in a telephone conversation to Claire that there was a family who helped them during their stay in the camp of war. She couldn’t remember their names but remembered they had a daughter named Esther. Upon hanging up the phone, Claire inquired information of Bob, found Esther Johnson’s Christmas cards she has sent Leonore Field through the years, and phoned Esther in American Fork, Utah, just twenty minutes from where Claire lives in Provo, Utah. YES! Esther, now 80, was the Esther from Copenhagen, Denmark. AND Melitta is still alive at 95 living in Salt Lake City.
Claire interviewed both of them, recorded their memories, and has transcribed them. How does one ever repay the gift of life and love, caring and sharing these two women extended to two other women in need?
In 1945 Oma Kate Sprie (age 66) and her granddaughter, Leonore Kohler (age 12) were forced out of their home in Konigsberg, Germany, as the Russians moved in, bombed the city, and took over. Carlo found them and offered his assistance. He paid their trolley fare for them to travel from the camp to the church each Sunday for nineteen months.
At church the first Sunday, Carlo’s wife Melitta, who was German, was asked to look after Kate and Leonore. She invited them to lunch after the Sunday School meeting. They accepted. They became good friends. She fed them every Sunday for the next nineteen months.
Esther was Carlo’s daughter by his first wife, who had died. Esther helped too by giving Leonore some clothes to wear. Esther said, “We had nothing, no food, no clothes. The people in the camps had even less.”
Leonore filled out many Red Cross Cards to find her mother, Ella Sprie Srocka in Leipzig, and Kate’s other two daughters Leonore Sprie Field and Katie Sprie Paetz in New York. Leonore and Sam Field sold their car and sent the money to Melitta to pay the passage for Kate and young Leonore to immigrate to America.
In August 1946 Esther came to America to visit her sister, Marion, in Antonito, Colorado. Esther stayed with Sam and Leonore Field in New York for three weeks. While there she met and dated the Field’s next-door-neighbor Larry Johnson. After showing Esther New York for ten days, Larry proposed marriage to Esther. “No. That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. We don t know each other. We don’t even speak the same language”, was Esther’s reply. Larry spoke English and Swedish. Esther spoke Danish. Esther left New York for Colorado and stayed with her sister for three months as she thought about it.
In November 1946 the papers were ready for Kate and young Leonore to go to America, but the money (from Leonore and Sam Field) had not yet arrived. They could not stay at the camp any longer. Melitta allowed them to stay with her in her one-bedroom apartment for six weeks. They slept in Melitta’s bed. Melitta slept on the sofa. Her husband, Carlo, was on a mission in another city of Denmark at the time.
On December 16, 1946 Oma Kate Sprie and Leonore Kohler arrived in New York by boat from Copenhagen, Denmark. Oma went to her daughter Leonore Field’s home.
Fourteen year old Leonore went to Katie Paetz’ home. Oma was very ill and was put into a Catholic hospital.
Esther returned from Colorado on December 31st and stayed with Sam and Leonore Field until she married Larry Johnson on January 16, 1947. Oma Kate Sprie died on February 9, 1947, fifty-five days after arriving in Zion. She had declared in 1937 she would return to Zion to die.
All this was learned by Claire Field, wife of Bob Field, son of Leonore Field, in December 2000. Young Lee (Leonore) Kohler, now Tish, remembered in a telephone conversation to Claire that there was a family who helped them during their stay in the camp of war. She couldn’t remember their names but remembered they had a daughter named Esther. Upon hanging up the phone, Claire inquired information of Bob, found Esther Johnson’s Christmas cards she has sent Leonore Field through the years, and phoned Esther in American Fork, Utah, just twenty minutes from where Claire lives in Provo, Utah. YES! Esther, now 80, was the Esther from Copenhagen, Denmark. AND Melitta is still alive at 95 living in Salt Lake City.
Claire interviewed both of them, recorded their memories, and has transcribed them. How does one ever repay the gift of life and love, caring and sharing these two women extended to two other women in need?
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD DRIVE
I don't have a lot of time today to elaborate on this, but you might find it interesting.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Who is she to speak for me?
Ahsley Judd has joined the ranks of well-known women who purport to speak for me. I am sick and tired of the notion that "women's rights" is all about the right to kill our own babies. Here is a link to the video that set me off this morning.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Biden: Wealthy Americans Must Pay More Taxes to Show Patriotism
This is a quote from a story on FoxNews.com:
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that paying higher taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans.
Biden says he and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama want to “take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people.”
Under the Democrats’ economic plan, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes while those earning less — the vast majority of American taxpayers — would receive a tax cut.
Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that, in his words, “it’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
I loved some of the comments posted by readers:
I don’t know what Country Biden thinks he is in, but here in America patriotism is EVERYONE doing an honest days work for honest pay.
This article should read: “Obama to put a cap on American Dream at $250K”. I don’t even make close to $250K a year, but I don’t want it to be a negative to achieve prosperity in the U.S.
You have to be kidding me. You want to punish those who work hard and extra hours? What a joke!! I don’t make near $250K a year, but I don’t want to punish those who do.
What Obama and Biden want to do is turn our economy from Capitalistic into a socialistic state with redistribution of wealth.
Oh?…time to stomp on capitalism, time to become socialist, time to lose every liberty our forefathers fought for…….
Biden has finally admitted what we have known all along - Obama wants us to become socialists.
Enough said!
Can you tell I've been cooking this week?
We are trying to wait until the weekend to eat out, so I have been cooking a lot this week. Trying to cook with minimal sugar and low cholesterol foods has been a new adventure for me. I like to cook and I like to eat yummy food, so the trick has been finding food we love that fits into our new diet restrictions. Below is a recipe for zucchini bread made with whole wheat flour and no white sugar. Believe it or not it is awesome.
Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread
INGREDIENTS
2 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons canola oil
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cup whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/3 cups grated zucchini
1/3 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 8x4 inch loaf pan and set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, honey, brown sugar, oil and vanilla. Combine the whole wheat flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into the wet ingredients until moistened. Gently stir in the zucchini and walnuts until evenly distributed. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the crown comes out clean. Cool in the pan until cool enough to touch, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap or store in a plastic bag when cool.
Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread
INGREDIENTS
2 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons canola oil
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cup whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/3 cups grated zucchini
1/3 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 8x4 inch loaf pan and set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, honey, brown sugar, oil and vanilla. Combine the whole wheat flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into the wet ingredients until moistened. Gently stir in the zucchini and walnuts until evenly distributed. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the crown comes out clean. Cool in the pan until cool enough to touch, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap or store in a plastic bag when cool.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Cafe Rio Chicken Burrito Recipe
I found this copy-cat recipe online and it seems to be a hit.
Cafe Rio Dressing, Chicken and Rice
Café Rio Dressing
1 buttermilk ranch dressing packet (make as per recipe)
2 tomatillos (tomato like vegetable with a husk around them)
½ bunch of cilantro
1 clove garlic
Juice of 1 lime
1 jalapeño (Use the seeds too if you like it spicy. You could substitute a few drops of green tobasco for the jalapeno.)
Use a food processor to blend all the ingredients well. Refrigerate.
Cafe Rio Chicken
1 small bottle Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing
1 T chili powder
1 T cumin
3 cloves garlic—minced
5 lbs chicken breast
Cook all together in a crock pot for 4 hours, shred meat and cook 1 additional hour
Café Rio Rice
4 c water
4 t chicken bouillon
4 t garlic –minced
½ bunch cilantro1 can green chiles—or equivalent fresh
¾ t salt
1 T butter
½ onion
4 c rice
Blend cilantro, green chiles and onion together in food processor. Bring water to a boil and add all ingredients, simmer covered 30 minutes.
Serve burrito style in flour tortillas with black or pinto beans and shredded cheese.
NOTE: For the rice I substituted olive oil for the butter, and I used brown rice which increased the cooking time to approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes. Also, this recipe is HUGE, you will definately want to adjust quanties unless you are having a party!
Cafe Rio Dressing, Chicken and Rice
Café Rio Dressing
1 buttermilk ranch dressing packet (make as per recipe)
2 tomatillos (tomato like vegetable with a husk around them)
½ bunch of cilantro
1 clove garlic
Juice of 1 lime
1 jalapeño (Use the seeds too if you like it spicy. You could substitute a few drops of green tobasco for the jalapeno.)
Use a food processor to blend all the ingredients well. Refrigerate.
Cafe Rio Chicken
1 small bottle Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing
1 T chili powder
1 T cumin
3 cloves garlic—minced
5 lbs chicken breast
Cook all together in a crock pot for 4 hours, shred meat and cook 1 additional hour
Café Rio Rice
4 c water
4 t chicken bouillon
4 t garlic –minced
½ bunch cilantro1 can green chiles—or equivalent fresh
¾ t salt
1 T butter
½ onion
4 c rice
Blend cilantro, green chiles and onion together in food processor. Bring water to a boil and add all ingredients, simmer covered 30 minutes.
Serve burrito style in flour tortillas with black or pinto beans and shredded cheese.
NOTE: For the rice I substituted olive oil for the butter, and I used brown rice which increased the cooking time to approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes. Also, this recipe is HUGE, you will definately want to adjust quanties unless you are having a party!
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