November 2015 Menu

Happy November!!!

Here is our Menu for the month of November. What a fun month, in so many ways!  I know that planning out my menu really makes a difference in how efficient I am in the kitchen.  Sometimes I love to cook, other times I'm just getting it done as fast as possible because there are other things that are calling.  

Regardless, having dinner together is one of the top priorities in our family.  Not only have numerous studies shown the long lasting benefits of dinner together, we have also been encouraged by church leaders to make this a priority as well.

How much of a priority is it in my life????  Absolutely huge.  When my children want to try out new sports, hobbies and music instruments, if the answer is "NO" to our being able to have dinner together, than my answer is "NO" to the activity.  There are plenty of other ways to get those extracurricular activities into our lives, but there is no other way to be able to eat together without physically being there.

Happy Adventuring!

~dEb

Drying Parsley

My parsley plant that I planted this spring grew huge over the summer!

At the same time my bottle of dried parsley just had a few sad flakes at the bottom.  Looking it up online, there were several good posts about drying parsley.  

I was excited to try something new!!!!  I have never dried herbs before.  Just bananas.  

The instructions they had in common were:

• Put your dehydrator on a low setting
• Put the parsley in a single layer on the drying rack
• Dry until crisp and easy to crumble

I have a cheap dehydrator that I got from Aldi.  It took it about 4 hours to dry a full contingent of parsley.

I love how pretty it looks when dry as well!

Batch 1

Batch 2

Batch 3

Just two more batches to go until my bottle is full.  My favorite ways to use dried parsley are in the topping I make for garlic bread and in homemade chicken noodle soup.

What are yours?

Have an adventurous day!

dEb

Abraham 3:25

For my ponderizing scripture for this week, I have chosen Abraham 3:25.  I hope that you enjoy the meme that I made to go with it!

And we will ^aprove them herewith, to see if they will^bdo all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them

Ponderize!

I was so inspired by General Conference!  I have taken the challenge to ponderize a verse each week.  This week my verse is 2 Nephi 2:11.

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

I couldn't find any cute meme's out there on the web that I could actually print.  I did find one, but it got me nowhere, so I came up with one of my own that I want to share with you!

The image is taken from the image website at lds.org.

I would love to hear what verse you are ponderizing this week!