Husband's Delight

This past week I made "Husband's Delight" a meal that I made often when Darryl and I were first married, that is once I learned to venture out beyond the box. Since I have not made in a long time, I thought it would be good to make again. Guess what? It is still good and the dish was empty at the end of dinner. I looked for it online so I could put on my Pinterest Board “Recipes I’ve Tried and Liked”, but all the ones I found were different than the one that was given to me, thus this blog. I wished I could remember who gave it to me, or where I found it, but that little piece of information has completely escaped me.

Husband’s Delight

1 pound of ground turkey

2 cans of tomato sauce

1 ½ tsp. Salt

1 ½ tsp. Pepper

1 ½ tsp. Garlic Salt

1 medium onion chopped

1 container of Weight Watchers Whipped Cream Cheese, softened

1 8-ounce carton of fat free sour cream

1 8-oounce package of elbow or penne noodles

Grated Cheese

Cook noodles according to directions on package. Brown meat in skillet. Add tomato sauce and seasonings to the meat and continued to heat on medium. In a separate bowl combine chopped onion, cream cheese, and sour cream and mix well. In a baking dish layer cooked noodles, ground turkey mixture and top with sour cream mixture top with grated cheese and bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

Serve with salad and French bread.

It kind of looks gross, but it is creamy yumminess = comfort food!

We had a salad and French bread with the Husband’s Delight, but since we received some monstrous sized home grown tomatoes from family in Shawnee, I decided to try another Pinterest receipe as a side dish. It is called Cheesy Tomatoes that was pinned by my friend Heather Dorsey and they were yummy too!

Proverbs 5:18 says: "Let your fountain be blessed,
         And rejoice in the wife of your youth."

for she makes Husband's Delight and Cheesy Tomatoes.

So the Bible doesn't say the last part about Husband's Delight and Cheesy Tomatoes, but it does instruct men to delight in their own wife, and let him be very fond of her, not only because she is the wife that he himself has chosen and he ought to be pleased with his own choice, but because she is the wife that God in His providence appointed for him and he ought much more to be pleased with the divine appointment, pleased with her because she is his own. Let thy fountain be blessed and delight in the food she prepares for him. <Smile>

Lazy Dione? Not today! Lazy Susan? Yes!

I’m on Pinterest. Pinterest to a woman is like a honey to do list for men, in that there are so many things that don’t get done. I have so many items pinned. Creations I want to mimic, new recipes to try, outfits to recreate, haircuts to dream of, places to visit, my to do list grows and grows. I have however done many recipes that I created another board titled "Recipes that I have Tried and Liked". Partly because I need organization in my life, but mostly because I am getting older and I forget that I pinned it and then I pin it again.

Friday, Darryl and I hit a few garage sales and I found this really useful Lazy Susan. I wonder how in the world they named this handy little rotating tray a Lazy Susan? Do you know?

The problem is there was a letter L etched into the wood. We don't have any L's in our household. I suppose I could say it stood for Lazy, but after being indoctrinated into all the creativity that Pinterest affords I decided to put some of that knowledge to use. I have seen all kinds of really cool items refurbished with fabric, scrapbook paper, and other items, so why not our Lazy Susan? So off to Hobby Lobby I went!

I bought some scrapbooking paper, four sheets total for a whopping $1.18.

I then decided I wanted the crosses for the background and the words for the cross. I used a cross off my wall and laid it on top of the Lazy Susan and it fit, so I traced the design on the paper.  The cross was bigger than the 12 x 12 scrapbook paper, so I had to overlap it on another one. Next, I cut the cross out and set it aside.

Since the scrapbook paper would not fit over the Lazy Susan and I only had two pieces of paper I had to cut the paper in quarters. Most people would have probably used a compass or some other mathematical way to determine how to cut the paper, but I am one of those people who think the world would be fine without numbers. I elected to turn the Lazy Susan over and put the corner of the paper in the center of the Lazy Susan and marked a couple of pencil marks on the paper, then I put the Lazy Susan on top of the paper, lining up the marks and then traced the outline. Then I cut it out and used that pattern to cut three more.

Then I laid it out all to see if it fit and how it looked. It fit, but the two colors did not contrast at all and I thought the outline of the cross was getting lost in all the crosses. So I took my trust black Sharpie pen and outlined the cross. Laid it out all all again and I liked it much better. Then I took the Mod Podge and put it on the back of the paper and then put them on the top of the Lazy Susan until the entire Lazy Susan was covered with the cross scrapbook paper and let it dry. Then I put the cross I cut out with the words on it and mod podge it on top, let it dry and then added a second coat and wa-la...our new Lazy Susan that will sit on our new custom made stone table.

Now when you need something on the other side of the table, just give it a whirl. So for $3.18, we have a new Lazy Susan. I also seen on Pinterest that some people put the Lazy Susan in their fridge with all their condiments on it and they can just turn it and get what they need, but this one is too pretty to put in the fridge, so it will sit on the table for now.

Going for the Gold...It's Serious Business

I don’t know if you have been watching the Olympics, but we have been trying to catch some of it here and there. Not only are we watching the Olympics, but we are having our own Olympic Games XBOX 360 Kinect Style. You should see the world-class athletes in action on my living room floor; the athletic abilities are flying off the couches!

It's true the Lord gifts all of us in different ways, and after careful consideration of our God-given talents, I do think that there are several areas where our family could possibly compete on an Olympic level:

1. Darryl – the amount of loaded grocery bags he can carry from the car to the kitchen table in one swoop – Gold Medalist!
2. Darya – mispronouncing American words and names.  It all began when we were singing at church “He is risen!” and she was shouting at the top of her lungs, “He is freezing!” In her world  KFC is known as Kifs and most recently she thought a lady on the Olympic’s name was Camel, not Camille.
3.  Jayden – eating pizza playing Halo Reach and impersonations, there are Jayden’s Gold, Silver and Bronze.
4. Bryleigh – Counting her rice grains up to ten.
5. Maddex – Olympic napping!
6. Me - Googling on YouTube, I know it is a rare talent, but I have it!

Future Rice Counting Gold Medalist

In training for Olympic Napping

A disclaimer: we have not consulted with any professionals (yet), but we are certainly willing to consider additional training under the supervision of a serious coach and/or mentor. The Harjo’s are going for the GOLD! What would you receive your Gold Medal in?