Friday, April 15, 2011

Picture Perfect Holiday


Bunny Cookie Cupcakes





Show-Stopping Desserts for Easter  1 of 15
Celebrate the holiday with festive Easter desserts such as bunny cookies, easter egg cookies, strawberry cake, and colorful fruit tarts.
 
 
 




A Perfect Passover

This collection of savory side dishes and desserts rounds out a Passover table–or any meal–in fine style.





Bon Appetit Top 12 Easter Menus

Easy-to-make feasts that celebrate the holiday with the freshest spring flavors



Lightning In A Bottle



Raise a Texas toast.
Gridiron drama Friday Nights Lights
kicks off its fifth and final season tonight at 8 p.m. EDT on NBC.

   

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Easter Eggs: The Lost Get Found




You can get very creative colouring your easter eggs – and it is fun to involve your children in the process as well. Some techniques are more complicated than others – but there really are very simple and easy ways to create a nice selection of colourful eggs....



While simple dyed Easter eggs are darling, these creative ideas take the signature Easter decoration to a new level (and they're all easy to make!....


Croatian Easter eggs, called pisanice (meaning "to write") are often decorated with a white star in southern Croatia and with flowers, pines and various geometric shapes in other parts of the country. The eggs were traditionally colored with natural dyes from vegetables like onions and beets....


 



Never look at what you have lost, look at what you have left. 
Robert Harold Schuller

Faith is putting all  your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch."
Romona C. Carroll



The Lost Get Found

by Britt Nicole

Hello my friend
I remember when you were
So alive with your wide eyes
Then the light that you had in your heart was stolen
Now you say that it ain't worth stayin'
You wanna run but you're hesitatin'
I'm talkin' to me

Don't let your lights go down
Don't let your fire burn out
'Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
Why don't you rise up now?
Don't be afraid to stand out
That's how the lost get found
The lost get found

So when you get the chance
Are you gonna take it?
There's a really big world at your fingertips
And you know you have the chance to change it
There's a girl on the streets, she's cryin'
There's a man whose faith is dyin'
Love is calling you

Don't let your lights go down
Don't let your fire burn out
'Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
Why don't you rise up now?
Don't be afraid to stand out
That's how the lost get found
The lost get found

Why do we go with the flow
Or take an easier road?
Why are we playin' it safe?
Love came to show us the way
Love is a chance we should take
I'm movin' out of the way

Don't let your lights go down
Don't let your fire burn out
'Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
(Stand out)
Don't let your lights go down
Don't let your fire burn out
(Stand out)
'Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
Why don't you rise up now?
Don't be afraid to stand out
That's how the lost get found
The lost get found

So when you get the chance
Are you gonna take it?
There's a really big world at your fingertips
And you know you have the chance to change it...


Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Springtime Salads & Table Settings

Photo: Helen Norman, Styling: Matthew Mead , 



Bring the fresh look of springtime to your table with these decorative inspirations...




Photo by Annabelle Breaky, Sunset Magazine




Fresh ideas for light and easy weeknight dinners...





P. Allen Smith: Dill Potato Salad Recipe


Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Love To Eat: No Worries



Emotional Eating: The Trick to Staying Slim

Your idea of a good time after a bad day is a scoop of dulce de leche ice cream piled high atop a fudge brownie. You’re digging in because each creamy mouthful makes you feel inexplicably happy. Is that really so bad? ...







Why We Snack Our Way Happy

"We’re hardwired to eat for emotional reasons," Dr. May says. "From the moment you’re born and your mother holds you close to feed you, there’s an emotional connection between being fed and being loved. That’s why it’s counterproductive to say to people, ‘Just don’t ..."



WORDS TO WARM THE HEART

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.
Coincidence? I think not!
~Author Unknown

Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.
~Author Unknown

A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.
~Author Unknown

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.
~Author Unknown
 
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
~Author Unknown

 

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
~Author Unknown

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. 
- H. S. Yoder


Sunday, April 10, 2011

SUPERCHICK: This Is My Brand New Day





The stone at the tomb of Jesus
was a pebble to the
ROCK of Ages inside.
Frederick Beck


Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. 
Martin Luther


SUPERCHICKS

PURE

This is my brand new day starting now
I let go the things that weigh me down
And rob me of the beauty
That's to be found in life all around

And this is my prayer without ceasing
The negative releasing
And as I rise above my burden is easing

I bring the pure flow like water around
The rocks of life won't pull me down
I bring the pure flow drink so deep
The river of life my soul at ease
I bring the pure flow of water around
The rocks of life won't pull me down
I bring the pure flow rising above
The storms of life to live and love

This is my brand new day in the light
Troubles rising up on the left and the right
I keep my eyes fixed on where I want to go
The rest will follow

This is my brand new day starting now
Letting go of the ways that I fall down
The old can be made new the lost can be found
The lost will be found

My soul is at ease and I am free
My soul is at ease and I am free
This is my day
My soul is at ease and I am free
I am free




DIGGING DEEPER

These are the days of purification
and separation [from all that is apart from Me]
in the lives of all those who truly love Me -
 a purification and separation [unto Me]
that will prepare them perfectly for the glorious days that lay just ahead.



...."And the clean person
shall sprinkle [the water for purification]
upon the unclean person on the third day
 and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day
the unclean man shall purify himself, and wash his clothes
and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.
But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself,
that person shall be cut off from among the congregation,
 because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord.
The water for purificationhas not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean"....

Numbers 19:19-20 The Amplified Translation



...."Behold, I am going to send My messenger,
and he will clear the way before Me.
And the Lord, whom you seek,
will suddenly come to His temple;
and the messenger of the covenant,
in whom you delight, behold,
He is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
But who can endure the day of His coming?
And who can stand when He appears?
For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
 "He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver,
and He will purify the sons of Levi
and refine them like gold and silver,
so that they may present to the LORD
offerings in righteousness"....

Malachi 3:1-3 NASB




...."For the grace of God
[His unmerited favor and blessing]
 has come forward [appeared] for the deliverance from sin
and the eternal salvation for all mankind.
It has trained us to reject
and renounce all ungodliness [irreligion]
and worldly [passionate] desires,
 to live discreet [temperate, self-controlled],
upright, devout [spiritually whole] lives in this present world,
Awaiting and looking for the
 [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope,
even the glorious appearing of our
great God and Savior Christ Jesus
[the Messiah, the Anointed One],
Who gave Himself on our behalf that
He might redeem us [purchase our freedom]
from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people
[to be peculiarly His own, people who are]
 eager and enthusiastic about
[living a life that is good and filled with]
beneficial [righteous]deeds...

[Deut. 14:2; Ps. 130:8; Ezek. 37:23]".... Titus 2:11-14]



Friday, April 8, 2011

Cooking With Love: Eva's Kitchen



The Desperate Housewives actress shares her passion for cooking--plus a yummy guacamole recipe



This is a cute late night interview...


"Eva Longoria decided formal attire would be best for her interview with David Letterman on Wednesday night. But the star must have been so eager to appear on "The Late Show" that she forgot to finish getting dressed in wardrobe.

The "Desperate Housewives" star appeared with Letterman on Wednesday to promote her new cookbook, "Eva's Kitchen," but all eyes -- especially the host's -- were on what she wore on set.

"I wore a tuxedo for you," she told Letterman, to which he replied, "That's only part of a tuxedo....."