Show Me The Bunny

Photo credit: Theresa Raffetto

 

11 Easter Cakes and Cupcakes

 

These springtime treats are perfect for Easter — or anytime!
For more delicious desserts the whole family can help out with, have the kids bunny hop in and lend a hand with all our charming Easter cakes!

Photo credit: With a Greatful Prayer and a Thankful Heart

Easter Bird's Nest

Here's a simple recipe made with  Mini Marshmallows, Butter and Chow Mein Noodles

Photo: The Curvy Carrot
No Bake Easter Peanut Butter Buttons
 
Would you like a no-bake, kid-friendly, and super simple treat to snack on? Here they are.

Aren’t these adorable?

Applelicious

Photo: A Dash of Sass

Chicken Salad with Green Apples

The tangy tartness of green apples complements the smooth flavor of chicken in this quick luncheon recipe of chicken salad from Dash of Sass.

Photo credit: eNourishment
 

  Apple Cinnamon Fruit Dip

 
Cool Greek yogurt makes the perfect dip for fruit with the addition of cinnamon, honey, and applesauce...

Photo: Todd Coleman

The Art Of The Tart

Making a beautiful French apple tart like this one is easier than you might think. It all comes down to a simple slicing technique—one that cookbook author and TV personality Sara Moulton learned during her time at New York's La Tulipe restaurant in the 1980s—in which uniform apple slices are fanned out in spirals that mimic the petals of a rose. To learn how please click on the link above.

If only one out of ten United States Citizens planted just two fruiting trees,

the world would be richer by nearly 6 billion pounds of fruit.

-Rosalind Creasy

Are You the Apple of His Eyes?

 

A few years ago a group of candy salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago .. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples.

Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly-missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got intouch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when theyarrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.

He was glad he did.The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her; no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.

The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, 'Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?' She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister....." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued,"Are you Jesus?" He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul:"Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day. You are the apple of His eye even though we, too,have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked up you and me on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

Picture Perfect Holiday

Bunny Cookie Cupcakes

 Teapot Cake

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.

   

Easter Eggs: The Lost Get Found

How To Colour Easter Eggs

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....

Adorable Ways With Easter 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!....

Easter Traditions

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...

Springtime Salads & Table Settings

Photo: Helen Norman, Styling: Matthew Mead , 

Compiled by Mallory Daughtery, Southern Living

Spring Table Settings and Centerpieces 1 of 18

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

Photo by Annabelle Breaky, Sunset Magazine

26 Main Dish Salad Recipes 1 of 27

Fresh ideas for light and easy weeknight dinners...

P. Allen Smith: Dill Potato Salad Recipe

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