Nana’s Pecan Pie 1 bottle light syrup 1 cup white sugar 4 eggs dash of salt 1/4 tsp of vanilla 2 cups chopped nuts Beat all ingredients (except nuts) together until blended. Add chopped nuts. Pour into two pie shells. Bake @325 for 50 minutes. (tip: you know the pie is finished by shaking the oven rake and the pie only jiggles a little) It’s that simple and THAT delicious!
This has to be one of my favorite things about Thanksgiving. Okay, that is really shallow, right? I should be talking about family, friends, sitting around and sharing time with our precious loved ones……yeah, that’s all good….but what would the day be without some Southern Pecan Pie???
I will never forget when i discovered the perfect recipe.
I had eaten hundreds even thousands of slices by the time i got married. I’d eaten them at all the churches my dad has pastored (do we want to stop and count?)…;i’d eaten slices while traveling with New Direction during my Trevecca days where we minstered at campgrounds and churches across the Southeastern District.
So when i came across the perfect slice of pecan pie…..I knew it. I knew this was the perfect blend of nuts and filling. I knew it wasn’t too runny or too stiff. I knew it wasn’t too sweet or too salty. I knew it had just the right dash of vanilla in it. And lucky for me, the recipe happened to belong to my mother-in-law.
When i bit into my first slice of her pecan pie…..it was all over. I had found pecan pie home/heaven/wonderland/jackpot!
Now i would post that recipe at this very moment, but i don’t have it handy right now and i don’t want to try and “remember” for fear of forgetting an important ingredient that makes the pie what it is.
So go ahead….enjoy your favorite things this Thanksgiving. But check back tomorrow morning and i’ll have that recipe for you as my special Happy Thanksgiving to my precious peeps!
I am not a “style queen” by any stretch of the imagination. But i HAVE noticed that ruffles seem to be everywhere.
Not that i’d wear any of these dresses….but i’m just showin ya what i mean. Long dresses or short dresses, ruffles are the 2008 accessory.
Yes, I WOULD carry this. I love the mix of polka dots and ruffles!
and then there is this that i found when i was shopping in a new store in the mall……
follow the link and check out the shoes. (sorry, it wouldn’t let me copy the picture)
http://www.pinkduchessfootwear.com/style-current.php#
A friend got me set up on Facebook this week. Oh my stars! It is WAY too much fun! It was so simple. You pretty much just sign up for it and get started. Unlike MYSPACE, there is no decorating to do or deciding what music you want to play on your page. It’s pretty much just a “page” where people check in on you and leave messages.
As soon as i signed up, i “added my friend” that was helping me set it up. Then because i added her, i got to add some of her friends that i know. When you “add” them, you have to send a request for them to be your friend. It almost feels like first grade again. you know……”will you be my friend”. They can even choose “accept” or “reject”. So whenever a message pops up that someone has “accepted your request to be a friend”….i am so happy!!!
I think by yesterday, i had over 50 friends. How fun! And what’s cool is connecting with my old high school duet partner from 27 years ago.
Did i just say that? t-w-e-n-t-y…..s-e-v-e-n…y-e-a-r-s…..a-g-o? Yikes!
This is the book that contains the wonderful song, “This is Our God”, that we sang at retreat this weekend. You can order this book from Brentwood Benson by visiting their website at www.brentwood-benson.com or you can call them at 1-800-846-7664.
Our church has loved singing this awesome worship song and i was so glad to share it with all the ladies at the Georgia retreat this weekend! Here’s just the first verse and chorus of this awesome song written by David Moffitt, Sue Smith and Travis Cottrell:
Who is this Light invading our darkness?
Glorious might, the Sun rising for us?
Conquering night, He captures the hardest of hearts.
Who is this Hope that heaven has given?
Coming for souls, our rescue His mission?
Tenderness flows, and without condition He loves. We sing:
Chorus:
This is our God, living and breathing. Call Him courageous, relentless and brave.
This is our God, loving and reaching, scandalous mercy and mighty to save.
Hallelujah! This is our God! Hallelujah! This is our God!
Hallelujah! This is our God. Sing praise.
I read the following from Seth Ward who blogs at fivecentstand….
Unhappy people glue themselves to the television 30 percent more than happy people.
The finding, announced on Thursday, comes from a survey of nearly 30,000 American adults conducted between 1975 and 2006 [Wow, I'm trying to imagine the scientists who finally got the results from this very important test after thirty years. Hopefully they lived to see this blessed day.] as part of the General Social Survey.
While happy people reported watching an average of 19 hours of television per week, unhappy people reported 25 hours a week. The results held even after taking into account education, income, age and marital status.
In addition, happy individuals were more socially active, attended more religious services, voted more and read a newspaper more often than their less-chipper counterparts.
The researchers are not sure, though, whether unhappiness leads to more television-watching or more viewing leads to unhappiness.
……i can tell you that some of my favorite nights are when we don’t turn the tv on AT ALL! I’ve found that when we leave the tv off I get to hear Karlee play the piano more, i get to chat with the girls more and i feel just plain more energetic!
That’s my word for what Ladies Retreat weekend was…..cause there really isn’t a word to describe how awesome, incredible, and fantastic the whole retreat experience was. You know how you “think” something is going to turn out and then it WAY EXCEEDS those expectations? Well, it was even better than that!
I just got back a few hours ago and i’m still processing the weekend. Joyce and i tried to sit in the living room, enjoy the fireplace and tell Ben about what an awesome experience we had. But how do you talk about what it’s like to hear over 300 women worshipping the Lord in song? How do you share what it felt like to experience the electricity in the air when Susie is sharing truth from the Word? And how do you express the overwhelming spirit of God that is poured out as women kneel across the front of the tabernacle at altars of prayer?
We found ourselves trying to quote several of the things that we remembered Susie saying. We tried to talk about all the truths we’d heard. I can’t remember the last time i’ve sat under such good preaching. It wasn’t just a “talk with the girls” that she had this weekend…she was doing some serious “unpacking” (a Susie term!) of the gospel!
My goal this week is to do my own “unpacking” as i look back over my notes and let the Spirit of the Lord open the truths that He begin to show me this weekend. Thanks Susie, for such an honest, real, look into God’s word. It really is a “mirror” and you held it up and reminded me that it’s my repsonsibility to look into it daily and BE CHANGED.
…..this afternoon we leave for ladies retreat. i am really ready. even my “thought for the day” calendar let me know by the message for November 14th:
“Don’t let people drive you crazy when it’s within walking distance!”
Well, it was Sunday, but it wasn’t in the park……it was in the Performing Arts Center. But the music was so wonderful and so “parky-like” that i could close my eyes and imagine i had a big blanket spread out on a patch of plush, green grass enjoying the sounds of the Navy Commodores….
The musical selections were awesome. Some were familiar “Stars and Stripes Forever”, and some i’d never heard before “Weeping Willow”. Their jazz vocalist who sang “Weeping Willow” was amazing. She sang so effortlessly, yet her voice filled the room….and not just because it was a good microphone!
In my next life, i want to be a jazz singer, and pianist, and trombonist, and saxophonist…….
it’s part of my checklist every morning…..
1. open the blinds in the den, check! 2. open the blinds in the living room, check! 3. close the door to Bandit’s dog house (and make sure he is in there), check! 4. make my bed, check! 5. close the pantry doors in the kitchen, check! 6. put the curling iron away, check! 7. do a run through of the den and make sure things are tidy, check…..etc….etc…….
does everyone have a morning checklist like that? you know, stuff you just have to do before you leave for the day…..or else it really bugs you to death?……
