My Pie Crust

I'm sharing it, so y'all better give me credit...

Pie Crust
(Especially for people who can't make pie crust!)

Ingredients:

3 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 c. shortening
1 beaten egg
8 T. water (1/2 c.)
1 T. lemon juice (vinegar can be substituted)

Cream together flour, salt, and shortening. Mix together in another dish the beaten egg, water, and lemon juice. Add liquids to flour and shortening. Mix with fingers or pastry blender. Makes roughly 2 double crust pies.

Mom’s Stuffing

1 Package Sage & Onion Bread Crumbs
1 Tube of Pork Sausage
1lb of ground chicken or turkey
1 large apple – finely diced
1 onion – diced
3-4 stalks of celery – finely diced
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 egg
Season with garlic and herbs, salt & black pepper

Mix stuff together with hands in a large bowl. Patt into oven safe dish. Bake 1 – 1½ hours at 350F. Internal temp for stuffing should be about 165 degrees when fully cooked.

I've been busy

I know it's been forever since I've written a blog, but really It's not my fault. I'm not one of those people who likes to dwell on how busy I'm been or how hard I work. For me, even though those things are usually true, I don't like to focus on them like they're the only important things in my life. It's really hard to remember that you are still a multi-dimensional person even when your daily activities are in a unidirectional mode. Question: how do you avoid becoming a broken record of a chatter box when life is the same old?

For starters try to personalize your life experience. It's not too much to take that standardized, boring old situation at work, school, church, etc and make it your own. Tack up your personal photos and flare and really move in. Maybe you'll freshen things up by just expressing how you feel about something. You might in turn actually start talking with people and figure out how to make it better.

Also, make the experiences you have on a daily basis special by emphasizing what it is that makes that thing important. Mundane things are really not mundane at all, it's just our attitude towards them and how we approach it. Keeping the pep in things requires some creativity. My mom always made doing dishes better by having me help her. And she was right; it was one of the few times we really got to talk and spend time together. Plus we got a lot of work done and somehow something as mundane as dishes became a ritual, special in its own way.

Take care of yourself, you're special to a lot of people out there.

LastManOut