In my thoughts throughout the first part of the year, I wanted to develop some rhythm. I didn't want simply routine. I wanted something more than a schedule.
I fumbled throughout January. Trying to find that thing called rhythm without routine and schedule. I fumbled.
Toward the end of the month Rachel Anne at Home Sanctuary had me start thinking about that schedule and perhaps the wisdom of routine.
What about you do you have a housekeeping schedule? Do you keep time with you schedule or just have a general to-do list for the day?
Monday, February 9, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Baked Pork Chops
Baked Pork Chops
SUBMITTED BY: Neely Bender
PREP TIME
30 Min
COOK TIME
1 Hr 30 Min
READY IN
2 Hrs
6 pork chops
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp seasoning salt
2 egg, beaten
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups Italian-style seasoned bread crumbs
4 tblsps olive oil
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup chicken broth or stock
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Rinse pork chops, pat dry, and season with garlic powder and seasoning salt to taste. Place the beaten eggs in a small bowl. Dredge the pork chops lightly in flour, dip in the egg, and coat liberally with bread crumbs.
Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Fry the pork chops 5 minutes per side, or until the breading appears well browned. Transfer the chops to a 9x13 inch baking dish, and cover with foil.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. While baking, combine the cream of mushroom soup, milk and chicken broth in a medium bowl. After the pork chops have baked for an hour, cover them with the soup mixture. Replace foil, and bake for another 30 minutes.
SUBMITTED BY: Neely Bender
PREP TIME
30 Min
COOK TIME
1 Hr 30 Min
READY IN
2 Hrs
6 pork chops
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp seasoning salt
2 egg, beaten
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups Italian-style seasoned bread crumbs
4 tblsps olive oil
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup chicken broth or stock
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Rinse pork chops, pat dry, and season with garlic powder and seasoning salt to taste. Place the beaten eggs in a small bowl. Dredge the pork chops lightly in flour, dip in the egg, and coat liberally with bread crumbs.
Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Fry the pork chops 5 minutes per side, or until the breading appears well browned. Transfer the chops to a 9x13 inch baking dish, and cover with foil.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. While baking, combine the cream of mushroom soup, milk and chicken broth in a medium bowl. After the pork chops have baked for an hour, cover them with the soup mixture. Replace foil, and bake for another 30 minutes.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tonight's Meeting
So ladies, did you have as much fun with the Pop's Panel as I did? What insightful answers answers and honesty!
I was so impressed with the bit on leadership and being able to give up the control once the conversation has been had. How difficult will that be? But I need to give it a try with lots of prayer, hunh?
What was the most relevant thing you got out of the evening?
I was so impressed with the bit on leadership and being able to give up the control once the conversation has been had. How difficult will that be? But I need to give it a try with lots of prayer, hunh?
What was the most relevant thing you got out of the evening?
Friday, January 9, 2009
Nifty Net Items
Some things in blog land I thought you might be interested in, or rather that I find interesting.
Mega Memory Month hosted by Ann Kroeker is just what it says, a challenge to memorize more than you normally might during the month of January.
At Home Sanctuary, RachelAnne inspires us to do one Simple Thing a day to create a sanctuary in our homes. You can join her Company Girls and earn points for the simple things to receive prizes. Who doesn't love a prize?
Finally there is Bloggy Giveaways, a blog dedicated to giving stuff away to people willing to look at the merchant and to post a comment. Again who doesn't love a giveaway?
If you have any great sites, let me know.
Mega Memory Month hosted by Ann Kroeker is just what it says, a challenge to memorize more than you normally might during the month of January.
At Home Sanctuary, RachelAnne inspires us to do one Simple Thing a day to create a sanctuary in our homes. You can join her Company Girls and earn points for the simple things to receive prizes. Who doesn't love a prize?
Finally there is Bloggy Giveaways, a blog dedicated to giving stuff away to people willing to look at the merchant and to post a comment. Again who doesn't love a giveaway?
If you have any great sites, let me know.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Resolutions
So, I was reading yesterday about year naming at Holy Experience. (I really like her blog, really, really.) She talked about giving this new year a name, sort of a focus. A way of numbering our days, ordering the time before us. She is far more poetic than I am and I encourage you to read her words on the subject.
I have so many things I want to do, changes I want to see occur in my life. Is there one defining focus, a unifying point of reference in all the jumble? A name that if given to this year would beautifully package and enable all the questions and heart cries I have during this time of newness.
What name would I give this new year?
I have so many things I want to do, changes I want to see occur in my life. Is there one defining focus, a unifying point of reference in all the jumble? A name that if given to this year would beautifully package and enable all the questions and heart cries I have during this time of newness.
There are many words I have been mulling over in this middle ground of end and beginning:
order, routine, peace, discipline, present, rhythm.
I will name 2009 Rhythm. More than order and routine, rhythm implies presence and peace, discipline and joy. Rhythm is a word to be shared as this year is time to be shared. Rhythm hints at the sacred.
Do you have resolutions? Do you have a name for the year?
Do you have resolutions? Do you have a name for the year?
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Happy New Year
Six days late. My resolutions still linger in my mind, scattered words scratched in notebooks and journal. Still marinating in the process of planned change. Really how much change can I plan. Maybe that is the point of marinating in the ideas--praying, writing, waiting for God's plans to come to words, to express themselves in ways a mortal can understand.
I have some ideas about relationship and including and new life and completed tasks and this week I choose to finish things and to find a routine and rhythm to our lives. Like the gift of sunrise and sunset, of breathing in and breathing out, routine holds the promise of newness in each new task.
What about you? Did you make any resolutions? How are you doing six days in?
I've been reading Holy Experience as I think and plan and process.
I have some ideas about relationship and including and new life and completed tasks and this week I choose to finish things and to find a routine and rhythm to our lives. Like the gift of sunrise and sunset, of breathing in and breathing out, routine holds the promise of newness in each new task.
What about you? Did you make any resolutions? How are you doing six days in?
I've been reading Holy Experience as I think and plan and process.
Monday, January 5, 2009
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