RECIPE TIME - DELICIOUS BAKED CHICKEN DISH

                                        RECIPE TIME -                                                     DELICIOUS                                                           CHICKEN DISH




Ingredients:

1 granny smith apple  (Chopped finely)
1 can chicken or mushroom soup
2 Tablespoons coconut oil or butter
1 onion (chopped finely)
1 chicken (cut into 8 portions)
or 8 chicken portions
1 can ideal milk or cream
2 Tbls curry powder

Method:

Place chicken portions in one layer in a pyrex or shallow baking dish. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika.

In a separate saucepan melt the coconut oil/butter and add the chopped onion and apple and saute till onion is transparent.  Add the soup and curry powder and stir well.

Remove from stove and add the cream. Mix well and pour over the chicken portions. Bake uncovered at 350o F for approximately an hour and a half.

Serve with rice and vegetables.

next post  20th March

TWENTY SIXTEEN - PART FORTY NINE

                                    TWENTY SIXTEEN -
    PART FORTY NINE

                                           Hello folks,

 Today is the garage sale.
 Up early to get  ready.
We pack lunches and have bought cold drinks for the day.


Amandah has been kind enough to give us the use of her double garage at her house which is situated in the town of Rustenburg. She has also loaned us "Lucky" her employee to help us  unload and put up lines to hang the clothes etc.   We sit all day. But no customers arrive.

We spent money to advertise in the local newspaper and for the extra cold drinks and food  at the site. We had three customers and sold R220 worth of goods.  What a flop Absolutely exhausted now - ready to collapse.  I can see Ruth feels the same.

Amandah asks Ruth for her diamond ring as she says she has a potential buyer for it. Ruth gives it to her on the understanding that it is not to be sold for less than R6000 (It was valued at R70000) by the Jeweler. If we don't get it back the R6000 must go for back rent. 

Thursday 22nd - spend the day on my bed.

Friday 23rd - spend another day on my bed.  We haven't had a decent meal since the 19th - not good for the constitution. Too tired - both of us.  Now the toilet is blocked again.  Will phone Danny in the morning to come take a look.

 
 Power goes off at 7pm
  but comes back on at 7.30       then goes off and stays off       all  night until comes back       on at 11 o'clock next               morning.



We do still have Danny's generator but no money for petrol.

Saturday 24th wake up feeling very despondent. Steve phones to find out how things are going and I completely break down.  Everything is now just too much for me.  Danny arrives and fixes the toilet.

 I spend another day on my bed , I am suffering from exhaustion and my eyes are still giving me a lot of trouble. But never forget  "God is in control."  It is painful but He is teaching us and molding us into the people He wants us to be.  In every situation and every circumstances we must learn to be content. Just knowing He is there is enough.

next post  19th March

JOKES - BLONDE

                                                JOKES

                                               A Redhead, a                  brunette and a                blonde got lost in the desert, they found a lamp and rubbed it and when a genie jumped out and granted them each a wish the Redhead said

"I wish I was back home with my family."  poof she was gone.

The brunette said "I also wish I was back home with my family."  poof she was gone.

The blonde said "Oh how I miss my friends I wish they were back here!"


next post  18th March

MY FAVORITE PSALMS - PART FIFTY TWO

                                           MY FAVORITE  

 PSALMS - PART          FIFTY TWO

Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name. 

Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities. Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction, Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies. 

Who satisfieth  thy desire with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.  Jehovah executeth righteous acts, and judgements for all who are oppressed. He made known His ways unto Moses , His doings unto the children of Israel.

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.  He will not always chide; neither will He keep His anger forever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us after our iniquities. 

 For  as the heavens                  are high above the                    earth, so great is His                lovingkindness toward 

 them that fear Him. 

As far as the east is from 

the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. 

Like as a father pitieth his children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. 

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passes over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.  But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children; to such as keep His covenant; and to those who remember His precepts to do them.

Jehovah has established His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom ruleth over all. Bless Jehovah, ye His angels, that are mighty in strength, that fulfil His Word; hearkening unto the voice of His Word. Bless Jehovah, all ye hosts, ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure. Bless Jehovah all ye His works, in all places of His dominion; Bless the Lord, O my soul.

next post 17th March

IS JESUS GOD (5) DID JESUS CLAIM TO BE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM + MOSES

                                          IS JESUS GOD?


           part five


      (copied from


       Y-Jesus.com)   

                                                                 DID JESUS CLAIM TO                    BE THE GOD OF                         ABRAHAM + MOSES.

Jesus continually referred to Himself in ways that confounded His listeners, as Piper notes. Jesus made the audacious statement, "Before Abraham was, I am."  He told Martha and others around her, "I am the resurrection and the life,  He who believes in Me, though he is dead, yet shall he live."

Likewise Jesus would make statements like " I am the light of the world,"  "I am the only way to God,"  "I am the truth," these and several other of His claims were preceded by the sacred words for God  "I AM"  What did Jesus mean by such statements and what is the significance of the term, "I AM"?

Once again, we must go back to context. In the Hebrew scriptures, when Moses asked God His Name at the burning bush, God  answered "I AM"
He was revealing to Moses that He is the one and only God who is outside of time and has always existed. Incredibly Jesus was using these words to describe Himself . The question is "Why?"

Since the time of Moses, no practicing Jew would ever refer to himself, or anyone else, by "I AM" . As a result Jesus' "I AM" claims infuriated the Jewish leaders. One time for example, some leaders  explained to Jesus why they were trying to kill Him. "Because you a mere man, have made yourself God."

Jesus' usage of God's name greatly angered the Jewish   leaders. The point is that these Old Testament scholars knew exactly what He was saying, He was claiming to be God, the Creator of the universe. 

It is only this claim that would have  brought the accusation of blasphemy. To read into the text that Jesus claimed to be God is clearly warranted, not only by His words but by their reaction to those words.

C.S. Lewis initially  considered Jesus a myth. But this literary genius who knew myths well, concluded that Jesus had to have been a real person. Furthermore as Lewis investigated the evidence for Jesus, he became convinced that not only was Jesus real, but He was unlike any man who had ever lived.  Lewis writes ..."Then comes the real shock   'Among these Jews, there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God'. He claims to forgive sins. He says he has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time.

To Lewis, Jesus' claims were simply too radical and profound to have been made by an ordinary teacher or religious leader. 

next post 15th March

RECIPE TIME - CRUSTLESS MILK TART.

                                          RECIPE TIME -                                                    CRUSTLESS MILK                                                TART.


ingredients:

4 cups milk
1 cup flour
3 eggs 
2 Tblspoons butter
1 tspoon baking powder
half tspoon vanilla essence
pinch salt 

method:

Separate yolks from whites of egg and whisk whites till stiff. 

Melt the butter and mix with sugar and egg yolks and beat well.
Add baking powder to flour and then the vanilla, milk and beaten egg yolks 

Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites and pour into greased tart pan and bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes.


next post 6th March

TWENTY SIXTEEN - PART FORTY EIGHT

 TWENTY SIXTEEN - 
 PART FORTY EIGHT

Hello folks,

 Friday, 25th November both  of us feeling sick because of  yesterday's trauma  in the smoke filled house - We are  very thankful to our God for His protection.  He truly is an Awesome God.

26th  November, Charmaine's - (Renata's adopted daughter) 17th birthday. 

27th - Family meeting -  Steve, Sue. Andy, Danny,  Andre, Amanda, Ruth and me.  We need  to move to cottage.  New rent is R2800  which Steve and Andy will pay - we must move asap . so that Andre and Amanda can rent the big house. They will install security gates and fencing for the dogs. Also they will put a dry wall in to make two separate bedrooms and they will put in a stove. They will also transfer our DSTV. 

Andy will install built in cupboards for our bedrooms.



They put me in a                     wheelchair  and we go             take a look at the cottage. 

 It has, like everything,
 got advantages and                  disadvantages.  




Monday 28th - still not fully recovered from smoke trauma - also start to feel very negative about the move. Forseeing all the problems and forgetting all the benefits.

Missed out on writing this blog for some reason or the other which I do not know, probablyy because Ruth and I have been sorting goods to sell at garage sale. We desperately need the money.

17th December Biltong machine invaded with ants . Very tedious job cleaning them out . Have to remove each stick of liver biltong and soak it in vinegar and clean machine and rehang.  

18th December, Amandah confirms garage sale. Ruth and I work on kitchen goods to sell. Will finish tomorrow. We have already done the clothing and the  beads and home made jewelry.

19th December Andy and Fiona leave for their holiday in  Australia.  Ants are in biltong machine again by the millions and trillions - we resoak in vinegar and clean machine - not long and the wall is again covered in ants - wipe with cloth soaked in vinegar and spray with Doom.  Seems to have worked this time.

20th Awoke in the early hours feeling completely drained of strength, feeling unable to carry on. I have no strength at all. I prayed and asked my heavenly Father for help. Ate some Marie biscuits a took my medicine and went back to sleep. 

Woke up feeling a lot better.  Ruth goes to town to have car cleaned etc. gone all day.

21st - today is the garage sale. Feeling hopeful have approximately R20 000 worth of goods to sell. If we are successful we can pay the back rent. Do repairs to fridges and tumble drier and also be rid of a lot of stuff that is clogging our home.

next post  12th March