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Czech Peach Dumplings — Stropnicky Family Recipe

Posted by on December 18, 2012 Leave a Comment

The copy I have is my orig­i­nal from Lil,

Peach Dumplings-4 ripe peaches (usu­ally 2 peaches per person);1 medium /large or 2 small pota­toes for 5–6 dumplings; Boil with jack­ets on and peel later when cooled a bit peel; mash them, put in bowl (big). 1 cup flour; 1 tsp of salt and 1 egg, mix untill work­able con­sis­tancy; roll out and cut pieces big enough to cover peach; drop in boil­ing salted water; return to boil­ing and cook 7 min­utes for medium peach (slightly more or less depend­ing on size); remove from water and roll in browned, sug­ared (plain) bread crumbs(melt but­ter in fry pan and brown crumbs and sugar); serve whole and let each cut their own and add cin­na­mon and sugar as they please, extra dough can be rolled into Cig­ars and boiled and rolled in fry pan too. We usu­ally x 3 the receipe.
Be care­full w flour, too much and dough goes all wrong. Lil always served as din­ner, never as a dessert, great next morn­ing browned in fry pan cut up.
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Egg Nog Fudge

Posted by on December 18, 2012 Leave a Comment

EggNog Fudge

Ingre­di­ents:

  • 2 cups gran­u­lated sugar
  •  1/2 cup butter
  •  3/4 cup dairy eggnog
  •  10.5 ounces white choco­late bars, chopped into small pieces
  •  1/2 tsp freshly grated nut­meg, plus a lit­tle more for the top of the fudge
  •  once 7 ounce jar marsh­mal­low creme
  •  1 tsp rum extract

Line a 8 or 9-inch square pan with foil and let it hang over the sides. But­ter the foil. In a heavy, 3-qt saucepan com­bine sugar, but­ter, and eggnog. Bring to a rolling boil, stir­ring con­stantly. Con­tinue boil­ing 8–10 min­utes over medium heat or until a candy ther­mome­ter reaches 234 F, stir­ring con­stantly to pre­vent scorch­ing. Remove from heat.  Using a wooden spoon, work quickly to stir in chopped white choco­late and nut­meg until choco­late is melted and smooth. Stir in marsh­mal­low creme and rum extract. Beat until well blended and then pour into pre­pared pan. Sprin­kle with a lit­tle freshly ground nut­meg on top. Let stand at room tem­per­a­ture until cooled. Refrig­er­ate if you’d like to speed up the process.  When com­pletely cool, cut into squares. Store in cov­ered container.

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Maternity Shoot

Posted by on September 28, 2012 Leave a Comment

One of my friends is hav­ing her first baby…and asked me to take some pic­tures of her baby bump.  I will only post one…but enjoyed tak­ing them and hav­ing fun with my camera. 

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Amish Sugar Cookies My favorite!!

Posted by on September 18, 2012 1 Comment

Ingre­di­ents

  • 1 cup but­ter, softened
  • 1 cup veg­etable oil
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup con­fec­tion­ers’ sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tea­spoon vanilla extract
  • 4–1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tea­spoon bak­ing soda
  • 1 tea­spoon cream of tartar

Direc­tions

  • In large bowl, beat the but­ter, oil and sug­ars. Beat in eggs until well blended. Beat in vanilla. Com­bine the flour, bak­ing soda and cream of tar­tar; grad­u­ally add to creamed mixture.
  •    Drop by small tea­spoon­fuls onto ungreased bak­ing sheets. Bake at 375° for 8–10 min­utes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: about 5 dozen.

Nutri­tional Facts 1 serv­ing (2 each) equals 233 calo­ries, 14 g fat (5 g sat­u­rated fat), 31 mg cho­les­terol, 108 mg sodium, 25 g car­bo­hy­drate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

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Equation

Posted by on September 10, 2012 Leave a Comment

Where do I fit in this equa­tion? Am I a fac­tor or a by prod­uct?  I feel as though I am the later :(

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Playing with WordPress

Posted by on July 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

I am tak­ing a cou­ple courses on word press and try­ing some of the tech­niques out!

Plus this is a really cute video! :)

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Making a Gravatar

Posted by on July 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Gardening

Posted by on July 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

I have always enjoyed gardening…but this year I am mak­ing it more of a pri­or­ity.  It is a lot of work relax­ing to me.  Here are a cou­ple items I have made for my garden.

Isa­iah 58:11

11 The Lord will guide you always;
he will sat­isfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered gar­den,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

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Outdoor Movie Party

Posted by on June 23, 2012 Leave a Comment

I saw a pic­ture of an out­door movie party and wanted to dupli­cate it.  I invited all my friends…but very few came.  I made enough pizza to feed 50.  I woke up at 7 am and worked til Dusk…

I was dis­s­ap­pointed with the turnout…especially by my imme­di­ate family(husband and son).  My other fam­ily came and enjoyed them­selves.  Guess I try too hard to make a mem­ory.  Spent nights sewing and the whole day on my feet!  I am thank­ful for my friend Amy who came to help.  She helped me set up every­thing out­side and it was HOT! I enjoyed myself though…everyone who par­tic­i­pated really enjoyed themselves…I will do it again sometime!

 

 

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Perseverance/Grace

Posted by on June 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

per·se·ver·ance
[pur-suh-veer-uhns]
noun
1.steady per­sis­tence in a course of action, a pur­pose, a state, etc., espe­cially in spite of dif­fi­cul­ties, obsta­cles, or dis­cour­age­ment.
2.Theology . con­tin­u­ance in a state of grace to the end, lead­ing to eter­nal salvation.

I remem­ber get­ting an email from one of Con­nors coaches a while back when he was in Tball jok­ing that Con­nor would be play­ing on a win­ning team — that they hadn’t lost one yet. :) But that isn’t real­ity! There are win­ners and there are losers…we have to teach our chil­dren at a young age what it means to per­se­vere in life. We have to learn what it means to work hard and try your best and still fall short.
Kyle was really dis­s­ap­pointed after he lost quite a few games last week­end and teaches a valu­able les­son. There are going to be days when you do your best and work as a team and you are going to be anni­hi­lated. You may lose by a ton…but you have to get up and you have to play again. You have to work hard, put in hours and hours and prac­tice and you MIGHT beat them the next time. That is real­ity. Every­one isn’t a win­ner all of the time. You have to work hard, you have to hus­sle, and you have to prac­tice. You have to learn from your losses.
I like the sec­ond mean­ing of this word. We all fall short, but if we per­se­vere, God will grant grace to us til eter­nity. You are going to fall short, get back up and TRY again! Learn how to lose…learn how to win…but most impor­tantly learn that GOD is there to pick you right back up and heal the pieces and put you back together every­time. He has grace on us and we need to extend that grace to others.

How  can we become gra­cious – more like Jesus.

Richard Black­aby in his book, “Putting on a Face of Grace” has a list of tips for us.

  • Speak words intended to build up,  not to bring down.
  • Focus on their need rather then  your own.
  • Freely for­give.
  • Swal­low you pride and say, “I’m  sorry”, and “I was wrong.”
  • Live your life with a goal of “no  regrets”.
  • Don’t keep score of what is fair.
  • Grace doesn’t con­demn or give up  on people.
  • Grace empha­sizes mercy, not  justice.
  • Read 1 Corinthi­ans 13 regularly.

And always keep in mind that it is God’s spirit within us who will change us into becom­ing peo­ple who extend grace  to others.

Father, you  con­tin­u­ally show grace to your chil­dren no mat­ter how many times we mess  up.  Thank you so much.  We don’t deserve your love.  Enable us, through the power of your Holy  Spirit, to become peo­ple of grace.  Amen

A lot of what I wrote was from my notes from Pas­tor Brian Blenden at CrossPointeCommunity.com

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