This meatloaf recipe is based on the recipe my parents used when I was growing up. People hear “meatloaf” and go ewe! But this meatloaf has never disappointed and I have never had anyone tell me it was undesirable. It has become a comfort food that even now, as adults, my non-vegetarian kids like to …
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Month:June 2021
Pressure Cooker Beef Stew
The day the stew shown above was made was a good day around Beckmania. On this day our youngest princess came over to the house to spend an afternoon baking and cooking with the Lady of Beckmania. Together they made this wonderful beef stew, an apple crumb pie and the 100% dairy free pecan pie …
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Funny Story…
As I recently posted, we lost our little Ladybug in May. I have started being able to think back on the good times and one thing that helped me was receiving a card from Lap of Love, it came a couple weeks after we lost her, and it actually made me chuckle. When I originally …
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Are you really going to hold on to that GRUDGE?
Why would you hold a grudge when you can hold other much sweeter things like babies, puppies, kittens or friendship? As I get older, I realize every day all the things that I have done, said, held on to throughout my life and I realize I did a lot of nice things, but I also …
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Miserable man that I am!
These words were written down almost 2,000 years ago by a man named Paul. This particular man used to be called Saul, often referred to as “Saul of Tarsus” for his birthplace in the ancient city of Tarsus near the Mediterranean coast in what is now days Turkey. Saul was a Jew in the time …
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Take it to HEART
Yesterday I was studying and came across this phrase “Take it to heart”. For some reason, it moved me to research. I now know why and want to share what I learned. We are told to take it to heart that Jehovah is the true God. What does that mean? take it seriously? Just know …
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Peanut
I remember the day we went to pick up this little boy who has wiggled so deeply into our hearts. We went to ASAP animal rescue in Brooksville to see if they had any little dogs that would fit our household. Of the 20 or so dogs in this place, all of which were barking, …
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Apple Crumb Pie
I found an apple pie recipe and doctored it up a little bit and it came out to be this particular recipe. I have received rave reviews; I will not name names, but the comments have been: “This is the best apple pie I’ve ever had!”, “our family had a fight over the last piece …
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Strawberry & Blueberry Trifle (Brown-eyed Baker version)
Angel food cake, cubed 1 box instant vanilla pudding (3.4 oz) 2 C cold milk 1 pkg room temperature cream cheese (8 oz) 1 C powdered sugar 8 oz whipped cream 2 pints blueberries 2 pints strawberries, rinsed, hulled and sliced. Directions: In small bowl, combine vanilla pudding with milk, whisk 2 minutes. In a …
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