As soon as the word 'budget' is mentioned, faces fall and there is fear that saltless potatoes, and white pasta will be the mainstay of our existence for weeks and weeks. Dessert? Well, there is resignation in the fact that dessert will never be considered worthy of the grocery budget money.
To me, when we have those times of tightening our belts, that is the time to keep the cookie jar full and something sweet and surprising gracing the dinner table. With watching the sales and keeping stocked up when times are easier, you can provide this for your family.
Peanut Butter Nut Bars
1 box yellow cake mix
1/2 cup melted butter
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup coconut
1 cup chocolate chips (semisweet or milk chocolate, your choice.)
1 cup peanut butter chips
3/4 cup chopped peanuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Using a spoon, combine the cake mix, butter, vanilla, and egg. Press the resulting dough into a vegetable oil sprayed baking pan - around 9x13-inches. Pour the sweetened condensed milk over the dough in the pan. Sprinkle the coconut, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and chopped peanuts over the top.
Bake for 20-30 minutes (watch carefully as it all depends on your own oven.) or until lightly browned around the edges.
Cool completely before cutting into serving pieces.
Ideas . . .
Substitute favorite cereal flakes for the coconut and white chocolate chips for the peanut butter chips.
Use a spice cake for an entirely different bar cookie and all chocolate chips instead of peanut butter chips.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
In case you wanted to know . . .
Some friends and I went to see Captain America today. Not a bad film. It has a plot, some WWII footage, and lots of science fiction weapons mixed in with the basic military stuff. Not for the little ones or the timid as it is suspenseful but fun. Definitely not a major artistic work but the special effects and landscapes gave everyone an on the edge of our seats good time. I don't usually like this genre but it was worth the time . . . and the $6 matinee price!
Thinking of our Congresss and Senate . . . ?
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Removing invincible ignorance . . .
I have a problem with the world's view of life today. And I have a real problem with people who say they are Catholic but separate their Faith from reality when they vote. Were you one of the Catholics that helped our present president get his place in the White House? Did you vote for him knowing that he was pro-death and would enact and support future legislation that would promote, encourage and allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn infants.? Did you know he was in favor of using our tax dollars for contraception costs?
You may claim invincible ignorance at this point, but now you know! How will you vote in the upcoming election?
As Catholics, it seems to me that we have to be one issue voters when it deals with the survival of the unborn. According to the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, "You shall not kill an unborn child or murder a newborn infant." Your vote could, in essence, help women procure abortions. According to Canon Law, "Those who procure an abortion . . . automatically incur an excommunication." Knowing this, can you still vote the pro-death ticket? Knowing this, do you feel any remorse for the Catholic vote you may have cast that aided and abetted the murder of babies?
Some people take it as a matter of pride to vote a single party line. If there was a person running, regardless of party, who was terrible at everything political yet staunchly pro-life, that is where my vote would go - without a second thought. Murder is spoken against quite strongly in the Ten Commandments. St. Basil stated that, "A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder." So? Are you going to vote for comfort, convenience, low taxes, social security, and fair wages or are you going to preserve the sanctity of life with your vote? Sorry . . . with this I have just removed your claim to invincible ignorance.
"In the domain of morality, is it not an accepted principle of our Western bourgeois world that there is no absolute distinction between right and wrong rooted in the eternal order of God, but that they are relative and dependent entirely upon one's point of view? Hence when the Western world wishes to decide what is right and wrong even in certain moral matters, it takes a poll-forgetful that the majority never makes a thing right. The first poll of public opinion taken in history of Christianity was on Pilate's front porch, and it was wrong." Fulton J. Sheen
You may claim invincible ignorance at this point, but now you know! How will you vote in the upcoming election?
As Catholics, it seems to me that we have to be one issue voters when it deals with the survival of the unborn. According to the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, "You shall not kill an unborn child or murder a newborn infant." Your vote could, in essence, help women procure abortions. According to Canon Law, "Those who procure an abortion . . . automatically incur an excommunication." Knowing this, can you still vote the pro-death ticket? Knowing this, do you feel any remorse for the Catholic vote you may have cast that aided and abetted the murder of babies?
Some people take it as a matter of pride to vote a single party line. If there was a person running, regardless of party, who was terrible at everything political yet staunchly pro-life, that is where my vote would go - without a second thought. Murder is spoken against quite strongly in the Ten Commandments. St. Basil stated that, "A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder." So? Are you going to vote for comfort, convenience, low taxes, social security, and fair wages or are you going to preserve the sanctity of life with your vote? Sorry . . . with this I have just removed your claim to invincible ignorance.
"In the domain of morality, is it not an accepted principle of our Western bourgeois world that there is no absolute distinction between right and wrong rooted in the eternal order of God, but that they are relative and dependent entirely upon one's point of view? Hence when the Western world wishes to decide what is right and wrong even in certain moral matters, it takes a poll-forgetful that the majority never makes a thing right. The first poll of public opinion taken in history of Christianity was on Pilate's front porch, and it was wrong." Fulton J. Sheen
Quotes to share . . .
"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
-- Anonymous
-- Anonymous
"Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry."
-- George Ade
-- George Ade
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost
-- Robert Frost
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
-- Frank Zappa
-- Frank Zappa
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