September 10, 2019 thought for the day:  You can't use your hand to force the sun to set. Nigerian Proverb

For some reason this has felt long a long day. I haven’t gotten a lot done, just a couple of articles for the newsletter placed. I think I have it up to date to the point of having members of the congregation sending me anything they would want to have in this issue. That won’t be until the end of the week. That is about the extent of my accomplishments for today. Oh, one other thing, I got the cards for the shut in’s ready to have them signed at the Martha Circle meeting tonight. That will be the extent of productivity today. I am surprised I got that much done due to a downer kind of mood today.

Yesterday’s FMS photo challenge “I”, for ink. Again, it was a search around the house for something that would fit the theme at the same time as pleasing me.

I have decided to change doctors. I have been with my present doctor for several years now. I have moved with her from one location to another, this being the third. She keeps getting further and further from my home, longer and longer to get there. I have decided to try to go back to the facility I chose after my former doctor retired. I called her today and explained the situation and the reasoning. I asked her for a recommendation for a new doctor. My problem is I am used to working with and being the patient of an MD, the one she has recommended is a DO. I have been reasoning with the change all afternoon and have about decided to make or at least try the change. There are many changes going on in my life right now. Some family changes, some good some not so much, the new changes in the house and a few changes in age old habits as in grocery shopping. Sounds like small changes but I am one of those people who don’t take to change very well. I will just go with the flow and see where it takes me. Maybe and hopefully happy new paths.

The word is attempting.  Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures, Richard Baxter. The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately! Plato. Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one, George Washington.

I am a foodie so when I see stories about introductions to foods new to me and places new to Columbus to eat I am interested. Hopefully you are too. This article is about “food for the soul”.  According to the article the recipe is made up of portions of white and yellow cornmeal, white sugar, cream cheese, sour cream, margarine, eggs and milk.  People from all over Columbus and it’s corners as well as some from out of state have been sampling the finished product with delight. It is said that sometimes just the cornbread seems to be satisfying enough to skip any other part of a meal. The article noted that cornbread is traced to Native Americans. Corn bread can be found in all types of restaurants, it is so well liked.  This article is centered around a lady who came from Jamaica nearly forty years ago. She and her family started an Caribbean style restaurant several years ago. The corn bread tops off many of the other meals that are served and enjoyed in this happy and delicious establishment.

My FMS (see earlier blogs for the meaning) photo challenge of the day is J, I chose a jar as the subject.. Instead of shooting the photo today which is my rule of thumb (normally I believe it should be shot on the date it is scheduled), this one is from my archives. This jar or more descriptively goblet was brought to me from Desert Storm by my US Marine son.

I took the beef and noodles that I froze a few weeks ago out of the freezer for dinner tonight. I usually buy beef called “stewing beef” for my beef and noodles because it is quicker to prepare. However, my son, Bob, doesn’t like the taste as well as when I buy a steak, trim the fat and cut it into cubes. I brown the meat, add two cans of Swanson’s Beef Stock, then simmer the sauce for at least an hour. I add spices such as onion powder, Mrs. Dash’s Original Blend, and Table Blend. I add a touch of worcestershire sauce, a little pepper (no salt, there is plenty in the stock,. While it is cooking I make home made noodles: one or two eggs (depending on how much meat I am using, one or two pounds). I scramble the eggs then a squirt of water and dash of olive oil. Lastly I add flour slowly while mixing it together until it becomes workable without sticking to the hands. Then I roll it through my mechanical noodle maker. Fist to flatten it then the other side the cut the dough to noodle size and shape. At times when I didn’t have a noodle maker I rolled the dough out like pie dough then rolled like a jelly roll lastly cutting in slices at the size I like. Let them dry a bit then add them to the simmering beef mixture. Then I add a can of Campbell’s Beef Gravy. If the noodles and gravy mixture is to thick add another can of Swanson’s Beef Stock or a can of water and a touch of Knorr’s Beef Bouillon. I like to serve this dish over mashed potatoes.

Joy