Judy Peters, Hot Springs
Servings: 6-8
1 pound package mild cheddar cheese (best to grate your own)
1 jar chopped and drained pimento
2 teaspoon sugar
3-4 tablespoons Miracle Whip salad dressing
In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Enjoy as a sandwich, on Ritz crackers or spread on celery.
Submitted by: Carolyn Henze, Conway
Servings: 4
1-1/2 cups okra, sliced in 1/2-inch pieces or 10 oz. package frozen okra.
1/2 cup each onions, celery and green peppers, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon brown or white sugar
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons flour or corn starch
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 tomatoes, peeled and quartered
Cook fresh okra in a small amount of boiling salted water for 10 minutes and drain or cook frozen okra according to package directions and drain.
Saute onions, celery and green peppers in butter until tender, but not brown. Blend in sugar with flour or corn starch, salt and pepper. Add tomatoes and okra. Heat through.
Note: After Lent you can add crisp fried bacon. Also carrots. If too thick, add tomato juice or another tomato. Make to fit your taste.
Submitted by: Sister Joachim Celinska, Mountain Home
Nothing matches the joy and taste of a good homemade cake for a happy life. Everybody wants to be happy, but does cake make your life happier? It does!
The process of making the cake is not very difficult; what is difficult is having the will to develop values that assist personal growth in becoming the best person I can be. By following these simple instructions outlined below, you, too, can make this unusual cake.
Picking the proper packet of flavoring, the growth value needing attention, is the first step. The second step is to be sure that your kitchen, your will, houses the necessary equipment for baking. Find a big plastic bowl, a long-handled wooden spoon, a one-cup measuring cup, and a wood roller those God-given mental and spiritual tools each creature has at their fingertips. Focus on the ingredients necessary, those known components of the desire value, flour, butter, salt, vanilla, one orange, raisins, and one container of your favorite jelly or jam, before you start the process. It is advisable to be patient during the making of the cake and give yourself plenty of time.
Begin by taking one cupful of the flour of prayer and dump it into the bowl. Prayer is the most powerful ingredient for life. It helps us to the Creator. Prayer makes us effective and happy. It gives us all the strength we need to fulfill our lives and become more worthy. Do not be stingy with it. With your other hand, grab the next full cup of prayer to give the day a supernatural strength and texture.
Subsequently, add the butter of patience, the power of suffering with fortitude, of uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs. Mixed with measures of goodness, create a consistency of gentle character. After that, use the wooden spoon, its aspen flavor fusing with the salt of wisdom, gingerly sprinkled from its vessel of prudence. Mix carefully and notice how the ingredients combine.
Then, add the vanilla of good humor, and if you desire fragrance, add the orange peel of kindly smile, motivated by sympathy and understanding; it improves taste. Keep blending, patiently and delicately. After a few minutes of mixing, if you see the ingredients combining as they should, you can go to the next step.
At this point, add the raisins of self-control to the mixture, with regulated but fluid movement. The blending process must be free of anxious agitation. This is very important for the self and for those with whom life is shared. Diligently avoid adding bitter almonds of nervousness; it can be deceptively poisonous to the whole process. Your body will thank you as your spirit.
The following step in the process is to dredge this mixture with more flour and a generous dose of self-love, crushed into powder and saturated with responsibility. Mix again, carefully. Taste it. If the dough is not sweet enough, feel free to add more raisins of self-control movements.
Now, take the dough from the container and put on the floured-down cupboard space previously prepared for the rolling process. Gently dust the surface of the dough with more flour so the wooden roller of guidance and wisdom won't stick to its surface causing any distortions. Using both hands, apply a fine pressure to the roller while alternating between pushing and pulling over the surface of the dough. It is during this involved treatment of the dough that attentive fidelity to the process will aid in the gradual shaping of the mixture into an attractive and reasonably desired shape. One caution needs to be voiced at this point. Weariness with the process will be a tempting alternative to achieving the hoped for results, but attentiveness to the struggle will win with the aid of the roller and the push and pull of determination.
Once the rolling process has achieved the hoped for results, add some jelly or jam of good deeds for additional flavoring. A good cake usually has an element of mystery, just as good person exudes that "certain something" about him or herself. It is said that good deeds can be a precursor of good fruits; so too can a cake laced with jelly or jam turn out to be one of enticing flavor and re-enchantments, elements of that "certain something."
The final step in the process is to place the mixture into a baking pan and put it in God's oven, heated by His encompassing love and that of your neighbor. The baking time will depend on persons and their circumstances, but bake it will. And in the process, the cake will experience transcendent values inherent in the mix and will generously emit an enticing aroma of invitation to those awaiting the finished product.
The reality of waiting is very real. It requires time and patience, compassion and openness to possibilities; however, the resulting product more than makes up for the time consuming process. The finished cake is wonderful in taste and gives spiritual strength. Its enticement to grace filled actions and states of being preclude any possibility to negative weight gain or spiritual heart disease. If such can be said of cake, it is health personified. For the one so inclined to take the time and bake such a cake, life would be happier and so would that of others in that life's sphere; perfect for those wishing to keep themselves in good spiritual shape.
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