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Invent a Soup

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

One of the Boredom Busters that I made up for my kids to do was to invent a soup. My son Stephen decided to take this challenge. I told him to use water and beef bullion cubes to start off, and that he could add whatever food or spices he wanted to the crock pot. He began by writing a list of ingredients on a piece of paper, to take to the grocery store. This is what he wrote:

6 carrots
1 bay leaf
¼ teaspoon of salt
pepper
tomato sauce (16 oz can + 1 can of water)
½ cup of chopped green bell pepper
1 teaspoon of parsley
½ cup of chopped celery
garlic powder
3 beef bullion cubes dissolved in 3 cups of water

He threw all these things into a crock pot and let them cook for at least an hour. When he served dinner to the family, my husband and I were surprised and shocked to discover that the soup was delicious. One of my other sons said, “This is better than your soup, Mom!”

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Chocolate Bananas

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

Growing up in Guatemala, I used to eat frozen chocolate bananas called “chocobananos.” These frozen bananas were covered in a hard shell of chocolate. I thought to myself, “I bet those aren’t that hard to make, and they are healthy, too.” Plus, I want my own children to experience the joy of eating a chocolate banana.

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My friend that I grew up with in Guatemala told me to buy chocolate almond bark. You find it in the baking section of the grocery store. Don’t forget to buy the bananas, and make sure you have some popsicle sticks.

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Peel the bana chocobanano nas and cut them in half. Stab them each with a popsicle stick. Place them on wax paper on a cookie sheet in the freezer. Let them freeze overnight.

The next day, melt the almond bark over medium heat in a pot on the stove. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon. Dip the bananas into it. The chocolate instantly hardens, and you can eat the chocolate bananas on the spot. Yum. Oh, put the leftovers in the freezer for a treat tomorrow, unless you’ve already eaten them all.

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Everyone Pretends to Love Cooking

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

I was at a women’s meeting from my church, and we were going around the room, stating our names and something we liked to do. Nearly all of the women included cooking as something they enjoyed doing. It seemed so conventional, like it was a requirement for a Proverbs 31 woman (who never cooked, but had servants to cook for her).

It seemed like people were saying they enjoyed it because everyone else said it, including the pastor’s wife. I wondered if some of the people were lying. Even chefs, after a long day, don’t feel like cooking. My mother-in-law absolutely loves cooking (and is good at it), and I saw in her fridge and freezer only ready-made foods. There was no ground beef or chicken or anything with which to make things from scratch. So do all these women really enjoy cooking, or is that a farce?

When it came to my turn, half the women had spoken already. I said, “How nice for you guys, that you like to cook!” (Everyone laughed.) “I enjoy yard saling.” (Notice, I never said I didn’t like cooking. I just implied it. And now I’m branded as a person who hates cooking, which is not exactly true. I’m just a normal person who sometimes likes to cook, and sometimes not.)

After I said this, almost everyone after me said they hated cooking. Really? Is this possible? That nearly everyone before me loved cooking, and everyone after didn’t? This is highly suspect in a room full of 25 women. No… I think when people realized that I wasn’t lynched for insinuating that I didn’t like to cook, they let out a big sigh of relief. Anyone who accomplishes anything during the day will usually come to the dinner hour with very little energy, especially if she is a homeschooling mother who works 24/7.

It’s okay not to make everything from scratch. It’s not a sin. Don’t feel guilty if you prepare ready-made food for your family, like heating up a frozen lasagna. Enjoy cooking whenever you can. But don’t feel bad about cutting corners so that you can have more energy for your family, which has more eternal value than food that is swallowed.