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Print Pinto beans are another dish that seems like everyone around here knows how to make. We all know that Nana decides how to season them as she is doing it, but she said if she had to write something.....
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Around the Supper Table #120 – Boast in my Infirmities
I’ve shared that I struggled with a good dose of anxiety and depression as a young adult. It is something I don’t discuss often, because I don’t like looking backwards, and it can be embarrassing. I am also terrified that.....
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Blackberry Cobbler
Print Anyone that has ever labored with love knows that something you’ve made yourself just seems to be better. Well Nana often experiences this in her kitchen, but everyone that has helped weed, water, prune, or trellis the blackberries got.....
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Around the Supper Table #119 – Good Seed
Not too long ago I was picking black-eyed peas and discovered that some of what I was picking was not black-eyed peas at all. They were creamer peas. When ordering seed, we asked for black-eyes, but something must have gotten.....
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Cowboy Candy
Print We grow some pretty hot jalapenos, and we enjoy eating them fresh, but they are also used in many canned recipes to enjoy all year: Jalapeno Cheddar Bread, Nana's Hot Sauce, and many more. One of our favorite ways.....
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Pancho’s Calabacitas
Print When the boys were younger, Nana and Pa often ate at Pancho’s Mexican Buffet. Yes, the restaurant that lets you raise the flag to request more food. Calabacitas was not the boys’ favorite dish, but Nana loved it. Since.....
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Around the Supper Table #118 – Go Ye into all the World
Recently, while finishing up dinner around the supper table, Pa asked us what our role was in the Kingdom? And then it progressed to who are we most like in the Bible? These were difficult questions for me to answer. .....
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Bacon Green Bean Haystacks
Print As you know, Nana often looks for new ways to prepare produce after each harvest. She likes to call these her “company green beans.” You know, the ones that you only make when you know someone is coming for.....
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Around the Supper Table #117 – What is Your Excuse?
The Bible says that when we are hearers of the word, but not doers of the word, it is like someone who sees himself in a mirror then walks away forgetting what he has seen. To me that means that.....
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Around the Supper Table #116 – Children of the Tribe III – Leadership
Last time I wrote about Godly discipline of children. I discussed how discipline was primarily training a child and how punishment may be part of this, but it is not the core of discipline (Proverbs 22:6). This week I want.....
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