Food on Fridays: Cocoa Math

December 31, 2009 By 7 Comments

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Happy New Year and thanks for joining the first Food on Fridays carnival of 2010!

Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—you can talk about your spring garden plans and healthy eating resolutions or just take a photo of clementines or New Year’s Eve snacks.

My point is that the Food on Fridays parameters are not at all narrow. Think of it as a virtual pitch-in where you can sample what everyone brings and have a great time.

When your Food on Fridays contribution is ready, just grab the broccoli button (the big one above or the new smaller option at the bottom) to paste at the top of your post and join us through Mr. Linky.

Here’s a Mr. Linky tutorial:

Write up a post, publish, then return here and click on Mr. Linky below. A screen will pop up where you can type in your blog name and paste in the url to your own Food on Fridays post (give us the exact link to your Food on Fridays page, not just the link to your blog).

You can also visit other people’s posts by clicking on Mr. Linky and then clicking participants’ names–you should be taken straight to their posts.

Please note: I return when possible during the day and update this post by hand to include a list of the links provided via Mr. Linky. If I can’t get to the computer to do so, you may access them all by clicking on the Mister Linky logo.

Food on Fridays  Participants

1. Hoosier Homemade( Favorite Recipes of 2009)

2. Arkansas Bloggers Link

3. Satakieli

4. Newlyweds (Granola Bars)

5. Debbie@ Dining With Debbie (crab cakes)

 6. Sara (ham and noodle casserole)

7. Kristen (cranberry, pecan, white chocolate cookies)

8. Trish Southard

9. Trish Southard (Walgreens Christmas Dinner)

10. Trish Southard (daughters eggplant parmesan)

 11. Tara @ Feels Like Home (Christmas Crack, er Cracker Candy)

12. Hopeannfaith’s Well… Writing Prompts from dA Daily Lit Deviations ~ Prompt #1

13. Suzie Lind

14. Sweet Potato Casserole (for the Sweet Potato hater)

15. Leftovers On Purpose (Squash Bread)

Food on Fridays  with Ann

Kids + Snow = “Hot chocolate?”

Coupons + Sale = Free Cocoa!

Free cocoa = A fun way to start the year!

All photos © 2009 Ann Kroeker. All rights reserved.

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Mega Memory Month Jan 2010 Headquarters

December 31, 2009 By 24 Comments

It’s back!  Just in time to support your New Year’s Resolutions!

Mega Memory Month (MMM): January 2010 Headquarters

It’s day one of Mega Memory Month!

Those of us participating now have 31 days to pack into our minds whatever it is we’ve selected to memorize: a poem, speech, passage of Scripture, or song lyrics.

Here’s how to participate:

  • Pick something to memorize. Challenge yourself with poetry, a famous speech, or a passage of Scripture. This month my focus will be on portions of the Bible.
  • Announce it on your blog or in the comments of this post when you’re ready. (Note: If you find out about MMM late or forget about it until halfway through the month, no problem. Jump in and do what you can in the time that remains.)
  • Leave a link (in MckLinky below or in the comments) that will take readers to your own blog’s MMM post. Help spread the word about Mega Memory Month (and share your progress) via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
  • Include the MMM button to tie us together visually. It helps interested readers find and join the challenge!
  • Start memorizing!

Powered by MckLinky

Click HERE to enter your link and view the entire list of entered links…

  1. Begin With Bread
  2. Erin at filling my patch of sky
  3. Amy @ Lavender *Sparkles*
  4. Pursing the Kingdom
  5. Lindas Patchwork Quilt
  6. A New Year…A New Decade…New Beginnings
  7. Ann Kroeker (Christ in you)
  8. Zoanna @ A Penchant for Pens
  9. Hiding Gods Word in My Heart
  10. Leann at Good Neighbors
  11. Power @ A Lettered Legacy
  12. Amyazed by Him
  13. Soli Deo Gloria
  14. Adventures in Unsell Land

Monday Progress Reports (Jan. 4, 11, 18 and 25) will include an additional MckLinky for those who want to chronicle their progress. Feel free to include struggles, disappointments, surprises, memory tips, breakthroughs and victories.

Final Celebration scheduled for Sunday, January 31. For the Final Celebration, I encourage participants to plan some way to wrap up the month’s challenge. You can create a presentation as simple as writing or typing out from memory your passage. Or you could get more involved, creating artwork or a video or audio file to preserve and share your recitation with us.

I’ll be right here with you all month.

• Click HERE for suggestions on how to select a passage to memorize (courtesy of Helen at A Work of Heart).

• Click HERE to read “An Approach to Extended Memorization” by Dr. Andrew Davis, an article highly recommended by Amy at Lavender Sparkles.

• Click HERE for my mega collection of memorization tips and techniques.

• Click HERE for more inspiration and practical suggestions for memorizing Scripture from Ann Voskamp of Holy Experience.

Our minds (and hearts!) can hold more than we think they can.

Improving Your Memory for Dummies minibook photo © 2009 by Ann Kroeker.

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Will You Join Me?

December 31, 2009 By 1 Comment

In His Word I put my hope.

Mega Memory Month January 2010 begins tomorrow.

Will you join me?

Photo of Psalm 130:5 taken © 2009 by Ann Kroeker.
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Make-Do Mondays (on Tuesday): Free Phone

December 29, 2009 By 11 Comments

For years I’ve made-do with this Sanyo flip phone, which I wrote about back when I hosted Make-Do Mondays. It has no bells or whistles, though we did add texting at some point so that I can communicate with my daughters, who bought their own phones a few months ago.

But it has no data plan for e-mail or Web access.

It’s just a phone.

For years it’s worked just fine, even with a broken antenna. One major drawback: I have to sit on the porch (or in the winter, sit in the car) to finish conversations, because as soon as I step inside the house, the reception cuts in and out.

When the phone rings at home, I rush to the window, pull out the antenna, and stick it against the windowpane. Sometimes that helps.

A few weeks before Christmas, however, the battery stopped holding a charge.

After plugging it in overnight, I could text a few times; but as soon as I made a call, it would power down after about two minutes. This is not a particularly good feature for a mobile phone.

It was time to shop for a replacement.

Should I get another basic phone, or upgrade to something fancy?

The Belgian Wonder and I talked it over. Is a smartphone worth the cost? Would it truly enhance my life and work or end up being an expensive toy? If we get one, which would best suit my needs?

We pored over Consumer Reports’ comparison charts, studied reviews online, and went into the Sprint store to try some out.

Some options under consideration that were interesting to me for various reasons (ranging from the feel of the keyboard and touch-screen navigation of some units, to the look of the text or a sense of familiarity with Microsoft Office products displayed front-and-center on some screens):

  • Palm Pre
  • Palm Treo Pro
  • BlackBerry Tour
  • BlackBerry Curve
  • Samsung Intrepid

The Belgian Wonder arrived at the store armed with a list of questions, but after lengthy conversations with the sales staff, it became clear that none of the available phones was a perfect fit.

Each had items on both the pro and con list.

We’d just have to choose one and embrace that phone’s “pros” while tolerating its “cons.”

I felt too overwhelmed to finalize the decision in the store.

We came home and read more reviews.

Talked some more.

Finally I estimated how many hours I’d been reading and talking and thinking it through. It added up to a lot. “This is crazy,” I said. “I don’t know which one would be best, and it’s so expensive that I can’t bring myself to make a quick decision. I’m sick of the whole process. Can we just order a cheap-o free phone so that I can make calls again and put this decision off until later?”

“We can,” the Belgian Wonder assured me.

“So I can get any old phone and use it indefinitely … but if at some point I want to get something nicer, I can upgrade without incurring a penalty?”

“Yes.”

“Let’s just do it. I don’t want to talk about it anymore. I don’t want to look at another review. Just pick one that you think will work.”

I assumed I would end up with a black flip phone with giant buttons, since that was the bottom-of-the-line free phone on display in the Sprint store.

The Belgian Wonder logged onto Sprint.com and thanks to an “upgrade discount,” found several options far more attractive than the black flip phone. One was a groovy, eco-friendly smartphone called “Reclaim.”

It was free.

Here it is straight out of the box. The only decision I had to make was whether to order it in “earth green” or “ocean blue.”

I chose “ocean blue,” obviously. For those of you who know my hankering for the beach, it was a no-brainer. But the green would have been fine. I like grass and trees and other green things like this tree frog, for example.

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I digress.

It’s got a qwerty keyboard. Texting should be a lot faster.

The cnet Reclaim review explained, “The Samsung Reclaim SPH-M560 also is made from recycled plastic and it comes in a box that’s also made from recycled paper. What’s more, the ink on the user manual is soy-based. Yet, the Reclaim goes a step further by offering more features than the Renew and a full QWERTY keyboard.”

In other words, as cnet pointed out in summary, it’s not only a green gimmick; it actually has some fairly well-designed, useful features.

The only cost we incurred was this carrying case. The Belgian Wonder thought I should have one, since I’ll be tossing it in my purse, backpack or coat pocket.

It took a while to charge, but here it is with its grass-blade-theme background design lit up.

We didn’t upgrade to data plan yet, so it’s simply a fancy-looking mobile phone with an easy keyboard for texting.

But it’s kind of cute and lightweight.

It’s no iPhone.

But it was free.

I love it when making-do surprises me with more than I expected.

Tree frog and phone photos by Ann Kroeker.

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Improve Your Memory: MMM January 2010

December 28, 2009 By 3 Comments

Mega Memory Month Returns January 2010!

Our extended family’s white elephant exchange included some bags stuffed full of odd items picked up at a dollar store, included this minibook:

Can you believe it?

Just in time for Mega Memory Month January 2010 I secured a copy of Improving Your Memory for Dummies, by John B. Arden, PhD, Director of Training for Psychology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers.

Here’s an excerpt to get us thinking about memory work from the heading:

Feeding your brain properly

Your ability to remember depends on a number of factors, first of which is maintaining a healthy brain through adequate nourishment. To ensure that your brain works at an optimum level, follow these guidelines:

  • Maintain a balanced diet. What you eat affects your brain’s chemistry. Eating the right foods at the right time gives your body the building blocks to manufacture brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters not only affect your mood and ability to think clearly, but also your ability to remember. A simple, balanced meal consists of a carbohydrate, a protein, and a fruit or vegetable. Eating a balanced meal three times a day can provide you with a sound foundation for your brain and its memory.
  • Take the right supplements. Vitamins and herbs can support your brain’s ability to produce good memory skills. Specific vitamins, such as some of the B vitamins, help form the building blocks for healthy brain chemistry. Other vitamins, such as vitamin E, help your brain cleanse itself of bad chemicals. Herbs such as ginkgo, have been used to enhance the circulation of blood in the brain.
  • Get regular exercise. Exercise enhances your memory because it helps your brain get the nutrients that it needs. Every time you exercise, you increase your respiratory rate, your metabolism, and your energy level.

Avoiding foods, drinks, and drugs that depress memory

Foods, drinks, and chemicals that your brain is exposed to have major effects on your memory.

Warning: If you eat junk food loaded with sugar, you set yourself up to crash, finding yourself full of anxiety and short of short-term memory. Similarly, if you drink too much caffeine, the liquid anxiety scatters your thoughts and shatters your memory ability. If you consume caffeine and sugar on an empty stomach, your mood and memory skills will plummet quickly. (Arden 13-14)

In summary, it appears that as we work toward memorizing something meaningful … something mega, we can support (or avoid impeding) our efforts by eating a balanced diet, taking the right supplements (he didn’t provide much guidance on that topic), and exercising.

Will you join me in January?

Memorizing something is a mega-powerful way to start out the new year. You can work on almost anything and reap benefits—I’ve enjoyed including poetry in my Mega Memory Month selections during previous MMM challenges, for example—but this time my focus is exclusively Scripture. I want to exercise my mind and feed my soul; for me, memorizing a passage from the Bible is an important thing I can do to make truth readily accessible to ponder and pray.

Here’s what I recommend as you prepare:

  1. Pray about your selection.
  2. Type up and print out the passage you plan to memorize (consider using card stock for durability as you tote it around with you for a month).
  3. Devise a plan. Try to come up with an approach to memorizing that you can try out from the start. See the two links below for suggestions. (And according to Dr. Arden’s Dummies advice, be sure to eat right, take supplements and exercise your body!)

  4. Join the challenge!

On January 1st, I’ll create a January 2010 Mega Memory Month carnival headquarters.

For an entire month, we’ll all work on our passages together and report back each week on our progress (Mondays).

At the end of the month, we’ll celebrate together whatever we managed to take in.

You won’t be alone.

I hope many will join the Mega Memory Month challenge in January, but you will have me along for the ride, at the very least.

I’m not an expert at memorizing, but I’ll be working hard.

And I’ll do my best to encourage you along the way.

• Click HERE for my mega collection of memorization tips and techniques.

• Visit Holy Experience for more inspiration and practical suggestions for memorizing Scripture.

Our minds (and hearts!) can hold more than we think they can.

Work Cited: Arden, John B.  Improving Your Memory for Dummies. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2009. Print.

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Christmas Snapshots

December 26, 2009 By 1 Comment

“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).

After we opened our stockings Christmas morning, we headed to the kitchen table where we lit all of the candles in our Advent wreath, including the Christ candle.

We reminded ourselves of each candle’s meaning, read some excerpts from Luke 2 and prayed, spending some time remembering and focusing on the “face of Christ.”

We were excited to read that some traditions continue to light and enjoy the Advent wreath during the twelve days leading up to Epiphany (Jan. 6), the 12 days of Christmas. It’s a great excuse to ponder its symbolism longer, so we’re going to leave it up during family meals.

Later, after our gift exchange, we piled into the minivan and headed to a gathering of our extended family, where I took some pictures of hands.

I missed some important hands, however, so I’ll have to set up an additional photo shoot.

Hope you have time to reflect on some of the significant moments of your Christmas season.

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Food on Fridays: Christmas Day

December 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Merry Christmas!

If you happen to have a food-related post you’d like to include in today’s Food on Fridays, by all means, link it up.

Here’s a Mr. Linky tutorial:

Write up a post, publish, then return here and click on Mr. Linky below. A screen will pop up where you can type in your blog name and paste in the url to your own Food on Fridays post (give us the exact link to your Food on Fridays page, not just the link to your blog).

You can also visit other people’s posts by clicking on Mr. Linky and then clicking participants’ names–you should be taken straight to their posts.

Please note: I return when possible during the day and update this post by hand to include a list of the links provided via Mr. Linky. If I can’t get to the computer to do so, you may access them all by clicking on the Mister Linky logo.

Food on Fridays Participants

1. Never Fail Pie Crust, Awards and Giveaway

Food on Fridays with Ann

You are absolutely welcome here and I’m glad to share this space with you on Christmas Day.

What’s your Christmas breakfast like?

In the morning we’re having cinnamon rolls from a can.

We were going to have Trader Joe’s chocolate croissants like this:

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But we made a mistake and bought “mini croissants” instead (with no chocolate).

Once we realized our mistake and shed a few tears, we agreed we would be fine with plain croissants—perhaps with a bit of Nutella spread on them while warm—and cinnamon rolls from a can.

While enjoying the Nutella-smeared croissants and rolls, we’ll light the Christ candle in our Advent wreath, read some Scripture, pray, and then exchange gifts … all while dealing with a sugar high first thing in the morning.

I hope we can keep our focus.

Small traditions help keep our focus.

The Christ candle (which was, by the way, the unity candle at our wedding) is placed in the center of the Advent wreath as a reminder.

It reminds me that’s right where He belongs in my life, as well … in the center.

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It's Not Easy to Wrap Love

December 24, 2009 By 2 Comments

Our eight-year-old son’s gift list has remained short.

“I really don’t want much for Christmas,” he announced. “All I want for Christmas is an art kit … and love.”

“An art kit should be pretty easy to wrap,” I said, “but how will I wrap up a box of love?”

On Wednesday at HighCallingBlogs.com I posted an article exploring this whole idea of trying to wrap up love.

And as I wrote, I realized that Love cannot be—and isn’t meant to be—contained.

Join me at HighCallingBlogs to read the full post HERE.

HighCallingBlogs.com Christian Blog Network

Image by: Abdulaziz Almansour. “Gift,” 5 April 2009. stock.xchng. Web. 24 Dec. 2009. <http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1169782>
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Owlhaven on GMA!

December 22, 2009 By 1 Comment

This morning I flipped on Good Morning America and saw Mary Ostyn’s (of Owlhaven) cookbook spotlighted on a segment featuring the best cookbooks of 2009!

Pop over to THIS POST and you can enter to win one of five copies of her cookbook Family Feasts for $75 a Week.

Mary and her husband have ten children: four biological and six adopted. Mary’s experience of raising many kids inspired her not only to create a money-saving cookbook but also to write a book entitled A Sane Woman’s Guide to Raising a Large Family. At the beginning of the book, Mary addresses some of the frequently asked questions that arise when Christian couples are thinking of expanding their families.

But she goes on to provide practical methods for maintaining the day-to-day challenges of keeping a large household running smoothly.

The other day, I listened quietly as two women discussed a mom who was having her eighth or ninth child; they were concerned that the parents were making an unwise decision for the family as a whole. They wondered how the parents could possibly give each child what he or she really needs.

One of those two women knows me well, and I wonder if she thinks my own family of four kids is too big. Am I giving large families a bad name? I actually thought about Mary’s book, as well: Would A Sane Woman’s Guide to Raising a Large Family provide a positive example of a healthy, well-cared-for large family? I may have to loan out my copy and see if Mary can plant seeds of optimism for those encountering larger families.

Through her blog and books, Mary shows us all—regardless of how many kids we have—that raising a vibrant family can be done creatively, positively, lovingly, and enthusiastically.

It’s fun to follow Mary at Owlhaven.net. She seeks to help her readers make the most of their resources in order to have the greatest possible impact on the world, beginning with their families.

Meet Mary at Owlhaven and be inspired.

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Food on Fridays: Gingerbread with Lemon Sauce

December 17, 2009 By 12 Comments

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome. Recipes are enjoyed, but you can describe your Christmas menu. I actually would be interested to know what you have for breakfast and the main meal.

Anyway, my point is that the Food on Fridays parameters are not at all narrow. I think of it as a virtual pitch-in where everyone brings something to share; even if the content of one item is unrelated to the rest, we sample it all anyway and have a great time.

When your Food on Fridays contribution is ready, just grab the broccoli button (the big one above or the new smaller option at the bottom) to paste at the top of your post and join us through Mr. Linky.

Here’s a Mr. Linky tutorial:

Write up a post, publish, then return here and click on Mr. Linky below. A screen will pop up where you can type in your blog name and paste in the url to your own Food on Fridays post (give us the exact link to your Food on Fridays page, not just the link to your blog).

You can also visit other people’s posts by clicking on Mr. Linky and then clicking participants’ names–you should be taken straight to their posts.

Please note: I return when possible during the day and update this post by hand to include a list of the links provided via Mr. Linky. If I can’t get to the computer to do so, you may access them all by clicking on the Mister Linky logo.

1. Lynns Kit Adv (olive cheese spread)

2. Hoosier Homemade( Chocolate Meringue Pie)

3. Tara @ Feels like home (cheeseburger soup)

4. Kitchen Stewardship (3 Easy Changes to Healthy Eating)

5. Kristen (hot mulled cider)

 6. Stretch Mark Mama (Soft Ginger Cookies)

7. Merry Merry Muncies Giveaway (Pimiento Cheese Biscuits)

8. Newlyweds (Apple Strudel)

9. Sara (chocolate coconut neopolitans)

10. April@ The 21st Century Housewife (Shepherd’s Pie)

 11. Hallee the Homemaker – Stuffed Red Velvet Cookies

12. Geri@ heartnsoulcooking( holiday side dishes)

13. Marcia@ Frugalhomekeeping( Aldi’s Home for the Holidays Cook Book)

14. Carla (Remarkable Fudge)

15. Leftovers On Purpose (Pizza Crust)

Food on Fridays with Ann

Next Friday is Christmas Day. If I think of it, I’ll toss up a Christmas greeting with a Mr. Linky for super-motivated foodies, but don’t hold me to it.

When I was visiting some of last week’s Food on Fridays participants, I was particularly intrigued by the very first link.

Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker linked to a recipe for Gingerbread with Lemon Sauce.

I’ve never made gingerbread before. The kids have never tasted it.

So I decided to give it a try.

Yum!

Some of the kids weren’t too keen on the lemon sauce, but they’re picky eaters. So we won’t count their votes.

Most of us devoured our first serving and helped ourselves to a second.

She described this gingerbread as a cake-y, warm, “Old World” version that she found in a 1936 Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook.  The lemon sauce recipe comes from the 1945 American Woman’s Cook Book.

Click on THIS LINK for her recipe.

Here is a brief pictorial of my first experience making gingerbread.

First I was startled by the amount of molasses required. One whole cup used up half the bottle. It smells a little weird, too, so I was glad none of the kids wandered in at this point.

What is molasses, anyway? I wondered this, and in the spirit of lifelong learning, I looked it up. Unlike my industrious son who heaved open the giant Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, I simply clicked on Merriam-Webster online.

What is molasses? Click HERE for dictionary definition. Click HERE for Wikipedia explanation. Click HERE to read about the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919.

One of the kids came into the kitchen and asked what I was baking.

“Gingerbread,” I answered.

“Oh! Is it gingerbread cookies?”

“No, it’s gingerbread.”

“Can we make it into a gingerbread house?”

“No, it’s just gingerbread. It will be like cake.”

“Oh.”

I repeated that exchange almost verbatim three times with three different kids.

Never made lemon sauce before. I think it turned out right.

Most of my baking takes place at night when there’s no natural light, so these pictures never turn out all that great.

Nevertheless, here it is. A slice of gingerbread with lemon sauce.

I don’t really have a particular holiday treat that everyone waits all year for me to make. I thought this could be the thing. I loved it and would make it again and again.

I suspect that the kids, however, would prefer that I try making the dough for a gingerbread man, instead.

Anyone have a good gingerbread cookie recipe for me to try?

May you enjoy many delicious Christmas memories!

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