Faith, Home, & Family
**This post is sponsored by Campbell Soup Company
I try to cook healthy meals for my family. I share my weekly dinner menu here every Monday. I cook supper for seven people every night, yes, seven! lol Among those seven, one is on a low sodium diet, one is a diabetic, and one can’t eat wheat. Heart disease also runs in the family. So cooking heart healthy meals is important to me, too.
Iesodo (pronounced Yay-Sa-Doe), is a wise dove whose name means “The Way of Jesus”. He and his lovable feathered friends live in the Holy Land in a beautiful Cypress Tree on the shores of a vast Lake (the Sea of Galilee to us). It’s a pretty cool tree, too. With hollowed out branches for the birds to live and play in. The birds are an unlikely group of friends, and though they have their differences, they have one thing in common: since they met Iesodo, their lives have never been the same!
Friday was my daughter’s volleyball banquet. It was a pot luck, Asian meal. I brought Mongolian Beef. It was a great evening for all the girls, coaches, and parents. It was also the boy’s basketball banquet. So it was a great night with lots of homeschoolers. Here’s a picture of the serving table. One of those many silver crockpots is mine. lol
I like to make a lot of my own kitchen helpers. Sauces, salad dressings, seasoning mixes. I like knowing exactly what is in everything. And homemade is much more economical.
So in my quest to make more of my own kitchen helpers, I developed a Homemade Enchilada Sauce recipe. I used it in these pans of enchiladas.
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
and the book:
Jenny’s Choice
I didn’t do much out, apart from the usual meals, this week. I did make a double batch of granola bars for my daughter to take to her three day long state volleyball tournament.
I recently received a copy of the new book The A-Z of C.S. Lewis to review.
Purchase a copy: http://ow.ly/tzmgH (Not an affiliate link)
About the Author:
Colin Duriez was for many years a commissioning editor at Inter-Varsity Press UK. He has subsequently appeared as a commentator on DVDs of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, and BBC television’s The Worlds of Fantasy. He is also the author of The Inklings Handbook (with the late David Porter), J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Story of Their Friendship, and Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, and has contributed to definitive reference works relating to Tolkien such as The Tolkien Encyclopedia (Routledge).The A-Z of C.S. Lewis by Colin Curiez is a comprehensive book of everything C.S. Lewis. It’s not just a book to read, it’s written in encyclopedia format. The book is over 350 pages. It covers everything about C.S. Lewis. From his life, marriage, and friends to his career, writings, and everything in between.
Also included in the encyclopedia like entries are references and content of his books. The Narnia books are heavily represented, with entries for characters, worlds, and vocabulary.
This book is for you if you are reading Narnia or one of his other books for school, or want to learn more about this Narnia everyone is talking about. If your a C.S. Lewis fan in general, you will love this book. I love the ease of finding information. Now when my son asks me a Narnia question, as he often does, lol, I will be able to quickly and easily find an answer for him. And we both will be happy.
The A-Z of C.S. Lewis is an excellent reference book for all ages.
*Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a copy of this book for review purposes. I received no other compensation. I was not required to write a positive review. My opinions are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
