Read Courtney and Edie today and was so encouraged. This is why I love the blogosphere! 🙂
Vietnam Fried Rice
This is not my recipe…its my sister Dianne’s. But like a lot of my life I copied it from her. 🙂
It’s purpose is to save your day by being:
- delicious,
- easy,
- fast,
- economical,
- made with things you have on hand,
- a one-dish meal,
- able to feed a crowd
- and healthful. (you can use brown rice, less oil and more veggies, or SUPERveggies, to make it ever so much more so.)
Ingredients:
Flexible Amount of Either: chicken, beef (leftover diced steak, ground sirloin, chopped up hot dogs) ham, shrimp, or no meat at all. (you could even add egg if that’s your thing, but I like fried rice at home because it doesn’t have eggs in it!!)
3 cups cooked rice
3 cloves chopped garlic
1 finely chopped onion
1 tsp each: salt, pepper, sugar
3 Tbsp. oil
1 Tbsp. soy sauce
1 bag frozen veggies or 2 cups fresh uncooked ~ I have used mixed, baby broccoli, peas and carrots, cut green beans, 1/2″ pieces of asparagus, chopped fresh spinach, etc. What’s in your fridge or freezer, or what goes down the hatch, or what you are working on making appealing are good places to start
Method:
Stir fry onion and garlic in oil, add meat and cook until done or heated through. Add salt, pepper, sugar, and soy sauce. Then add rice and stir to ditribute seasonings evenly throughout. Add veggies last, and serve immediately when they are heated through or to desired doneness. Enjoy!
~Denice
Last friday Jeff and I heard from two separate (in one day!) dear ones, a close friend, and a ministry partner that they are in a fiery trial of illness. Two men that we love – for who they are, for their true fellowship, for the joy they bring to our lives, for their families, for their love for God and for their love for His word. Men who have served us in a myriad of ways~ by godly counsel, by teaching God’s word, by their kindness and friendship…….and most powerfully by example. We cried and prayed and still pray. Please no suffering for these, Lord!
And yet, here are some of God’s words that each one has mentioned through the years….
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Rom 5:1-3)
We are so thankful that we can rest in their faith….we know that these trials will not be in vain. They know their God and they rest in him. They live for His glory and though there will be a fight, we know they are strong warriors, decked in the armor of God, who have shown us how to bear the sword well, whom we have seen in battle. The enemy doesn’t stand a chance. God will be glorified, lives will be changed, the gospel will shine forth from this suffering. Christ is the victor, and he will uphold them with his righteous right hand; they are more than conquerors.
To our brothers: Paul said, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” (Rom 8:18) We pray the spirit enables you, through every single moment of this trial, to believe and say this with your whole hearts; that you will rejoice in the hope of the glory of God in your fiery trial. God is your portion and the strength of your hearts; he is faithful; His nearness is your good. We praise him for you~ and how he will continue to make your lives a beacon of His glory and grace as you walk the path ahead, setting your mind on things above. We love you and we are praying for you.
“Among all the realities of the invisible world, mediated to us by the disclosures and promises of God, and to which our faith responds, there is none that more strongly calls into action this faculty for grasping the unseen than the divine pronouncement through the Gospel, that, though sinners, we are righteous in the judgment of God. That is not only the invisible, it seems the impossible; it is the paradox of all paradoxes; it requires a unique energy of believing; it is the supreme victory of faith over the apparent reality of things; it credits God with calling the things that are not as though they were; it penetrates more deeply into the deity of God than any other act of faith.” Richard Vos
Natalie got Married! Due to finances and time, only JD, Eden and I flew to Seattle for the event which was in Poulsbo. Jeff’s quote: “we can’t spend $5k whenever someone gets married or buried.” ~such is life with a large family!~ It was a beautiful setting! Eden was a junior bridesmaid, and JD enjoyed the “backyard” (actually a boy’s outdoor adventure haven) of my brother Dave…. as well as the digEplayer on Alaska airlines. What do you expect from a ten year old boy? Seattle is a city near to my heart, and full of precious memories. I had fun showing them the Pike Place Market, taking them on a ferry where Jeff asked me to marry him (especailly missed him there!) and of course being with family. Mostly I am thankful to the Lord for bringing together Natalie and Evan, and pray that with time they are increasingly grateful to Him for the precious and gracious gift of marriage. Hope to put up more pictures with more time later!
