March 2007 Archives

This tasty dish adds a bit of zip to traditional lamb and makes a perfect Easter Dinner! Serve Margaritas for cocktails, and white wine with the lamb! A nice desert would be key lime pie. Ahhh, the taste of Spring in Colorado.

Lamb Chops with Jalapeno Jelly Yield: 2 to 3 servings

4 to 6 lamb chops, either rib or loin, cut at least 1 inch thick
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons good-quality olive oil, preferably Spanish
1 Tablespoon fresh minced rosemary leaves, or 1 ½ teaspoons dried rosemary
1 Tablespoon crushed Caribe chile
Jalapeno Jelly

1. Trim any hard fat from around the edge of each chop.

2. Combine garlic, olive oil, rosemary and Caribe chile in a small bowl. Spread garlic mixture thinly over surface of each chop. Allow to stand 30 minutes.

3. Preheat grill to high or broil, or 550 F. Place rack 3 to 4 inches above heat.

4. Place chops on rack and grill until browned on outside and rate to medium on inside, about 4 minutes.

5. Serve with side of jalapeno jelly.

Jalapeno jelly

Yield: 5 jars, 1 cup each

3 large bell peppers, cored, seeded and finely chopped
3 medium-size jalapeno chiles for mild jelly, cored, seeded and finely chopped
6 chiles for hot jelly
1 ½ cups cider vinegar
6 ½ cups sugar
6 ounces bottled liquid pectin

1. Scrub out five 1-cup jelly jars with resealable lids. Boil jars in water while preparing jelly.

2. Chop, blend or process the peppers and chile. Combine with the vinegar and sugar in a large, heavy saucepan.

3. Bring to a boil and boil, stirring frequently, until the mixture becomes transparent, about 30 minutes.

4. Remove from heat and cool for about 10 minutes, then stir in the pectin.

5. Return to the heat and boil, stirring constantly, for 2 more minutes.

6. Remove from heat, skim, and ladle into the hot sterilized jars; seal at once.

7. In a large pan that will hold all the jars with space for water to circulate, place jars on a trivet. Add water to reach 1 inch over the tops of the lids. Boil for 15 minutes. Remove and cool.

This is a recipe for "real" Key Lime pie. Real Key lime pie is not green and it does not have a soft "pudding" texture. The pie gets its true pale yellow color from the egg yolks that predominate the ingredient list. And the texture is a "firm custard". Be careful that you don't over-bake the pie or it will be "rubbery". For best results use fresh Key Limes, not bottled juice. The traditional preparation does not put any meringue on the top of the pie. This is a very simple recipe and only takes a few minutes to prepare and 12 minutes to bake.

i n g r e d i e n t s (crust)
16 graham crackers, crushed
3 tablespoons sugar
1 cube (1/4 lb) margarine or butter

d i r e c t i o n s (crust)
Mix the ingredients and press them into a 9" pie plate. Bake in a preheated 350F oven for 10 - 12 minutes until lightly browned. Place on a rack to cool.

i n g r e d i e n t s (pie)
4 large or extra large egg yolks
1 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup fresh key lime juice (approximately 12 Key limes)
2 teaspoons grated lime peel, green portion only
Whipping cream for garnish (optional)

d i r e c t i o n s (pie)
Use an electric mixer and beat the egg yolks until they are thick and turn to a light yellow, don't over mix. Turn the mixer off and add the sweetened condensed milk. Turn speed to low and mix in half of the lime juice. Once the juice is incorporated add the other half of the juice and the zest, continue to mix until blended (just a few seconds). Pour the mixture into the pie shell and bake at 350F for 12 minutes to set the yolks and kill any salmonella in the eggs.

s e r v i n g
If you are using the whipping cream garnish, prepare the cream. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream.

If you are facing any challenge in your life, such as health, money or relationship, then say thank you! Give gratitude to God for offering you this chance to grow, learn and change your thinking. Gratitude, you ask? Yes! Make your challenge "OK". Make it OK and watch it transform. It may seem like an impossible request, however when you start giving gratitude for everything you have in your life, and then step beyond that and give gratitude for your "issues", healing takes place. The empty places are filled with God's love and the loneliness is gone.

We are trained to complain, judge and project our beliefs and thoughts onto the world. But we are not of the world. We are of God - God's creation - and we are good! So is everything that happens in our life. It is a perfect plan, and God is in charge! We are given free choice, and if a previous choice is bringing you pain, then change your mind and expect a different outcome. You are so blessed, so "gifted" by God that creativity and abundance are at your fingertips. You have to see it and accept it. But that's just a switch you flip in your mind.

Think about how quick you accept negativity and hurts and sadness. Just flip the switch and turn those negative feelings into feelings of gratitude! You will heal yourself and your world. Promise! :)

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This information is not new, but delivered in a way that everyone can understand, enjoy and relate to. However, if you really want to start manifesting in your life, manifesting the good, loving, peaceful, abundant things and ways - you not only need to "think" about what you want, "visualize" what you want, but "take action" to achieve what you want. We Americans can tend to be dreamers and lazy. We don't often want to take time to actually bring our dreams into manifestation. We just want "someone to do it for us" and we project that onto God, the Universe, or someone or something outside of us. “Ain't gonna� happen that way Wisewomen! The only way your dreams and creativity become a reality is first acknowledge the Source, then take creative action. The "idea" can be from God and when you get your ego out of the way, sure enough creativity and Providence step in to give you GREAT ideas to act upon. Try opening to God every day in prayer and ask, what would you have me do, God? Then listen, then take action. You will be amazed at the changes that take place in as little as 30 days. Have fun with it and your millionaire life will be more than you ever expected. God wants us to be joyful. If “it ain't fun, it ain't God�! Make it a great day!

How many members of your sign does it take to change a light bulb?

ARIES: Just one. You want to make something of it?

TAURUS: One, but just try to convince them that the burned-out bulb is useless and should be thrown away.

GEMINI: Two, but the job never gets done--they just keep discussing who is supposed to do it and how it's suppose to be done!

CANCER: Just one. But it takes a therapist three years to help them through the grieving process.

LEO: Leos don't change light bulbs, although sometimes their agent will get a Virgo in to do the job for them while they're out.

VIRGO: Approximately 1.000000 with an error of +/- one millionth.

LIBRA: Er, two. Or maybe one. No, on second thought, make that two. Is that okay with you?

SCORPIO: That information is strictly secret and shared only with the Enlightened Ones in the Star Chamber of the Ancient Hierarchical Order.

Or.....

.....None. Scorpios LIKE the dark!

SAGITTARIUS: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned-out light bulb?

CAPRICORN: I don't waste my time with these childish jokes.

AQUARIUS: Well, you have to remember that everything is energy, so.....

PISCES: Light bulb? What light bulb?