I'm being published again!!

I was notified, yesterday, that I am being published in another Gooseberry Patch cookbook! I was so excited to see that it was Hannah's Lemon Bars that made the new Sunday Dinner at Grandma's cookbook! What a perfect book title to host my recipe!
These Lemon Bars are my daughter's favorite! She was so excited when I told her they were being published... I had to make a batch to celebrate!

Hannah's Lemon Bars
For crust:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened

For filling:
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 TBSP all-purpose flour
1/4 cup lemon juice

Add'l powdered sugar to sprinkle on top

Combine flour, sugar, and butter; pat in to a greased 13X9X2 in baking pan. (I used a glass dish..seems to bake better)
Bake at 350* for 20 minutes.
In a bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, flour and lemon juice until frothy; pour over the hot crust.
Bake at 350* for 20 - 25 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
Cool on a wire rack. Dust with powder sugar. Cut in to squares.
Makes about 3 to 4 dozen small squares.
But I cut them bigger, so it only makes about 2 dozen!

They are gooey and oh so good! Be sure not to breath through your nose when taking a bite...you might suck up some powder sugar or blow it off the bar!! :-)

The Incredible Edible....Turkey!

It's almost that time again...I'm already going through my books trying to find a craft to make with my grandchildren this year.
I want to share the craft we did last year. They had so much fun making this edible turkey. My older kids got involved with it too! Forgive the photos...they turned out a little blurry.

Here is the list of 'items' that you will need:
Oreo cookies
Malted Milk Balls
Peanut Butter cups
Squeeze icing in brown , white (for glue) and yellow
Candy corn

*First off...open the bag of Oreo cookies. You might as well go ahead and eat one, because you know you want to!
*'Glue' one Oreo, with brown icing, standing up, on the other. See photo.
*Open the bag of peanut butter cups. Eat two of these...one is never enough, three is too many.
"Glue', with brown icing, the peanut butter cup to the Oreos with the small part of the cup to the back. Again...see photo.
*'Glue' the malt ball on top of the peanut butter cup.
*Open the candy corn bag....you can eat as many of these that you want. They are addicting!!
Squeeze a thin line of white icing, on the creamy filling, along the top of the Oreo that is standing up. Carefully insert at least 6 candy corn, point side down, in to the icing and slightly in to the creamy filling. If you push too hard or too much, the cookie will split open. Then you'll have to eat it and start all over.
*Now, cut off, then eat, the big end off a candy corn, to make the beak for the Turkey. Attach this beak to the malt ball with some white or brown 'glue'.
*Make two dots with the white icing for the eyes.
*Add a little bit of yellow icing to the top of the beak to make that floppy thing that hangs off the turkeys face.
*Draw, with the yellow icing, feet for the turkey.
*Now, go back and add two brown dots in the middle of the white dots to complete the eyes. You had to let the white dot dry a little first.

Now, isn't that the cutest little turkey ever?

Another good day!

Why do I worry? Oh yea..I'm human! How does that saying go? "Why do I worry? Because every time I worry, nothing happens!"
I had another good report at the Oncologist today! My cancer has not spread! Wooo Hooo...yay me! Yay God! He has really blessed me since I was diagnosed with this cancer! After first receiving bad news like this...How can that be, you ask?
God allows things to happen to us for a reason. The reason for my cancer? I don't know exactly. But He has used me time and time again to help someone else who is going through their own share of bad news. God always gives me the words to say. For that alone, I am blessed.
Oh, I'm not going to lie and say I don't fear bad news. Remember?...I'm human! But, when I do, I go to the verse I posted on my fridge...."He does not fear bad news nor live in dread of what may happen, For he is settled in his mind that Jehovah will take care of him" Psalm 112:7 That is now my life verse. My friend, Leslie, and I toss that verse back and forth to each other right before our check up appointments. She is a breast cancer survivor! Woo Hooo! Yay for her! Yay God...again!
Have you ever thought or been asked "why is this happening to me?" I can honestly say "I don't know" but not until I encourage them to find good in what has happened. But, you have to look for it. Ask yourself "How can I use what I'm going through to help someone else or even help myself?"
For those of you who know me personally, you know that my life is an open (very dramatic) book. I've experienced so much in my life...this cancer is just a new chapter in my book. It too, will come to an end one day and I'll begin another chapter...be it good or bad...it will happen.
In the meantime, I will continue on with my book...my life. I am still alive..therefore I will keep on living!!