Cucumber Bites with Herb Cream Cheese and Cherry Tomatoes

Cucumber Bites with Herb Cream Cheese and Cherry 

Tomatoes

Needed:

4 Ounces (1 Brick) Cream Cheese, Softened to room temperature
1/4 Cup Ranch Dressing (Yes, good old Hidden Valley)
2 TBS Dill (can use other spices... Thyme is excellent also)
3-4 Long Cucumbers. skinned and Slice into thirty 1 inch slices
15 Cherry Tomatoes, sliced in half
Additional Sprinkle of Salt (to Taste, Careful, little goes a long way)
Additional Sprinkle of Spice (same as used in Cream Cheese) for Garnish
Additional Sprinkle of Paprika OR a Cajun Spice Mix (optional) for Garnish (and an extra kick if you use the Cajun Mix)

Directions:

1) First, Make up the HERB CREAM CHEESE, in a stand mixer, mix the softened Cream Cheese with the Ranch dressing and herbs. Mix until well combined. Spoon into a piping bag with a star tip.
2) Prepare the Cucumber, remove peel, Using a fork, score the sides. Slice into 1 inch pieces. Using a melon Baller, remove a portion of the center of one side of the piece of cucumber, leaving a half moon crater.
3) Pipe the Herb Cream Cheese into the crater. Enough to stick out of the top about 1/2 inch.
4) Add a half Cherry Tomato partially buried into the Herb Cream Cheese
5) Sprinkle additional salt, herbs and spice mix for additional color. Chill in the fridge until ready to serve.
6) Serve Chilled and ENJOY!

Credit to http://erecipecards.blogspot.com/2014/09/cucumber-bites-with-herb-cream-cheese.html

Thoughts......






Sometimes I get these feelings, feelings that I can't explain. They come on suddenly and I don't know why. Like right now for instance, all of the sudden I have this overwhelming feeling of sadness. I didn't see anything sad, I haven't heard anything sad and I wasn't thinking sad thoughts.  It isn't always sadness that I feel either, I have had a flash wave of different emotion at one time or another anger, frustration, fear.......discomfort. They always come out of the blue. Most of the time I react without thinking about why I am feel that way but then there are days like today when I am just being still and an emotion washes over me and I am suddenly puzzled on top of the other emotion. 


Where does it come from and why? My thoughts are that I am feel these emotions for/from someone else. Let me explain. I think that the feeling actually come from the Holy Spirit. I think they are transferred from someone else that is experiencing intense emotions. When I am feeling calm and can realize that they aren't truly my emotions ( I have no explanation as to why I might be feeling that way) I often feel a prompting to pray too. 


I don't know if it someone that I know going through something or if it is a stranger that is struggling with something but I try to follow God's leading and pray through the emotions that I am feeling. 


Have you ever felt this way?

Who I am.

(According to Neil T. Anderson, on his book Living Free in Christ by Regal Books 1993)

In Christ I am accepted:

John 1:12                               I am God's child.

John 15:15                             I am Christ's friend.

Romans 5:1                           I have been justified.

1 Corinthians 6:17                I am united with the Lord and one with Him in spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:20                I have been bought with a price -1 belong to God.

1 Corinthians 12:27              I am a member of Christ's body.

Ephesians 1:1                       I am a saint.

Ephesians 1:5                       I have been adopted as God's child.

Ephesians 2:18                     I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 1:14                    I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins.

Colossians 2:10                    I am complete in Christ.

In Christ I am Secure:

Romans 8:12                         I am free from condemnation.                    

Romans 8:28                         I am assured that all things work together for good.          

Romans 8:31-34                   I am free from any condemning charges against me.

Romans 8:35-39                   I cannot be separated from the love of God.

2 Corinthians 1:21-22          I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God.

Colossians 3:3                      I am hidden with Christ in God.

Philippians 1:6                    I am confident that the good work that God has begun in me will be perfected.

Philippians 3:20                   I am a citizen of heaven.

2 Timothy 1:7                       I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.

Hebrews 4:16                       I can find grace and mercy in time of need.

1 John 5:18                           I am born of God and the evil one cannot touch me.

In Christ I am Significant:

Matthew 5:13                       I am the salt and light of the earth.

John 15:1,5                           I am a branch of die true vine, a channel of His life.

John 15:16                            I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit.

Acts 1:8                                 I am Christ's personal witness.

1 Corinthians 3:16                I am God's temple.

2 Corinthians 5:17-20           I am a minister of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 6:1                  I am God's coworker.

Ephesians 2:6                       I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realm.

Ephesians 2:10                     I am God's workmanship.

Ephesians 3:12                     I may approach God with freedom and confidence.

Philippians 4:13                   I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

I am so thankful that God see more in me then I ever could but with his grace I am starting to see more in me every day!

Cruise contest

I have entered to win passage on the Music boat Cruise 2012 through Wichita's 90.7 Wayfm and The Wally Show. Can you please take a moment and vote for us here. It just takes a minute. You can vote once a day till March 4th. It would be greatly appreciated!!!

This is the picture that you will see when you go to vote!

found the lost

*ha so this was suppose to be posted ages ago but like the things in the post this was apparently also lost and has been found!



So we have this bank envelope that we keep all the kids birth certificates, ss cards, our passports and marriage certificate (among other important papers) in. We brought it on our trip to Canada to have what we thought we needed to get their Canadian status opened (didn't get that done because of the circles you have to navigate through in the government but that's another post for another day). I realized a little over a week ago or so that I hadn't seen the envelope in a while. come to think of it I couldn't remember seeing it since we got home. The last place I can actually remember having it in mt hands was crossing the border back in to the USA. places it could have been lost between here and there included a rental car, air port, restaurant gas station..... I have stayed awake nights thinking about how I had lost my kids identities and what a head ach this could potentially be for them for years and years to come. It is with a grateful/thankful heart I can say God answered my prayers with a 'here you go my child'.  I called twice to report the passports lost today and kept hanging up because I just 'knew' they would appear!

Fonda Masterson's Chocolate chip cookies

This is the last chocolate chip cookie recipe that I will ever use!

*To start preheat oven to 375 degrees.

*Cream together 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 white sugar and 1 cup butter (2 sticks), 1 small box vanilla instant pudding (sugar free makes fluffy cookie while regular makes flatter cookies, both are yummy) & 1 tsp vanilla.

 *Get an adorable helper to crack 2 eggs.

*blend eggs into sugar mixture.

 *add 2 &1/4 cups flour, 1tsp baking soda

 *stir in 1/2 pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips.

 *drop by the spoonful onto cookie sheet and bake 9-11 minutes.

Made with Sugar free instant pudding

made with regular instant pudding

Recipe will make about 2 DOZEN cookies depending on the size. They are a soft cookie unless you over bake them then they will be more crunchy, you chose!

Strawberry Lemon aid

For one very tall glass of strawberry lemon aid:

*Melt 1/3 sugar in 1 cup of water to create a syrup.
*mix syrup with 1/2 lemon juice and 1 & 1/3 cup water
*add 3 chopped (or sliced) strawberries
*pour over ice, stir and enjoy!!!