In His Presence

The Good Smells of Home

Mmmmmmmmmm.......the house smells so yummy.  My mother has be lovingly showing me how to make some of our favorite dishes and soups.  Yesterday, she and I made salisbury steak, potato soup, chili, and stuffed cabbage.  Usually, my mother uses her preassure cooker for cooking the stuffed cabbage.  It is the same preassure cooker that belonged to my grandmother. After about 60 years, it has finally given up after it has made many, many yummy meals for 3 generations.  We now are cooking the stuffed cabbage in the crock pot.  Yes, the crock pot.  We started it yesterday late afternoon and this morning, I put it back in the cros pot to finish.  Ohhhh, how it smells just delicious!  I also have my McIntosh and Peach Yankee candle burning.  Today, the house is rather quiet.  I have so traditional Christian hymns playing and hear the humming of the washer going.  The dishes are drying in the dish drain.  In a few moments, I will work a little on my cross stitching.  I am working on angels now.  Slowly they are coming along.  But, I have a huge project I want to start today that will take some months to work on.  I love making gifts, wspecially for Christmas.  Last year, I made everyone in my family a new Christmas stocking done in cross-stitch and filled them with little goodies inside.  It was such a thrill to see everyones faces that now, my family has requested that for their gifts this year, they would love their stockings re-filled.  I do not know which I enjoyed more, making each person a stocking that is personal to them or finding little trinkets throughout the year to fill them with.  That is one mission this year for me.  But, the gift that I am going to make for each family member is a cookbook full of family favorite recipes.  There is a company, Morris Press Cookbooks, that will piblish your recipes for you.  The prices seem reasonable.  I would not need many and there are so many options to work with.  I am working on gathering recipes from my mother's recipe box and having her show me how to make things that there are not a recipe card for.  I have to copy her recipe cards when no one is home because I do not want to spoil this surprise.  It was ironic because last weekend, my family gathered together over my brother and sister in laws home for my brothers birthday for a belated birthday meal.  My brother and sister in law enjoy entertaining and my brother asked my mother for her chicken noodle soup recipe and my sister in law has occasionally askend my mother to teach her how to cook.  I had to chuckle to myself because of the project that I am working on for Christmas. 

I pray that all who visit will have a blessed day.

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{ 12:31 , Thursday, January 24, 2008 } { Posted by paschalhome }

Macintosh and Peach is one of my FAVORITE Yankee Candles. I bet your house DOES smell good.

I'm trying to work on a recipe book for my sister right now. She just got married and is always calling around for recipes. I'm looking forward to getting it all out together! Have fun!!