well, I admit the beet salad is a bit "nouveau-cuisine" but it tastes so good, and otherwise it's a good southern dinner as I remember them. I was raised in Southern California, which isn't quite the same, but half my family is in Georgia and Alabama. However, our congregation in SoCal was largely black families, and there were many many potlucks, where the food was very southern (with some beans and tortillas just to make it right for soCal.) In a way, it was a good mix, Mexican food, southern food, and Pacific rim food.
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by Hortensia ini used to entertain a lot but haven't in a few years.
now my husband and i have moved to a new house and i have invited some friends for sunday dinner, to see the new house.
i am at a loss to come up with something interesting to serve.
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by Hortensia ini used to entertain a lot but haven't in a few years.
now my husband and i have moved to a new house and i have invited some friends for sunday dinner, to see the new house.
i am at a loss to come up with something interesting to serve.
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no, I won't let anyone talk me out of the beet salad - I luuuuv it too much. That's the dish to make me happy, the others are to make the rest of them happy. Same with the spoon bread, I really like it so the others will have to put up with it. Need enough veggies to satisfy a couple of vegetarians, and a big hunk of meat for the carnivores, and then, you're right, it will be a very colorful and pretty dinner. I'm feeling much more encouraged.
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by Hortensia ini used to entertain a lot but haven't in a few years.
now my husband and i have moved to a new house and i have invited some friends for sunday dinner, to see the new house.
i am at a loss to come up with something interesting to serve.
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Sweet potatoes! then it will be a semi classic southern dinner - except for the beet salad. I really like sweet potatoes - baked with minced apricots and bourbon. Dinner is at 3 a week from Sunday, if you can find your way to my house, you're invited! Thanks for the suggestions, it helps.
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by Hortensia ini used to entertain a lot but haven't in a few years.
now my husband and i have moved to a new house and i have invited some friends for sunday dinner, to see the new house.
i am at a loss to come up with something interesting to serve.
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I used to entertain a lot but haven't in a few years. Now my husband and I have moved to a new house and I have invited some friends for Sunday dinner, to see the new house. I am at a loss to come up with something interesting to serve. I am thinking of some old standbys - which are good but ordinary - what do you think of the following menu?
- sliced beets with goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette
- a nice big ham
- spoon bread
- green salad
- some veggie like green beans or cauliflower
- strawberry shortcake (home made short cake) or maybe trifle with lots of berries
obviously that menu is easy on me, and it would taste good, but is it tooooooo boring?
why don't I ask my friends what they think? Because they are the kind of people who say, "oh anything YOU make is going to be good," which is no help at all.
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King of South Still Pushing
by proplog2 inthis is a link to a rather long article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewarticle&code=eng20070220&articleid=4873.
many on this board have thrown out bible prophesy along with the watchtower.
even the watchtower has stepped away from identifying the new king of the north.
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5go: I agree.
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How did you dispose of your JW books? (Or did you?)
by exwitless inlittle drummer boy and i have a small house and we do not have room for the wasted space all of these books are creating.
here's a brief rundown of what we have:.
several nwt hardcover bibles, chinese bibles (lots of chinese students in our town), insight on the scriptures, concordances, a few bound volumes, song books, km books, reasoning books, the entire bible on audio tape, and more.
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I had all my goody two shoes well-annotated bibles, and books, and bible dictionaries, and all that crap as well as watchtwoer and awake annuals going back many years. I donated them all to a church thrift store and have no idea what they did with them. A couple of JWs, back in the day when they were still speaking to me because they had no idea what I was getting up to, asked me what I did with my books. I had a great deal of fun telling them I donated them to a church thrift store. Ha ha ha!
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The Lord's prayer, why JW's never say it
by moomanchu inwe all know it's not an issue if people say the lord's prayer or not, but except for the fact that jw's make it an issue.
to them it's kinda like the boogie man and to say it makes you part of christendom, ripe for destruction.. this thread is in response to another thread.i finally took some time to look into information to make a reply.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/130602/2.ashx.
a jw commented on that thread.
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I always wondered about that. It is certainly a nicer prayer than the repetitious drivel that served for prayers in the KH. Some of which were quite long and meandering, just the thing the scripture was recommending against.
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Should I Stay or should I go?
by Tyrone van leyen ini have been pondering a dilema.
it is one which has repeated itself many times over the years.
my parents have been helping me, and being very nice to me in the last couple of years.
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"They even mention to me that they feel so saad that our time together is limited because harmaggedon is coming and I won't be there in the new system."
do you realize how sick that is?
you are in an awkward position becuase you rely on them for financial assistance. You won't be really free until you pay your own way in life - I don't know your circumstances, but it is an issue you will have to resolve sooner or later. In the meantime, you will be stuck playing games with them - they using their money to make you feel obligated and you using their love to get the help you need. There is no easy answer for you. If you go to the meeting, then they'll want something else. If you don't they may withhold support. Whoooo - what a balancing act.
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Is the end really coming?
by themonster123 inwell, as anyone on this board knows i"m a newbie....and witnesses kind of are scaring me with their "end is coming" business.
basically, cuz of three things:.
1) the last convention was called "jehovah's day at hand!
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There's a really interesting book on that subject, "Archetype of the Apocalypse: A Jungian Study of the Book of Revelation" by Edward F. Edinger. He was an ex-JW. He says that apocolyptic fears are cyclical and that they follow increasing violence in the world. His prediction is 500 years of increasing violence followed by another more peaceful era. By the way, his book isn't connected to or against any JW doctrine, he is a pscychologist or psychiatrist as I remember and this is a subject he has researched. I imagine his JW experience contributed to his interest in the subject.
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by themonster123 inwell, as anyone on this board knows i"m a newbie....and witnesses kind of are scaring me with their "end is coming" business.
basically, cuz of three things:.
1) the last convention was called "jehovah's day at hand!
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One of the reasons they like to believe "millions now living will never die" is because they don't want to think about their own end - death - which WILL come to everyone sooner or later, no matter what the Watchtower says. So they are willing to be kept in a state of near-hysteria about the end coming, because they don't want to think about the alternative.