we decided we don't cook enough and are pretty bored of what we usually eat (whether home-made or eating out).. so .... our new years resolution for 2014 is to try a new recipe every week.. so far we've done some jamie olivers roasted vegetables and right now we're making cornish-like pasties.
apparently, people are very militant about exactly what a cornish pastie is so our's are cornish-like because dammit, we wanted peas and carrots and whatever seasoning we wanted to stick in there too!.
smells delicious and can't wait to eat them.. i also invented a new dish using a leftover half-tin of garden peas and a slice of bread.
Tried this on the weekend.
Roast some vegetables in the oven with a little olive oil and salt.
I used courgette slices, red onions chopped, couple of whole garlic cloves, red pepper (capsicum) cut into largish pieces, tomatoes.Takes 30-40 mins.
Cook pasta (I used tortiglioni) and drain.
Blend some mascarpone cheese into the pasta and warm through.
Add roasted veg., mix together.
Serve with a helluva lot of red wine. Delicious.
well... as they say on talk back radio "i'm a long time listener, first time caller"(poster in this case!).
i have been a "lurker" for several years, but never had the courage to take the step and join up...until now.. i really want to thank everyone for their insights and comments throughout the forum.
although i have not contibuted to discussions, i have benefitted very much from all of your comments and observations on all topics.
Welcome Stuckinarut2. Well you're getting out of that rut I think.
great short video, it uses plain old common sense!.
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fvqzcziqe.
This is brilliantly done.
yes that's right reopened mind and me have been married 40 years ago today.
we had a little party today at our uu congregation.
we brought wine for the pot luck dinner we had today.
Happy Anniversary
i wanted to express appreciation to the members of this forum.
there are resources here that are deep.
like we heard from the stage, "what is your depth and breadth of bible knowledge?
Welcome from the UK Make Lemonade. Well done for standing up for what is right. Sorry they put you through it but at least you got to see their true colours. Ice water in their veins indeed, we have all experienced that. Pull up a chair and make yourself at home.
hi everyone, i was discussing with a family member recently and was encouraged to at least consider the benefits of being raised in the truth.
for example,i'm not a drunk, don't do drugs, respect others etc.
the point is i've found lots of nonwitness friends who have similar behavior.. growing up, when a worldly person does something good like help someone i'll hear things like "that's nice of him, for a nonwitness.
In my JW family there's a guy who stole from his employer and got the sack, a woman who cheated on her husband and another woman who hated her husband and showed it for her entire marriage. Which is the person they shun? You guessed it, the woman who just doesn't believe in the teachings anymore.
By the way jamclark they are all well-dressed and I assume they have clean homes although I have never seen their homes.
i have been doing a lot of research on the bible and its roots so to speak and its becoming clearer that the jews like other races took gods and stories from others and made them their own.
its also become clear that many of the books were written later then stated, like daniel probably written about a hundred years before christ and some of it maybe even after.
but what i don't get is the prophecies.
A word study of "caught up together" may shed some light on "Rapture"...
A study of the development of religion from an anthropological point of view would be more beneficial. We had to learn about the world from the moment we, as a race, began to perceive more than the need for food, shelter etc. We made sense of the world as best we could two thousand years ago. To cling on to the answers we came up with two thousand years ago in light of the things we have since found out is - well I am not going to be rude - it's your choice.
we have been told that this yhwh is the symbol for gods name and that they the jews didn't use his name because it was so special.
history shows that the name was banned for a time before the maccabees and after it was to sacred to say.
there is a problem with this idea though and that is, in older writings of the name dating back to around 1400 bce in egypt the name yhw was found and yhwh was also found on a moabite stella also very old.
Perhaps it should be pronounced Yourway as in you're in charge, do it your way
my mother broke her hip last week.
she had an emergency partial replacement surgery friday night.
we don't know how she did it as we have caregivers with her at all times, she may have fallen while in the bathroom for a few minutes.
Sending you love Jeff. Losing parents is such a difficult time. I'm glad she had a good life.
i was just thinking about how humans being imperfect and satan's influence was the root of everything bad that anyone has ever done.
well i know that apparently everyone is vulnerable which got me thinking about what "bad" things people have done while they were a jw.
i'll start it off.
Went to see Grease at the cinema in '78 - '79 with my pioneer partner. It was considered to be a very wicked film Then my pioneer partner told the CO we had been to see it, she thought that was hilarious thing to do because she was far more rebellious than me. Funny thing is I am pretty sure she is still in.
