I have fond memories of my mother and I going for Easter dinner at a Chinese restaurant....yep every Easter. The past few Easters have come and gone without much "flare" or consideration for Easter. BUT something has changed in my heart and the best way to describe it is in the words of a song...."Amazing grace how can it be that you my King would die for me..." Over the past few years our King, mighty and strong, has become my fortress, my strong tower, my deliverer, my redeemer, my everything...."I'm alive today because He died for me"...so this Easter I have joy - and lots of it! The joy has come on slowly as the Lord has had to "create in me a clean heart" and remove from my heart the callousness around it and has filled it with the awe knowledge of Him.
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| He loves to feed chickens! |
One of our neighbors found out that my children have never colored eggs before (I know shame on me)...and she blessed us with two dozen hard boiled eggs and the egg coloring box. It was so much fun to color eggs with the children - I will look forward to this being a tradition from now on. I think that I will hide them outside in the morning for a festive Easter egg hunt.
We are spending Easter in our little mountain home enjoying an Easter message from my husband and an Easter meal complete with a ham from one of the hogs we raised. My daughter and I are waiting for the cupcakes to cool so we can decorate them. We will be taking marshmallows, cutting them on the diagonal, dipping the sticky side into colored sugar and then arranging them onto the cupcakes to make flowers...picture to come later.
My husband came up with an idea to make Easter fun and different - we are going to play lots of different games with the winners receiving strange prizes...that I can not divulge here as one of them might read it and know our plan...teee-heee!
I also wanted to share this easy to make "pie" - it has become one of my favorite special dishes to make. It isn't has "pretty" as I would have liked it to be...but I know just by the smell it will be delicious.
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| Candied Sweet Potato Pie - Oh, Yum |
1 single pie crust - pre-baked.
1/4 cup butter
2 lbs sweet potatoes or yams (yams make it more colorful)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup pecan halves
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
1. Peel and slice either sweet potatoes or yams 1/4 inch thick and set aside.
2. Melt butter add sweet potatoes and stir to coat in butter. Cook one minute over medium heat.
3. Sprinkle with sugar, lift and fold gently to coat potatoes in sugar. Cook 5-8 minutes more to caramelize. Stir in pecans and nutmeg (could also add lemon peel if wanted for a twist). Turn off heat and cool.
4. Carefully layer potatoes in pre-baked pie crust. Bake 15 - 20 minuets in a 425 oven.
5. Cool and brush with left over syrup from skillet.
6. Can be served with whipped cream if desired.
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Goes great with ham - Enjoy!
Adapted from "Better Homes and Gardens" October 2011 |
