Condensing your Ingredients

I ran into some trouble this morning upon finding my coffee black. Which usually would just enjoy with no additives, however, I have developed a little sweet tooth... This morning upon careful discernment from various online sources, I came across some attractive recipes featuring some of my favorite flavors. Unfortunately enough, I discovered that I did not have sweetened condensed milk. It is quite a shame to realize that you haven't the right ingredients for such an appealing recipe. But I have nevertheless been one to despair with lack of proper ingredients. Their is always an alternative... Unless you're replacing yeast-- not something I would recommend trying to find a substitution for. Anyway, cut to the chase already,
These creamer flavors are Mocha, Cinnamon, Spiced Coconut and Maple-Almond. Quite attractive flavors to my palate at least...

Assemble 4 8 oz. jars

Heat 1 cup of evaporated milk in a small saucepan add 1 1/4 cup sugar. Heat this until sugar is dissolved and milk has turned a muted golden color-brownish.
Fill jars halfway full of this mixture leaving the other half for milk, I used Vitamin D, however creativity is the spark of life!

Add your flavorings:

Maple-Almond
1 Tbsp. real maple syrup
1 tsp. Almond extract

Mocha
2 Tbsp. Cocoa

Vanilla Spice
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Nutmeg

Coconut Spice
1tsp. Coconut extract
1 tsp. Nutmeg

I hope you enjoy your Joe with these tasty additions. Remember creativity is the spice of life!

Condensing your Ingredients

I ran into some trouble this morning upon finding my coffee black. Which usually would just enjoy with no additives, however, I have developed a little sweet tooth... This morning upon careful discernment from various online sources, I came across some attractive recipes featuring some of my favorite flavors. Unfortunately enough, I discovered that I did not have sweetened condensed milk. It is quite a shame to realize that you haven't the right ingredients for such an appealing recipe. But I have nevertheless been one to despair with lack of proper ingredients. Their is always an alternative... Unless you're replacing yeast-- not something I would recommend trying to find a substitution for. Anyway, cut to the chase already,
These creamer flavors are Mocha, Cinnamon, Spiced Coconut and Maple-Almond. Quite attractive flavors to my palate at least...

Assemble 4 8 oz. jars

Heat 1 cup of evaporated milk in a small saucepan add 1 1/4 cup sugar. Heat this until sugar is dissolved and milk has turned a muted golden color-brownish.
Fill jars halfway full of this mixture leaving the other half for milk, I used Vitamin D, however creativity is the spark of life!

Add your flavorings:

Maple-Almond
1 Tbsp. real maple syrup
1 tsp. Almond extract

Mocha
2 Tbsp. Cocoa

Vanilla Spice
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Nutmeg

Coconut Spice
1tsp. Coconut extract
1 tsp. Nutmeg

I hope you enjoy your Joe with these tasty additions. Remember creativity is the spice of life!

Sunshine in the Fall

Sunshine in my pocket
Fear of falling
apart.
It's midnight
Somewhere.
Visit the lights
of sound and fury.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Cinnamon Icing

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

with Cinnamon Icing

 

 

 

Makes 16 cupcakes

 

1 cup canned pumpkin

1/3 cup oil (I used vegetable but be creative!)

1 cup white sugar

1/4 cup milk (moo, bah)

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/4 c. all purpose flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 c. chocolate chips

 

Directions:

 

1.      Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin pan with cupcake liners.

 

2.      In a medium bowl, stir together pumpkin, oil, sugar, milk, and vanilla. Sift in flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Stir together with a spoon, gently careful to not over stir. Layer the chocolate chips in and stir batter until combined.

 

3.       Spoon batter into cupcake liners 2/3 way full. Bake for 22 to 24 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let fully cool before icing.

 

Cinnamon Icing

 

1/2 c. powdered sugar

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

2 T. margarine

1 T. milk

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

 

Directions

 

Place sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Add the margarine, soy milk, and vanilla and stir with a fork until smooth. The mixture should look honey colored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

There's a Bat in my House- Carrying the Cross Through Darkness

There's a bat in my house
I'm in the pitch dark.
I can't see
I'm blinded by the sound.
Of to much noise.
Where's my resound?

Baptized in the faith
But found in the dark.
the cross is heavy
Heal me through the mark.
You placed on me
When I was fresh from the womb.
The mark
You rose from the dead
No longer in the tomb.

There's a bat in my house
I'm in the pitch dark.
I can't see
I'm blinded by the sound.
Of to much noise.
Where's my resound?

I'm in the pitch black
lost from you Lord.
Show me your light.
Open the shudders over my eyes.
Remove those bats,
sin I hold.
Curse those demons
I'm already sold.

There's a bat in my house
I'm in the pitch dark.
I can't see
I'm blinded by the sound.
Of to much noise.
Where's my resound?

Sold out to you my virgin
My mother
My queen.
Throne in glory
Beside my Christ the King.

Recognition for the Lost Poet

Writers get so little recognition
for the things written
from their ambition.
Words carefully threaded
into the intricate tapestry
of verse.

Long hours of writers block
oftentimes we curse.

Curse at the pages white and pale as snow,
with passion and vigor they write their converse.
to empty ears
it does no good no one hears
except these inaudible pages.

that glower up at us blankly.

Season's Peaches

Hope you're having a peachy day!

Tempus Fugit

Whether you've read this term as a brand on one of your purses or you've been talking to someone who's versed in Latin or speak it yourself. Today, I will giving a overview of the Latin term "Tempus Fugit."

"Tempus Fugit" is a Latin term meaning time flies. In this world of hustle and bustle it is so important for us to remember, we are only here for so long.

Matthew 6:19
"Do not store up treasures for yourself on earth, where moths and vermin destroy and where thieves break in and steal."

In this passage of Matthew, we are told to leave the comfortableness of this world and point ourselves towards heaven. It takes courage and responsibility to live for something greater and not be so caught up in today's pop culture. That something greater translates into simplicity and love for our families and others.

Spread your Faith

Summer's End

Soft scarlet

Slips through my lense

Drops down

Sliding 

Escaping my reach

The warmth is gone from my side

Summer is over.

A Smile's Worth a Million Words

Bouquet for the Day

That Meadowlark Callin'

Take me back Kansas
Take me back where I should be
Take me back farm life
and where the weeds grow
Those sunflowers standin'
where I should go.

Gone for seven
but it feels like ages.
coffee & chocolate
pools & luxury
that meadowlark is callin'
back to me.

The food is amazing here!
cheesecake brownies.
sushi. espresso.
I miss home,
so.

I love your sushi, chocolate and wine.
But, goodness,
Kansas I miss your sunshine!

A Message Written in Spice

One message

Fourteen hands

vibrate

strong like mint.

Cinnamon spice
hot in your mouth

if you get to much...

Vanilla cake is good
in small portions.

Silver Light Cookie

As the lightening strikes the ground
I realize I'm alone.
A silver cloud floats by
One can always hope for a better life.
But that's just dreaming.

I press the dough balls into little rounds.
The cookie of life,
crumbling fast,
Only so much time
for the butter and flour to combine
Before the baker's finished
And God our maker chooses us divine.

Blue Bottle

Blue bottle blue bottle
Full of hopes, lies and dreams.
Dreams; are those even virtuous?

Blue bottle full of lies and hope
Like some ancient fairy tale.
To teach children what's good and right.

Blue bottle blue bottle
You give me no insight.
Just fear.
For my future, my footprint, my life.

Blue bottle blue bottle
Your promises seem shaky,
Unstable.

"All that we see or seem is all a dream within a dream. "

Blue bottle blue bottle
I'll defeat you at last
A dream is a dream
No matter how big
Or how small.

So blue bottle I will conquer them all.

Life Cycle

We stick together
like a grape bunch.

Until a final decision is made.

"Stay in our bunch and enjoy our company."

Grow older, you can become finer
A Chardonnay or Sauvignon?
A finer wine
Made from the roots you grew up in.
Combined through the years
with accomplishments and fermentations.

Grafted with different grapes,
Splitting the vine
Penetrating the vine through the two diagonal cuts
The vintner assembles
Bonding the two vines to produce something a new variety.

As the two vines joined are maturing faster they will lose strength
Their days of bearing fruit are over,
The young branch must bear the weight of production.

So is this lifecycle.

Catholic Tradition & the Sign of the Cross - Crossroads Initiative

Catholic Tradition & the Sign of the Cross - Crossroads Initiative: The profound meaning of the sign of the cross is an example of the depth & richness of the Catholic Tradition. Let's rediscover our heritage.

Flight Squad #27

Flight Squad #27
Call me in
shoot me
into your
atmosphere of possibility.

In the quiet hush
of stillness
I've kept on my
overgrown red plot
Ph7
I'm leaving
you
my red red plot.
I've earned some
and I've found my spot.

I'm leaving that
Urtica dioca.
Leaving it
to invade
St. John
my spade won't
be on.

A Vasco de Gama
Student, lover, vagrant
everything bad.
Confession
every Sunday
to be had.

Bike to church
in the pitch black.
That's what got me through
all that grimcrack.

Flight Squad #27
crashed in the sand.

No, not you or you or you
or even the party host.
But the trinity
Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Boughs of Sweet Fruit

Wait for you mother.

Wait for your father.

Wait for Friday.

Wait in the Rain.

Wait for an answer for a sought after job.

Wait for a date.

Wait for a knee drop.

Wait for baby.

Wait for baby #2 and #3.

Things catch up.
But wait where has the time withdrawn?

We were young but now our youth's gone?

So we watch 

others wait.

I say now,

savor your youth.

For its like a bough 

covered in sweet fruit.

Bending in the Spring of life.

Make haste young heart.

Don't doddle in superfluous strife.