Date Walnut Bars made with Almond Flour

Here is the link from Elana's Pantry

These are really good. I usually stay away from date on my low carb diet you have to be careful of dried fruit. I followed the recipe except I used the coconut palm sugar instead of the agava and I added an 1/8 c. of water. Also I used avocado oil instead of the grapeseed oil. I had some of my things in the past have a bitter taste and my dd said it could be the grapeseed oil so I've stopped using it. I used the avocado oil because it is healthy, can take high heat and is neutral in flavor. My only problem with these bars is going to be staying away from them.

Linda

What Is It?

My career daughter and I got together on Saturday for a belated Mother's Day. She gave me this little house that she found in an antique store.

As you can see it is in 3 pieces. On the bottom it says fill 3/4 with hot water and only use tea light. So I filled the roof part with the water and put the candle in the bottom. I figured the water would turn to steam and make it look like smoke coming out of the chimney. My dd thought maybe you added essential oils to the water and used it to scent your house. The problem is the candle won't stay lite. The bottom has holes in it but I'm thinking maybe there aren't enough of them. Any ideas? Have any of you seen one of these before?

We had a lovely day at the beach. It actually hit 70 that day and I got a little bit of a sunburn.

Linda

Caldo Verde

Here is the recipe I started with.

We have been having cool weather and I wanted to make something frugal, so I decided to make some soup this last week.

I wasn't able to get the linguica so it's really not Portuguese, but it was still good. I don't eat potatoes very often. They really aren't part of a low carb diet. But once in while it's a treat to have them. I'm getting use to the kale and my plants are doing well so I wanted to use what I had. I also put in chard and spinach. Instead on onion I used a leek and a shallot. I left out the garlic and added some dried marjoram. I left the potatoes a little chunky. I think this would be good with other root veggies added. I'd like to make it again with the linquica.

Linda

Memorial Day

HONOR AND REMEMBER

C.S.Lewis on Jane Austin

"I am glad you think Jane Austin a sound moralist. I agree. And not platitudinous, but subtle as well as firm."

Interesting. I'll have to read my Jane Austin again with this in mind.

Linda

Thankyou

Thankyou to our forces.

In the United States, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May. It falls near the end of Armed Forces Week, which begins on the second Saturday of May and ends on the third Sunday of May.[2]

The day was created in 1949 to honor Americans serving in the five U.S. military branches – the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard – following the consolidation of the military services in the Department of Defense. It was intended to replace the separate Army-, Navy-, Air Force-, Marine Corps- and Coast Guard Days, but the separate days are still observed, especially within the respective services.[3]

The first Armed Forces Day was celebrated by parades, open houses, receptions and air shows. In 1962, PresidentJohn F. Kennedy established Armed Forces Day as an official holiday. The United States' longest running city-sponsored Armed Forces Day Parade is held in Bremerton, Washington. In 2012, Bremerton celebrated the 64th year of the Armed Forces Day Parade.[4]

Because of their unique training schedules, National Guard and Reserve units may celebrate Armed Forces Day/Week over any period in the month of May.

From Widipedia

Linda

Our Food

I just wanted to say a word about this subject- Our food supply, can we trust it? My dd lent me this book to read. It is the kids version. As I read it I realized that I had already read the adult version. I think after I read it I tried to make better choices but money is always an issue. This time we also watched a couple of films about the subject and I became more concerned, especially about the gmo foods. I had heard of them but didn't realize that there was so much of it. That is when I decided that even if I have to cut back on other things I'm buying organic produce.

I was telling my daughter how there is a disconnect between what we saw on those films and what I see in the grocery store or when I'm eating my favorite junk food. I know they are bad for me but they taste good. It kind of feels like being healthy sometime is taking all the fun out of life and is this all really true anyway. Well I saw it with my own eyes in the films, not everything of course, but enough.

I just challenge you to find out for yourself.  One film was Food, Inc. and King Corn. You can get them from Netflix, they also have them on instant watch now. There are a lot of other ones too and a new one coming up soon about the whole small organic farm issue that's going on now. Enough said, just wanted to put it out there.

Linda