Thursday, September 20, 2007

AUTUMN SPICE OF LIFE

Next Thursday we are having the first fall Get Together of SPICE OF LIFE here at the park. We are featuring APPLES - cool and crisp and ready for us to try a new dip that I learned at a Retreat. We will have an apple paring contest - to see who can carve the longest peeling, an since some of our women are returning from their summer get-aways, we will do a lot of catching up. And our lesson will be ALL ABOUT EVE, of course.
Here is the delicious CARAMEL APPLE dip...

1 8 ounce package cream cheese softened
1/2 cup apple butter (found in Jam section at store)
1/4 c. packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Mix well together and serve with apple slices (kept fresh in a little pineapple juice.

Sherry Haberkorn did this demonstration as part of our NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF GOD'S WOMAN (Proverbs 31) Retreat. She works for Pampered Chef.

Summer Sip n Sees are over!


Here at Boulder Ridge, our manufactured home park, we have gathered in neighbor's homes every two weeks for a SIP N SEE. That is a southern term, I'm told, where women get together for a glass of tea (sweetened of course) and enjoy things like seeing wedding gifts, or a new grandbaby's antics, or vacation pictures, or treasures collected. We have discussed BAD GIRLS OF THE BIBLE, by Liz Curtis Higgs. What a grand time we have had getting even better acquainted while visiting in homes.

SLIGHTLY BAD GIRLS OF THE BIBLE is Liz' newest book. I have a copy in front of me, and she has done it again! Five 'slightly bad girls' of the Old Testatment come to life with all their foibles, scars, and idiosyncrasies.