Diet Coke Chicken
It's really easy and good! It is like barbecued chicken, makes 4 servings
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 cup catsup
1 can Diet Coke (other diet sodas work well too!)
Put chicken in a non-stick skillet. Pour catsup and diet soda over the chicken. Turn heat to medium-high and cook chicken for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Cover, reduce heat to simmer and cook another 15-20 minutes. Remove lid, and cook until sauce thickens and sticks to chicken. Sauce will taste like BBQ and the chicken is very tender.
Note: You can make shredded BBQ chicken with this. Simply use 2forks and pull chicken apart about 15 minutes before it's finished cooking. You could also add some black pepper and diced onions right when you start to cook it.
Add with a side of rice and green beans for a complete lunch or dinner for just about EVERY body type. Be sure you use your scale! This is so good you'll want to CHEAT!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Its a thin line between love and CAKE!
2 Samuel 13: 1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. 2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her
6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. 12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
Not the (bleeping) cake again!!
So, as I am reading this, I'm real curious as to how THIS lesson will help me with my 'cake' issues. So I say - ok God. SMH (shaking my head). Do it.
Tamar is the 'cake' in my story. Now all of my food issues have absolutely NOTHING to do with food - understand that I am fully aware of that in my life now. NOTHING. The food is and has always been symbolic, unfortunately - the symbolism that it represents still has calories in it, so the pounds - yeah...notsomuch symbolic. I see 'Tamar' (my cake) and instead of being content with all that I have (I'm Amnon - I'm a child of the king) and all that I stand to inherit/gain (um, did I say...I AM A CHILD OF THE KING - the first born child of the king! I will inherit the throne - I am a child of God I shall inherit the earth!).
I, instead focus on what I don't have - TAMAR (cake). I allow my focus to over come me OVER TAKE me. TAMAR is all I can think about. The love I have for 'her' is so powerful that I can't even focus, I can't even think! I gotta have her!!!
So of course the spiritual war that is going on inside of me collides with one of the principalities out there, just ready to 'help me out' - my 'friend' who shows me, you can have 'Tamar' just do this, this and this (read it for yourself in vs. 3). So, instead of casting down those vain imaginations...I creep. I creep off and do the deed. I have me some TAMAR. oooooh...I thought she was gonna be soooooo good, I couldn't wait!! (and maybe she was for a moment - uh, in case your TAMAR ain't cake (or is cake) - know that it could be GOOD for... a moment).
Then the reality of my actions come to light. The lusty haze is broken. My vision is clearer. And because I know what I have done is SOOO wrong that I don't want any association with it - I begin to DESPISE the very thing that I was in love/lust with just minutes ago! Turning all my anger, all my hatred, all my feeling of failure and despair on that CAKE!! I mean on TAMAR! Its her fault. Why did she have to be so mmmmm....good!
NO! ITS MY FAULT! I have to own and take responsibility for my own actions in this world. I had opportunities to make better decisions just like Amnon did. My 'cake' has evolved over time from men (and/or women), money, drugs...etc (fill in your own blank). But it has always really been the same. A void. An empty place that no matter how I try can only be filled WITH GOD!!
How you fill the void with God will vary from person to person but trying to fill it with anything else will prove as fruitless as trying to fill the Grand Canyon with a bucket of sand. It ain't gonna happen. Fill it with worship, fill it with 'work-ship', give yourself to the Lord of your own gifts and talents. He'll show you. Just invite Him in.
Congratulations Time!!
Michelle Cromwell (SN: she was the one who showed us how she got her 'butt' in two weeks - LOL) She uploaded her first Youtube Video! This girl can SANG! and she is on the come - up! Check out her live performance at Club Prevue (Charlotte, NC) With Christ ALL things are possible - A cutie tootie bootie and a singing career - you just can't beat God giving!
Judy D. - For the love of Christ and the power of the sisterhood!! (we don't need no travelling pants - we have the powere of the HOLY SPIRIT) Thank you!! Love you!! Keep being you!!!
Sherry T. - For the daily prayers and the love that you share with me every day. Thank you for being so transparent in Christ. Thanks for letting God use you and show 'us' how awesome He is!
K.W. - For standing fast in the midst of your storms knowing that God is able and that you are not in ANY of this alone. You are my family. I'm so proud of your PRESS, your PUSH, your perseverence. Its ok to be human. God hears you and pity every groan. I LOVE YOU!!! and we're walking!!
Recipe: Diet Coke Chicken
Prayer: Lord, help us to regain the authority over our minds. Help us to make decisions that honor you and give you glory. Remind us daily that you are the source of our strength and the strength of our lives. Bless each of us each day to wake up, DECIDE who we shall serve and WALK in VICTORY!!
In Jesus Name!! AMEN.
Special prayers: Lord, thank you for getting my mom safely to NY. Now order her steps and guide her feet. Keep her from harm and cover her mind Lord. Let her stay focused on you and trust you completely. Give her peace.
Day 4:Pray that your husband will grow in leadership skills in your relationship—protecting and
providing for you. Pray that he will lead you wisely and love you sacrificially, so that God will
be glorified in your marriage. (Eph. 5:25-29; Col. 3:19)
6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. 12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
Not the (bleeping) cake again!!
So, as I am reading this, I'm real curious as to how THIS lesson will help me with my 'cake' issues. So I say - ok God. SMH (shaking my head). Do it.
Tamar is the 'cake' in my story. Now all of my food issues have absolutely NOTHING to do with food - understand that I am fully aware of that in my life now. NOTHING. The food is and has always been symbolic, unfortunately - the symbolism that it represents still has calories in it, so the pounds - yeah...notsomuch symbolic. I see 'Tamar' (my cake) and instead of being content with all that I have (I'm Amnon - I'm a child of the king) and all that I stand to inherit/gain (um, did I say...I AM A CHILD OF THE KING - the first born child of the king! I will inherit the throne - I am a child of God I shall inherit the earth!).
I, instead focus on what I don't have - TAMAR (cake). I allow my focus to over come me OVER TAKE me. TAMAR is all I can think about. The love I have for 'her' is so powerful that I can't even focus, I can't even think! I gotta have her!!!
So of course the spiritual war that is going on inside of me collides with one of the principalities out there, just ready to 'help me out' - my 'friend' who shows me, you can have 'Tamar' just do this, this and this (read it for yourself in vs. 3). So, instead of casting down those vain imaginations...I creep. I creep off and do the deed. I have me some TAMAR. oooooh...I thought she was gonna be soooooo good, I couldn't wait!! (and maybe she was for a moment - uh, in case your TAMAR ain't cake (or is cake) - know that it could be GOOD for... a moment).
Then the reality of my actions come to light. The lusty haze is broken. My vision is clearer. And because I know what I have done is SOOO wrong that I don't want any association with it - I begin to DESPISE the very thing that I was in love/lust with just minutes ago! Turning all my anger, all my hatred, all my feeling of failure and despair on that CAKE!! I mean on TAMAR! Its her fault. Why did she have to be so mmmmm....good!
NO! ITS MY FAULT! I have to own and take responsibility for my own actions in this world. I had opportunities to make better decisions just like Amnon did. My 'cake' has evolved over time from men (and/or women), money, drugs...etc (fill in your own blank). But it has always really been the same. A void. An empty place that no matter how I try can only be filled WITH GOD!!
How you fill the void with God will vary from person to person but trying to fill it with anything else will prove as fruitless as trying to fill the Grand Canyon with a bucket of sand. It ain't gonna happen. Fill it with worship, fill it with 'work-ship', give yourself to the Lord of your own gifts and talents. He'll show you. Just invite Him in.
Congratulations Time!!
Michelle Cromwell (SN: she was the one who showed us how she got her 'butt' in two weeks - LOL) She uploaded her first Youtube Video! This girl can SANG! and she is on the come - up! Check out her live performance at Club Prevue (Charlotte, NC) With Christ ALL things are possible - A cutie tootie bootie and a singing career - you just can't beat God giving!
Judy D. - For the love of Christ and the power of the sisterhood!! (we don't need no travelling pants - we have the powere of the HOLY SPIRIT) Thank you!! Love you!! Keep being you!!!
Sherry T. - For the daily prayers and the love that you share with me every day. Thank you for being so transparent in Christ. Thanks for letting God use you and show 'us' how awesome He is!
K.W. - For standing fast in the midst of your storms knowing that God is able and that you are not in ANY of this alone. You are my family. I'm so proud of your PRESS, your PUSH, your perseverence. Its ok to be human. God hears you and pity every groan. I LOVE YOU!!! and we're walking!!
Recipe: Diet Coke Chicken
Prayer: Lord, help us to regain the authority over our minds. Help us to make decisions that honor you and give you glory. Remind us daily that you are the source of our strength and the strength of our lives. Bless each of us each day to wake up, DECIDE who we shall serve and WALK in VICTORY!!
In Jesus Name!! AMEN.
Special prayers: Lord, thank you for getting my mom safely to NY. Now order her steps and guide her feet. Keep her from harm and cover her mind Lord. Let her stay focused on you and trust you completely. Give her peace.
Day 4:Pray that your husband will grow in leadership skills in your relationship—protecting and
providing for you. Pray that he will lead you wisely and love you sacrificially, so that God will
be glorified in your marriage. (Eph. 5:25-29; Col. 3:19)
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Easy Vegetable Soup
Easy Vegetable Soup
2 cups vegetable stock (low sodium)
1 tbsp Garlic Paste
1 large onion - chopped
2 carrots - chopped
2 celery stalks - chopped
1 can garbanzo beans
1/4 cabbage (chopped)
1/2 tsp olive oil
To a large pot, medium heat oil, add garlic paste and onions. Cook until onions are translucent. Add stock, cook about 5 mins, add all the rest of the vegetables (except cabbage). Cook 15 mins. Add cabbage, cook until tender.
Serve over rice or over a hand ful of rice pasta noodles for a YUMMY warm soup. Add a boiled egg (no yolk) for protein. DELICIOUS!!
2 cups vegetable stock (low sodium)
1 tbsp Garlic Paste
1 large onion - chopped
2 carrots - chopped
2 celery stalks - chopped
1 can garbanzo beans
1/4 cabbage (chopped)
1/2 tsp olive oil
To a large pot, medium heat oil, add garlic paste and onions. Cook until onions are translucent. Add stock, cook about 5 mins, add all the rest of the vegetables (except cabbage). Cook 15 mins. Add cabbage, cook until tender.
Serve over rice or over a hand ful of rice pasta noodles for a YUMMY warm soup. Add a boiled egg (no yolk) for protein. DELICIOUS!!
whooopppsss....Slipping
Psalm 94:18 When I said, "My foot slippeth," thy mercy, O Lord, held me up
Just walking along...and WHOOPS - I begin to fall. Thank God you are right there. You caught me and you held me up and you kept my foot from dashing against the stone. Instead of being thankful, I'm caught up in aggravation for the fall I almost had. Wow. The thoughts are so tricky. So easy to slide from right to left. Making a decision to do right and then being diverted, o so subtily. Off track. How do I get back up? JUST GET BACK UP. Actually, when I think about it, I didn't fall - not like I was beginning to allow my mind to convince me. I am WAY better than I used to be and as I allow God to 'perfect' me, I will have some set backs. But they are only 'failures' when I stay there.
Today is your day. New mercies. Don't look back. Look ahead. Trust God. Make a decision right now to do your level best. NOW is all you have control over. Matter of fact, why not trust God even with the things YOU have control over - He's gotta be able to do a better job with it than you? I think that's what I'll do. Deciding to turn over the reigns to the Most High has to be the right thing to do. Let's do it together. The best thing about it, is He won't be overwhelmed with ALL of our issues at the same time even though I can get overwhelmed with just my own little issues. Git it Big Poppa. Do your thang. I love you!
Congratulations time:
Kim J.- MD, Down 3 more lbs!! You are doing it for real. Its a lifestyle and you are living by example - Ms. Keilah (senior year stress and all) holding steady and losing those INCHES!! So proud of this mom/daughter team!
Jennifer R. NC, I'm so proud of you! Off to a great start with a bullet!! We going grocery shopping saturday and getting that daughter all ready to jump on board with you! Mom's take note - its a family thing!!
Special thanks!
Special thanks to Amanda B. and St. Paul's for having me out last night to speak with Davidic Praise Litergical Dance team. I'm blessed to be able to share with you what God desires for you. Continue to honor your bodies as a temple for the Lord. He is blessed by your praise! Present your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE...its our reasonable service!
What's up next for Back to Eden:
RAP (Review All Pitfalls) Session
Friday, November 19 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: 301 W. 24th Street, Charlotte, NC 28216
Topic: S.O.S. (Sedentary Off Season)
Tell the truth and shame the devil! We often use the holiday season as an excuse to fall off the wagon. Then New Year's resolution time comes around and we are further behind then when we started. Lets try to nip this thinking in the bud and get off to a jump start for the new year. Please RSVP. I'd like to try something different for the 'food' part of this fellowship and I need a head count to be able to figure it out.
There is no cost to you. You may bring a friend, they don't have to be Back to Eden. Just RSVP. Thank you!
Recipe: Easy Vegetable Soup
Prayer: Lord, cover us and keep us. Prepare us and strengthen our hearts for a lifetime of commitment to you. Bless our husbands Lord (the ones we have and the ones we want). Cover our families. Bless the wives Lord. Keep and comfort our hearts. Remind us to turn to you in every need. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Special Prayer: Lord, bless my mother. Allow her to arrive safely in NY and guide her feet to find all that she seeks of you. Cover her with favor and grace. Let her heart find safety in you. Be peace and peace be still. In Jesus name. Love you Mom.
Just walking along...and WHOOPS - I begin to fall. Thank God you are right there. You caught me and you held me up and you kept my foot from dashing against the stone. Instead of being thankful, I'm caught up in aggravation for the fall I almost had. Wow. The thoughts are so tricky. So easy to slide from right to left. Making a decision to do right and then being diverted, o so subtily. Off track. How do I get back up? JUST GET BACK UP. Actually, when I think about it, I didn't fall - not like I was beginning to allow my mind to convince me. I am WAY better than I used to be and as I allow God to 'perfect' me, I will have some set backs. But they are only 'failures' when I stay there.
Today is your day. New mercies. Don't look back. Look ahead. Trust God. Make a decision right now to do your level best. NOW is all you have control over. Matter of fact, why not trust God even with the things YOU have control over - He's gotta be able to do a better job with it than you? I think that's what I'll do. Deciding to turn over the reigns to the Most High has to be the right thing to do. Let's do it together. The best thing about it, is He won't be overwhelmed with ALL of our issues at the same time even though I can get overwhelmed with just my own little issues. Git it Big Poppa. Do your thang. I love you!
Congratulations time:
Kim J.- MD, Down 3 more lbs!! You are doing it for real. Its a lifestyle and you are living by example - Ms. Keilah (senior year stress and all) holding steady and losing those INCHES!! So proud of this mom/daughter team!
Jennifer R. NC, I'm so proud of you! Off to a great start with a bullet!! We going grocery shopping saturday and getting that daughter all ready to jump on board with you! Mom's take note - its a family thing!!
Special thanks!
Special thanks to Amanda B. and St. Paul's for having me out last night to speak with Davidic Praise Litergical Dance team. I'm blessed to be able to share with you what God desires for you. Continue to honor your bodies as a temple for the Lord. He is blessed by your praise! Present your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE...its our reasonable service!
What's up next for Back to Eden:
RAP (Review All Pitfalls) Session
Friday, November 19 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: 301 W. 24th Street, Charlotte, NC 28216
Topic: S.O.S. (Sedentary Off Season)
Tell the truth and shame the devil! We often use the holiday season as an excuse to fall off the wagon. Then New Year's resolution time comes around and we are further behind then when we started. Lets try to nip this thinking in the bud and get off to a jump start for the new year. Please RSVP. I'd like to try something different for the 'food' part of this fellowship and I need a head count to be able to figure it out.
There is no cost to you. You may bring a friend, they don't have to be Back to Eden. Just RSVP. Thank you!
Recipe: Easy Vegetable Soup
Prayer: Lord, cover us and keep us. Prepare us and strengthen our hearts for a lifetime of commitment to you. Bless our husbands Lord (the ones we have and the ones we want). Cover our families. Bless the wives Lord. Keep and comfort our hearts. Remind us to turn to you in every need. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Special Prayer: Lord, bless my mother. Allow her to arrive safely in NY and guide her feet to find all that she seeks of you. Cover her with favor and grace. Let her heart find safety in you. Be peace and peace be still. In Jesus name. Love you Mom.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Beet Juice - w/pomegranite YUMM
1 beet
1/2 pomegranite
1 celery stalk
1 carrot
1 handful of parsley
1/2 cucumber
Run through juicer and DRINK IT UP! yummmy and sooo RED I love RED!!
1/2 pomegranite
1 celery stalk
1 carrot
1 handful of parsley
1/2 cucumber
Run through juicer and DRINK IT UP! yummmy and sooo RED I love RED!!
Potassium Drink - Carrot based
Potassium Drink Recipe
4 medium carrots, greens removed
1 stalk of celery
1 apple
handful of fresh parsley
handful of fresh spinach
1/2 lemon, peeled (optional)
Process the ingredients in a juicer and serve.
Carrot - Cabbage Juice; umm...yumm?
Carrot - Cabbage juice
2 carrots
1/4 cabbage
Push through the juicer into a nice chilled glass. It was actually good. I am enjoying it right now:)
Just starting this juicing thing, so my recipes are a bit novice but I'm documenting them so I'll know what I like and what I don't. If you have a recipe you like - please add the comment!
thanks!
2 carrots
1/4 cabbage
Push through the juicer into a nice chilled glass. It was actually good. I am enjoying it right now:)
Just starting this juicing thing, so my recipes are a bit novice but I'm documenting them so I'll know what I like and what I don't. If you have a recipe you like - please add the comment!
thanks!
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