English Emma Blooms

From: Judy Sines Vegetable Bean Soup 3 slices bacon, chopped 1 onion, diced 2 celery stalks, diced 2 small carrots, diced 2 zucchini, diced 1 garlic clove, finely diced 1 (14 oz.) can chopped tomatoes, undrained (I used a chili-flavored can) 2 (15 oz.) cans Great Northern beans, drained and rinsed (I used 3 cans) 3 cups chicken broth Coarsely ground black pepper 6 cups fresh spinach, chopped (I used a big bag and forgot to chop it :-) haha) 1/4 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese Cook bacon until almost crisp. Add onion, celery and carrot; cook five minutes. Add zucchini and garlic; cook three minutes. Add tomatoes, beans, broth and pepper. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer ten minutes. Stir in spinach. Ladle into soup bowls and top with grated cheese. Makes ten cups. Serves six.

Its the time of year Now that Spring is in the air When those two wet gits with their girly curly hair Make another song for moronic holidays That nauseate-ate-ate In a million different ways From the shores of Spain To the coast of Southern France No matter where you hide You just can't escape this dance Hold a chicken in the air Stick a deckchair up your nose Buy a jumbo jet And then bury all your clothes Paint your left knee green Then extract your wisdom teeth Form a string quartet And pretend your name is Keith Skin yourself alive Learn to speak Arapahoe Climb inside a dog And behead an eskimo Eat a Renault Four with salami in your ears Casserole your gran Disembowel yourself with spears The disco is vibrating The sound is loud and grating Its truly nauseating Let's do the dance again Hold a chicken in the air Stick a deckchair up your nose Yes you'll hear this song in the holiday discos And there's no escape in the clubs or in ...

6-26-2010

Mira and Joel at Church 7-18-2010

7-17-2010 http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/crime/police:-condom-thief-stuffed-his-pants The Broad Ripple Marsh was robbed by a man who stuffed condoms down his pants... I hope it wasn’t any one we know!

Black Bean Brownies These brownies are gluten-, dairy-, and soy free. INGREDIENTS: 1 (15.5 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained 3 eggs 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1 pinch salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3/4 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon instant coffee (optional) 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips (optional) DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8x8 square baking dish. 2. Combine the black beans, eggs, oil, cocoa powder, salt, vanilla extract, sugar, and instant coffee in a blender; blend until smooth; pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the top of the mixture. 3. Bake in the preheated oven until the top is dry and the edges start to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 30 minutes.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  ~Robert Brault The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  ~Rajneesh I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.  ~Irish Proverb You don't re a lly understand h uman nature unl ess you know w hy a child on a me r ry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.  ~William D. Tammeus It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.  ~William Makepeace Th...

A Polish immigrant went to the DLV to apply for a driver's license. First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test. The optician showed him a card with the letters: 'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.' "Can you read this?" the optician asked. "Read it?" the Polish guy replied, "I know the guy."