Yummy Recipes!

Mac & Cheese ~ Sheral

1 Cup Macaroni
1 T Flour
1 lbs butter
1 1/4 cup milk
1/4 lb bacon (2-4 slices)
2 cups shredded cheese

Cook macaroni
Fry bacon
In a sauce pan combine butter, flour, bacon, and milk and saute until a smooth, white sauce.
Combine in a baking dish (9x9) macaroni, white sauce, bacon, and cheese and bake at 350 for 30-1 hour. About 5 minutes before done dust more cheese on top until it bubbles.

Vegetarian Penne ~ Abbie
2 Cups uncooked penne
1 cup baby carrots, halved lengthwise
1 garlic clove, minced
1 T canola oil
2 cans (14.5 oz) stewed tomatoes
2 cups frozen cut green beans
2 t dried oregano
3 T cornstarch
1/4 cup water
1 T minced fresh parsley

Cook pasta. Meanwhile in large non-stick skillet, saute carrots and garlic in oil. til tender. Add tomatoes, green beans, basil and oregano; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until veggies are tender. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth, stir into veggies. Bring to a boil, cook and stir for 2 more minutes or until thickened. Drain pasta, stir into veggies. Sprinkle with parsley.

Julie's Pasta Salad ~ Julie M.
1 1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cup Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing
Salt & pepper to tast
1 - 160z whole grain or wheat pasta shells cooked and drained
1 small onion chopped
1 tomato chopped
1 cup sliced olives
1/2 lb bacon cooked and crumbled
2 cups cubed cheddar cheese

Mix dressing, sour cream, salt & pepper. Set aside.
In a large bowl combine all other ingredients. Mix in sauce and chill

Greek Barley Salad ~ Joy
1 3/4 cup vegetable or chicken stock
pinch of salt
1 cup barley (pearled or hulled)

Bring to boil - reduce to simmer. Cook 30 minutes. Cool in refrigerator.

In food processor chop

2 cups (3 ounces) salad spinach
1 clove garlic
1 T fresh oregano (or 1 t dried oregano)
1 T fresh lemon juice
1 t lemon zest
1/2 t salt
2 T olive oil

Stir into barley.

Add
1 medium cucumber chopped
4 oz feta cheese
1 large tomato diced

Top with more feta cheese. Serves 6

Corn Salad ~ JeriAnn

2 cans whole corn, drained
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup green bell pepper, chopped
1/2 cup red onion, chopped
1 bag coarsely crushed chili-cheese corn chips

Mix first 5 ingredients and chill. Stir in corn chips just before serving.

Cafe Mocha Punch ~ Felicia
Scoop 1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream into punch bowl. Pour 1 pint half and half or heavy cream and 1/2 cup chocolate syrup on top. Pour 1 full pot of hot coffee, brewed double strength on top of ice cream mixture. Ladle into cups and enjoy!

Oreo Dessert ~ Rhonda & Stephanie
1 pkg oreos (crushed) half on bottom rest on top
vanilla ice cream
hot fudge
8 oz cool whip

Put half of crushed oreos on bottom of 9x13 pan. Scoop desired amount of ice cream on top. Pour hot fudge over ice cream then spread cool whip. Place the rest of the oreos on top. Place in freezer.

Green Fluff ~ JeriAnn
1 pkg pistachio pudding mix
1 20 oz can crushed pineapple undrained
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1 8oz container cool whip

Mix pudding and pineapple together. Add marshmallows. Gently fold in cool whip. Chill overnight.

I know there were a few more recipes that I did not get. If you wish to include your recipe, please give it to me!

Thanks to all who contributed.

The Pleasure of Purity

The weather was thought to be questionable with severe storms on the radar, but God held off the rain allowing just a gentle sprinkle. Otherwise, it was a beautiful night to have a picnic at the park with some GREAT food!

We started off by....eating...

eating...

and eating some more!

If you didn't know it, there are some great cooks at RHC! Thanks to everyone who contributed some yummy food. I will give the recipes on another post, so keep looking at this site for some great foods for summer.

After filling our tummies and enjoying some great fellowship, we discussed the next chapter in Feminine Appeal... The Pleasure of Purity. We began our talk by some sharing their love stories. There were some great stories. If you get the chance you should ask Joy about her canoe trip, Felicia about Jeff's dancing sister, and Julie M. about dancing Craig:) Honestly, it was great to hear how God brought couples together.

This chapter on purity is an extremely important chapter! The world, media, everyone but Christians seem to be willing to talk about sex. Just read the Bible and you will realize that God intended for sex as long as it is in marriage! Sex is 1. God's Idea (Genesis 2:21-25), 2. He fashioned it for Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:1-9), 3. It is intended for pleasure (Song of Songs 5), 4. He designed it for intimacy (Genesis 4:1), and 5. it was created for procreation (Genesis 1:27-28).

It is great to be married and once in love and married, it is easy to think that "I will never sin against my husband...I will never be unfaithful." The sin of lust is "no respecter of persons". We are told to "be careful that you do not fall." (1 Corinthians 10:12&13) We need to set our hearts on things above, make no provision of the flesh, and pursue accountability. It is easy to think that men struggle with lust, but women can also lust when watching shows they should not or reading books that allow the imagine to wander. We, just like our husbands, need to stay away from things that could cause us to fail and think about Godly things.

Finally, we need to always be ready for romance our husbands!!!!! Ladies, always strive to be attractive...in your husbands eyes and theirs alone! Be available! You are the only one in the world that can, under God, meet your husbands needs! It should please you as well. Be anticipatory...allow your thoughts to wander...ON YOUR HUSBAND! Flirt with him and find out what is the most meaningful thing to him.

Ladies, God has blessed us with a great gift to be used in marriage to please our husbands! Seek to honor Him in all that you do!

Our next gathering is Tuesday, July 6 at Abbie's house. We will be putting together care packages for our troops overseas. If you know of a soldier overseas, please let us know. Look for a list of needed items coming soon!