good frigid bitter cold morning y'all!!!!! it was a mild and meek 3 degrees this morning when I got up, yup it was. it's just now up to the hot temp of 8 degrees. this is the temps we'll be having for a few days. am I happy? not hardly!! hahahaha but I will trust God thru this and keep looking forward to spring. that's my plan. I hope and pray that where ever y'all are that you're staying warm and snug and that you have plenty of warming foods to eat. soups are especially good for times like this. anything that will warm you from the inside out is good. lots of hot tea and coffee and hot chocolate, stuff like that. just stay warm and stay inside if possible. check on your neighbors, especially if you have any elderly neighbors. enjoy the sunshine today. it may be cold, but sunshine is just plain good for the soul. I hope we all have a great day today and that we remember to thank God for it. you know what, if you garden, then you know that cold weather is a necessity for a garden to do well. one of the things it does, is kill some of last years critters that is hibernating in the soil. so there won't be as many garden eating insects. there will still be plenty, just not as much as there would have been had we not had some extreme freezing weather for a while. so that's a benefit. I just hope it doesn't kill my garlic and onions that are growing. that won't be a benefit. at this point, it's in God's hands, so we'll see what happens.
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well, let's do it, another "2 minutes in the kitchen with me". it's getting familiar isn't it, but that's ok. I'm trying to remember to take pics too, so it's all good.
this was my risen, proofed dough from the other day, when I shared that I had fed my starter and was going to make some bread. I wish I had remembered to get a pic of the dough ball when I first got it made and have to compare to the risen dough in the bowl. I let it sit out all night on the counter to proof and ferment. it was probably a 12 hour rise or more.
when I got the dough punched down and worked up real good, I weighed the dough ball and divided that by 3 and got my my mini loaves made and into the mini pans lined with parchment.
I forgot to take a pic just before they went into the oven, but this is them fresh from the oven and cooling off before I put them in the fridge.
this is a sampling of what I love to do with these mini loaves of bread. I can get 6 good slices and make 3 sandwiches on my Cuisinart griddler grill. it's a nice griddle/grill and it makes these sandwiches so perfectly and we love these sandwiches.
I brush the outside of the bread with mayo and put the chicken or turkey lunchmeat inside with a piece of real cheese and put the top slice of bread on. the little dab of mayo brushed on the outside of the bread really helps it to get a fantastic color and you do not taste mayo at all.
these mini loaves of bread are perfect. if you love sourdough, I encourage you to try making it yourself. it's easier than you think, if you've never made it before. let this year be the year you stopped buying bread at the store and make your own. you can do it!!!
one thing I can say is that a lot of people make more out of making sourdough than it should be. it blows my mind. yes, it takes time to get a good strong starter, yes it takes time for it to rise, but that's really not an issue. if you start it at the right time, you won't be inconvenienced. I feed mine early of the morning after I've taken if from the fridge and let it come to room temp. I make my dough at night to let it ferment all night. then I make my loaves early in the morning and let those rise till they are almost double in size and then I bake them and most of the time have them out of the oven before lunch. I guess it's all in how you look at it.
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today we're picking up at Numbers Chapter 26. after the latest plague, they are commanded to take a census of the men able to go to war. the land was to be divided up by the size of the families. with the census came new laws of inheritance that included the women with no brothers. they would also be included in the inheritance. for me, this is where I see that women are included in the fact that Christ died on the cross all, not just men. Christ didn't treat women like second class citizens. with Christ, there has never been a good old boy system. Praise God!!!!! the foot of the cross is equal, level ground for all of us. right here at the end of chapter 27 is when Joshua is to take the place of Moses. Moses won't be going into the promised land, so Joshua will be the new leader.
chapter 28 is more laws about offerings. the Lord also reminds them to remember the Lord's Passover and also the Feast of First Fruits. they are to keep and remember the appointed times set apart by the Lord Himself.
one thing I can is that God takes obedience from His followers seriously. so should we. He takes it so seriously, that He sent His people out to war against the people that had caused the Israelites to sin against God. they were willing enough to sin, just like we are willing enough to sin today. in all honesty, it doesn't take much to get us to sin. but it's a whole lot easier when we are running with the wrong crowd. and God had told His people to stay away from the people that was worshiping foreign gods. now, God was exacting revenge on the people who worshiped foreign gods.
the Lord had told the Israelites to drive out the inhabitants of the land that God was giving them, and if they don't drive the inhabitants out of the land, then they will become as thorns in their eyes. I think all these thousands of years later, we're still seeing some of those thorns in the eyes of people. people have chosen to not get along. they have chosen to hate and kill and destroy. they have chosen to worship the foreign gods. and we're still doing the same things today.
we see how God told them to divvy up the land of Canaan. what I think about, this side of the cross of Christ, is how we are all equal at the foot of the cross. we see cities of refuge talked about. those cities were for people who done something bad, but not on purpose. they were to have some place of safety to go and live out the remainder of their lives. today, in this country, there are cities of refuge for the criminals and illegals swarming across the border to become wards of the state. God surely never meant for that to happen. as a matter of fact, if we look closely, in what we've already read so far, we would see that the death penalty was called for in most of these cases. and I just have to interject right here, that it might be a good idea to bring back the hangings on the court house square. no, that probably doesn't sound very christian like, but it would stop a lot of the wicked, evil, heinous things that we see on a regular basis that has desensitized us to sin. when we finished chapter 36, we see this is the commandments and ordinances that God commanded His people to keep.
next we start in Deuteronomy Chapter 1.
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well, this is about it for today. I pray that if your in the arctic tundra like I am, that you can stay warm. I pray that we can figure out how to worship of Lord and God in a way that's pleasing to Him. if we're ever in doubt, Numbers would be a good Book to go back to. I pray that we can trust God in all things, small and large. He is ever faithful. just know that He always has our best interests at heart and He'll always do the right thing.
blessings of peace, warmth and mercy be yours today. hugs and love, patty
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