good morning beautiful friends. I hope and pray that we are all ready to have a great day today. the sun isn't shining and we're probably gonna get some rain. it got up to 59 degrees yesterday, and we loved it. my hubby worked out in the garage and I worked inside, but I was out and in every once in a while. I think it's gonna rain today, but that's ok, we can use the rain. if for no other reason, to get all the salt washed off the roads. we're hoping to go see Momma this morning and get back home before the rain starts. maybe even get out walk in for the day before the rain starts too. sometime this afternoon I'll have to get my yogurt in the fridge to cool down and then strain it to make greek yogurt. I'll save the whey for the next batch. if you've never made homemade yogurt before, I'd suggest giving it a try. if I can remember, I'll do a picture tutorial on it sometime. keep an eye out for it.
-----------------guess where we are today? you guessed it, in the kitchen with another "2 minutes in the kitchen with me". pull up a chair and grab a cuppa, because there's a lot going on in here today. so I needed to make another batch of my diced sweet potatoes with onions and garlic. so I got out my peeler and composter bucket.
the little gizmo on the left is a starfrit peeler from amazon. it's a great little gizmo, but these sweet potatoes are difficult to peel at best. it makes no difference where I get sweet potatoes, they're all kinda shriveled up and this peeler doesn't like that at all. but I finally got it done. on the right side is my compost bucket. so I was doing it right. hahahaha
as I peeled the potatoes, I dropped them in a bow of water. you can see the pile of peels. as it was peeling, I was picking the piles up and breaking them into smaller pieces and putting them in my compost bucker. in the past, all this just went in the trach can. not anymore. woohoo!!!
I got them all chopped up and used all the ingredients on the left hand side of the bowl. I had previously dehydrated the garlic and onion just for this purpose. and my dehydrated onion and garlic work perfectly in this dish. for the ingredients, I used about a tablespoon of avocado oil, a good grid of pink salt, a dash of black pepper and about a palm full of both the garlic and the onion. a quick stir and it will be ready for the baking sheet.
this is a close up of what it all looks like before I mix it all together.
this is the closed up of my onions and garlic. since this will be the permanent homes of these ingredients, I need to make a couple of labels for each jar. one for each lid and one for the side of each jar. these garlic jars work perfectly for this project.
this is the potatoes all mixed up and spread out on my baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
pop in the oven on 400 degrees for45 minutes or more, just depending on what you like and this is what you get. we love all the dark crispy bits. it is soooooooo yummy!!!!! these sweet potatoes taste like candy, only better. that's no joke!!!
I let them cool and then scoop them up and into flip top sandwich bags.
then get the bags shaped up a little and flip the top on them and.......
then they are ready to go in a vac seal bag and into the freezer. I don't do a hard vacuum on them because I don't want to squish them and I don't want it to be a solid block when I get ready to take a bag out and put it in the air fryer later. this is where the magic happens. they get crispy on the outside and stay like candy on the inside. these are wonderful. next on the agenda is to do some russets for my husband. those are his favorites. I hope you will give this a try. when I went shopping the other day, I got a lot more potatoes, some of each and they will be prepared this was exactly and then I'll have easy potatoes any time we want them. I'm thinking the next time, I'll flash freeze them on the baking sheet and then be able to scoop out some without having to thaw them a little first. that will make it easier and quicker to toss in the air fryer. yay!!!
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so we pick up in 1 Samuel Chapter 16. God is ready to anoint a new king. His spirit has totally left Saul now and he is overcome with an evil spirit every once in a while. God tells Samuel to go to Jesse and he will find the new king among his sons. David was the one that God had chosen for Samuel to anoint. David fought Goliath with what he knew. he knew how to handle a sling shot and he also knew that the hand of God that had protected him against a lion and a bear, would also protect him from this giant. when we trust God with what we know and with what have, then we can count on success. what David knew is that the God of Israel was faithful and David knew how to use a sling shot. God gave David the success. Jonathan and David became friends. Saul became suspicious of David and turned against him. David had done nothing to cause Saul to be suspicious. he was jealous. jealousy causes a lot of problems and always has, always will. Saul knew that Lord was with David and he was afraid of David. David was more successful in battle than Saul was. Jonathan told David that Saul wanted him dead. jealousy causes people to do or try to do desperate things. the God of the Israelites was with David thru it all. Saul wanted David dead, but God had other plans. do we walk closely enough with God so that the plans of others that are to do us harm can't happen? I pray that I do. I pray that God will protect me in spite of myself and how I get in God's way.
next time we pick up at 1 Samuel Chapter 26.
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well, that's about it for today. we'll have to wait and see how the day turns out. but I know that as long as we keep God in our lives, it will be a good day. let's try to trust God with everything in our lives. blessings to you all today. hugs and love, patty
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