Forever Longing…

Oh my.. I can be such a dizz-head! I forgot to post the bread recipe for PB&J’s. Ok, so here it goes. I totally ripped this off from PaleOMG. She uses this for her crust on the breakfast pizza recipe. We loved the breakfast pizza, but I know Jodi needs an easy-out some days and we have to slow down on deli meat so we came up with a solution for PB&J.

Preheat oven to 425

• 3 eggs
• 1 can coconut milk
• 1 Tbsp raw honey or grade B pure maple syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup coconut flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

Mix the wet ingredients together well, then whisk in the dry ingredients. Let sit for 2 min to thicken. While it’s resting, get a cookie sheet with raised edge and place 1 long sheet of parchment paper over it, enough so that you have a bit of an edge of parchment, you’ll need to grab it later. Pout the batter onto the cookie sheet and spread it out so it’s even. Don’t spread it too thin, it may not go all the way to the edges. Bake for 20-22 min. Edges will look a little brown. Pull off the cookie sheet and wait for it to cool a bit. Cut into squares.

This week’s menu starts strong and kind of fades. Oh well, we all have weeks like that. As I say, you do the absolute best you can and pray for God to bridge the gap.

LUNCH:

Monday Shredded Chicken – I use an old family recipe for what we called Chicken Buns, since we no longer use buns, we just do shredded chicken. Jodi and the kids love it. I never hear complaints that they don’t get the bun and if you really need something, wrap it in a lettuce leaf. Serve with some veggies. Good meal!

Tuesday Pulled Pork same as shredded chicken, serve it on a lettuce leaf if you’re dying to wrap it.

Wednesday PB&J (Say WHA???) How could I possibly do a PB&J on Paleo? This happened by accident, but a few weeks ago we had Paleo Breakfast pizza for dinner. Kids and Jeremy loved the crust so I decided to modify a bit and voila, we now have a crusty/bread type thing that makes for a PB&J solution. This is great for days when Jodi wants to do a picnic in the park with the kiddos. Oh PLEASE NOTE: we don’t use peanut butter – I just haven’t told my kids different. I make homemade cashew butter. I’ll post the bread recipe on a follow up post.

Thursday Chicken Strips — SIMPLE! Take some chicken, cut into strips, use an egg wash, roll in almond flour, salt and pepper. Bake

Friday Roast

DINNER:

Sunday Pulled Pork (yep, we’re even using BBQ sauce, and no it’s not Paleo. It’s Kansas City Cowtown. yep I know it’s not good for us, yep I know it has sugar, yep I know it has a host of ingredients that could have me banned from the cave.) If you’re trying to lose weight don’t do the BBQ, use extra peppers and spices for flavor. It’s delicious. This is a small cheat and sometimes we have to fall off the wagon built with stone wheels. It’s not the end of the world people.

Monday Chicken Nacho Salad – I am making a boat load of shredded chicken as we speak. Part of it will go for the chicken buns, no bun, please. And the rest is going to be spiced up with peppers and seasoning. We will use it to make a spicy chicken nacho salad. Pick your toppings. You know how you like your salad.

Tuesday Ham Steak – Yeah, not much commentary needed

Wednesday Beef Roast – 1 chucke roast, 2 onion, 3 cloves garlic, 6 carrots… shove them all in the cast iron dutch oven, turn on 250 at 9:00am. By 6:00 dinner will be outstanding.

Thursday Breakfast for dinner – will probably make a Paleo apple cinnamon muffin of some kind and serve it with eggs.

Friday leftovers!

Do you hear Him? He’s speaking… softly, sweetly … He’s whispering. He’s wooing you. He longs for your heart. He wants the hearts that are in dispair, the broken ones, the hurting ones. He wants the hearts that have been torn apart and stepped on. He whispers “Let me fix this”. He has nothing but love for his people. He is patient. His grace is sufficient. His love is overwhelming, never fading, never failing. He sees through eyes of mercy. You are the apple of his eye.

He has written his Love Letter to you. Have you seen it? I want to write a love letter back to Him. I am empty and lost and consumed with this world without Him. I want to be consumed with Him. When I close my eyes I can see myself sitting on a porch swing that we had in the back of our house when I was growing up. And I imaging Jesus sitting next to me and the two of us talking. I can hear in his voice and tell by his actions that he cares about me. He wants to know how my day was. He wants to hear what is on my heart. He wants to know how I’m feeling.

But I believe there is a flip side. God wants to tell us what’s on his heart too. He is searching for those that are willing to take a stand. He wants to share with us what pains Him. There is a song “Hosana” by Hillsong and in it says “Break my heart for what breaks yours” and God will do that for those who are willing to sit still long enough to let him. Why? Because when we know what is breaking the heart of God we can pray to make a difference. We can act upon the injustice.

What is God saying to you today?

I will write again sometime soon. Things have been super crazy lately – new job, fight for life, new baby, new kindergartener (with homework??) — in the mean time, pray for LIFE! Pray for IM 11 to pass in SD this November.

So here’s the deal… I have a new job, but in the negotiations, I requested that I not start until August 19th so that I have time to stay home with the kids. This is an opportunity I probably won’t get again, so I thought I should take advantage of it while I can. This will give me a few weeks to hang out with Zander before he starts kindergarten (Which is only 3 short weeks away) and some time to be with my little Zoe at such a tender time in her life. But oh my word, what a challenge! I don’t know if it’s easier or more difficult to have them closer in age, but a 5 year old and a 4 month old is more than I bargained for some days!

So, not sure how much blogging I will get done… as even now I can’t finish this one… Zoe’s crying which is my cue to sign off.