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Hubby John has to have his gallbladder removed and until the surgery he is on a no-fat diet. So I have been searching for good fat-free recipes. I told him I was going to include a recipe in the newsletter and asked which he suggested and so this is from him:
Chocolate Pudding Cake
1 cup flour
2/3 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup water
2 Tablespoons applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup brown sugar (packed lightly)
1/4 cup cocoa
1 3/4 cup hot water
Mix the first eight ingredients together. Pour into a sprayed 8" square baking pan (note: instead of spraying, I generally line my pans with Release foil for super-easy clean up). Mix the brown sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa. Sprinkle over the batter. Pour the hot water over the entire top surface. Bake at 350* about 45 minutes. The topping sinks through the cake to form a pudding layer at the bottom. It can be served warm, at room temperature or chilled (which is what we prefer). Store several days in the refrigerater. Does not freeze well; the pudding will become very watery.
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This is my favorite new tip! It really works. I had bananas bought for 8 days and they did not over-ripen and get soft. BANANA TIP. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
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This is a favorite recipe site from Terrie: http://easy.betterrecipes.com/
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My book recommendation is Mulberry Park by Judy Duarte. Here are three reviews from the back of the book: "An uplifting story about one little girl's unflinching faith and how she extends an open and loving hand to the broken people around her, brings them close to each other and back into God's gentle embrace." ~Cathy Lamb, author of Julia's Chocolates "A touching story of grief, love and forgiveness. Reminding us that God is everywhere if we forgive ourselves and let him into our hearts." ~Sally Smith O'Rourke, author of The Man Who Loved Jane Austen "Judy Duarte brings together a cast of lost and lonely characters and deftly weaves their lives into a story that hooked me from a little girl's achingly honest Dear God request until the very last page. A wonderful, heartwarming read!" ~Jill Marie Landis, USA Today bestselling author
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Great idea sent in from Regina: When i discover a product I really like, I e-mail or call the toll free # of the company and tell them so because many, many times they will send you cents off coupons for future purposes. I like to do this because while it is easy to complain when things are not right, people need to hear when things are or we really like a product too.
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I hate to be the one to mention it, but summer is slipping away and is slowly taking with it my favorite thing, which is the long, light evenings. Soon we'll be inside more and needing artificial light to brighten our homes so I am planning very soon to take down light fixtures to wash so the lights will be as bright and cheery as possible. I think I'll even take the Swiffer duster to the bulbs. :)
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I recently tried a new product, Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaning Gel in Fresh Clean scent. I like the way it applies-- just use the dispenser to stamp a gel disc onto the inside of your toilet bowl. The scent is very loud the first day; not a bad scent, just very strong. After the first day I couldn't smell it much at all. Each disc is supposed to last 7 days. I am on day 4 and it does seem to be keeping the bowl clean. The disc is starting to disolve now and instead of remaining a circle and just getting smaller and smaller, it has started to stretch down and is looking gooey. Of course this doesn't make it not clean, but it does look kinda weird inside the bowl now.
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I thought from time to time we might enjoy learning about the origins of phrases we use. I am hoping maybe this newsletter might make us think outside the box sometimes, so that is the first phrase I chose to find out exactly where it came from:
The phrase think outside the box is an allusion to a well-known puzzle where one has to connect nine dots, arranged in a square grid, with four straight lines drawn continuously without pen leaving paper. The only solution to this puzzle is one where some of the lines extend beyond the border of the grid (or box). This puzzle was a popular gimmick among management consultants in the 1970s and 80s as a demonstration of the need to discard unwarranted assumptions (like the assumption that the lines must remain within the grid). The term dates to at least to 1975 when it appears in the 14 July issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology: We must step back and see if the solutions to our problems lie outside the box.
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