Tastes and Tomes

Today, my double first cousin, Julie, and her daughter, Alaina came and had lunch with me. Alaina is 2 years old and she's a cutie pie. She had on the cutest little shirt. It had flowers and fruit all over it and looked like a certain design I've seen on greeting cards I think. Anyway, it was really cute.


I had made a dish...I'll call it Tracy's Talsa. You toss a can of black beans in a bowl. You toss in a small can of whole kernal sweet corn. You toss in a can of Armour chili. You toss in some Ragu (I used chunky style with mushrooms). You toss in some shredded cheese. You stir it together and microwave for about 10 minutes or if you need to re-warm it, 5 minutes will do.

 I served it with Scoops chips. I think it would've been good with a can of refried beans, too, or in place of the black beans.

 I also had made dessert. I made cream cheese icing. I only made half of the recipe. I used four ounces of cream cheese, half a box of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of margarine and 2 teaspoons of Vanilla flavoring. I left off the lemon flavoring. I blended it all together with a can of fruit cocktail (I drained the juice off). I then diced up 5 fresh strawberries and 5 fresh pineapple chunks and about half a can of fruit cocktail and stirred the diced fruit into the cream cheese blend and served it over plain pound cake.


It turned out very good and even Alaina liked it.


I read Karen Kingsbury's Take Three last night. It was awesome! I won't put any spoilers. But, if you like Christian fiction, check it out! It just came out in the stores yesterday. I knew the ladies at church would want me to get it and get it processed so they could check it out tonight, so I went ahead and picked up the copies at Crossway. I took time to read it last night because I was (conveniently - as the church librarian) the first one to "request" it. I give myself special privaleges. Anyway, that will allow one more person to get a copy tonight.