A Tad Bit of Baking Soda

THINGS I NEVER KNEW @ BAKING SODA!!!


Today I learned that if you add a pinch of baking soda to water while green beans are cooking that the soda will help keep the beautiful green beans a nicer shade of GREEN.  

I went humf.  That's interesting.  I didn't know that this was a great trick to making a vegetable stay greener when cooked.



Watching a video where baking soda was added I questioned, what did they put in the water?  Then questioned, WHY would you do this?  

Looked this up on the net which said:

By adding baking soda, you make the water slightly alkaline (the opposite of acidic). 
This preserves a compound called chlorophyll, which gives vegetables like green beans, asparagus, Brussels sprouts and broccoli their vibrant, green color.

THEN I READ elsewhere:
But adding baking soda to vegetables as they cook has two important negative effects – it adds sodium to them (the harmful component of salt) and it destroys much of their vitamin C and thiamine (also known as vitamin B1). Clearly, sacrificing the goodness of the vegetables for the sake of retaining their colour is NOT ideal.

So one will have to pick or choose if you want beautiful brighter GREEN COLOUR Green Beans with less nutritional value OR not as green veggies with a powerful punch more of nutrition.

Solution....eat raw if possible or steam them.

Baking soda, also known as sodium bicarbonate, is widely used in baking. This is because it has leavening properties, meaning it causes dough to rise by producing carbon dioxide. Aside from cooking, baking soda has a variety of additional household uses and health benefits. 

OH BEANS...I knew about adding baking soda to beans to help combat gaseous issues to the humans consuming the beans.  

Read this:  
Soaking beans in plain water and then changing the water before cooking is just as likely to help. There is evidence that adding baking soda reduces some nutrients, particularly vitamin B. Baking soda also can make the beans taste saltier or even soapy, so they should be rinsed very well if you use it.

MORE INSIGHT ABOUT BAKING SODA:  History

French chemist Nicolas Leblanc invented the process of manufacturing sodium bicarbonate. Baking soda was used in Europe, and the English imported it to the American colonies. In 1846, a Connecticut doctor joined with a farmer from Massachusetts to establish the first factory in America to make baking soda.   Dr. Austin Church and John White continued to produce the product under the company that is now known as Arm & Hammer.

Benefits

The ability to safely add baking soda to food products is demonstrated by the other uses of the product within the air you breathe and the water you drink. Baking soda is used to help control air pollution since it can absorb sulfur dioxide and other gas emissions. Sodium bicarbonate is even used in water treatment. It can make water taste better since it reduces levels of heavy metals like lead.

Sodium

If you are on a low-sodium diet, you should use caution when adding baking soda to food. A half teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate has 616 milligrams of sodium. That is not a lot if you are adding it into a whole loaf of bread that you are going to eat one-tenth of, but keep this in mind when cooking with baking soda. The American Heart Association links high-sodium diets to a higher risk for stroke, heart attack and high blood pressure.

Mechanism

Baking soda is used to thicken sauces or make baked goods rise. When you combine it with lemon juice or another acidic agent, carbon dioxide will be released and absorbed into the food's cells. The gas will expand during the baking, expanding the cell walls as a leavening agent. Adding sodium bicarbonate to items such as cookies or muffins will make them rise to a taller and wider finished product.

Vinegar

The one item in your cupboard you want to be careful with when mixing with baking soda is vinegar. Arm & Hammer issued a warning that baking soda should not be mixed with an acid. Acids – such as vinegar – create an inert gas when put with sodium bicarbonate. While this is harmless in general, it can be extremely dangerous when the mixture is put in a container, or anything enclosed. The result can be a dangerous explosion.

To BE CONTINUED

One of the many wonders of the world...

Baking Soda.

BLESSINGS,

d

The Martins - Shut De Do (Medley/Live)

Why I left the Word of Faith movement

When I got involved in the Word of Faith movement many years ago, I was looking to be more powerful to help avoiding getting hurt in LIFE.  I was looking to be a spiritual GIANT...well known and in demand.  My marriage was in a shambles and I was hurting so badly.  I thought the teachings of the Word of Faith teachers were so much more advanced in their christian walk than others.  As I look back I believe this to be arrogant thinking.  I would cool off as time passed and I began to really want to know as a Christian what a Christian is to believe by praying and studying the Bible for myself before I listened to another Word of Faither's interpretation of the Bible.  I was delivered from false teachers and their twisted spin on the WORD of GOD for their own gain.  Praise God I was delivered.  My eyes were opened.  Have faith and pray for those who have dived head first into the falsehoods of WoF teachings.  ACTS 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.  Believe the scripture that you and your household shall be saved.  Hold onto this scripture and believe God over humans.  PSALM 118:8 . It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.  

These days I may tell you the teacher/preacher sharing their great words of wisdom are into the word of faith movement. We are to expose their falsehoods. I don't mean to be mean, but speaking the truth in love can sometimes be said to be hate speech because it isn't what others want to hear. Their itching ears will feed their lust and ego hearing what they want.

2 TIMOTHY 1-4. 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

I wanted to know God's WORD for myself.
God Bless you,
d     

No EVIL

Simple touch of SPRING in the Dining room.

Just my style... has to be SIMPLE 

and QUICK.

This happened as I switched out the table runner 

from Christmas/Valentine's RED

to a soft pastel colored runner with bunnies on it.

Took all of about 5 minutes to create this SPRING HAVEN.

SPRING BUNNIES 

see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

THAT's GOOD as Spring has sprung,

d

A Psalm of David

PSALM 23 (KJV)

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: 

for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: 

thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: 

and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Credit Card Crunch

GREETINGS FROM KANSAS!

Tis a very grey day outside as I sit in the comfort of my HOME typing on the computer.  We did not get the nasty weather predicted over the week-end.  That's a BLESSING.  Still Hubby shuffled a place to park the car in the garage last week.  That's a good thing.

Right about now I am sipping some ORGANIC COFFEE and enjoying silence in the house.  My week is off to a pleasant start.  My knee seems a little better which makes me thankful.  Praying it continues to improve.  RICE therapy is working.
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevate

Walking will begin after I am a tad bit better.  Making plans to move my treadmill to a better location so I can walk when I want day or night...rain, snow, sunshine.

Will be getting me some better tennis shoes that have a arch in them.  Having to pace myself spending money as I have bills to pay which takes a huge chunk out of the paycheck.  HUGE.  We have whittled down the credit cards to just having one from NOT GONNA SAY as it is an embarrassment.  Just know that it has been an uphill battle to accomplish this horrific task. 

HORRIFIC.

NEVER AGAIN comes out of my mouth as I have made a vow and a promise to do away with these pieces of plastic 

f o r e v a h.  

Medicals bills, car parts, house improvements, relocating, this and that, etc.  got in the way of not using.  It would have been better to NOT USE THEM...but we were in a tight spot...AGAIN.   

A more excellent way is to not use credit cards.  PERIOD.  

A BETTER WAY...I decided to DO WITHOUT, SAVE, BUY THRIFT, PAY CASH.  When avoiding USING credit cards....there is a more excellent way.  Don't use the plastic.  Don't do it.

I literally cried when we paid off the latest credit card balance.  Should have been rejoicing instead, but the weight of having been under this bondage for so long took a toll.  CRIED.  Breathing easier with this weight off the obligations list.

Just one more to go to pay off.  Let's KEEP IT THIS WAY.....
and it will take some time to cross that river.


Today, I will be up in the office shuffling through paperwork.  Hair needs a good wash.  Almost completely caught up with the laundry.  Will deep clean the upstairs bathroom, go another round of polishing the family room french door window panes, raking out one of the big flowerbeds, etc. 

God bless.
HOME life is for me,
d

Refreshing SPRING Indoors

WITH FRESH SHEETS ON THE BED

I made up the bed with a THRIFT FIND Duvet and pillows.

MY $5 find made me smile.

The lace panels were laundered and hung on the windows.

Mission accomplished.

THIS SIMPLE TASK of changing out the bedding and the window treatments 

made me feel like I had finally accomplished something to refresh my HOME.  

Small as it were, I did it.

These lace panels echo the ones across the hall that are in the VICTORIAN GUEST ROOM.

As the sun shines through, it lifts my spirits.

BLESSINGS to you this fine SPRING DAY,

d

Song of Solomon 2:11-13 King James Version (KJV)

11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, 

and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, 

and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. 

Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Cover Me With A Duvet

WENT THRIFTING  because the store was open.  I was on my way to do laundry and saw the THRIFT STORE wide open.  Went around the block, parked the car and went inside. 

On the floor was a large decorative pillow sitting by a bag of bedding.  Caught my eye.  Pretty mute colors of blue and green blended together.  Two pillows, 2 King size shams, 1 European sham and duvet cover for $10.  

Brain Fog kicked in as I had already forgotten that everything in the store was 1/2 off.  SIGNs on the front windows said so.  $10 becomes $5 just like that.  Looked the duvet cover over.  No spots, stains or rips/snags.  Smelled fresh.  Cha-ching... out the door I went a happy camper with thrift purchase in my arms.

Went to do laundry at the mat washing two loads of towels, but will dry the loads over at the Cottage where I have a working dryer.  Got a short nap in as I laid on the sofa with my feet up.  Polished two silver plate pieces with Wright's SILVER CREAM.  This stuff works like a charm and there's just something so weird about me that likes the process of seeing the tarnished metal turn so shinny it sparkles.

One of the pieces is a Christopher Wren by WALLACE.  I was not familiar with this company so I looked it up on the internet and I have a very nice piece for as little as $5.  RESALE was much higher elsewhere.

Years Ago

We went to GAMBINO's for supper as we were in the neighborhood.  Driving past the old house brought back sweet memories as I could see the green popping through the flowerbed ground.  The green leaves of Day Lillies, Crocus, Hyacinth, Tulips are raising up.  I know that we can once again have flowers at the PRAIRIE HOUSE.  Will be working on this.  



TIME TO SIP some organic coffee.  This afternoon, I will work on transforming the MASTER BEDROOM.  Different bedding and lace panels in the windows.  
A fresh start to SPRING,
d

Previous Flowerbed

Things Hoped For

Hebrews 11:1 King James Version (KJV)

 Now faith 

is the substance of things hoped for, 

the evidence of things not seen.

I am so very THANKFUL that SPRING is here.

d

Celery Juice 101

With Spring here, I vow to eat more SALADS.  MORE VEGGIES.  Decided I'll try drinking HOMEMADE CELERY JUICE in the mornings on an empty stomach 

for a couple of weeks.  

Shall see how this goes.  Yummers.  

I can only imagine.......

Such a pretty shade of green.

I do not endorse this guy with his books on the video.  Was just trying to find a lil video to show how to prepare the celery and wahlaah...this happened.  So be it.

PRE-made celery juice in container is available, but expensive.  Think I will try my best to make some at HOME using my blender and straining the juice into a glass.

BLESSINGS TO YOU!

Icing my knee as I check email, etc.  Figured the rest of my day on paper as a guideline.  I have got to get some laundry done and go look for a new pair of bluejeans.  

My jeans are hangin' funny and have holes in the knees.  NOT STYLIN'.  Not trying to make a fashion statement.  Need some newer jeans so the HUNT begins.

  

Off to do some laundry.  Once I get the towels laundered and a mattress pad cover washed, I'll tackle the rest on a different day.  My pile has grown and once again I have to get 'er done.

Here in a few hours, the lace panels will replace the contemporary draperies in bedroom.  This will be a breath of fresh air to me.  Ready.

We're suppose to have a thunder storm (meaning hail could come) by this week-end so Hubby is doing the shuffle out in the carriage house making way for the car to be housed inside a shelter.  He made huge progress last night and hopes to continue this evening.  Tis Thursday and he is aiming to be ready by Friday.

Last week I purchased some BEET CHIPS from Sugar Creek 
in St. Mary's.  Also dried green beans, sweet peas and mushrooms.  Tried the beet chips and have a new friend.  Truly alright for some much needed crunch in the mouth.

Here's a nice recipe for fixing HOME-made 
Olive Oil Baked Beet Chips.  
Looks easy enough.

PREPARATION

1. 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line several baking sheets with parchment paper.
   2. Using a mandoline, thinly slice beets to a thickness of 1/16". In a large bowl, toss beet slices with oil to coat evenly.
   3. On prepared baking sheets, in a single layer, arrange as many slices as will fit without crowding. Bake until crisp, 25-30 minutes, rotating pans once halfway through baking. Cool chips and blot with paper towels to remove any excess oil. Repeat, using a cool prepared baking sheet for each batch, until all beet slices are baked.
   4. Toss chips with 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste.

INGREDIENTS

1. • 2 pounds large beets, peeled
   • 2 tablespoons olive oil
   • Sea salt
   • Freshly cracked black pepper

Welp...i suppose i ought to get to work.
Celery Juice to drink, Jeans to shop for and Beet Chips to nibble.  
Clean towels to wash and Lace panels to hang.
I am BLESSED to say the least.
~Keeper of the HOME~


HOME LIFE is for me,
d

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Bingo....She's here!

BINGO!

SPRING made it!

On the calendar.

SWEET DOOR ADORNMENT

PRAISE THE LORD SPRING IS HERE.

PRAISE YOU LORD.

Thank you for my HOME and HOME LIFE.

Thank you and bless my HUSBAND.

Thank you!

Blue skies today and warming temps to 53 degrees.

Will be getting outside today.

GLORY.

Off to town.

Have to schedule some time to clean out the flowerbed.

Irises will be needing some attention.

HOPEFULS THIS WEEK:

HANG SOME LACE PANELS in Master Bedroom.

Switch out draperies for lighter weight panels.

Be on the look out for new bedsheets.

Deep clean main bathroom top to bottom.

Start eating Salads daily.

No creamer in coffee.

Wash the french door glass panels.

Gather things to sell for Spring Garage Sale.

Tidy the Dining room.

Dust mop the Dining room floor.

Dust mop Kitchen floor.

Sweep stairs.

Locate wreaths and hang on front door.

Caught up on laundry.

At least one hour writing on book.

Tweak about in the office.

SPRING time lifts my spirits and makes an impression on my soul.

Zechariah 10:1 King James Version (KJV). Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

James 5:7 King James Version (KJV). Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 King James Version (KJV).  To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

MAY THIS SPRING BE SWEET.

HOME LIFE IS FOR ME,

d

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