Robin's Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake Recipe

Robin's Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake Recipe:

Cake
• 2 cups Flour
• 2 cups Sugar
• ¼ teaspoons Salt
• 1/4 Cup Cocoa
• 2 sticks Butter
• 1 cup hot Water
• ½ cups Buttermilk
• 2 whole Beaten Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla

• FROSTING:
• 1-¾ stick Butter
• 1/4 Cup Cocoa
• 6 Tablespoons Buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 3-1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar

In a large mixing bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, and salt. In a saucepan, melt the butter. Add the cocoa. Stir together. Add your hot water and stir thoroughly for about 1 minute, then turn off heat. Pour over the flour mixture and stir thoroughly by hand to cool/almost folding in the chocolate mixture. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 17-20 minutes (no longer). While the cake is baking, make up the frosting mixture below: In a measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Stir buttermilk mixture into cake mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes. While cake is baking, make the icing. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat. Add the buttermilk, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Stir together. Pour over warm cake and serve after it cools for 15 minutes. (Walnuts or Pecans are optional) Robin's Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY! quote

I have an old card from an old bible in the early 1800's that has this quote on the card:

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.

In speaking of a person’s faults, Pray don’t forget your own; Remember those with homes of glass Should seldom throw a stone! If we have nothing else to do But talk of those who sin, ‘Tis better we commence at home And from that point begin. We have no right to judge a friend Until he’s fairly tried; Should we not like his company We know the world is wide. Some may have faults – and who has none? The old as well as young: Perhaps we may, for aught we know, Have fifty to their one. I’ll tell you of a better plan, And find it woks full well: To try my own defects to cure Before of others tell; And though sometime I hope to be No worse than some I know, My own bad failures bid me let The faults of others go. Then let us all, when we commence To slander friend or foe, Think of the harm one word may do To those we little know; Remember, curses sometimes like Our chickens, “roost at home!” Don’t speak of others faults until We have none of our own.

Onion Petal/Onion Blossom Dipping Sauce Recipe

Onion Petal/Onion Blossom Dipping Sauce Recipe

RECIPE:

Equal parts of Horseradish sauce (prepared) and Thousand Island dressing, mixed well.

Let sit while deep frying onions.

I use Drake's Mix for coating on my Onion Petals. I wet the onions well and mix a small amount of water with the Drake's mix and dip the onions, then dip them again in dry Drake's mix, then put them in hot oil to fry until golden brown.

Robin's Mocha Frappuccino Recipe (Frap/Frappacino)

• 2 cups ice (0 calories)
• 2 cups sugar (1548 calories = 19oz. = 2-1/3cps.) (2 tablespoons mocha syrup = 1 ounce, 91 calories per 1 oz.)
• 1/3 cup baking cocoa (approx. 74 calories)
• 6 oz. strong coffee( i make my coffee stronger than normal, using about 1 cup of water to 2 teaspoons of coffee/You can use 2 tablespoons of instant coffee too if you'd like) (4 calories)
• 1-1/2 cups milk ( approx. 183 calories/ 1 cup = 91 calories/ 1/2 cup = 46 calories)
• APPROXIMATE TOTAL CALORIES: 215 without whipped cream (This is an approximate)

In a saucepan, mix together sugar and cocoa and 1 cup milk and melt over low heat until thoroughly combined and melted. This will be your Mocha mixture for the week so store this in your fridge in an airtight container. You can also make chocolate milk for the kids with this mixture.

Take 2 cups ice, 6 oz. strong coffee, 2 tablespoons of the Mocha mixture, 1/2 cup of milk and mix together thoroughly in blender. You can also add other flavors, such as coconut or vanilla flavorings as desired for taste. Pour and serve! You can add whipped cream on the top if you'd like.

That's it!!!

The Starbucks Venti is 405 calories! -Which is what I used to always buy!- The TALL is 205 calories.

My recipe makes 32oz., because I serve two of us with the above ingredients each poured into a 16oz cup.

Philly Cheese Steak Subs recipe - Oh so good!

Philly Steak and Cheese Subs
For this recipe I will use the following ingredients:

• 4 teaspoon vegetable (or olive) oil mixed with 2 teas. of margarine or butter
• 1 lb boneless rib eye steak thinly-sliced (or you can use thinly-sliced chicken instead of beef)
• 1 large green bell pepper, sliced
• 1 large sweet onion, sliced
• 8 ounces white mushrooms, sliced thinly
• 8 slices provolone cheese (my children prefer cheddar cheese)
• 8 sub buns
• Mayonnaise
• Butter (softened)
• Salt and black pepper to season

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a skillet on top of the stove, on medium-high heat, heat 2 teas. vegetable oil to hot and add 2 teas. margarine. Add onions to heated skillet and caramelize onions (brown onions), this will take approximately 15 minutes. Add green pepper and mushrooms when the onions are half-way done (around 5 minutes into the onions cooking time). Let this mixture simmer on low heat.

Meanwhile, start another frying pan of 2 teas. vegetable oil. Heat oil to medium-high heat. Add thinly-sliced pieces of rib eye steak to hot oil and cook for about 15 minutes until browned (no longer pink, I like mine well done). While cooking the other ingredients, open your sub buns up and lay them onto a cookie sheet face up and toast them in the oven for about 5 minutes. Take them out of the oven and spread your sub buns on one side with butter and on the other side with mayonnaise. Once the steak and onion mixture are done, spoon equal amounts into each sub bun and top with provolone (or cheddar) cheese. Add salt and pepper to top and bake on 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes, or until cheese is melted. Remove from oven, let stand for 3-5 minutes and serve warm.
Enjoy!

"Guide" - He still hears me...

For those of you who don't believe you can have a personal relationship with God, I truly wish you would listen harder. I have been praying for some time for God to GUIDE me and strengthen me and draw me closer to Him. He is always there, I know that much and trust in that. But it's such an honor to FEEL Him and sometimes it's just with one word and in a moment of time when you least expect it. How real it is, how wonderful it feels to have that reassurance that He is near, He is listening, He is right beside you.

Luke 1:79 is my source for guidance......

Coveting - throw it away!

Today I listened to a lady who explained that she allowed her children to look through magazines and toy catalogs in order to see the newest toys and products out on the market. She saw how excited her children were getting in just looking thru the catalogs and how they began to covet those items they didn't have. She learned by watching them that this was not good for them and that she did not want them to start believing that what they had in life was not good enough for them.

So she began to throw those mail catalogs and magazines away. She started limiting Christmas gifts to 3 only. One from each set of grandparents and one from her and her husband. She explained that this has helped them out financially as well as in their walk with God.

I hope that I can recognize these things in my own life and "throw it away!" So when I start to see those Sunday paper inserts for all the sale items, I will pray and ask God to only allow me to search for things that will benefit my family and myself, that I won't get more than I need and I will keep within our spending limits.

I appreciate the story I heard today, but I don't recall who the speaker was. I did however, find a link to some money saving tips that seem rather helpful in my search for the speaker on Google.

http://firsttrinity.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Money-Saving-Tips.pdf