Crock Pot Recipe - Black Eyed Peas Cajun Style

Nutritional value: Black eyed peas are an excellent source of calcium, folate, and vitamin A.This dish is great served over a bed of brown rice or next to a slice of cornbread.
Served with rice or cornbread, and a tossed salad, this dish makes a complete and nurtritional meal. It will satisfy the taste buds of your entire family

Before serving, put a bit in a small bowl with a tight lid.
Refrigerate and take to lunch the next day, since you have to eat good homecooked food in order lose and maintain your loss.

1 lb of uncooked black eyed peas
tomato paste
Stewed and chopped tomatoes
2 TBSP Chicken or Vegetable soup base
3-4 TBBP Cajun Seasoning (dependent upon how hot you like cajun spiced dishes)
1/2 green pepper
1/2 red pepper
1/2 yellow pepper
1 medium onion
3 cloves of garlic

1. Chop all vegetables
2. Put all ingredients in the crock pot
3. Cover with water
4. Turn the crock pot on low
5. Go about your day, this fabulous pot of savory sensation will be ready to
tickle your taste buds by the time you are home from work. (approx 8-9 hours)

One of my neighbors, around the corner, is an elderly gentleman from the south. He and his grandsons go to the farm all summer and pick vegetables. They set him up in front of his house to sell his vegetables. He has a cute little vegetable stand. I love to support his efforts. This summer I bought red-eyed peas that had to be picked from the shell. That was no fun! However, they taste great in this recipe.

This Poem is for Grown Folks Only: Waiting in Haste

wrapped in firm soothing strong benevolent arms

yearning for the glide and the cruise

eases painful agony of alone

ride me gentle ride me smooth

esteeming the head and the delicate caress

taking my turn to ride this skilled Ethiopian-ish mare

gently rocking yet oh how steady

carefully fingering his wooly lamb-like hair

gliding dashing rides the mare across the desert sand

stroking the hardness of his gallant rod

touching the suave masculinity I dreamt

of my man whom God made from the murky sod

his goal is supposed to please God then me

I will be given to him by the one who created us

to be cherished, adored, and succulent a job I did not give

his task is to create the aura needed to love and trust

mounting the bitter sweet firm as not to spill his seed

follow him as he leads he will know me I will know him

this ecstatic uncertainty won’t be relinquished

because of hardness of heart a new reality doesn’t seem dim

refuse to loan my virtue out as I wait

can’t allow another to nip this luscious tangy taste before time

waiting in the existence of lonely

the hardness of heart will be replaced so I wait in haste

spasms of strong desires deep yearning

appear only in the deep of the night

when all else is still but my heart

off and on I wake waiting to bite

I want to be beautiful

I want to be beautiful

as beautiful as the children in the park I see play

as beautiful as the sun beaming across the sky each day

I want to be beautiful

as beautiful as the field of purple lilacs blowing in the wind

as beautiful as the rainbow after a storm’s end

I want to be beautiful

as I gird my loins with strength and lay my hands to the spindle

as I am like the merchant ships that bring my food from afar

I want to be beautiful

as I stretch out my hands to the poor and reach forth my hands to the needy

as I make myself coverings of tapestry and my candle goeth not out by night

I want to be beautiful

as I look well to the ways of my household and eat not the bread of idleness

as I open my mouth with wisdom and my tongue is the law of kindness

I want to be beautiful

as my children arise up and call me blessed, and my husband also praiseth me

as beautiful as the back of Jesus as he goeth forth to the final battle

I want to be beautiful

as beautiful as the saints clothed in vestures of white marching into Zion

as beautiful as his clear unpolluted streets paved in gold

I want to be beautiful

I want my beauty to come from within and shine without like the

glimmer of a blazing star on a warm summer night.

I want my beauty to be favorable in the eyes of The Most High

I want my beauty to be a gift from God because he looked down on

me and said, Well done my daughter, now I know you will serve me”

I want to be beautiful

Men and Real Men

Men love their wives
Real men also cherish them.

Men ask for a righteous woman
Real men can actually deal with her.

Men prefer women with no children, therefore, no added responsibilities
Real men are apt to bless a woman and her children with his joy and his goodness.

Men often deter his woman’s success
Real men cheer her on and mean it.

Men discuss their godliness
Real men exhibit fruits that bear it.

Men want desperately to be the heads of their households
Real men also create the atmosphere that permits it.

Men know a good woman when he sees her
Real men are also wise enough to pursue her devotion.

Men are obligated to correct his woman
Real men correct with love, gentleness and kindness.

Men provide for his children, especially when they live in the house with him
Real men also provide for their every need even when they don’t.

Men need to have sex with his wife
Real men also need to comfort and reassure her.

Men want reverence and obeisance from his family
Real men are also worthy of it.

Men hope to raise children who are intelligent and well behaved
Real men also do what is necessary to make them that way.

Men become zealous, stern, and immovable about serving The Most High God, when he finds Him
Real men find Him and are firm and immovable in serving Him, yet are patient and long-suffering with his  wife who doesn’t know Him yet.

Men go home to his wife and children every night
Real men also talk to them, inspire them, and direct them.


Men laugh and cry
Real men laugh and cry with his family

Men show love and concern for his children when he is still with their mother
Real men also show love and concern, even when he is not.

Men provide and protect
Real men provide and protect with love, joy, and temperance.

Men give because he is supposed to
Real men also give because he loves to.

Men think about his faults and his failures
Real men actually adjust his behavior and strive to improve it.

Men admire a woman’s convictions
Real men don’t demand that she alter them.

Men make many promises and intend to keep them
Real men also make promises he intends to keep, but he actually keeps them.

Men give her funds to take care of her “other” children from time to time
Real men also provide for them and treat them as though they were discharged from his loins.

Men expect sex as appreciation for his help or his companionship
Real men help because he wants to, and reject sex as a substitute for being her friend.

Men wait for his woman to fix his plate
Real men cook, at least sometimes.

Men act apologetic after “a beat down” or “a beat up”
Real men also verbalize his apology and change.

Men understands his woman desires his heart, his trust, and his love
Real men are also wise enough to allow her the privilege to earn it.


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Women and Real Women

Women feed their children daily
Real women also provide nourishment needed to sustain health.

Women teach their children good manners
Real women also teach them the commandments of God.

Women provide an atmosphere that helps her children through each stage of development
Real women also nurture them, guide them, and direct them.

Women correct their children when they’re wrong
Real women also teach them to correct themselves.

Women help their husbands with his other children
Real women also nurture them like her womb was their refuge and her breast their sustenance.

Women investigate that which interests her man
Real women also treasure what he loves.

Women ask his opinion
Real women also value it.

Women fall in love
Real women also exemplify it.

Women substitute sex for love
Real women give no free samples until he commits to the whole package.

Women can stand being corrected
Real women also expect it.

Women only want to know the truth
Real women can also deal with it.

Women have a special place to honor and respect her mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, other relatives, or friends
Real women know that place is not in the middle of her and her man.

Women learn to compromise
Real women also learn to obey.

Women love to be romanced by him
Real women also know how to romance him.

Women say they love righteousness
Real women also beam it.

Women want their daughters to be strong
Real women also model that strength.

Women give pleasure and satisfy sexual needs
Real women also comfort, console and cheer him on.

Women respect her man
Real women also honor, reverence, and uplift him.

Women commit to his comfort
Real women also commit to his growth.

Women fight for her man
Real women also fight to support him in all his positive endeavors.

Women work to have something of her own
Real women also work as a helpmate to him.

Women will open her mouth to communicate her needs
Real women also open her mouth with wisdom, understanding, and kindness.

Women will beautify herself and is pleasing to the eye
Real women also beautify, starting from the inside, then out.

Women demand respect
Real women also model it.

Women admit her faults and her failures
Real women also work diligently to improve them.

Women desire his heart, his trust, and his love
Real women also intend to earn it.

Women appear to love themselves
Real women illustrate her love for herself, even when he doesn’t.

Women cry out and complain when he hurts her
Real women know how to cry out and compass him in prayer to God
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I'm Feeling Subdued

According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary a person who is subdued is unusually quiet and possibly unhappy.  It means suppressed, conquered, defeated, or overcome.  A subdued person is one who is not irritating anyone around her, one who is not strident or clamorous.  I am feeling subdued today.    I am unusually quiet but not necessarily unhappy. Today I am feeling sort of a left of subdued reflective thing going on.   I am felling like talking softly at a whisper.  I do feel like dancing but I feel like submitting to a slow passionate dance with a man I care about or an energetic dance of praise and worship.  I am a woman feeling submissive and not too loud and who feels like listening to soft and hushed music. 

My conversation is low-keyed today yet I don’t necessarily feel low.  My feelings are suppressed because there is no "he"  nearby, "he" couldn’t have come anyway so what’s the point in crying.   I'm feeling relieved because my last two will be gone in a few months and life will change for me.   I feel conquered a bit somedays, yes, but it’s only for a short time.  I sometimes feel defeated a little, but always temporary.   I am conquering my fears.  I focused on defeating the pain and hurt others have caused me.  I am overcoming fears and pain and have avoided becoming bitter and angry with life because it hasn't gone the way I wanted.   I feel overcome with melancholy yes, but I am not giving in this time.  I could give in and feel depressed instead of reflective but I am not giving up this time.  Today I feel overpowered by the fact that God is all powerful and knows everything about me and everybody else.  He knows the good I have done.  He knows my mistakes and why I made them.  So, yes, I am feeling subdued but not sad, I am focused on making today better than yesterday.  I am focused on making the good I can do outweigh any bad I have done.  I am subdued and focused. 

If I were a light bulb I’d be soft and restrained.  If I were music, I’d be a saxophone play the melodic chords of The Wedding Song by Kenny G.  If I were a love poem, I’d make my reader feel warm and fuzzy.  If I were a rock, I’d be smooth and yellow rock  waiting to be tossed into a purple stream .  If I were the cloud, I wouldn’t be partly sunny day. If I were lost again, I’d simply walk until I found my way. 

 If I were a smile, I’d be a big one.  I’d smile, because my children respect me.  I’d smile because "he" will love me when he shows up and he'll act like it this time.  I’d smile because the sun is shining through my window.  I'd smile because "HE" is present in my life, my thoughts, and my actions. 

If I were who I once were, I'd be strong enough, and confident enough, and trust God enough to  stand up for myself for a change and tell anyone who had a problem with me being me to take me or walk away.  I'd tell him who once tried to make me feel less than a good person that this is the way I look, this is the way I think, and this is the way I feel.  I am who I am, I think the way I think, I do what I do, I love the way I love.  I wouldn't care if I didn't fit into the idea of who I should be in the minds of those who still persecute me.  I'd do what I always did, make changes based on what I read God wants from me and I'd smile because I decide, again, to serve the true and living God for all that he is and all that he wants me to be.  . 

I’d smile because not only do I have food to eat but I can eat whatever I want.  I’d smile because I love shoes and I have plenty of them.  I’d smile because just because I am feeling subdued, it doesn’t mean that I am unhappy or depressed.  I'd smile because there is no one beating me down and making me feel like shit.  I’d smile because in all my life I’ve not been as happy as I am right now.  I was told I sound subdued, and I do.  I am not subdued out of sadness, instead  I basked in the glory of, “there is nothing wrong”.  So I am reflectively subdued because things could definitely be worse and I'm stronger than I used to be. 

Crock Pot Recipe - Spinach & Rice Soup

Spinach is a power food. I love it. I can eat it steamed with butter, sliced onions, and chopped garlic. I love it in tossed salad, stir fried, or in soup. It is packed with valuable nutrients and has a distinct taste. Eaten from a can, the taste of spinach is not always pleasing to the palate. Eating it will help you meet your daily nutritional requirements including calcium, iron, folate, and vitamin A.

My children have no problem eating spinach. If I decide to steam it, I don't cook it until it is slimy. When I put in in soup, like this recipe, I chop it small so it will easily masked as it cooks all day. It's chances of becoming a bit slimy are higher when used in a crockpot recipe. For this recipe I add it unthawed along with the boiled along with the seasoned and unthawed meat already boiled, as soon as I get home. By the time we settle down and and are ready to serve dinner, the steam has cooked the spinach perfectly and heated up the meat.

These are the ingredients you will need for a large crockpot (holds about 8 cups). You will have to experiment with portions if you own a small crockpot.

3 cups water
1 14--ounce can chicken broth or 3 tablespoons of chicken base and 1 1/4 extra cups of water
1 10-3/4-ounce can cream of chicken soup
2/3 cup uncooked wild rice or brown rise, rinsed, and drained
1/2 teaspoon dried crushed thyme
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 cups fresh shredded spinach
Optional: 3 cups chopped cooked chicken or turkey (about 1 pound)


Directions

1. Combine all ingredient in your crockpot.
2. Covertightly and cook on low-heat setting for 7 to 8 hours or on high-heat
setting for 3-1/2 to 4 hours.
3. To serve, stir in chicken and spinach. Makes 6 (1-1/2-cup) servings.

It is easily ready to nourish your cells. All you need to do is add a salad or other raw vegetables with dip and a buscuit, dinner roll or other variety of bread.

Vegetable Variation: If you are not using meat, substitute a good vegetable soup base or vegetable broth and cream of mushroom or cream of celery soup.