These little beauties were gone in 2.5 seconds. I was VERY happy with how they turned out and so was Sam and the little boys who devoured the batch in record time. I just might have to write a little email to the folks over at Hodgson Mill and tell them that I used their baking mix to make some awesomeness…I think they would appreciate that.
I love making little tartlets filled with yummy preserves and tasty flavor combinations. But you know what I like even more? Eating them!
Tartlets with custard and fresh fruit are amazing, chocolate with peanut butter, peanut butter and jelly, mini key lime tartlets. Oooooohh the possibilities; I love tartlets! They are perfect with tea and they are pretty to look at. They are pretty fabulous. These were Peach Preserves Tartlets. Kael kept trying to sneak his little hand in to grab one while I was taking pictures.
See his little finger there. Love that kid!
I also used the dough to make mini quiche. These babies are a breakfast treat, let me tell you what! So you get two sweet treats with one batch of dough. I think that is a sa-weet deal. They were really fun to eat side by side. The savory in the quiche next to the sweet in the peach was perfect.
Last night Pastor Bryan (our youth pastor) rocked out a sermon in the main service. God brought it, Bryan
Grab your Bible and read Romans chapter 12 and then read 1st Corinthians chapter 12.
As you get to the end of 1st Corinthians chapter 12…you did just read it didn’t you? Oh, I hope you did because this next part won’t have the same "jazz hands" moment if you didn’t…At the end of 1st Corinthians chapter 12 Paul talks about how each has their own gift and then he says something that brought delight to my soul. It is a journey that God has been bringing me through for several years.
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. {Zing, speaks straight to my heart and zaps me with conviction}
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1st Corinthians 12: 29-31 and 13: 1-13
God’s word is so impressive. Even if you are not a believer you can nod your head in agreement because this is GOOD stuff! This scripture speaks to the truth that is written within the blueprints of our spirit. We know when we read it that it is good! Yet daily I fail. Daily I fall short. Daily I mess it all up.
I am so grateful for the truth that his mercy for me is new every morning.
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. Lamentations 3:21-26
Oh, doesn't that just warm your heart! Mine is all nice and toasty. I do have two toddlers squirming on my lap right now who smell like they need a bath. I will post the tartlet and quiche recipes later when they are down for bed. Gotta go be a mom.
Quick little prayer first? Yep, I need it too.
Oh Father, my heart is set out for you. It is yours and yours alone. I won't share it with this world. I won't dress it in darkness. I will sing of your faithfulness. Thank you so much for my friends and family who take time to read this. I pray that you use this little blog to your glory. I pray that you be with our family tonight as we go through the routines of getting little boys ready for bed. That we will cherish these few quick hours we have with them. I pray that you will help Sam and I to be good stewards over these two tots that you have blessed us with. Help us to raise them in a way that glorifies you and makes you happy with us. Let us love one another, let us love others, and let us not hold anyone down and set anyone aside. Let us sing with those who sing, and dance with those who dance, and embrace those who just need a little hug to lift their spirits. Help us be sensitive and more and more like your son with every passing second of every passing minute, of every passing hour, of every passing day.
We love you!
xoxo,
Ronda
Amen. And thank you.
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