Long Time No See!

Hello Everyone! So it has been a week and time has zoomed by! So the update, basically I have really been trying to hustle my catering business. Had some consults with some clients and corporate catering. I am so blessed. If I need some extra cash I can just hustle and the Lord always seems to send in just what I need. Once I learned the principles of sowing and reaping I haven't looked back. My family and I am faithful tithers and Gob has truly blessed us. People around us are loosing there homes, business's, going without, etc. For the past 7 years we have been able to stay in our home, have not had anything turned off, been able to travel, shop, etc. God has truly made ways for us. Even when things seem kinda tight we always have something to come thru that blesses us. So if you have questioned paying your tithes or struggle with the fact that you cant afford it! I encourage you that you cant afford not to, question no more. The word of God says that he will pour you out a blessing that you wont have room to receive. Not several, not a bunch, but "A" blessing that you wont have room to receive!!! By paying your tithes you are decreeing that God is your source! He blessed you to get and to keep the Job, The business, or the income source that you have. He wakes us up daily and all he ask's is that we serve him! Paying tithes has released favor over my families finances. Some people say that tithes is a old testament principle. I disagree! Sowing and reaping is the way the world was created and everything that God created was good so how could tithing not be good! Well I hope I haven't beat that subject to death but I know how to be blessed SOW/ GIVE Cheerfully!!!!!

I have been cooking up a storm! My hubby's favorite thing I made this week I would have to say was pimento cheese! I know right! I have been whipping up Chinese food, steak, cheesecake, spaghetti w/ meatballs, sausage & peppers! Most people say they don't like pimento cheese. Its really good when its homemade. Its really easy! Seriously its mayo, shredded cheese, pimento's, & vinegar. That's it! My hubby loves pimento cheese grilled cheese sandwiches!!!! I want one so bad but I'm so lactose intolerant!!! Not feeling a tummy aches for a cheese sandwich! If you want my recipe email me @ chefk@5thcatering.com! I really gotta get working on my cookbook!!!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for reading! The freedom of sharing what the Lord lays on my heart & what's for dinner really blesses me! I hope that my simple words encourage you to be your best, to have the best, and to expect the best! We are Kings Kids we Deserve it!!! Keep your eyes on the Prize, You are Special! There is treasure in You! You are beautifully & wonderfully made! I love You!!!! Write down you short and long term goals, meditate on them daily and thank God for accomplishing each one!!!! Enjoy the rest of your week! Blessing to You & Your Family!!!!

Cabin Fever!

Hello everyone! Today is the day that the Lord have made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. My son woke up sick again this morning. I am so glad that I personally know that the Lord is a healer, a deliverer, a savior, a provider, a way maker, a help, a friend, a father, a mother & whatever else I need him to be. Today he is all of that and more. I can thank him even though my son still has symptoms but I know the manifestation of his healing is on the way! I have even got the baby praying! As parents we have to teach our kids foundational principles like prayer, respect, manors, & love. I know my parents gave me the best that they had for me and did what they knew but I wish I knew the Lord then like I know him now. I know it was a set up from the father {God} because he had to keep me even when I didn't want to be kept. Childlike faith is so amazing! Me and my hubby laugh @ our boys because we tell them "NO" and there first instinct isn't to quit or give up its to do what it takes to get a "Yes". I gotta get to that place and you do to!!! Lets get there together!!! AMEN!!! 

So whats for dinner??/ I got a banging deal on some NY Strip steaks.... 10oz steaks for less that $2.00 and they weren't even expired store just had to many and marked all of them down. So I'm gonna grill some steaks and saute some green beans with garlic. I want some mashed potatoes but hubby hates potatoes so I guess I will make some beef flavored rice o roni {Homemade}So the quick rundown. In a saucepan add some oil or butter and let it melt or heat up. Add one cup of rice and take four spaghetti noodles and break them into small pieces the size of rice and thrown all into pot and heat it up and stir and coat with oil. Once rice starts to brown add either 2 cups of beef broth or like me add 2 cups of water and a tsp of beef base. Let it simmer and cook until rice is fully cooked about 12 minutes. Take a fork and fluff finished rice and it should be individual grains of rice. That's about it. Go ahead and hop in the kitchen and whip up some dinner.

Ok! I want to thank you for reading! I hope that I have encouraged your heart. Make each day your best day! You are Special! You are beautifully & Wonderfully made! You are worth having and achieving the best! I LOVE YOU!!!! Go ahead and smile! I'm smiling too!!!! I pray that your day is full of Love & Prosperity! {Not just money but complete prosperity in every area of your life!}

Lawd!

Hello Everyone! Just wanted to take a moment to encourage everyone!!! I have noticed that the more I say that I am tired the more tired I get. So now during my day I continue to say "I am going to make it", I thank the Lord for being my keeper. My son had a rough morning. He was really sick and throwing up and he was miserable. I know that God hears my prayers and that he is a healer because he truly rocked my baby to sleep and when he woke up he was all better!!


Today, after dealing with my sick baby I went to work with hubby and helped out for a while! I love being in the kitchen even when its not my own!! I guess its something about all the equipment and the tools that excites me! I guess its the chef in me! Didn't cook dinner tonight ate some Cheerios with my son and some spaghetti that both my boys picked over! Nothing like some half chewed food from your kids. I cant promise I'm gonna cook tomorrow so maybe Monday I will have to throw down for the family!!!

I have to take this opportunity to thank you for reading my blog! I appreciate you! You are Special. There is a treasure in You! You are beautifully & wonderfully made! I love You! Go ahead and smile! I'm smiling too! Enjoy the rest of weekend! Hopefully your Sunday will be filled with some worship, praise, the word of God, good food, & fellowship! Love you Again!!!

The Joy of the Lord is my strength!

Hello everyone!!! So I have been preparing myself for bible study today! My Apostle and Pastor have been kinda pushing the people in our ministry to walk in there callings....... Last week everyone had 5 minutes to get up and give a word that was from the Lord!!! So amazing how everyone had different scriptures but the word kept building on what each person was saying! We were truly on one accord! The Lord is so strategic if you listen. Sometimes things are so loud that we miss the still small voice!!! I encourage you to tune in to what the spirit is saying. Don't get consumed in the things in life outside of your control. If you are burdened with issues that you cant fix.... No need to turn your beautiful hair gray!!! Just cast your cares on the Lord!!! So just in case I get called on I will be ready with a word..... I am learning to be more sensitive to the spirit of God & I hope you do the same!!!

So what's for dinner: Hubby keeps asking for Chinese food so Imma make General Tso's Chicken, Fried Rice, & Garlic Green Beans. I will be honest, Chinese is a little more difficult than most of our everyday meals. If you really want the recipes your gonna have to email me or wait for the cookbook!!!! I will just tell you its scrum-dittle-umptious.

Alright!!!! I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell You that You are Special!!! You are worth it!!! You are Successful!!! You will make it!!! You are beautifully & wonderfully made!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! Go ahead and smile!!! I'm smiling to!!!  Finish today out with a bang!!! Make this your best week ever!!!

Krystal Jett?????

Hello Everyone! I hope that everyone has a had a wonderful start to the week! I have been spending lots of time praying and meditating and making some decisions! I keep feeling in my spirit that I need to write the vision and make it plain! I have wrote down goals before but I feel like in this season I need to revisit this! I encourage you to do the same! I know how easy it is to get caught up in the swing of life and keeping up with your obligations but having a game plan makes life seem more worth while! The month of august represents a new beginning so what will your new beginning be??? What are you really believing God for??? What goals are you trying to accomplish???? The bible says write the vision make it plain, though it may take time, wait!!! {That's paraphrased}

Several people have asked me to talk about what I do..... So if you really want to know.... I am very blessed to have my own catering business in the Triangle Area, NC. We have been in business for 7 years. I have been doing catering as my full time job for 3years. So if you know of anyone that is need of a caterer please send them my info http://www.5thcatering.com/ We recently started another business that I am really excited about!!!!! This business has really been a blessing to my family! It is a home based business that give me the freedom to supplement my income when my catering business is slow! Our new company offers a full nutrition line, skincare products, & reshaping garments!!! We have a garment that allow you to drop 2-3 sizes in 10 mins!!!! I love My BODY MAGIC!!!!! I tell you I had a baby almost a year ago and wanted to loss weight so I could wear my pre-baby clothes!!! This garment made it happen instantly!!!! I am doing the 2 step system that reshapes, revives, and rejuvenates inside and out and I have proudly lost 20lbs!!!!!!! We are always looking to share this great opportunity with others who are passionate about making people more beautiful inside and out, as well as restoring your finances. This business offers a awesome compensation plan!!!!! I love network marketing!!! If I had know the level of success you could achieve so quickly with no qualifications I would have gotten involved much sooner!!! If you are looking for a way to make and additional $300- $3000 a month I tell you its worth a look. Check out my website! www.ardysslife.com/jamesjett. I am a true believer of having multiple prosperous streams of income! I hope you have a back up plan!

So I wanted to take this opportunity to encourage you! I want You to know that You Are Special! There is a treasure in You! The number 8 represents a new beginning! This is august the 8th month so I speak a new beginning to your spirit man!!!! Write down your vision!!! You Are Beautifully and wonderfully made!!! I love YOU!!!! Go ahead and smile!!! I'm smiling with you!!!!! Make this month the best month of this year!!! You Are Worth It!!!!!  

Spoiled, Spoiled, Spoiled!!!

Hello Everyone!!!!! This is the day that the Lord have made so I will rejoice and be glad in it!!!! Service this morning was absolutely awesome!!! The presence of God is so rejuvenating!!! I feel restored!!! I encourage you to allow the Lord to minster to you exactly where you are.

So first I have to share the stupid thing I did!!! First have to share that shoe carnival had a grand opening in Cary, NC on Saturday and they had a free $10 gift card for the first 100 customers!!! I got up @ the crack of dawn to get my baby some sandals!!! So I got the gift card and got my baby a free pair of sandals to finish the summer out in style! So back to my stupid thing I did!!! Please try not to laugh to hard!!! So my hubby always picks @ me and says I always take my shirt off when I cook but I wear Cami's and it saves my shirt cuz I always make a mess and grease is the worst to get out of shirts. So I was making our usual Saturday breakfast and I was trying to wash dishes and make grits and pancakes. So I took my pancake pan off the stove for a few seconds to mix up more batter. I without thinking put it on the sink. So, I was ready for my pan and put it back on the stove. Poured the batter and went to wash my hands, bumped the sink with my stomach and burned the crap out of my stomach!!!! OMG right where my waist band is. Of course my kids keep touching it and my pants keep rubbing it!!!! Did i mention it really hurt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I kinda been a slacker with dinner. Saturday I had a catering gig and had to meet with a clients so I made hubby some homemade pimento cheese & not mention I made 600 meatballs so I made a few extra for my boys. My hubby was the guy that said pimento cheese was so nasty until he had homemade cheese!!! My client said the same thing last night and @ the end of or meeting she was converted!! So with all being said I have decided I'm going to have to take all the recipes that I have rolling around in my head and with a few encouraging words and stories and make a cook book fit for New York Times Best Seller List!!!!!!

Today! After church we went to the grocery store!!! You may think I am crazy but I tell you everytime I go into the grocery store I pray and ask the Lord for favor and let me tell you I got it today!!!! I got 5 days worth of dinners w/ side, 2 jumbo   packs of diapers, couple snacks for the kids & the ever important apple sauce for $32.00!!!!! YES!!!!!! I had like 6 bags of groceries!!!!! The cashier was like WOW!!!! I was @ Food Lion to!!!!!!! Once I go through the paper I will post my favorite deals!!

I made cabbage, mac & cheese, and pork chops! I cheated today we ate Kraft deluxe! It was so yummy to! My tip for the day on cabbage: to stay away from cooking with pork but to get that loved up taste, in a large pot us some old oil that you have fried some stuff in and cover the bottom of your pan. Add your cabbage and saute and keep your cabbage moving stir and let cabbage get coated with oil. Add 2 tsp of chicken base to your pan and stir. Place a top on your cabbage and turn it down to low and let it do what it do!!!! Stir every 10 mins or so and cook it until its tender enough for you. I let mine go for 30 mins. Nice and tender. I just sauteed my pork chops with some steak seasoning! That was dinner! Hubby was really happy! Food must have been good because he was eating out of the pot as we were packing up leftovers!!!

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for reading my blog! I take it as a priveladge to share with you guys! This is really a blessing to me! I hope that you being encouraged to cook more meals @ home each week, to save lots of money, to stock up when you find a good deal, and give God praise in all you do! I just wanted to tell you that You are destined to greatness!!!! There is a Treasure In You!!! You are beautifully & wonderfully made!!! You are Special!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!! Go ahead and smile!!! Im smiling too!!!! Make this week the most prosperous and wonderful week you ever had!!!!!

Are you kidding me!

Hello Everyone! So I have a few things that I have to talk about that I want you to ponder over for me! Ok! So I have a relative that had some car trouble and needed a new head gasket. I had no idea how complex cars are! So I would say that I am an average driver, I make sure the oil is changed, the tires have air, basic stuff. So while looking online some info about Los Angeles Auto Repair.  So While I was looking OMG, I got a little distracted and started reading car reviews So I was looking @ a Ford Explorer. Then I started looking @ other cars and I have come to realize that there are grown adults that drive cars are extremely irresponsible. People seriously drive there cars until the oil light comes on. People never check the fluids in there car. Don't wash there cars. People who literally drive there cars until they are falling apart then complain that the car is not working properly. Seriously!!!!! Wow!!!! How can you spend that amount of money on an item and not take the time to maintain your purchase? The bible says that if you are faithful over another mans stuff God will make you ruler over much! If you cant even take care of your stuff do you seriously believe somebody is gonna let you use there's????????? Let that marinate! Think about how much you appreciate the basic essential as having transportation. I sometimes laugh @ my neighbors because they literally take the carpet out of the trunk of there car to clean it, scrub the rugs, shine up dash etc, every week! They do there own oil changes and wax there car its crazy but the funny thing is there car is paid for and has over 200,000 miles!!! I know right!  Gives you a new perspective right!!

So, I don't know if you have been watching but I have been paying attention to my industry. If you don't know I am a certified chef. I take pride in my years and money that I sacrificed for my college education and qualifications it took me to become a chef. I look @ TV and hear people calling themselves: Master Chefs, Executive Chefs, or just Chef in General. To me the title doesn't mean anything you can just call me Krystal but there a people out there who just call themselves chefs with a since of arrogance and don't even have a culinary degree. I am convinced that there is no other industry that someone can just wake up and say they are the top of there profession. I am a true believer of speak those things that be not as though they are but that ain't whats happening!!!! They are just accrediting themselves with no qualifications first! I'm just saying if someone just loved medicine so much and read a few books about pills and decide on day they are a pharmacist would you let them fill your prescriptions???? If someone just loved to draw pictures of building and loved to design would you let them build your house with no knowledge of architecture??? You see where I am going with this!!! We as people really need help with our Ego's & Pride! We have to learn to be humble! If someone calls me a awesome cook that's fine! If you say I really can burn, That's fine. Lets not get consumed in the titles but @ being the best @ what we do. God qualifies you not man! Remember that!!!!

So dinner tonight is gonna be pretty simple since we have church tonight! So I making spinach & cheese turkey burgers and some oven fries. Grab a few potatoes and cut into fries, toss with some oil and seasoning and spread onto a baking sheet and bake @ 400 for 15minutes. So take a handful of fresh spinach and run your knife through it and a half a small onion. Toss into a mixing bowl with a pound of ground turkey, 1 egg, one crumbled slice of bread. Mix it up really good and  patty into four nice size burgers. Put burgers into a pan with a little oil in the bottom. Place a top on the burgers to make sure they cook all the way through since we are using turkey. After 5 minutes flip burger and place top back on burgers for 5 more minutes. Then flip one more time and top with a slice of your favorite cheese. Once cheese melts take burgers out of pan! That's about it. Serve with some tomatoes and some crisp lettuce or eat on top of a spinach salad! Yummy! Cant wait til dinner!

Well I just wanted to take this moment to tell you that I appreciate You! That you are special! That there is a treasure inside You! You are beautifully & Wonderfully Made!!! Everything that God Created was good and he created You! I LOVE YOU!!! You Deserve The BEST!!!! Have a wonderful & prosperous day!