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!

Not Gonna Let this Rain Get Me Down!!!

Hello Everyone! Today I hesitated about blogging! Today the kids were all over the place, had lots of things to do, had to get some work done, etc!!! So I had to take a moment to breathe and to get in the word of God and Listened to some worship music and I feel much better now!!!! I am SMH now because it is so easy to get in a depressed state and not want to do anything and fill up with negativity but GOD!!!! I can just think of his goodness and his love, his keeping power, where he has brought me and I just get a renewed strength!!!! I encourage you to not get consumed with the things you cant control or don't understand. I know that might not be easy for every person but dig deep to the place where you know something greater than yourself {GOD} stepped in on your behalf and things changed!!! Speak life over yourself everyday! For example: {Say it out loud or in front of a mirror, and say it til you mean it} I AM MORE THAN A CONQUEROR! I WILL NOT QUIT! I AM SUCCESSFUL! I WILL MAKE IT! I AM GONNA BE WHO GOD SAYS I AM! SMILE!!!!!

OK! So Dinner! I took out some chicken wings! I'm trying to cook a more healthy diet for my family so I'm not gonna fry the wings even though I want to! So this meal is gonna take like 45 minutes but you can sit down and meditate while everything is working. So I seasoned my wings with some seasoning salt and some granulated garlic!!! Gotta have my garlic! Place in a baking dish and bake @ 350 degrees for like 60mins. {Home made rice o roni} Thin take maybe 5 spaghetti noodles and brake into small pieces like the size of Rice. Get you a pot and put some oil in bottom and heat it up. Add one cup of rice to oil and add noodles. coat with oil and let start to brown. Add one tsp of chicken base and 2 cups of water. If you have stock add 2 cups of stock. Saute a veggie of your choice. I'm sauteing broccoli w/ a little butter and garlic. That's pretty much it! Chicken Wings, Rice Pilaf {Rice O Roni}, Sauteed Broccoli! I am sharing my dinners with you to encourage you to try new things! You don't have to be a chef or have a culinary degree to cook really good meals and monitor what is in your food! I average about $25.00 per week @ the grocery store and maybe one week out of the month I spend like $45.00 to stock up on extras and to keep staple items! You can eat like you go out @ home! I am going to share some of my catering business's favorites so if you have some entertaining you wont feel intimidated or you can just hire me!!!! SMILE!!!

I hope that you can see I am a real person! I try to be as transparent as possible so people can relate to me! I am a work in progress! I have not arrived and still daily have to encourage myself! So I hope that my blog encourages you and you keep checking back with me! I just wanted to take this moment to tell you that: You Are Special! There is a Treasure inside of you! You are Beautifully & Wonderfully Made! Your Past Does Not Determine Your Future! I Love You! Go ahead and smile!!! I'm smiling to!!! Make the best of the rest of your day!!!! God Bless!!!

Hardly Working Monday! Deals Deals Deals!

Hello Everyone! OK!!! I love a good deal!!!! So I am smiling out of control right now. My first tip for the day is make sure you get your Sunday's paper. My favorite local stores this week Food Lion, Walgreen's, Staples, & Rite Aid! My favorite online Stores: http://food-and-drink.become.com/, http://www.tigerdirect.com/. Food Lion has text message alerts if you didn't know so sign up for them!!! Then This week they have grapes on sale for $0.99lb. The deal I love the best is Arm & Hammer Detergent BOGO Free!!! Last week there was a $2.00 off coupon in the paper so that means 2 bottles of detergent for $2.69!!!! Great Deal!!!!  Walgreen's has lots of stuff on sale just make sure you get the sales paper when you walk in! Get a cart cuz your gonna need it!!!! Staples has printer paper for $0.01. {You get a staples reward} Don't forget to take your ink cartridges because the rewards add up quick meaning free office supplies!!!!  Rite Aid deals were decent depending on what you need but they always have a transfer prescription coupon so when you pay for your meds you get free stuff as a bonus!!! Get the $4.00 prescriptions there!!! You have to tell them to do price match because they will charge you regular price if you don't!!!! I just found out that you can buy food and drinks, &  bulk groceries online, like juice boxes!!! My kids drink me out of house and home and getting a jumbo pack of juice cheaper than retail is the bomb!!!! Also you can buy coffee online! Is it just me or is coffee really expensive in the grocery store!!! Tiger direct is the bomb for all things electronic!!!! sign up for there emails because they have black Friday sales!!! So I just have to share that I found out that Rite Aid sells DVDs!!! My son loves movies and they have a large selection of children DVDs for pretty good prices!! The plus is you can use that prescription transfer gift card and buy your kids a movie with no out of pocket!!!! Score!!!! Also they often have hand soap and dish soap for $1.00!!! Great buy especially when there are $0.25 coupons in the paper!!!! Did I mention get the Sunday paper????

So this morning I did manage to do about 45 minutes of work! The freedom of having a home based business & having my own catering company! I want to encourage those of you that are working a JOB {Journey of the Broke} that times are getting really hard now so don't put your confidence in man or you will be a man most miserable {Or woman} You need an ace in the whole!!! I speak over your life now "Multiple Prosperous Streams of Income In Jesus Name!!!" You have to have more than one source! You have to think outside of the box! God has equipped all of us with some type of talent or ability! I encourage you to tap into your strengths! Let the Lord Bless your hands! I can tell you what I do if you need some ideas! I will pray that you succeed @ what makes you happy!

So lets make dinner! I'm cooking Spaghetti Pizza! I know your wondering what the heck is that! Its spaghetti topped with peperoni's & cheese thrown in the broiler until cheese and bubbly like pizza!!! OK 20- 30 minutes tops you ready! Get you a large pot of boiling water and cut it on high and get it working. Put on a skillet with a little bit of oil on the bottom on medium heat. Get you bowl and mix up your ground beef,  onions, seasoning salt, and Italian seasoning. Mix up your beef and shape into meatballs! You pick the size! Put them into the skillet as you make them! By the time you get to your last one your first one will need to be flipped. So then toss in your pasta {I'm using Penne}. Once all of your meatballs have been flipped but a top on your meatballs so they cook throughout! You can use your favorite brand of sauce or you can throw in some crushed tomatoes, garlic and more Italian seasoning. Drain those noodles & Put them back in your pot! Pour some of your sauce onto noodles and toss! Save the meatballs! Pour your sauced pasta into a baking dish and pour remaining meatballs and sauce on top. Top with some shredded cheese like pizza, then some peperoni's!!!! I believe that it is to hot to heat up that oven when its 100 degrees outside so turn your broiler on your oven on high. Put your spaghetti in and watch it it melt cuz it will burn quick!!! That's it! Dinner is served!!!! If you want to make some sauteed corn with some garlic go for it!!!!

So, Now you have my deals and my dinner for the day! I hope that rest of your Monday is Blessed! I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell you that You are Beautiful Inside & Out!!! You are Special!!! God created You & everything that he made was GOOD!!!!! You will have Prosperity & Love!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! Go ahead and smile!!! I'm smiling too!!! HAPPY MONDAY!!!! See you again soon!!!  

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

This is the day that the Lord have made so I will rejoice & be glad in it!! This morning I know that the enemy intended to distract me from getting to church so that I could be a part of the awesome move of God on this morning! My battery was dead so I had to get a jump, we were running late as it was and of course the battery is dead! So, I put a big smile on face and told the devil he ain't gonna win and though I am late I am still expecting a move a God! Church was awesome!!!!!!!!! But God is even better!!!

So We got home and everyone is hungry and I knew what I was gonna cook but didn't cook it yet!!! So here we go, Down home cooked meal in turbo....... 30 minutes seriously....... Not no TV made up food in 30 minutes with a team of 15 chefs behind the scenes cooking either!!!! So I made Beef Tips, White Rice & Lima Beans!!!! So your wondering how in the world did I do it and washed 2 sinks of dishes while I was at it!!! Its not that hard seriously...... So, I had some Mock Tender Steak {Use any steak @ store on sale that says for grilling, that means its a fairly tender cut of meat} So I sliced my meat nice and thin but kind of chunky and put it into a pot that was screaming hot with some oil in the bottom. Put on a big Pot of water! { I know you are wonder for what? To cook the rice!!!!  For years I used to make a disaster out of rice unless it was rice pilaf but plain white rice I could never cook. My hubby told me to boil it like spaghetti and drain it in a colander and every since it has been ON for white rice. That the tip for the day!!! Take a note it really works} Then I sliced a whole onion {yes a whole onion} and put it right in the pot and kept turning my meat until it started to get a nice brown color. I seasoned my beef with some seasoning salt and some granulated garlic. Then dust the top of the beef with flour you wont need much maybe 2 TBSP. Then give it a good stir and it should start to get really thick, then add you some water until it thins out like gravy!!!! If you have stock or broth that would be even better. We use base in our house its like the Holy Grail in making food taste loved up and it really took no time @ all. So add a little base and a dab of butter. Turn the heat down and let it simmer for a few doesn't need long because its already tender!!!  Opened up two cans of Lima beans. Drained all the liquid off of one of the cans! In a hot pot put some butter and add your beans and some Chicken base. Let the get up to hard bubble and then turn them down and let them go while you finish the dishes or throw in a load of clothes. So after about 25 minutes I mashed some of my beans to make them thicken up a little bit & dinner was done! Not that hard right!

I hope that my making meals real encourages you to be better wife, a better mother, a better person that give yourself the best. Today the scripture that ministered to me the most is Matthew 11:28-30 28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Let the word of God minister to you where you are! You don't have to be a super hero just be your best. God is made perfect in your weakness. I have learned to apply theses principles to my business because I have tried to carry the weight of it all on my shoulders with no success. But when I put it in the masters hands, things begin to work together for my good. Even when I couldn't understand it! Just wanted to encourage your heart on today! Dream bigger! Thinking Bigger! Write down your goals & dreams! {Write the Vision & make it plain} You are Beautifully & Wonderfully Made!!! You are Special!!! I love You!!! Go ahead and smile because I'm smiling with you!!! Have a wonderful & prosperous day!!!!! :) I will get back with you for the deals of the week!!!! I love a deal & I guess I will share some of my secrets!!! Its gonna bless you!!!!