Mandarin Sorbet

Mandarin Sorbet

1-1/2 cups water
1 cup granulated sugar
juice of 6-8 mandarin oranges
zest of two mandarin oranges
1 teaspoon lemon extract

In a non reactive sauce pan,
heat sugar and water till sugar is dissolved.
Meanwhile zest two mandarins
then juice all the mandarins.
Cool dissolved sugar and water till just warm,
then add zest, mandarin juice, and extract of lemon.
Place saucepan in freezer and when it starts
to solidify stir well and place into
small glass ramekins. Cover and let freeze completely.

Serve with a sprig of mint leaves.
So refreshing and delicious.

Enjoy !

If you want to fly you have to give up _____ what is holding you down

If you want to fly you have to give up
 what is holding you down.

Debbie Fields Edmonds

GF Banana Nut Bread

GF Banana Nut Bread

2-3 very ripe bananas, peeled and mashed
3 large eggs beaten slightly
1/3 cup butter melted, then cooled
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups gf flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
3/4 cup nuts finely chopped pecans, walnuts, or hazelnuts

In a medium bowl, beat eggs, then add mashed bananas,
cooled and melted butter and vanilla extract.
Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a 8x5 inch loaf pan.
In a separate medium sized bowl
add flour, sugar, soda, nuts, and salt.
I used half pecans and hazelnuts. Stir well.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and
stir untill just combined.
Pour into greased loaf pan, spread evenly, then bake
for 50 minutes till toothpick comes out clean.
Watch closely so bread doesn't burn.
Cool completely in pan then remove loaf
from pan and slice into 1/2 inch slices.
Each individual slice can be reheated before
adding a pat of butter. to serve.
Light and flakey but holds together well.
Of course it tastes delicious.

For a natural sleep aid, saw this on the net.

Boil the banana skins in 2 cups spring water for 20 minutes.
Remove peels and drink like a tea as a sleep aid before bed.
Have yet to try this, might work but can't hurt to drink it.

The Privilege of a Lifetime

The Privilege of a Lifetime by Agni Eickermann

The privilege of a lifetime It is not given like a crown.

It is not won like a war.

It arrives as a quiet permission

to stop becoming someone else’s idea of light.

For years you wear the names that keep the room calm.

You learn the smile that travels well.

You polish the story until it shines

and almost forget the face beneath it.

Then something older than ambition

taps the inner glass.

Not a command.

A remembering.

Who you truly are is not a costume

waiting in a better closet.

It is the grain of the wood

after the varnish cracks.

It is the voice that remains

when applause has gone home.

The privilege is this:

to disappoint the false life

without hatred,

to lay down the borrowed spine,

to let the unperformed self

stand in its own weather.

No trumpet.

Only the long courage

of becoming exact.

And when you finally inhabit

the shape that was always yours,

the world does not applaud so much

as recognize you—

as a river recognizes the sea

it has been running toward

all along.

That is the gift hidden in the years:

not to invent a self,

but to come home

to the one that was never missing.