Fried rice!

So this girl ventured into cooking fried rice! I found a recipe on Pinterest and then I tried it. I love that website. 

So enough jabber let's get down to it. 

You will need: 

3 Tbs Sesame seed oil

1 cup of the mixed peas and carrots thawed 

1/2 an onion or one whole smaller one

2 teaspoons minced garlic

2 eggs 

3 cups (cooked) white rice. I made mine right away but the website I went off of said to use day old rice because it works best. 

1/4 cup soy sauce (I did use the less sodium soy sauce and it still tasted great) 

Start off with your burner on medium-high heat. Use either a large skillet or wok. (I used a large skillet) Add in your sesame seed oil and let it heat up a little. Then add your mixed veggies, garlic, and onion sautée until soft. This is the part where if you needed to cook some white rice (because you don't have any leftovers)- do it. I just used minute rice. Three cups of that stuff is 1 and a half cups of uncooked rice and 1 and a half cups of water. Follow their cooking instructions on rice. I find that 5 minutes does not get y rice the right texture so I usually wait about 8 minutes until I am at fluffy consistency. 

In a bowl LIGHTLY scramble the eggs (don't go all crazy now). In the pan push the veggies, garlic and onion over to one side and pour your lightly scrambled egg on the empty side of the pan. This part sould only take about a minute but you are cooking the egg-scrambling it. Once it's no longer runny you mix all of it together. Turn your heat down to medium-low. By this time I am

Pretty sure your rice is either about done or completely done- so were going to just pour it in the skillet. If you want to follow it just like me then you don't even mix it yet- pour over the soy sauce then mix it all up. Now all you are waitin for is it to be heated thoroughly. 

I am pretty sure I you used leftover rice then you would be waiting for it to heat up but since our new rice was just made it's basically done unless you want the flavors to mingle ;) a bit. Viola!!!

Inspiration in the deep

So I took a trip

This weekend my family as myself gathered in a cabin in the woods in the mountains. Naturally the paranoid me was nervous to be far from a cell phone connection and access to a hospital. The drive up the mountain was spectacular. The sights are inspiring 

Take a look:

We also ventured to take some family photos in what was referred to as "art alley" take a look at what I created from what I saw:

You know of the sermons I have listened to since being in the car for 5 hours and needing to feed my soul the "good stuff" 

I realized just about every sermon I listened to involved mountains. About Jesus going to the mountains, about disciples going as well and I thought "wow, here I go -to a mountain- and I wider in what way will God speak to me?"

Well I'll tell you-  I took in some beautiful sights, I got to see my son laugh and have wholesome fun, I took photos and turned them into some form of inspirational photos (or what have you), and I just wrote a song. 

I took some emotions, fears, and turned them around into a song. I don't know if the song will be shared but it might one day of that's how it works out. 

Now I'm wondering : When am I going to take another trip? :)