Water, Chili, and Almond Cheese

Well, weather's back to being 16 degrees and snowy here in my part of Missouri ... joy oh joy. Ha, but despite the cold, my Monday went very well.

Here's some more weekend recaps ... one of the most exciting things was that we got a reverse osmosis, yay! Tap water is disgusting, and I don't like buying a bunch of bottled water so I really hadn't been drinking like any water when I'm home. I just try to drink a bunch at work when I have the water/ice machine, haha ... (though I'm not sure that tastes great either but it's typically so cold I don't notice). My wonderful husand put that in on Saturday and now our water tastes good! : ) Not a very good picture but here is our lovely new clean water spout. Yesterday was my mother-in-law's birthday so after church we had her over for lunch. We had turkey and white bean chili served with a spinach salad that had chopped apples, carrots, dried pitted dates, almond cheese, and dried goji berries with some good ole Mrs. Dash garlic and herb seasoning with red wine vinnegerette. (sorry, no salad picture). Here's the basic recipe I used for the chili in case anyone cares, but I made mine in the crock pot, added some black eyed peas and rice, and just chopped up plain old tomatoes. Speaking of almond cheese ... we also got some of that this weekend because Hyvee was out of the cheese we normally get. That being said, we may not get the cheese we normally get anymore becuase this is so good! We got mozzarella and cheddar and they're both really tasty! I would definitely recommend it.

And to end this blog, here's a random quote for the day that I like to think about by C.S. Lewis (does anybody LOVE the Chronicles of Narnia as much as me??)

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." -CS Lewis

Hope you all had a great Monday! : )