Soul Food!

Louis Dean and I have been hungry for 'REAL FOOD!'

We have been so busy that we just haven't taken the time to grocery shop much lately.

But we ALWAYS have pinto beans in the pantry so that's what we cooked up.

LD swears by his pressure cooker but he forgot to put the 'pressure dingy thing' on!

The beans were NOT done in time for supper last night so we refrigerated them and cooked them some more today. AGAIN - he forgot the 'thingy!' It's a wonder we ever got those beans done!! I baked up a cast iron skillet of corn bread, sliced an onion, poured us up some tall glasses of ice tea with lemon and we were in business!

As a matter of fact - we ate so well - that's the ONLY meal we've had all day!

I made a peach cobbler to finish but it is still sitting on the stove.

I'm sure Louis Dean will have some as a midnight snack!

Since I am leaving in the morning to go down and see the Quad Squad I decided to make some treats for Amber and Mike and the NICU nurses.

This is German Chocolate Chess Bars.

I had to 'test' them before packaging them up! I only scraped up some of the crumbs but they are GOOD!!

They LOOK good, too, and made the house smell like a bakery!

I found this recipe when I was going through my cookbooks the other day and vaguely remember it. I do NOT recall who gave me the recipe but I decided to try it out this afternoon. It calls for a loaf of white bread!

I seldom EVER buy plain white bread!

I kind of enjoyed rolling the slices FLAT!

This would be fun to do with the grand kids!

Spread with a cream cheese/egg yolks/sugar filling and rolled up, cut in thirds, brushed with butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar then baked crisp - these were delicious!

(I tried ONE small blini!)

Packaged up and ready to give!

I am SO ready to get back down to see the quads. By the pictures Amber has been posting on Facebook I can see they have done a lot of growing!

My job tomorrow is to learn how to feed them their bottles. Preemies are a bit different than full term babies and I am ready to learn!

Amber created the birth announcement using their one month pictures.

This would still make them just 34 weeks (nearly!) as opposed to the traditional 40 week full term babies. So I guess you could say they are still 'newborn!'

I am hoping she will give me some extras so I can send some of you Prayer Warriors one. It has been an amazing journey and it looks the next part of the adventure is about to begin!!