Chili + Chocolate = A very good start to the Football Season!!!

August 30, 2008

Chili + Chocolate = A very good start to the Football Season!!!

Dearest friends,

Thank you for your prayers and encouraging words that you sent my way! I am so thankful that God has allowed me a safe place to just speak what is on my heart! I love you for allowing me to just be me.........the good, the bad, and the ugly. What a community Father has created among us! Praise Him!

So Friday was a wonderfully, peaceful day. Minus this hideously mean shoes that whipped my feet to death. Yes, my usually theme is ....."Beauty is Pain"....but on a Friday???????? NO THANKS!!!!!!!

Needless to say, I spent most of the day at my desk drawing my yearly tree portrait. I am a lover of trees and find myself doing a big pencil drawing of them every year, on the first week!This is my 5th! I think it is fitting to start with a tree because they tend to represent new life, firm foundations, growth, and stability!!!!!!! I just love a willowy tree!

Today, I woke up and cleaned the entire house all morning long! DEEP CLEAN!!!!! I got some things organized and washed clothes........and of course I am now putting off folding them, uuuugggghhhh that is such a flaw of mine. I will wash them but i hate, HATE folding clothes!!!!!!! So, in order to avoid doing it I headed to Wal-Mart because I was in need of some good fall/football food!

I love football season. Why? well my dad has been a Head Football Coach and Athletic Director my entire life.....minus the years he was a defensive coordinator at the college level. 30 years he did it! Football is what put me through college and gave me spending money and food on the table! I love everything about fall sports. But I am starting my second football season without a team that my dad is in charge of. Of course, He loves being retired. But every Friday night of my entire life......in the fall.......was football. Sure I like college games but I love cheering on my dad and his team! It was always neat to me that I got to see my dad's job in action. Kind of like having a dad that is a preacher. They work all week and then you get to see the product of that at the end of each week! It just isn't the same any more. I like having that personal connection with a team! I like knowing his players and their families...the coaches and their families. Anyway, blah blah blah.............i decided that I would make my mom's amazing homemade chili today for dinner and then freeze most of it for big Saturday games!!!!!!!!!!!...that's right, i said chili....and yes, I realize it is like 1000 degrees outside!!!!!!!!!!
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I add a couple of extra stuff to mine and I tend to spice it up!!!!! I LOVE SPICY FOOD!!!!!!!!!

HERE IS MY CHILI SET UP BEFORE THE ALABAMA/CLEM GAME!!!!!!!!!

Doesn't this look great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yum yum yum

So, I was going to take a really cute picture of me taking my first bite of chili..........however as I put a big spoon full in and pushed the button.........I became completely and instantly aware that the temperature was like a million degrees hot!!!!!!!!!

I looked like this.....

I felt like this.....

hahahhaha Oh i almost forgot. you know us women, after a some what emotional week, a good chocolate something always hits the spot! So i decided that I would make my mom's Toll House Pie but added way more chocolate chips and instead of walnuts......I WOULD ADD PECANS AND MAKE IT LIKE THE PIE AMY AND I ATE LAST SAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AM I A GENIUS OR WHAT???????? OH I COULDN'T GET TO WAL-MART FAST ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO HERE IS THE RECIPE.......Toll House Pie

2 eggs

1/2 cup unsifted flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 packed brown sugar

1 cup butter melted and cooled to room temp

1 big thing of chocolate chips....it calls for 6 ounce but that is so not enough

1 cup of chopped pecans

1 pie crust

whip cream or ice cream

Preheat oven to 325. In a large bowl- beat eggs until foamy, bet in flour, sugar and brown sugar. Blend melted butter. Stir in choc. chips and pecans. Pour into pie crust shell thing. Bake 1 hour. serve warm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this will rock your world!!!!

GO AND MAKE IT THIS VERY SECOND!!!DO YOU SEE ALL THAT CHOCOLATE!!!!!