Mama Mungo's Soup Kitchen is open for business

So I joined the site I recomended below.  I just put my recipe up for my Bruschetta.  If you like that, you can go to that site and look it up.   Just go to
http://cookeatshare.com/chefs/norine-mungo-28324

Norine has discovered Steam Bag cooking

I am really starting to like those steam bags for vegies and cooked meat.  I bought one of those huge bags of frozen vegies of carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower, and it is lasting so long since I went to those bags.  I don't feel like I am making too much anymore, and they are so much healthier!!!  



I like mixing cut up small red potatos in with the vegies and they come out so creamy!!!  You have to try it!!!  I also cooked a ton of chicken yesterday and tonight just put some of the pieces in one of those bags and in minutes I had a nice hot meal with no prep!!!  Yeah for bags!!!


Here is a link to a great recipe site that also has a section on Ziplock Steam Bags!


http://cookeatshare.com/popular/ziplock-steam-bags-recipes

Because I Have Been Given Much

I just added a video of my favorite church song, Because I Have Been Given Much.  This song was sung at our baptism and it is really special to me.  It is on the sidebar, so enjoy it being sung by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Quartet.   Soooooo Beautiful.  It brings me peace!!!!

I Love Michael Buble

I added a song on the side bar that I love.  It is everything about Vince and when I hear the song I fall in love all over again.   So, enjoy.  BTW, I made it smaller by editing the html to be 100 width and depth.  If you want to know how to do it, just ask in the comment!

Selling off our memories!

So, I put all my furniture on craigslist and one by one they are going out the door.  It is scary to let things go, specially when you treasure them so much, but, as I keep saying, God has a plan for me and I am following the path that he is putting before me!

Here are a few pictures from my beautiful house, just so I have a memory when it is all gone.  Once I start the new decorating, I will put that up too and we can compare as to what was best!  Light or dark wood etc!  LOL.

We decorated our home in a casual French Country.  Sages, seafoam greens, browns and touches of lavender.  This time I'd bought quality furniture from Seldons, which carries Thomasville etc.  Above is our Bassett dining room set, which expands to seat up to 10 people!  To the right is our couch that is a dark olive in microfiber.  Really love the fabric.  It is so rich and lustrous. 

I followed the theme throughout the house, bedrooms, bathrooms, all in the same colors, and all accented with silver lamps and picture frames, with some type of peacock green, or seafoam in the shades and curtains etc.

Here is our main bathroom with towels and magazine rack etc.  It all started with a Rodeo Home shower curtain that I found at T J Max about 4 years ago.  I'd already bought the couch and the dining table, but when I found that light seafoam green mixed with brown, I knew I was home!!!  LOL.  So, I did the bathroom first and four years later, the whole place was transformed.  I think the new place will be a varience on this theme.  I love this color!

The infamous green shower curtain that caused massive shopping for 3 years!  It is hard to see the color in the picture but it is like walking into a quiet spa.  The texture on the curtain reminds me of Jessica MacKlintok, or however you spell her name, but you know what I mean, kinda crinkly???  Very silky too!  The best part of this color scheme was that it was MAN friendly as well as womanly!  You know, like, he didn't feel like he was in an all girly house.  He could live with it too!  I think that is important.  Finding that balance for the two people is the priority.

Will I miss these things if I leave them all behind?   Most certainly!  Do they define who I am and will I be lost without these things?  No.  Things don't define us.  How we are percieved rests soley on us.  How we treat those around us, how we accept others, and how willing we are to take on change is what defines us.  But......just look at that frame!!  LOL!  Eiiyiiyiii!!!  

So,  you may see just a few of the trinkets out in Florida, but maybe the furniture will change to white wicker, (hmmm, how DO you spell that?) or I'll go to thrift stores and garage sales, find nice wood and refinish it in whites and silvers.  That would be fun.   Why this response????  I just sold my two night stands and was saying goodbye to them after 10 years of loving service!  Hahahaha.  That's all for this moment!  Have a Blessed day!!!  Love, Norine

Will Summer Ever End

Written 09/06/06 by Norine

I guess I am not so much of a sun worshiper.

I guess I love the still of winter,

it's frozen white plains, narrowing the view of the landscape

to a single solitary color.

I guess I like the quiet of falling snow.

Drifting down, sometimes like slow motion animation,

sometimes speeding down like a frozen fluffy rain,

but always a soft hush ensues.

I guess I like to hear the tiny crush of snow

as my feet pass over the path ,

walking through the trees with their laden boughs,

dressed up in their winter gowns,

sparkling greater than any diamond could.

I guess I love to view Mount Rainier, topped like a sundae

with whipped cream all the way to the bottom,

turning pink in the sunset on a clear day.

I am not a hotty. I am a coldy.

I guess I like sitting in my front room with the blinds up

and the curtains thrown back, with the TV off,

the music of bluegrass in the background,

a fire glowing behind the screen, crackling and spitting,

it's warmth warming me far greater than any sun could,

as I just sit and watch the greatest show on earth.

You may keep your hottest summer days.

There is nothing so remarkable to remember

about a hot day in and of itself.

Oh, the family and friends at the BBQ

or the biggest wave you ever rode, yes,

but those are things aside from the weather.

A snowy day IS about the weather.

October will come, oh yes it will my friends,

and the first day that I leave for work,

where the hint of winter hits the tip of my nose

with its stinging icy breath,

and the smell of the first wood smoke

from fires too long abandoned ignite my senses,

that will be my happiest day

since winter took it's sabbatical an eternity ago.

Will summer ever end. In my part of the world, gladly, it will.

I guess I am winters child,

longing for home,

longing for the comfort of my white blanket,

and shorter days, and longer nights.

So, I have finished my story called,

"Mommy, I really want to know about,

The Easter Bunny!"

And the test groups are reading it now to

see how it flows etc.

In the meantime,

I came accross this wonderful picture

that depicts a fairy with a white bunny!

Of all things!!!  What a sign!!!  Can't

wait for you all to read the story!

Love, Norine