Tomato Bread Recipe | Guest Post

February 23, 2010 By 4 Comments

Recipe for Tomato Bread

Another last-minute experiment right before Christmas, this is on its way to becoming a favorite at our house!

Ingredients:
¾ cup + 1 Tbsp (warm) water
4 cups bread flour
2 Tbsp sugar
1½ tsp salt
2 Tbsp butter
¼ cup + 2 Tbsp tomato paste
¼ cup + 2 Tbsp pumpkin puree
¼ to ¾ tsp rosemary leaves, crumbled
6 to 8 fresh oregano leaves, minced
1½ tsp (active dry) yeast

Instructions:
Place ingredients in the bread case and insert the bread case into the bread machine. Select the Basic Bread Mode and press Start.

Enjoy!

You can see more recipes with pumpkin here including making your own pumpkin puree.
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Enhance | Guest Post

February 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The last few days, a particular word has cropped up in my mind and heart – Enhance.
I just discovered how to use Photoshop to edit photos.  As I was playing around, I was amazed at how a few clicks could bring beautiful changes to a picture.  The picture itself wasn’t made new, I was there to begin with but now,  it was “enhanced”.
While applying make-up, the look I strive for is not “made up”, but softly accented.  A few strokes here and there and from what I was given to work with, make up “enhanced” my look.
My curiosity was peeked and I looked up the definition of  enhance:  To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.
It doesn’t take long to discover areas that can be “enhanced”. Cooking skills, home decorating,  attitudes, words and actions can be made greater and more effective by just a little bit of effort.
It all begins with what we are given and then it is up to us to enhance that.  It’s not a whole new make over, but gentle changes that bring enhancement.
Spiritually speaking, we are all given a measure of faith in our hearts.  All Christians have received this gift.  It is up to us to build on it.  A beautiful verse to start the new year is found in II Peter 1:5-8: “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,  to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.  For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
We can add to our faith beautiful qualities that assure us of fruitfulness in the Lord.  These don’t come all at one time, but are a step by step journey seeking to add to our faith these qualities.  These come be adding to our faith….by seeking opportunities to grow, by being diligent to God’s Word and allowing Him to “enhance” or perfect us through His guidance and leading.
May this New Year find us adding to our faith and fruitfulness in the Lord!
Joyfull Blessings,
Joyce
You may visit Joyce at her blog at www.joybright.blogspot.com where she shares the journey of an ordinary life, filled with extraordinary joy!
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