Menu for the week of September 6, 2010

The “rules” of our household diet can be found in the tab above labeled Hallee’s Galley and further explained in Our Diet.

I usually serve leftovers for lunch the next day, or we’ll save them during the week to graze lunch on the weekends. One meal a week, we eat whatever we want. This is usually our “Dinner Out” meal.

Almost all of the breads are homemade using fresh milled flour. I’ll continue to link to my recipes as I post them.  Our daily bread is Whole Wheat Honey Oatmeal Bread.

Here’s the menu for my family for the week of September 6th. As far as desserts go, my daughter is hungry for a pumpkin pie.  I think I’ll also make some sort of cookie – but I haven’t decided what yet.  Maybe chocolate chocolate chip.

Breakfast:

Dinner:

dinner out – traveling

Tuesday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Southern Fried Chicken, sweet potato salad (recipe to follow), green beans, Ma-Maw Lucille’s Buttermilk Biscuits

Wednesday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Easy Tuna Casserole, green peas, garden salad

Thursday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

homemade beef enchiladas (recipe to follow)

Friday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Quick & Easy Sloppy Joes, Homemade Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns, homemade French fries

Saturday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Root Beer Barbecued Beef Sandwiches, Coastal Cole Slaw, peaches

Sunday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Amazing Butternut Squash Bisque, chef salad

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

A Sunday guest post by my brilliant husband, Gregg.

Every Sunday, my clever husband offers me a “day of rest” by writing posts on the subject of his primary ministry. The topic, Creationism vs. Darwinism, is a subject that has broad reaching scientific, social, and metaphysical implications and is gaining more and more attention in our modern culture.

For believers and non-believers alike, the primary purpose is to present scientific, historical, logical, and/or sociological data in an empirical fashion, as much as possible written in layman’s terms, and in a format suitable for supplementing any homeschool curriculum whether you choose to believe the Biblical account — or secular guesses — about the origins of human life on earth.

“El Hombre de Orce” a.k.a Orce Man

In 1982, three Catalan archaeologists headed by Professor José Gibert and other notables, including Paul Palmqvist, were digging near the dusty village of Orce, in the province of Granada, in Spain. The expedition centered on the Venta Micena region of southern Spain near the town of Orce. Naturally, the expedition came across an unusual bone fragment, probably a fragment of skull bone. Coming from the Venta Micena site, the fossil was designated VM-0 and was affectionately called “La Galleta,” the Cookie, because it was roundish and about the size of a child’s first attempt to bake a chocolate chip cookie.

A year later, they announced that the fragment had belonged to a young human male child.

“In view of many paleoanthropologists, the story of human evolution has been fictionalized to suit needs other than scientific rigor.” *B. Rensberger, “Facing the Past” in Science, October 1981, Vol. 81, pp. 41, 49.

No, I'm not cold. I'm Orce Man!

Furthermore, by 1983 this fragment was hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe after Gilbert claimed that the piece of skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.7 million years ago, and even had very detailed drawings executed to represent what the naked hominid would have looked like. They even suggested the cause of death: the child had been devoured by a hyena.

So certain were Darwinists that this bone represented a primitive hominid that they dubbed the specimen, “El Hombre de Orce” — the Orce Man — after the southern Spanish town near which it had been found. The cookie was now a full grown missing link between prehistoric monkey and man!

All that from a cookie sized piece of bone.  Imagine that.

In later posts I plan to demonstrate how Darwinist “artistic” renderings and interpretations often drastically alter scale and fill in unknowns with total nonsense based on nothing but a preconceived notion playing to an agenda.  This is a time honored Darwinian practice that dates back to Ernst Haeckel.  Just as an aside, notice how in paintings, sketches, and dioramas, Darwinists always depict “cavemen” or hominids or missing links as buck naked and rather hirsute monkey-man hybrids.  I contend this is intentional and meant to more closely visually associate the Darwinist  monkey-to -man myth with the “naked apes.”  Nevermind the fact that evidence of clothing is nearly always found including, sometimes, chainmail.

“Compared to other sciences, the mythic element is greatest in paleoanthropology. Hypotheses and stories of human evolution frequently arise unprompted by data and contain a large measure of general preconceptions, and the data which do exist are often insufficient to falsify or even substantiate them. Many interpretations are possible. These books all provide new alternatives, some refining the subject with new information; all, in varying degrees, supplant the old myths with new ones.” *W. Hill, “Book Review, ” in American Scientist (1984), Vol. 72, pp: 188-189.

A symposium on Orce Man was planned for late May, 1984. So great was the consensus on the importance of this find, and so motivated were Darwinists to spread the word, that a full three-day scientific symposium had been scheduled, so that the experts could examine and discuss the bone.

A UPI press release announced that the skull fragment found in Spain was the oldest human fossil ever found in Europe.

Then came trouble which struck like a guillotine.

The French, having no real love of the Spaniards, even fellow Darwinist Spaniards, arrived early and examined the cookie. Experts from Paris agreed with Gilbert that the bone was undoubtedly a skull fragment, and congratulated him on his assessment. However, they pointed out and supported with a preponderance of evidence that it was most likely a skull fragment belonging to, not a gazillion year old hominid, but a four to six month old donkey.

Darwinists envision the Orce Man hominid skull

“SKULL FRAGMENT MAY NOT BE HUMAN”, announced the Knoxville News-Sentinel. The Daily Telegraph, an Australian newspaper, carried the story of the latest bone hoax with the much more humorous (pardon the pun) headline: “ASS TAKEN FOR MAN.”

The embarrassed Spanish officials sent out 500 letters canceling the symposium. Personally, I wonder what happened to all the artwork and posters.

The debate continued to rage for years afterward. A 1995 fractal analysis of the skull sutures by Gibert and Palmqvist  strongly indicated that the fragment was not from an equine. That same year, an international symposium was eventually held at Orce to discuss this analysis and other material, and a number of participants agreed, suggesting that VM-0 was a hominid fossil (Zihlman and Lowenstein 1996). A paper (Borja et al. 1997) has argued in favor of VM-0 being a hominid based on immunological studies of fossil proteins performed at two independent laboratories although the premise of the claim is questionable based on a possible incorrect assumption.

The REAL Orce "Man"

However, two articles appearing in July 1997 disputed all these claims. The most telling was by Palmqvist again, this time citing errors in the 1995 paper that he had coauthored with Gibert.  Palmqvist now claimed that the fractal evidence was clearly in favor of an equid (horse, donkey, burrow, jack-ass) origin for VM-0.

Much like sock-puppets reading a nearly identical script after each hoax is exposed, Darwinists like to say that the jury is still out on the Orce Man, that consensus was never reached, that Darwinists were the ones to correct the mistake, that real evidence will only be marginalized “when found” by dwelling on the “few” hoaxes of the last century and a half. What do you think?

They Call Him Flipperithicus

Which brings us all the way up to my personal favorite and most well covered up Darwinist hoax.  What other hoax has a theme song?

They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
No-one you see, is smarter than he…

Noted Anthropologist Dr. Noel Boaz of New York University studied a curvy piece of bone and determined that it was at least (big booming announcer voice) five million years old! Furthermore, it was obviously a clavicle (collar bone) of a very early hominid, possibly the earliest ancestor of modern man yet found. He published his findings regarding the fossil find in the journals Nature, and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Natural History.

What an amazing claim!

Things went swimmingly until, at a meeting of physical anthropologists, one of his fellows was skeptical of the find, stating that at first glance the bone looks nothing like a collar bone. In fact, Dr. White, an anthropologist from the University of California-Berkeley, stated that “to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S…curve, but it does not.”

Dr. White studied the find further and finally classified it. “It’s a dolphin.”

And we know Flipper, Flipper,
lives in a world full of wonder,
Lying there under,
under the sea!

I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings as a young boy to watch the Lassie and Flipper hour. Flipper was cool. I’m just not sure he had shoulders.

A five million-year-old piece of bone that was thought to be a collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley. Ian Anderson, “Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin’s rib”, New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199.

Again, in Nature, Dr. Noel Boaz countered, “I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed.” Dr. Boaz described the amazing find, and defended his stance regarding the fossil.

I imagine my detractors will claim that this was just “a mistake” and not an intentional hoax or attempted fraud.  I am not the person who accused the good doctor of such shenanigans.

Throwing salt water in the wound, Dr. White responded by accusing Boaz of an attempted fraud equal to that of Java Man and Piltdown Man.  Dr. White teaches at Berkely.  For those of you who aren’t familiar, that isn’t really a Bible college.

White’s conclusive evidence of attempted fraud: The bone in question was not properly curved and the nutrient foramen, a tiny opening, opened the wrong way. His contention was that any competent first year anthropological student would have noted these discrepancies immediately.  It is entirely unreasonable to believe that a Ph.D holder in physical anthropology would overlook these things.

White said, “The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone.”

To me, this statement makes perfect sense.  Of course they want so much to find a “hominid” or a transitional form or a missing link between monkey and man.  After all, no such thing has ever actually been found in more than a century and a half, and faith can only carry you so far.

Johns Hopkins University anthropologist Alan Walker stated that there is a long history of misinterpreting various bones as humanoid clavicles, that it is a amorphous bone, and scientist should be very judicious in interpreting it.

More "hominid" clavicles

Walker admitted that skilled anthropologists have erroneously described the femur of an alligator and the toe of a horse (long pastern) as hominid clavicles!

“The unscientific and doctrinaire character of this whole field of study is well-epitomized. So much glamor still attaches to the theme of the missing link, and to man’s relationships with the animal world, that it may always be difficult to exercise from the comparative study of primates, living and fossil. The kind of myths which the unaided eye is able to conjure out of wishful thinking.”—Lord Solly Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory Tower, (1970), p. 64.

The Truth

This concludes part TEN of my series on Darwinian evolutionary frauds.  When I began this series, I never imagined that I would be able to document so many frauds committed by Darwinists in the last 100 years.  The interesting part is that I am not even finished.  There is still Lucy the magical Austrolopithicine, dead moths, and the Archeoraptor to go and I am only scratching the surface.

All this forces me to ask the question, “Why is it that there appears to be an intent to deceive at the outset?”

Must evolutionary science, from time to time, simply fake evidence, commit fraud, perpetrate hoaxes — lie? Why is that?  Why stage so-called evidence when none exists?  Why fill in the blanks of all of the unknowns with pure speculation?  Why lie?  Why perpetrate fraud?  Why commit hoaxes?

The claims made by Darwinists when it comes to the monkey-to-man myth are so outrageous and based on an absolute absence of observation.  It reminds me of a humorous email that circulated some time ago.  It was a farcical letter allegedly written to the Smithsonian in which the author wanted desperately to classify a Barbie doll head he had found in his back yard as a hominid.

Except this stuff isn’t a joke!  It’s just a little bit pathetic.  “Let’s go find a tiny piece of bone and force it into the Darwinist evolutionary theory all according to the Darwinist world view!”

Is this like the people who think they see Buddha in their bowl of oatmeal?  A corn chip that looks strikingly similar to a Pope hat?  Are we talking about that kind of religious fervor?

The thing about the truth is that the truth is always true.  I don’t need to trick anyone into believing something that is true.  You either accept the truth, or choose to live in denial in the face of the truth.  The truth is still the truth whether you choose to believe it or not.

And the ultimate truth is readily available.  The truth is that there is no fraud contained in God’s word. No deception, no guile. Not one word is intended to deceive, fool, trick, or mislead.  God does not need to perpetrate fraud in order to convince anyone of what He is or what He has done.

God Bless you and yours.

Gregg

Comment # 34…

Phronsie!

You have won the Real Food for Rookies Course being given by Kelly the Kitchen Kop.

YOU WILL LEARN HOW CHANGING WHAT YOU EAT CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING.

Real Food for Rookies, a 12-week online class, starts Thursday, September 16th.  Deadline for signing up for the class is September 5th.

This is what Kelly says about her course:

Do you feel overloaded with nutritional information and the conflicting advice from all the “experts”?
Are you overwhelmed trying to implement what you’ve heard, and without going broke?
Do you want to learn how to fit Real Food into your busy schedule?
Learn the concepts it took me years to learn — in just a few weeks.

I’ve signed up for it.  I’m sure there is a ton of information there that I still don’t know, despite my “real food” path.

Congratulations, Phronsie!  I will be emailing you the code with which to register for the class!  And thank you, everyone, for participating.  You will also be getting an email from me with a special offer from Kelly.

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

This may be something I need to Vlog.  If these instructions aren’t clear, then please let me know and I’ll video it.

Make a 2-crust pastry.  Shape half of the pastry into the bottom crust and place in pie pan, filling with your desired topping.  This particular pie is a cherry pie.

Roll a section of the remaining pastry into a rectangle.

Using a pizza cutter, or a sharp knife, cut strips.

Place one strip across the top of the pie, and another strip down the right side of the pie.

Lift up the top strip and place another strip horizontal to the one on the right side.  This way, the end of that strip is under the one across the top, and the one next to it is on top of the strip across the top, creating a basket weave.

Lift up the strip you just placed on there, and place another strip horizontal to the one on top, so that it is under this one but over the one to the right.

Continue with this pattern, lifting strips and gently replacing them as you need to create the basket weave until all of the strips are in place.

Trim the ends and fold them under the edge of the bottom crust.  Crimp the bottom crust and the ends of the strips together.

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

I saw someone reference a sweet potato hash somewhere a few months ago, and I thought that sounded really good, so I came up with a recipe.  This was so good – it was hearty enough to be the main dish of a meal.

1 cup diced sweet potato
1 can black beans, drained
1 can corn, drained
1 TBS olive oil
½ cup onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp Kosher salt
½ tsp black pepper
½ dried basil

sharp knife/cutting board
measuring cups/spoons
skilet

Dice sweet potatoes.

Mince onion.

Drain and rinse canned beans.

Drain and rinse canned corn.

Heat your skillet to medium-high heat.  Add the olive oil.

Add the potatoes.

Add the onion.

Add the salt, pepper, garlic, and basil.

Cover and cook, stirring regularly, until the potatoes are soft – about 6-8 minutes.

Add corn.

Add the beans.

Stir.  Reduce heat to medium and cook until the beans and corn are heated.

About 6 servings.

I would love to hear any feedback about this recipe. Did you make it? Did you enjoy it? Did you make any adjustments to it?

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

I have never looked through a package of beans that didn’t contain at least one rock.

I’d hate to think of you biting down on one of those things.  Ouch!

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

I asked Gregg if he’d ordered it for me, and he said, “Yeah.  It has Bob in it.  You’ll like it.  And it’s a great film.”

Anyone who enjoyed the first season of The Unit the way I did would know who Bob is.  If you don’t know, then may I recommend the first season (and the first season only) of The Unit, and the ability to fast-forward through the wives?  They were pretty much unnecessary to me and took away from the plots with Bob the men.

The Last Templar also has Mira Sorvino in it.  About 20 minutes into watching it, Gregg called me.  In the course of our conversation, I said that Mira Sorvino’s mouth bothers me.  The way it moves when she speaks distracts me from what she’s saying and annoys  me.  He laughed and said, “What?  I think she’s hot, personally.”

Now, that gave me pause.  Gregg doesn’t say that about ANYONE.  Well, except me.  “You think she’s hot?” I said, not angrily, but curious.

“Sure.  She speaks 6 languages and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.”

HA!

Let me just say that I absolutely love and adore my husband.  He fills my heart with such joy.  And he loves me. But, I used to wonder all the time why in the world he loves me.  I graduated from Spencer High School.  That’s the extent of my education.  And, I speak English.  I don’t speak it well – I write it way better than I verbalize it – but I do speak that one language proficiently.

It took me several years to know that Gregg loves me because God designed him to love me.  And even when he’s admiring another woman’s “hotness” by her academic accomplishments, I am still confident in his love for me.

And I still think her mouth is funny.

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

I have LOVED reading it.  It’s not like I can’t put it down.  I have lots of reading to do.  I read my Bible every day.  At home I read the Old Testament (and am currently reading 2 Samuel).  In waiting rooms or waiting in the car for Kaylee or wherever I am out and about, I read the New Testament (and am back to reading Matthew).  I’m reading The Power of a Praying Wife and I’m reading Helper By Design.  I LOVE reading my Bible, but that is study/worship time.  The other books I read are being read with an eye for a blog post, for education, to retain information and digest it then do something with it.

This book is just to feed my love of mid-twentieth-century America.  It’s as good as popping in an awesome film noir starring Humphrey Bogart or Spencer Tracy.  I love seeing how life was lived back then, especially when it’s right then and not looking back.  When it’s unadulterated with modern proclivities, assumptions, prejudices, political correctness.

As I was reading the chapter on how to manage household help (which was just hysterical to read, by the way), something rather profound occurred to me.  It isn’t like it should have just occurred to me, but really I don’t think I’ve ever thought about it from this angle before.

Here is where I had my “ah-ha!” moment:

Experienced homemakers will tell you that if the employee does the washing and ironing, the homemaker must assume a major share of the other housekeeping jobs on laundry days.

And:

If your employee assumes most of the responsibility for the children, don’t expect too much else of her.  She can’t do everything.

Know what those simple sentences tell me?  That it’s ridiculous to expect that one person can do it all all of the time even when they’re a paid employee who is working from cooking breakfast time to washing dinner dishes time.

Homemaking is a job.  It requires full time attention.  It encompasses a huge amount of responsibility from maintaining a clean home, doing laundry, cooking, caring for children, caring for the spouse, gardening, preserving, etc. etc.  For some of us, it also includes homeschooling.

If you don’t enter into it treating it as if it were a job, as in giving it your full attention and energy when it’s required, then it’s going to overwhelm you.  One thing that this generation battles that the generation who read America’s Housekeeping don’t are too many outside distractions.  You can allow yourself to be sucked into television or the internet and lose hours a day – hours that your home requires of you.

I think that people get the wrong impression thinking that a homemaker has loads of free time on her hands, with no responsibilities of a boss and co-workers and deadlines.  But the fact of the matter is, it is a full time job.  I could easily fill all of my waking hours with my homemaking responsibilities.  I have to carve time out for blogging and personal correspondence, and I honestly don’t give those things the attention I need to give them.

If you are struggling with your homemaking, stop and analyze your day.  How are you treating your duties?  Are they something that just get done when you feel like it, or are you going into your day with the attitude of accomplishing your given tasks?  Do you lose hours and hours one end in chatrooms, Twitter parties, message board conversations, or Facebook, TiVo, daytime television…or do you remove yourself from such outside distractions and keep them for your scheduled downtimes?

I encourage you to take pencil to paper or keyboard to spreadsheet and pound out a schedule.  Work it out.  What needs to be accomplished daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, annually?  How many hours a day do you allow for your home?

Come at it like a job and see how your homemaking skills improve with just the simple shift of attitude.

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

THIS GIVEAWAY ENDS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD AT 5PM EST.

READ BELOW FOR

7 EXCITING CHANCES TO WIN!

HALLEE ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~

I am so excited to be doing the giveaway this month. Kelly at Kelly the Kitchen Kop is a fellow blogger and a dear friend. She has done so much to help me promote my blog that I’m just thrilled to be able to promote something for her.

Kelly is offering one of my readers a chance to take her online course, Real Food for Rookies, for free. This is a $120 value!

Click here to read more about this amazing class (that isn’t just for rookies!)

LEARN HOW CHANGING WHAT YOU EAT CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING.

Real Food for Rookies, a 12-week online class, starts Thursday, September 16th.  Deadline for signing up for the class is September 5th.

This is what Kelly says about her course:

Do you feel overloaded with nutritional information and the conflicting advice from all the “experts”?
Are you overwhelmed trying to implement what you’ve heard, and without going broke?
Do you want to learn how to fit Real Food into your busy schedule?
Learn the concepts it took me years to learn — in just a few weeks.

I’ve signed up for it.  I’m sure there is a ton of information there that I still don’t know, despite my “real food” path.

There are 7 ways to enter.  Make sure you leave a comment for every entry, or it won’t count:

1. Leave a comment to this post saying what you hope to learn in the class.
   
2. Follow Hallee the Homemaker on Twitter here, and leave a comment telling me that you did.
3. Follow Kelly the Kitchen Kop on Twitter here, and leave a comment telling me that you did.
   
4. Tweet about this giveaway, adding @halleeb to the tweet, and leave a comment telling me you did.
   
5. Subscribe to my RSS feed here (or if you already do, leave a comment telling me you do)
6. Subscribe to my email updates here (or if you already do, leave a comment telling me you do)
   
7. Google Friend me here (or if you already are, leave a comment telling me you are)

You have 7 chances to win! If you already do the above, leave a separate comment saying so to make sure that you don’t miss out on an extra entry.

International entries are always more than welcome.

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!

Menu for the week of August 30, 2010

The “rules” of our household diet can be found in the tab above labeled Hallee’s Galley and further explained in Our Diet.

I usually serve leftovers for lunch the next day, or we’ll save them during the week to graze lunch on the weekends. One meal a week, we eat whatever we want. This is usually our “Dinner Out” meal.

Almost all of the breads are homemade using fresh milled flour. I’ll continue to link to my recipes as I post them.  Our daily bread is Whole Wheat Honey Oatmeal Bread.

Here’s the menu for my family for the week of August 30th. As far as desserts go, I’m going to make a chocolate pudding with fresh cream one night.  I think that I’ll also make some DoodleRoo’s Scrumptious Snickerdoodles!  We will be going to my nephew’s 3rd birthday, and I’m making some Lightning McQueen cupcakes for that.

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Chicken Stir Fry, Perfect Brown Rice, egg rolls

Tuesday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Crockpot Vegetable Beef Soup, homemade pimento cheese sandwiches on whole wheat bread

Wednesday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Scrumptious Steak with Mushrooms and Onion, wild rice, fresh green beans, garden salad

Thursday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

rotisserie chicken (recipe to follow), sautee’d zucchini and onion (recipe to follow),

Friday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

Dinner out

Saturday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

at my parents’ house

Sunday:

Breakfast:

Dinner:

at my parents’ house

Hallee

You would bless me if you added me to your feed reader or subscribed via email.

You can also become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I would love to see more of you!