Peanut Butter Cup Trifle

I made this superbly delicious dessert last Friday night for friends and it turned out perfect. It's not my recipe, but I had promised to share it on my blog. So here it is girls!

Ingredients:
1 9x13 pan of brownies, broken into chunks
1 cup chocolate chips
2 (3 oz) packages of instant vanilla pudding
3 cups of milk
3/4 cup of peanut butter
16 oz of cool whip
4 rounds of Reese's Peanut Butter cups

Directions:
1. Crumble brownie and set aside.
2. Beat the pudding mix and milk together on med low speed until blended, then beat in the peanut butter, beat until smooth.
3. Fold in 1 cup of cool whip.
4. In a large trifle bowl, layer 1/2 of the crumbled brownies, then 1/2 the peanut butter mixture and 1/2 the chocolate chips.
5. Smooth 1 cup of cool whip over the peanut butter layer, sprinkle with 1/2 the chopped Reese's bars.
6. Repeat with another layer of brownie, peanut butter mixture, chocolate chips. Top with cool whip and chopped Reese's bars.
7. Chill for 4-6 hours or overnight.

Enjoy!!
Let me know if you like it, I'd love to hear from you :)

Recipe obtained from food.com

Strawberries in March? In Central PA?

I have to tell you about a great little deal I got on 4 lbs of strawberries today.

Addison and I went to the butcher to pick up our organic ground beef and while we were out I decided to stop by a small country mennonite store (I blogged about this store before).


Upon arriving at the store, I saw containers of strawberries calling my name ;) I have a thing for strawberries, always have. I know full well that strawberries are not in season right now in cetnral Pennsylvania. I've seen them at the grocery store lately but have not purchased any because of cost, quality, and distant shipping methods.


But today after getting a closer look at those strawberries, which were bright red, I noticed that each pack was 32 oz and only $2.79~! AND to top that off they were organic! I quickly grabbed two containers of them and off Addy and I went happy to have our beloved strawberries so early in the season.


I know Barbara Kingsolver would say "no!" "Don't buy them because they were not locally grown"...but I did. The cost was tantelizing and the organic nature by which they were grown was right up my new healthy-eating-alley.


So strawberries we will have with our dinner and strawberry shortcake later this week!! All for $2.79 for 2 lbs!!

New Yum-O's

As most of you know I've been changing a few things in our family's diet after reading a book by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. This book has CHANGED MY LIFE. Seriously. Because of this book and other research I've been doing, I've been particularly interested in finding things that don't contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.


The other day I was at a small country store run by Mennonite women and ran across these little spicy snacks. I was so pleased to find them!! And yes, they are yummy and a bit spicy-AND they don't contain any extra junk ;)


You never know what you're going to find from your local grocer.

Spicy Black Bean Corn Sticks-Delicious!

God's Gentle Nudge

I think sometimes we want God to write in bold letters across the sky what His perfect will is for our lives. That would be wonderfully simple, wouldn't it? I mean, c'mon how cool would that be?

Recently I've been dealing with an area of uncertainly in my life...just waiting for the Lord to speak to me and give me direction. I wanted the direction now. I didn't want to wait too long and miss a window of opportunity. My husband had been praying fervently about this as well.

Several months passed and Ron began sharing with me what he thought the Lord was laying on his heart. Outwardly I verbalized compliance with the decision but inwardly I was torn up about it. I wasn't sure God was telling me the same thing or if I was getting in the way of my own self.

Last weekend I attended CLAM (Christian Life and Ministry) convention. It was a day set aside for intentional spiritual growth. As soon as the first main session began I was feeling the Holy Spirit moving. Musical worship began and I started to feel more and more drawn to my Savior's side. When the worship team began to sing Everlasting God (by Chris Tomlin) I started to feel compelled by the Holy Spirit to wait on the Lord in this certain area of my life. The tears came like fresh rain on my face while the Holy Spirit warmed my heart with presence of the Almighty. I knew right then and there that God wanted me to wait on Him and that my strength would grow with His power because HE does no grow faint or weary.

God used this worship experience on this particular day though these particular people to nudge me back to Him by saying..."Robyn, wait on me." I felt the message so clear from what seemed like such an unclear situation a day before this event.

So I'm thankful that God did not write across the sky in bold letters what I was supposed to do because through His gentle nudge I was drawn closer to Him.