The Holiday Season Closes - and Happy MLK Day

Belated Happy New Year!  May the year be blessed and fulfilling…

Jason made chicken noodle soup in the crock pot for dinner last night - no picture but it was nice and soothing and a great winter day for it.

Breakfast on the weekend is nothing short of gourmet - at least in my book - whole grain blueberry pancakes and these two egg-centric (hee hee) ones to name a few:

Jason's omelets - they're so good.  The egg is cooked and baked separately and the insides are either fresh or sautéed.

This is reminiscent of a favorite breakfast we had in Mexico a few times - scrambled eggs with onions, peppers, cheese and cilantro - we put guacamole and salsa on them - wrapped in a  warm corn tortilla!  Woo hoooooo!

These two look somewhat the same - the first is more of a summer regular but always so good - we get spicy noodles and then this fresh, cold dish has avocado, walnuts, sun-dried tomatoes, scallions, red pepper with evoo, balsamic v and salt and pepper and the second is a pasta creation; which Jason is phenomenal at pulling off, with zucchini, peppers, flat leaf parsley and sun-dried tomatoes:

Jason's broadened his tastes so much since I've known him - one thing that hasn't changed though is that he does not love Chinese food…however, this dish reminds me of it and we both LOVED it.  So nice -steaming hot 'wok'd' chicken and vegetables over fresh green lettuce:

And I just had to take a photo and add this beauty.  This family is enamored with mangoes and they go so fast - so we bought a case of them at Costco - here's one now:

Such a beautiful fruit inside and out - just like us all!  And so evenly sweet and creamy

To close:  excerpts from Jan. 1 in God Calling:

...Bury every fear of the future, of poverty for those dear to you, of suffering, of loss...

...Bury all thought of unkindness and bitterness, all your dislikes, your resentments, your sense of failure, your gloom, your despondency, and let us leave them all, buried, and go forward to a new and risen life…

…And for each day [God] shall supply the wisdom and the strength.

Peace and Love, HH