The peppers are ripe and some tomatoes are turning red!! You just can’t beat the taste of fresh vegetables especially when you have had a hand in growing them. Sometimes we need to stop and remind ourselves just how great fresh REAL food really is . . . I say this because that is what crosses my mind every time I eat a vegetable, I think – WOW, this is really good, I need to always eat this instead of potato chips!
Of course goodness, in all cases (not just with food), is better than the opposite. But what is the opposite of good? I was watching a Harry Potter movie the other day with my kids and Dumbledore advised the students about being brave when faced with making a choice between what is right and what is easy. I was expecting him to say what is right and what is wrong but he said easy. So much of how we live is not based on clear choices of good and bad or right and wrong but just what Dumbledore was talking about – right or easy.
Easy does not seem as sinister as bad but easy is quite often a pathway to bad, it may take longer to get there . . . but it comes.
Fast food is easy, it won’t kill me today but it will hurt me one day if I make it a lifestyle. Growing a garden is not easy but is it good and right. I would much rather have my children learning to grow a garden than learning how to use the drive-thru.
We live in a society that promotes what is easy at every turn. We could all make an endless list of things created by man to make life easier. Some are great of course, some ridiculous and some claim to offer freedom and yet they have left us in shackles. We make our own choices, we have to stop blaming others, indeed, but we also have to start taking care of others and lead others away from easy and into what is right.
So grow a garden with your children next year and give vegetables to your neighbors and friends. Share what you know and what you have. Make life right . . . not easy.
My friend shared some wonderful garden peppers with me so I made up this recipe to stuff my peppers with. The stuffing is not so healthy, HA HA, but the peppers are “right” and good!
4 bell peppers (or most any variety of medium to large peppers)
4 cups of chicken broth
12 oz package cream cheese
1 cup shredded colby monterey jack cheese
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. Caribbean Jerk Seasoning
½ roll of country sausage
-Cook peppers for ten minutes in simmering chicken broth, then remove and let cool
-Combine next four ingredients in food processor
-Cook sausage in skillet until brown and crumbly
-Drain sausage on paper towels
-Stir sausage into cheese mixture
-Cut stems off of peppers and remove seeds
-Stuff peppers with cheese sausage mixture and ENJOY!
By Leigh Sackett [email protected]