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Summer Breakfast: Peach and Blueberry Clafoutti

July 19, 2011 by Carey Jane Clark

I sometimes find when I get back from vacation, getting back into the swing of things in the kitchen is a challenge for me. Add the heat and I seem to have no idea what to cook. This recipe is a standby in our house because everyone likes it. (That’s big.) It’s also quick and easy.

This morning, I gave it a summer twist. I love the combination of peaches and blueberries. Everyone gave it two thumbs up.

Peach and Blueberry Clafoutti

Ingredients:

1 peach
enough blueberries to cover the bottom of your pan in a single layer (I usually use a pie plate, but we’re living in someone else’s house right now, and all I have is an oval pan.)
4 eggs
1 cup flour (I use spelt)
1 cup milk (I use kefir–or yogurt–and the result is nicer. For some reason, the fruit stays on the bottom better, so when you turn it out of the pan there is a beautiful fruit layer on top.)
1/4 cup honey (I replace honey for sugar in most recipes. To convert it back, use double the amount of sugar)
1 tsp. lemon rind and juice (I used lime this morning.)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Grease baking dish.
Slice the peach and spread over bottom of the baking dish. Make a layer of blueberries to cover the bottom of the dish.
In a small bowl, beat the eggs.
Add flour, milk, honey and lemon/lime.
Pour the egg mixture over the fruit.
Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.
If you wish, turn out onto serving plate, so fruit is on top.
Serve and enjoy!

July 3 in 30 Week 3

July 17, 2011 by Carey Jane Clark

It has been a busy week. I’m not sure there were actually 24 hours in each of those days. Here’s how I’m doing on this month’s goals:

Manuscript revision – A little bit behind on where I’d hoped to be with revision, but sticking at it, and should still finish by July 31. This is a good thing, because I’ve just learned I’ve been given a scholarship to a writer’s conference next month. I have several goals for the conference, and getting this manuscript completed by then gives me a chance at reaching them.
Bible in 90 Days – I have had to fight a bit to do it, but I’m on track.
Exercise 4 times a week – This is not where I expected to have difficulty, but it was the first thing to fly out the window when the late nights began. I simply woke up too late to squeeze everything into my morning, and didn’t want to skip the Bible reading. I also counted on exercising using videos again when I was at my inlaws’ and at my parents’ and didn’t count on the challenges of other people’s schedules and the space limitations of so many people in the same space (there were 11 of us at my parents’). The rest of the month should be easier, as the during-the-week schedule is easing off, and just the weekends will be busy.

It’s been more challenging than I thought to reach my goals, partly because I was somehow thinking that most of the busyness would be over by the time the Bible in 90 Days started. Bit of a miscalculation on my part there.

But I’m not going to let myself get completely derailed. I intend to push through and do my best.

How about you? How are you doing?

Visit the 3 in 30 Linkup to check on the progress of others.

Friday Reads July 15, 2011

July 15, 2011 by Carey Jane Clark

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for our family, but we’re HOME! Well, we’re where we’ve been staying for the last number of months, anyway. It was hard to tear my kids away from their cousins. They were having a lot of fun, and haven’t seen them for years. They don’t know when they’re going to see them again, either.

In the middle of the busyness, only a little reading happened. Nevertheless here is our reading list for this week. Can’t wait to start using the summer reading program next week, when we have nothing to do. Hurray for holidays at home!

Carey – A Slow Burn (Nook version) by Mary DeMuth, Word Painting by Rebecca McClanahan, Peace Like a River (again) by Leif Enger (listening to the Audible version on my iPod)
JavaMan – Honor’s Reward by John Bevere
Pumpkin – The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Sweetpea – Cul de Sac Kids Book 2 by
Sprout – The Little Red Hen from The Reading Literature Primer; Old Hat, New Hat by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Family Reads – The Borrowers Aloft by Mary Norton

Can you see?

July 14, 2011 by Carey Jane Clark

I have been keeping up, so far, with the Bible in 90 Days. This morning was rough, because we got in last night at 1:30 a.m. after a four-hour drive from my husband’s parents’ to my parents’ place. We’re spending a couple of days with my sister and her family, who are visiting from Florida.

However, I am doing my best to keep at it, and have kept a notepad beside me for the questions and thoughts that occur to me while reading. I think it’s funny how you notice something the 100th time you read a passage that you never saw before.

This week, while reading Genesis 21, I noticed something for the first time. It’s the story of Hagar. She has sat down and is having a good cry over her situation after having been banished by Abraham when Sarah is tired of having her around.

Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.” Gen. 21:18-19

This passage of scripture really intrigues me. Here’s Hagar, presumably just feet away from a source of water, but unable to see it. And God opens her eyes. She sees it, and she is saved.

What aspect of God’s provision is waiting for me, but I just haven’t seen it yet?

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