The best thing

You already know (if you read this post) that I love hot tea.  My love is really just for tea in general.  When I say "tea", don't misunderstand me.  I am definitely a sweet tea girl.  I love getting iced sweet tea. 
Tonight I had another volleyball game.  (I don't know if I have mentioned yet on the blog that I play volleyball, but I do.)  Tonight's game was the best I have played all season!  Even though we lost, I went home happy and pleased that I had tried my hardest.  To make the ride even better, a song by Mat Kearney came on the radio.  Feeling the need to have my own little jam, my mom and I rolled down the windows and turned up the radio.  Sipping away at my delicious sweet tea and riding around town in my little red truck, I could not have been much happier.  You see, it is the little things in life that are really the most amazing.  All you have to do is stop a minute and look at how blessed you are.  I am continually amazed at how much God has blessed my life.  My delicious sweet tea, my jamming in the truck, and my great volleyball game made my day so amazing.  I hope your day was just as amazing. 

What do you like to jam to in your car/truck?  Do you have a minivan jam or is it the sweet sports car jam?  Does sweet tea make you happy? 

Remember: Tomorrow is Friday, so let's celebrate that the weekend is almost here!

The Cosby Show.

Sorry for the bad quality of this picture.

To end my weekend, I sat in my room and watched an episode of The Cosby Show and ate this piece of Oreo fudge pie.  Let me tell you, it was a great way to end my Sunday night.  Not totally ready for the week (because I enjoyed my time of resting), I am glad that I had a great weekend.  I got to spend time with friends and had a great youth service at church tonight.  I hope your weekend was great too!  Have a great week and eat some great food!

Dear Hot Tea,

What would I do without you?  I mean really?! A winter without you would be like a white Christmas without snow...impossible.  Sitting in a comfy chair, wrapped in a blanket, drinking hot tea, and either wathching a movie or reading a good book is how I prefer to spend my free time in the winter.  I just wanted to let you know that you are essential to my mornings.  When I am cold and bundled up on my way to school, I can always count on some hot tea to warm me up.  I love you hot tea!!!  Your the best!

Love,
a loyal hot tea drinker

Best Friends

Hey guys!  I just wanted to recommend another blog to you real quick.  My best friend and I have a blog of letters back and forth to each other.  It is really fun for us to right.  I hope it is just as fun for you to read.  Click here to go to the blog.  Enjoy!!!

a goal accomplished

At the beginning of my summer, I posted a blog with a challenge.  The challenge was to set out on an adventure to eat 10 new things.  In case you forgot about that blog (or you are a new follower), you can reread it here.  So, I must say that I completed my own challenge.  I don't really know what all I ate, but I did enjoy most of the things I tried.  I won't list everything I tasted, but I will tell you my favorite thing--- a MANGO!  I had never eaten an actual mango before.  A few weeks ago, I was at the store and decided to buy one and try it.  I loved it!  I have only ever had them in drinks like Snapple.  I really love fruit in general, so this was just another fruit to add to my list of fruits I like.  Have you ever had a real mango before??  The majority of the new food I tried was Indian.  I had all of that while I was visiting Canada.  The samosa would be the highlight of the Indian food I had, but I really enjoyed it all.

p.s. I even saved the seed so that I can plant it.  I still must research on planting it, but I will let you know if anything exciting happens to it.  Just to see a small sprout of a tree sometime would make me happy. 

Did you try a lot of new food this summer?

special for my canadian followers

here it is--TORONTO!!

Well, this is actually from the American side.

These few pictures above are just a couple of the sights I saw while I was in Canada.  Are they not amazing?  I had such a great time there!  I hope and pray all the time that I might get to go back soon in a short time.  We will see how God uses me in the next few years.

Since this is a food blog, I want to tell you about the food I had in Toronto.  The area I stayed in was highly influenced by South Asian food.  One thing I tried was a samosa.  It was a very interesting food to me.  I had never tried one before or even heard of one until I ate it.  Later I found that there are many different kinds.  The one I ate had mashed potatoes, peas, and other things.  It was all these different thing mixed together (to make a green goodness of food) and held inside dough.  The whole thing is fried to make it a golden brown color on the outside.  It is kind of hard to put into words.  I don't even really know what kind I did have.  While there, I had some other food originating in India.  I really liked it all.  I had really eaten almost no Indian food before going on the trip.  I enjoyed all the food and all the sites of my trip!  I hope that you can enjoy Canada some day if you already have not!

p.s.

Dear Canadians,

I just want you to know that you now have a very special place in my heart.  God is working through people where you live all the time.  You are amazing people in an amazing place!

Much love,

"Beckie"

Have a blessed Wednesday night everyone!

How We Party

I am finally finding time to blog during a break in my crazy busy schedule.  Canada was amazing! I loved it so much that I dream of going back almost all the time.  I will tell you more about that trip in my next post.
I got to hang out with some really cool friends this past Thursday night.  We were having a party to not only see each other, but we also wanted to reminisce childhood as we watched old Disney movies.  People trickled to the party on their own time, so we did not want to start without them.  We had to make cupcakes anyways, so it was fine that people were late.  Nothing could have fit the moment better than turning the TV on to the Food Network.  Who can seriously say that they hate the Food Network?  If that is the case for you, I am confused by your thoughts.  One of my brothers doesn't like it, but that doesn't count.  I will never be able to understand my brothers fully.  So to start off our Disney party, we made cupcakes and watched cooking shows for about two hours.  Giada was the first show on.  Not only was I excited to be watching the cooking channel, I was ecstatic to see one of my all time favorite cooks on first.

Following that, we watched Top Chef and Chopped. 
The only bad thing about watching these shows is the watching part.  My mouth waters almost uncontrollably for the food I am watching be prepared.  I wish I could taste a little bit of everything, but alas, I must be content to stay on the couch and marvel at the brilliance behind it all.  Eventually we did get on with the party.  We watched several Disney movies.  Dinner consisted of some amazingly delicious pizza and some veggies.  I tried a cucumber.  I know I have had one before a while back, but I forgot what they tasted like.  I am more of a broccoli and cheese girl.  I also love green beans, corn, and generally carrots.  I use the word 'generally' because I am not a huge fan of cooked carrots. 
That being said, I had a great time hanging out with friends, making food, watching food, and eating food.  I hope you have had some good food this week!
I have one thing to leave you with before you go.  Hopefully you are not gone forever.  My hope is that you are drawn back again to read more.  The thing I most enjoy about the cooking channel is the passion the people have for the food.  Giada used the word--divine--to describe her food yesterday.  What words do you have to describe your food?? Try and use that word to describe some kind of food you eat this next week.