Words & Brush Weekender: Easy listening music and chat, Friday 24th December 2021, this week its your favorite 1970's & 1980's Country & Western music.

Easy listening music and chat, Friday 17th December 2021, this week its your favorite 1970's & 1980's Country & Western music!

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush,  please post music from your favorite Country & Western music from the 1970's & 1980's . This weeks "Weekender" page was inspired by our loyal poster Red !

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Part1 : Country & Western music from the 1970's 

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads

 Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - Islands in the Stream

Waylon Jennings - Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line

Merle haggard ~ Tonight the bottle let me down

Part 2 : Country & Western music from the 1980's

Alabama - High Cotton 

Hank Williams, Jr. - "A Country Boy Can Survive"

Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning 

Kathy Mattea - Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses

George Strait - Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye

Wishing all "Weekenders" and their families a safe, healthy and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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Words & Brush Recipe Corner: Hearty Irish Veg Soup

 

Hearty Irish Veg Soup

A veg packed soup perfect for any time of the year, but especially now as a winter warmer!

By Donal Skehan , November 18 2020

https://donalskehan.com/recipes/hearty-irish-veg-soup/

40 mins

Serves 4  

Ingredients

¼ stick butter

1 onion, peeled and diced

1 leek, sliced

3 potatoes, peeled and diced (1 lb)

50 fl oz of vegetable stock

2 carrots, diced

1 parsnip, diced

4 sticks celery, sliced 

½ cup cream, optional 

1 1/3 cup frozen Peas 

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

1. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over a medium high heat. Add the onion, leek and potato. Sauté for 5-6 minutes until they’ve a little colour.
2. Add the stock, carrots, parsnip and celery. Lower the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes or until the vegetables are tender when you insert a fork.
3. Blitz the cream into the soup until smooth and add the peas, heat through.
4. Heat through and season to taste. Serve alongside cheddar and thyme soda bread.

For more Directions watch the video:

Enjoy!

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Christmas Week Countdown Dec. 20th

We are on the homestretch to the big day.  Presents on their way for all, even for the furry children. See how excited they are?  Must be some treats so they must be opened and eaten right away.

Is there more? Huh, huh?  Come on, I smell it!

Christmas will find you as the world stops still.

Gathering around the tree before the fire.

Cookies.  Our favorites are almond crescent, there

is nothing like them. Try Matcha green tea powder with powdered sugar

and makes them festive green and light and delightful as Santa is on his way to hand out gifts. Green tea might help his metabolism.

Add a little bit more fun responsibly, as some will be home for a few days.  Perhaps make a cake and dip it into one of these on a
scalloped plate. 

Or one of those handcrafted dessert coffees with a
special blend of liquor.

As the snow keeps falling to the air outside getting colder and the snow creates that ambience of silence as you enjoy close quality time with loved ones.

Christmas party all weeklong with continuous edibles.  We have a huge stockroom and the punch and mini shepherd pies keep on with the festivities down to desserts and holiday cocktails.  All invited to spend and share the cheer.

Watch out for the mistletoe!

Hear a Christmas story by Michael Bublé, great narrator voice

besides singing.

Of which we all have some peace and remember
goodwill towards all.  Peace be with all and to all

a good night.

 

Words & Brush Weekender: Easy listening music and chat, Friday 17th December 2021, this week its your favorite 1970's pop music!

Easy listening music and chat, Friday 17th December 2021, this week its your favorite 1970's pop music!

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush,  please post music from your favorite pop songs from the 1970's. 

Boney M. - Rasputin 1978

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive 1977

Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You 1979

ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 1979

Earth, Wind & Fire - September 1978

Blondie - Heart Of Glass 1978

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 1977

Queen - We Will Rock You 1977

Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? 1978

Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough 1979

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Words & Brush Recipe Corner: Walnut and pecan cookies with chocolate chips

 

Pascale’s Kitchen: Walnut and pecan cookies with chocolate chips

By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN, Jerusalem Post, Published: DECEMBER 9,

https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/pascales-kitchen-creative-cookies-688314

Walnut and pecan cookies with chocolate chips (credit: PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN)

 Makes 20 cookies. Level of difficulty: Easy.

Time: 90 minutes. Status: Dairy. 

Ingredients:

200 gr. cold butter, cut into little cubes
150 gr. brown sugar
100 gr. sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. chocolate liqueur (optional)
350 gr. flour, sifted
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
150 gr. walnuts, ground
100 gr. pecans, ground
350 gr. bittersweet chocolate chips or small pieces of chocolate

Directions: 

Add the butter to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a flat beater and mix on low speed. Gradually add the two types of sugar and continue mixing on slow speed. Add the eggs, vanilla and chocolate liqueur. 

In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add the walnuts and pecans, and mix. Add the chocolate chips or broken chocolate pieces and mix. 

While mixing on low speed, gradually add the flour and butter mixture. Mix well. 

Form 20 round balls and arrange them on a tray covered with baking paper and place in the freezer for 1 hour. 

Bake in an oven that has been preheated to 190° for 16-18 minutes or until the cookies turn golden brown. Remove and let cookies cool down. 

Enjoy!

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Holiday count down Dec. 13

A new week begins as time is of the essence to
get the cards made out and sent.  

Marshmallows sweeten hot chocolate with a smile

Snowy walks with our loved ones as winter looms ahead.  For some snow has already fallen and the cold is there to stay.

While some have cold and snow, frigid arctic winds,
others are enjoying their Christmas

at the beach or on a cruise.   Coffee is abundant and a luxury at our happy place on the shore.

                                 Lights deck around the palms as the sky darkens at dusk.

Nothing stops the creative festive soul to

deck out their yacht.  

 Seeing the reflection along the

 water with the pathway to walk along.  

A wild ride for everyone for a few years, one or a few can still make a difference. Start with a ripple effect with kindness and random acts of goodness and light from within.