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Cheesy Sausage and Cabbage Casserole/Recipe Share

Cheesy Smoked Sausage and Cabbage Casserole - Low Carb, Gluten Free | Peace Love and Low Carb

Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp grass-fed butter
medium head green cabbage, quartered, cored and sliced
1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 cup onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
sea salt and black pepper, to taste
14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1 1/2 cup crushed tomatoes
14 oz smoked sausage, halved and sliced into half moons
1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded
1/4 cup Italian flat leaf parsley, rough chopped

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°
Heat olive oil and butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
Once the butter is melted and the pan is heated, add the cabbage, bell pepper, onion garlic, sea salt and black pepper. Sauté until the vegetable are crisp tender and the cabbage is wilted. About 10 minutes.
Mix in diced tomatoes, crushed tomatoes and smoked sausage. Sauté for 10 minutes.
Transer to a large casserole dish, top with cheese and bake for 15 minutes.
Top with parsley before serving.

Cheesy Smoked Sausage and Cabbage Casserole
This Low Carb Cheesy Smoked Sausage and Cabbage Casserole is comfort food at it’s finest. FULL RECIPE – https://peaceloveandlowcarb.com/cheesy-smoked-sausage-and-cabbage-casserole-low-carb-gluten-free/
Posted by Peace Love and Low Carb on Monday, October 16, 2017
Notes
Per Serving – Calories: 333 | Fat: 25g | Protein: 15.5g | Total Carbs: 11.75g | Fiber: 3.75g | Net Carbs: 8g
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Just a kid…/Realism share

 

 

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I was just a kid. I hurt the same as anyone else. I guess maybe more since a kid tries always to imagine a good world. A world where no one whispers in their ear how stupid and gullible they seem to be. A world where magic lies in wait around every thought in a pleasant kid’s dream. I never had much of those kinds of dreams, it would seem.

I often visualized unicorns and stuffed toys, real animals, and lots of fun. Seldom did I dream at night, of glorious things, I had too much fright. I often looked at my curtains and all the different designs they had. I would make out a figure or object from the designs. Sure that there was meaning in those things I picked out of the different designs. Actually thinking back, it was tricks of my mind. How you can see something that actually is not there, because you have imagination with a flair.

Sometimes at night I would cover myself from feet to head, with covers and stuffed animals I had on my bed. I hoped that whatever was out in the night, would leave me alone because I felt I was hidden. Sadly, I never was. I know that now as an adult looking at the life I had as a kid. As kids, we think we can hide from things, I guess that with me it was the same.

A kid should never have to worry about being hid, if they do then something is really wrong. In some cases, it is an active imagination that lends way to being scared. In other cases, it is a human being that actually frightens the kid in a un intentional way or a very intentional way. My case was the latter one.

It was simply not my fault that I felt afraid. Not my fault that I wanted to hide away. I was simply trying to be okay and stay that way. I did not trust in no other way, except what I create , to protect me. I just knew no adult would believe me. I was afraid to tell anyone how I felt, also I did not have the words with which to adequately say how I felt.

No one acted as if they could tell, not my present family members, not my church, not my friends or my teachers. I felt like the only person in the world who had a secret. I felt like my secret was one of shame. I often took upon myself the blame. It was not my fault, I see that now. I wish my adult self could have talked to my kid self. I would have warned her and shared with her that is something not her fault, something that should have been noticed, seen by others, and nothing self-taught.

I would had given her, my kid self, a big hug and tell her to tell. When she cried at night as much as she could, I would have wiped her tears and loved her. I would had stood right by her bed as she slept through the night, and in case she woke up with a heart full of fright. I would protect her, my kid self, I would love her like nobody else.

I deserved to be a kid, have kid dreams, have a kid fun-filled life. Instead I had nightmares that came in at night, and during the day. My nightmares came from those with two legs. I deserved to be loved and told I was actually fine the way I was. I deserved to be told that I was a blessing not a curse. I deserved lots of love and a safe place to be…I deserved it, I was a kid, you see.

This kid grew up and became like I am today. Too much hurt to bury, too little love to stay in that place. I separated myself and those I now love. This was an act of love not hate. I wanted to be free from that time in my life, it had changed and taken so much for me, I did not want to give it everything, I did what I had to do, I did not want to forever be ‘blue”.

I had to forgive, first and foremost to continue living in love. I took my power in doing that from Heaven above. I in my human state would had only lived with a bunch of hate. If someone has done you wrong and you cannot forgive them, you give them power over you. Forgive them, it is so hard to do, but you must. You deserve to be whole and you deserve to be loved. You deserve to love again. So forgive them, I know you can.

MwsR  ❤

 

Time Standing Still/Poem Share

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Imagine if you will

A place where time actually stood still.

A time where all that mattered was gone.

Not saying I had not a home

But a moment to reflect

Time for my soul to recollect

All that had perspired accumulated

Gathered in a sort of moments re-united.

I search no more,

Not in the frozen time warp

I only saw things in perspective

Saw the things around me that I collected

Even people and places and thoughts in no certain order

I would actually say, that mimicked a mental sort of disorder.

But time was on my side

I had no more secrets to hide

I actually felt one with my life

Saw my journey without feeling life’s knife

I paused, as if time was not still

Only to make sure I was not “ill”

And in another instance time resumed

I felt all disoriented and full of gloom

I liked imagining time at a standstill

Just to allow me to reflect as if looking through a windowsill.

If only, I thought, it could be

Then life would had been more special to me

Than cumbersome and such

But if I honest, that would be asking too much.

 

Diabetes Continued/Information Share

Lobster BLT Sandwich/Recipe

Lobster BLT Sandwiches with Brie

This easy recipe for lobster BLT sandwiches with brie cheese takes the classic lunchtime favorite to incredible new levels of flavor.

Ingredients
2 slices bacon, cut in half
1 lobster, steamed, shelled and torn into pieces
2 slices sourdough or other country bread
Olive oil
2-3 ounces brie or other soft cheese
Fresh thyme leaves
4 lettuce leaves, roughly chopped
4 slices tomato (preferably local, or heirloom)
Lemon peel and juice from one lemon
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400. Lay the bacon slices on a rimmed baking dish and cook until done to your liking, 10-15 minutes. Set aside.
Brush bread slices with a little olive oil and toast until just golden.
Assemble sandwiches as follows: Generously spread bread with cheese and sprinkle with thyme leaves. Top with lettuce and tomato, then bacon and finally the lobster meat. Drizzle some lemon juice on top, and garnish with lemon peel and a little more thyme.
Serve to your lucky diners – they will want a fork and knife to manage all this deliciousness!