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Dinner Recipe Highlight: The Sweet Potato Dish

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The Potato Dish Ingredients: Sweet Potatoes, 2 cup of Marinara sauce, sweet mini peppers (3 green, 3 orange and 3 yellow) 1 medium onions 1/4 tablespoon of basil & Parsley 1/4 tablespoon of thyme 3 cups of baby spinach 2 tablespoon olive oil (or grapeseed oil) 4 cubes of Knorr’s cilantro seasoning 1/2 or 1 cup of fresh mint. Boiled Sweet Potato: -Peel, dice and boiled 5 or more sweet medium potatoes for 20 mins or until they soften. To make stew: -In a saucepan, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil or grapeseed oil on medium heat. Add 1 medium diced onions and diced sweet mini peppers, stir for 3 minutes. Then add 4 tablespoons of marinara sauce and stir for an additional 2 minutes. -Add basil, thyme, parsley, mint, spinach and stir for another 5 minute. Add 4 cubes of Knorr cilantro seasoning.   The Dish: -Transfer the stew from the saucepan into a bigger pot and add boiled sweet potatoes. Mash/Mix the boiled potatoes and stew with a spatula/bamboo utensil until desired texture ( …

DEFYING THE ODDS

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Originally posted on mia jo's blog:
Do you think that these ladies really care about who is the prettiest? who is the most fly? Fill in the blank with each colloquialism that women have. First Lady and Mrs. Pinckney are the epitome of what women are to be to one another and that is SUPPORT, that backbone, loyalty, a place to land, a safety net, I don’t care if I am available or not, I Am here for you sister! I really get appalled as a look I experience and witness the stupidity and frivolity of envy, jealousy, judgements, and criticisms.  The perpetual intensity of debates about matters that will take care of themselves; especially during a time of fragility for families locally, nationwide and abroad. I agree with what Madeleine Albright’s quote, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women!” Point blank nothing to add to it but the fact that every woman especially a minority woman who has been told that she AIN’T nothing and never will be……