Chicken Wild Rice Garbanzo Bean Casserole

O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger,

Nor chasten me in Your wrath.

² Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away;

Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed.

³ And my soul is greatly dismayed;

But You, O Lord— how long? Ps 6

Ingredients:

1 cup wild rice cooked in 4 cups chicken broth

8 oz chicken cooked and cubed
1 cup cooked garbanzo beans

1/2 cup butter (1 stick)

2 large carrots peeled and diced

1 onion diced

3 cloves garlic minced

2 apples diced (I used pink lady apples)

2 tsp salt

1/4 cup fresh rosemary leaves

1/3 cup white whole wheat flour

2 cups milk

1/4 cup shredded cheese

Directions:

1. heat the butter on medium heat in a large pot

2. add carrots, onion, garlic, apples, rosemary, and salt and cook for ~ 10 minutes on medium heat while stirring

3. add flour and cook for ~ 2 minutes while stirring

4. add milk and bring to a boil while stirring

5. add the rice and chicken and bring to a boil

6. simmer on low heat for ~ 15 minutes

7. pour into large baking tray and sprinkle with cheese; cover with aluminum foil

8. bake for ~ 15 minutes at 350 degrees F (optional; if prepared ahead of time)

Strawberry Sweet Potato Scones

²² Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. ²³ For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴ For,

   “All people are like grass,
   and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
 ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endures forever.” I Peter 1

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup honey

1/3 cup olive oil

mashed flesh from 1 large cooked orange sweet potato

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup fresh diced strawberries

Directions:

1. beat together the egg, honey, oil, sweet potato, and vanilla

2. beat in the flour, baking powder, and salt

3. stir in the strawberries and drop by tablespoonfuls on a baking tray

4. bake for ~ 25 minutes at 350 degrees F

Rosemary Scalloped Potatoes and Turkey (for potluck)

²³ I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes. Ez 36

Ingredients:

7 medium potatoes sliced into 1/4" slices
3 cups cooked cubed turkey
2 oz butter cut into small pieces
1 tbsp salt
2 tsp white pepper
1 onion sliced
2 tbsp fresh rosemary leaves
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
3 cups milk

Directions:

1. stir together the first 7 ingredients
2. mix in the flour and arrange on a large baking tray
3. pour milk over the other ingredients
4. bake for ~ 2.5 hours covered at 350 degrees F (it took this long for the potatoes to cook!...but you could keep checking every 30 min)

Whole Grain Crackers and Almond-coated Cheese Ball

 ¹ Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan—

 ² The people walking in darkness
   have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death^[o]
   a light has dawned.
³ You have enlarged the nation
   and increased their joy;
they rejoice before you
   as people rejoice at the harvest,
as men rejoice
   when dividing the plunder.
⁴ For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,
   you have shattered
the yoke that burdens them,
   the bar across their shoulders,
   the rod of their oppressor.
⁵ Every warrior’s boot used in battle
   and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,
   will be fuel for the fire.
⁶ For to us a child is born,
   to us a son is given,
   and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
   Wonderful Counselor,^[p] Mighty God,
   Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
⁷ Of the increase of his government and peace
   there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
   and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
   with justice and righteousness
   from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the LORD Almighty
   will accomplish this.Is 9

Ingredients:

Crackers

1/4 cup olive oil

3 egg yolks

1/3 cup water

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

~2.5 cups whole wheat flour

Cheeseball

5 oz Neufchatel cheese

2 tbsp grated gouda cheese

2 tbsp grated cheddar cheese

2 tbsp grated provolone cheese

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 cup chopped almonds

Directions:

1. combine yolks, oil, water, salt, and baking soda

2. knead in the flour (add more if necessary) to achieve a soft rollable dough

3. use a rolling pin to roll pieces of dough very thin (~ 1/8")

4. use a pizza cutter to cut squares and arrange on a baking tray

5. bake for 12-15 minutes @ 350 degrees F

6. combine cheeses and salt and put onto a sheet of plastic wrap

7. use the plastic wrap to form the cheese into a ball

8. remove wrap and roll the ball in chopped almonds

9. arrange crackers and ball on a tray

Angel Cinnamon Cream Rolls

 ¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. ³ And they were calling to one another:

   “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
   the whole earth is full of his glory.”

 ⁴ At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

 ⁵ “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”

 ⁶ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”Is 6

Ingredients:

Cake

3 egg white beaten until stiff peaks form

1/3 cup whole wheat flour

1/3 cup evaporated cane juice

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Cinnamon Cream

2 tbsp Neufchatel cheese softened

2 tbsp evaporated cane juice

1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. combine cake ingredients and spread onto a buttter-sprayed foil-lined tray

2. bake for ~ 15 min at 350 degrees F

3. roll up like a scroll with the foil still attached and unroll

4. use a thin spatula to remove the cake from the foil and let cool

5. combine cream ingredients and spread over cake

6. roll up like a scroll and slice 

Potato and Cheese Souffle Soup

⁸ Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.⁹ Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. ¹⁰ For,

   “Whoever would love life
   and see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
   and his lips from deceitful speech.
¹¹ He must turn from evil and do good;
   he must seek peace and pursue it.
¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
   and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” I Peter 3

Ingredients:

2 tbsp butter

1 cup diced broccoli

3 carrots peeled and diced

3 cloves garlic minced

1 tbsp salt

1 tsp curry powder

1 tsp white pepper

3/4 cup whole wheat flour

2 cups chicken broth

1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

4 cups milk

4 cups potatoes cooked and diced

4 eggs

Directions:

1. fry the broccoli, carrot, garlic, salt, pepper, and curry powder in the butter for ~ 5 minutes under medium-high heat

2. add the flour and continue cooking while stirring for ~ 3 minutes

3. add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil

4. cover lid, reduce heat to low, and simmer for ~ 15 minutes

Potato Beef Croquettes

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. ² This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. ³ This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, ⁴ for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. ⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.I John 5


Ingredients:


2 eggs
1 cup cooked lean ground beef

2 cups mashed cooked potato (peeled)

2 tsp salt

3 green chillis sliced

3 red chillis sliced

1 tsp pepper

3 cloves garlic minced

2 tbsp minced fresh ginger root

1 carrot diced

Directions:

1. mix all the ingredients

2. form into balls/burgers and place onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray

3. bake for ~30 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Wild Rice Acorn Squash Turkey Soup

 ¹⁹ This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live ²⁰ and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deut 30


Ingredients:


1 cup raw wild rice cooked in 4 cups of salted chicken broth (I used Trader Joe's)
12 oz raw ground turkey

2 tsp salt

1 tsp white pepper

1 tsp curry powder

1 onion diced

3 cloves garlic minced

1/2 bell pepper diced

10 baby carrots diced

5 red radishes diced

1 apple diced (I used Golden Delicious)

flesh mashed from 1 Acorn squash (microwave for ~ 15 minutes, cut in half, let cool, scoop out seeds with a spoon, scoop out flesh)

1/2 cup half and half

3 cups milk

1/4 cup white whole wheat flour

Directions:

1. brown the turkey, salt, pepper, and curry powder

2. add the vegetables (except squash) and apples and cook for ~ 10 minutes while stirring

3. stir in the squash, half and half, milk, and flour and bring to a boil

4. add the rice and bring to a boil

Baby Red Potato and Minced Meat Stir-Fry

¹⁵ See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. ¹⁶ For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

 ¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, ¹⁸ I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. Deut 30

Ingredients:

2 lb minced raw meat (I used ground turkey)

1/2 bell pepper diced

1 onion diced

3 cloves garlic minced

1 tbsp salt

1 tsp white pepper

2 jalapeno peppers minced

2 cups cubes cooked baby red potatoes 

Directions:

1. fry the meat, peppers (both types), onion, garlic cloves, salt, and white pepper under medium-high heat until the meat is cooked (~ 10 minutes)

2. add the potatoes, stir, and cover lid for ~ 5 minutes

Apple Pie

 ¹¹ Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. ¹² It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” ¹³ Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” ¹⁴ No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. Deut 30


Ingredients:


Crust
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup butter cut into small pieces
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp salt
~ 2 cups whole wheat flour


Apple Filling
5 medium apples diced

1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup honey
juice from 1/2 lemon

Directions:

1. knead together crust ingredients

2. boil apple filling ingredients for ~ 5 minutes on medium-high heat

3. make a ball of dough (~ 2 inch diameter) and roll with a rolling pin into a large circle that will cover the bottom and sides of your pie pan

4. place circle in pie pan and smooth the sides against the pan

5. pour apple mixtures to fill the pie pan

6. make another dough circle and cover apples which sealing the edges with the inner dough circle

7. repeat with remaining ingredients to make 1 or 2 more pies

8. bake for ~ 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees F

Cinnamon Biscuits

 ¹ When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, ² and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, ³ then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. ⁴ Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. ⁵ He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. Deut 30


Ingredients:


1 egg
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup half and half
1/4 cup apple juice
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. mix egg, honey, half and half, apple juice, and vanilla

2. stir in the rest of the ingredients

3. drop in heaping tablespoons onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray

4. bake for ~ 30 minutes at 350 degrees F

Cinnamon Apple Oat Flaxseed Cake

 ⁶ Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. ⁷ The LORD said to Moses, ⁸ “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

 ⁹ So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he commanded him. ¹⁰ He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” ¹¹ Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

 ¹² But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”Num 20

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 cup honey
4 oz butter (1/2 stick)
1 tsp vanilla
2 large apples cored and diced
1 cup flax seed
1.5 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup oats
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt


Directions:
1. mix eggs, honey, butter, and vanilla
2. stir in the rest of the ingredients
3. pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
4. bake for ~ 45 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Comforting Potato Soup

 ⁹ “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. ¹⁰ Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

 ¹¹ But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “O LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? ¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. ¹³ Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” ¹⁴ Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

 ¹⁵ Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. ¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.Ex 32

Ingredients:


2 tbsp butter
1 red onion diced
3 cloves garlic minced
2 celery sticks diced
5 baby carrots diced
5 red radishes diced
1/4 cup diced red pepper
2 tbsp fresh rosemary

1 tsp white pepper
1 tsp curry powder
1 tbsp salt
1/2 cup white whole wheat flour


3 cups milk
2 cups broth (I used chicken)


4 oz canned fish flaked (optional; I used New Brunswick Sardines)

1/2 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
3 cups diced cooked potatoes with skins


Directions:
1. fry the vegetables in the butter until tender (~ 5 minutes under medium-high heat)

2. add the flour, pepper, curry powder, and salt and continue frying for ~ 3 minutes

3. add the milk and broth and bring to a boil
4. add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil while stirring

Cinnamon Apple Walnut Oat Cream Rolls

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. Rom 8


Ingredients:

Roll
1 cup oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)
1 cup walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)
1/2 cup honey
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda

Cream
4 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1/2 package)
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice (or other natural sweetener)

1 extra-large apple sliced into 1/4" sliced

2 tsp cinnamon

2 tbsp crushed walnuts

Directions:
1. mix the roll ingredients and spread in a large circle on an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
2. mix the cream ingredients and spread over circle
3. arrange the sliced apples over the cream
4. sprinkle with cinnamon
5. bake for ~ 30 minutes at 350 degrees F

6. roll up like a scroll (without removing the circle from the foil) and let sit until cool
7. unroll, peel the foil off, reroll, and slice
8. top with crushed walnuts

Chocolate Biscuits

¹³ For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.¹⁴ I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵But when God, who set me apart from birth^[a] and called me by his grace, was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.Gal 1


Ingredients:
8 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1 package)
2 eggs
1/2 cup evaporated cane juice
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1.5 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder

Directions:
1. mix the cheese, eggs, cane juice, and vanilla
2. stir in the salt, soda, flour, and cocoa
3. drop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
4. bake for ~20-30 minutes at 350 degrees F

Purple Sweet Potato Pinwheels

   ³⁶ “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.⁴⁰ Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

   ⁴² “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

   ⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. ⁴⁷ I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ ⁴⁹ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. ⁵⁰ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matt 24

Ingredients:


Dough
1/2 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1.5 oz butter (1/3 stick)
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups whole wheat flour


Filling
1/2 cup mashed purple sweet potato
4 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1/2 package)
.5 oz butter (1/6 stick)


Directions:
1. mix the honey, vanilla, and butter
2. stir in the baking soda, salt, and flour to achieve a rollable dough (add flour/milk as necessary)
3. mix the filling ingredients
4. using a rolling pin roll the dough into (a) large rectangle(s)
5. spread filling (desired amount) on the entire surface of the rectangle of dough 
6. roll up like a scroll and slice into 1/2 inch thick slices
7. spread on a foil-lined tray and bake for ~ 15 minutes at 350 degrees F

I ended up making 3 rectangles and dividing the filling into thirds (each third for 1 rectangle), but you can adjust the size of the rectangle to adjust your preferred wheel size.