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Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out:            Easy Southwest Chicken Casserole !!! (1). Skinless Chicken breast or boiled chicken pieces,cut into smaller pieces. Boil ...

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           Easy Southwest Chicken Casserole !!!

(1). Skinless Chicken breast or boiled chicken pieces,cut into smaller pieces. Boil the chicken until done or grill with marinade and slice into pieces. (2). A package of Uncle Ben's microwavable Spanish Rice. (3) A Frozen package of Birds Eye or generic Southwestern steamed vegetables which includes diced red bell peppers, corn, and black beans, these packages are also usually microwaveable. (4). Optional one small can, or fresh green chilies. (5). Velveeta cheese, also the type of cheese in the recipe is optional. Using about six to 8 ounces of cheese and approximately about a 1/2 to a 1/3 cup of milk stirring them together slowly to make a cheese sauce.(6).This is optional, Add about half a teaspoon of red crushed pepper and ground black pepper and a little salt for seasoning. Mix rice, chicken,cheese sauce, and vegetables in a casserole dish or baking dish all together.Lightly grease the dish with olive oil, or even just a light amount of margarine. 

   Place in oven on about 300 degrees until the top is  a light brown. Remember everything is already precooked so at most, it usually only takes about 5 to 10 minutes. Slice and garnish with a fresh tomato on top of the casserole ,then also add a little fresh parsley for the garnish and this also creates eye appeal. Taste and looks like it took hours to make. 

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out: Homemade Potato Salad

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out: Homemade Potato Salad:     The Potato Salad Recipe that my family, and friends,  have asked for many years to have. 1.Potato's 8 to 12 2.Onion about a quar...

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out:         Folk Art and The Doll Maker.                 History  in the making.        The stories written about the Folk Art Dolls...

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out:         Folk Art and The Doll Maker.                 History  in the making.        The stories written about the Folk Art Dolls...

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        Folk Art and The Doll Maker.

                History  in the making.

      The stories written about the Folk Art Dolls and their making is extensive. The blogs and magazines are read by many all around the world. The apparel appears as it must of been made over hundreds of years ago. The bonnet, the bib, the brooch the dress. The detail in this doll is absolutely uncanny. Eyebrows, rose colored cheeks, the hands and arms made of a soft cloth. Everything on the doll is absolutely made by hand. The only exception to this is the brooch. 

     The maker of this doll hand signs each every one of her dolls. The interesting twist to this story, as I was browsing an antique store in Southern California, and picked up a doll similar to the one in the photo, the doll had been retrieved from an estate sale is what the owner had mentioned. After looking at the price tag I quickly changed my mind $23,000 was a little extreme for my wallet alone. The doll was an original Issana Walker doll. The art of doll making is time consuming, the photo is from "Plain & Simple Blog", who will make a doll for someone at a much smaller price than $23,000. The interesting concept here is that the doll is not made over night, and can be customized especially for each customer.  The dolls really are a very decorative piece of history, or make a great gift at Christmas for a child, and or a collector. The artist of this doll  also has done custom pieces of Folk Art for Halloween, and many other occasions. Folk Art really has become more recognized in recent years through out a variety of different  magazines.This really does leave a person wondering if that in fifty, to a hundred years whether or not this doll will sell for $23,000 or more. The doll makers blog also includes many other links to a variety of doll makers and artist.

    

    

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out: Homemade Potato Salad

Speaking Out: Just Speaking Out: Homemade Potato Salad:     The Potato Salad Recipe that my family, and friends,  have asked for many years to have. 1.Potato's 8 to 12 2.Onion about a quar...