By Sheri Hopkins, Lifestyle Contributor
Hello everyone! Such a beautiful time of year. I love it! Y’all know when the weather cools off, I want to cook and bake all the time.
This week I am going to talk about preachers. Let me tell ya when you have gone to church your whole life, you have plenty of stories to tell. Some are almost unbelievable, but trust me, they are true.
This preacher was never a pastor of mine, but he was preaching on Sunday and y’all know the Bible says that the wife should be a helpmate to her husband. He is preaching away and bragging on his wife and instead of saying how she is such a good helpmate to him, he says, “my wife is the best playmate.” He just keeps on saying what a great playmate she is, and you know the congregation is about to bust a gut. Them, he goes on to say that she likes to play tricks on him. The congregation is all laughing, and he has no clue why they are laughing at him. There was an elderly lady there that couldn’t hear well, and she loudly asks, “what did he say?” And the lady beside her yells so she can hear her, “he said the Lord gave him a playmate.” I’m sure that service was over after that.
Our preacher has said some crazy things also, he has also done some crazy things. I could go on forever about it. One Sunday he is in the pulpit, and something looks off about him, well low and behold he has his shirt buttoned up wrong and one side of the collar is up around his ear.
One Sunday, he was preaching and raised his arm, and he still had the tag on his shirt. He had to pull it off. You know we all saw it. So many laughs and good stories come out of church. I will have more later.
This week’s recipe is for no bake cookies, but it has a twist. You put coconut in it and I would also add a few chopped almonds.
NO BAKE COCONUT COOKIES
1 ¾ cup sugar
½ cup butter or margarine
½ cup milk
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups quick oats
1 cup coconut
optional chopped almonds
In a a large saucepan, heat the butter, sugar, milk and cocoa. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil for one minute. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla, oats, coconut and almonds (optional) and mix well. Drop by the spoonful onto parchment paper. Let it stand for one hour. Hope you enjoy these. Have a wonderful week and always count your blessings.
