Cheese ball recipe with pecans and dried fruit

I spent last Sunday at the American Cheesemakers Awards in Newport Beach. Mozzarella balls - one of my faves. I can't tell you how many times I went back to this table, it's too embarrassing. ;) These tasty treats were provided by Mozzarella Fresca.

I got my wireless remote today in the mail so I had to do the cliche fridge autoportrait. Such a nerd :P

Cheese ball recipe with pecans and dried fruit

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Mickey Mouse Cheese Balls for Halloween 2013 by Utz at Target Stores. With Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube

Mickey Mouse Cheese Balls for Halloween 2013 by Utz at Target Stores. With Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube

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These are the ammunition!

And another view...

This is the design for the Doritos Dodgeball cannons. They are mean machines - in testing average ball speed was over 50kmph!

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There are two MacBook Pro 17's (CURRENT GEN!)

A Sony Vaio on my bed

A HP DV1000 on the printer

A Dell B130 I'm fixing on my desk

And my desktop computer

Well, all I can say is everything is there for me... ;)

Hmm, that day I ran out of cheeseballs, otherwise I would have my huge bottle of cheeseballs somewhere around there...

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Mall of Asia, Manila, Philippines

This is the design for the Doritos Dodgeball cannons. They are mean machines - in testing average ball speed was over 50kmph!

We had to order this cheese after hearing all the good things about it.

Handmade and in small batches, one can feel the love put into making each of the cheeses.

We ordered The Elvis....a sampler of eight different flavors--Smoked Cheddar, Sriracha Cheddar, White Cheddar, Cheeseball, Gruyere, Brie, Lemon Citrus, and Pepperjack.

Each cheese tasted extremely close to the real thing...very very good, hands down.

We decided that a party was in order and invited some of our neighbors over for a treat.

Marrying each cheese with a wine was quite fun and delicious - and no one knew that it was vegan ...it is that good.

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*slip*

Cheese Balls aren't traditional Estonian but they sure are good.

See the whole meal:

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From left, Harriet Jones of Chambers County received $150 for winning the 42nd annual Heritage Cooking Contest Sept. 7 with her original recipe cheeseball; St. Clair County’s Emily Taylor received $100 for second place with a pimento cheese and bacon cheeseball; and Jefferson County’s Polly McClure placed third and received $50 for her bruschetta cheeseball.

February 3, 2008 #034/266

I went to mass tonight.

When I go to mass, I prefer going to more liberal Catholic churches. "Liberal" is defined in many ways. Primarily, this means that the church is more interested in promoting social justice and community over adherence to dogma. It's all relative, though. Out here on the east coast, a liberal Catholic church is one where the parishioners actually hold hands during the Our Father (whereas that's normal and common out west). This church also does the focus on community bit, which is super rare for an east coast Catholic church.

How do I know that this church was focused on community? When I walked into the gathering space, a woman asked me if I was new, introduced herself, asking me to join an adult faith sharing group, introduced me to people, etc. (I joined a faith sharing group.)

When I was going to mass with my parents over winter break, I mentally committed to going back to church for Lent. Then, today, I know this is really cheesy, but I watched the first season's premier episode of "Friday Night Lights," and you know how the kid gets hurt and then the players from both teams and the coach pray at the end of the episode? I was seriously moved.

"Give all of us gathered here tonight the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable. And we will all at some point in our lives fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts: that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us. And that when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times—it is this pain—that allows us to look inside ourselves.”

Seriously. I know, I know... it's T.V. It's way cheesy to be affected by T.V. Yet I was touched. So I told myself that I didn't have to wait until Ash Wednesday to go to mass. I could go tonight. So, I did.

Church is so hard for me. I don't know how much you know of my story, but when I was married, I had been involved in music ministry with my ex-husband. He and I had been involved in church music together for most of my life, way before we were even dating. I can't go to mass and not be emotionally taken back to how I felt making music with him and my friends from grad school state, most especially.

Tonight was no exception. I teared up no less than four times during mass, and one of these times involved tears running down my face. Three of the instances were due to music. The psalm was a psalm that I had cantored at my grad school's parish. ("The Lord is my light and my salvation... of whom should I be afraid... of whom should I be afraid?") It doesn't mean as much without the melody or music, which is weird to see in type, so I guess I mean that it doesn't touch my heart as much without the music and melody.

But... get this (from a different song):

"Will you let me be your servant? Let me be as Christ to you. Pray that I may have the grace to let you be my servant, too."

Gets me every single time.

And even if you're not religious, you will appreciate this (from the same song):

"I will weep when you are weeping, when you laugh I’ll laugh with you,

I will share your joy and sorrow till we’ve seen this journey through."

I felt like such a cheeseball, crying in mass.

I realize that this has been part of my problem with church. I had gotten to a point where I had decided that the ways in which I get emotionally affected by spiritual connection and intensity is cheesy. That's how I have been dealing with this sort of emotion and depth and intense feeling -- by shoving it aside and calling it cheesy. Seriously.

I think it's because I have been defensive. I had allowed myself to feel hurt and betrayed by my church. I felt completely let down. I had given so much of my heart and my life to my church and my faith. And then... my marriage ended. This was the last in a number of personal disappointments, some of which have been so huge that I have never blogged about or shared in a public forum. I felt duped. I felt ditched by my church. I felt abandoned by a parent, all over again. I felt ashamed for something I had no reason to feel ashamed about, all over again.

I have allowed myself to live in a dark place for a couple of years. I have been remaining in a mindset of disappointment -- focusing on my experiences of people who leave, who lie, who stop loving, who let you down. Focusing on situations that never work out, of never getting really what you want, of having to settle.

Now I realize that these dark thoughts are not the truth I have to own. They do not have to be my truth. Negative thoughts can be a virus that takes over to a point where they feel more real than anything else, but they are not real. They can make what is really true, in the depths of my heart, feel false and cheesy.

I have decided that it's time to deal. It's time to allow myself to feel. If I need to cry in mass, that's what it takes. I need to allow myself to embrace the opportunity to be loved by God. I can be a fuller, happier version of myself again by realizing that God is here for me, just as I am. My past does not make me unlovable. It makes me real.

So, I went to mass. I made a mental commitment about a month and a half ago to attend mass during Lent (which begins Wednesday), and now I have made a commitment to participate in something church-related twice a week: mass and a faith sharing group. We'll see what comes of this. I'm wiling to give it a try. I'm willing to be open.

And... finally! I attended a mass that was about grace and mercy and forgiveness. (Crazily, a lot of the masses I have attended over the past year have included homilies in which priests have gone off, at least a little, about how wrong it is to get divorced and how important it is to preserve the sanctity of marriage...) So, it was a relief to be at a mass that was about humility and about how people are lovable at their weakest. I needed that. Here are some quotes from some of the readings.

From 1 Corinthians:

"Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters.

Not many of you were wise by human standards,

not many were powerful,

not many were of noble birth.

Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise,

and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong,

and God chose the lowly and despised of the world,

those who count for nothing,

to reduce to nothing those who are something,

so that no human being might boast before God."

Also? The Beatitudes were read at mass tonight.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn,

for they will be comforted."

I was comforted, indeed.

Mickey Mouse Cheese Balls for Halloween 2013 by Utz at Target Stores. With Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube

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Here they are - waiting for their first victims!

This is the design for the Doritos Dodgeball cannons. They are mean machines - in testing average ball speed was over 50kmph!

The balls leave the cannons at 50kmph on average!

Ouch! This is very much a contact sport.

It's hard to believe crap like this really goes on... this guy is too cheesy to live.

Andrea made this for the office Christmas party last year. It was yummy. I took a picture of it with my cameraphone, and now I've finally uploaded it.

Me-made outfit

Shirt from pattern in the Alabama Stitch Book, with self-drafted sleeves added. I stenciled with gold/lavender fabric paint, which turned out looking just gold. I tried the hand-applique but bagged that plan after struggling through a few leaves. Maybe someday!

Skirt self-drafted following instructions in the book Sew What! Skirts

Blogged here, here, and here

This is what the teams will see!

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Me-made outfit

Shirt from pattern in the Alabama Stitch Book, with self-drafted sleeves added. I stenciled with gold/lavender fabric paint, which turned out looking just gold. I tried the hand-applique but bagged that plan after struggling through a few leaves. Maybe someday!

Skirt self-drafted following instructions in the book Sew What! Skirts

Blogged here, here, and here

i like to categorize myself as 'cheese' - a cheeseball... a loveable, goofball of cheesiness. 'cept when i'm in a bad mood - 'cuz then i would be like a durian cheese (if there were such a thing).

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This jar of cheeseballs was almost as big as Cloe herself!

Pattern:Clapotis

Pattern Source: Designed by Kate Gilbert for Knitty

Yarn: Noro Silk Garden #208, 7 skeins

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Norbiz made me do this, I swear! And I usually don't look like this big a doob, just when I'm holding Lovesexy.