Follow you into the dark

Love of mine some day you will dieBut I'll be close behindI'll follow you into the darkNo blinding light or tunnels to gates of whiteJust our hands clasped so tightWaiting for the hint of a sparkIf heaven and hell decideThat they both are satisfiedIlluminate the no's on their vacancy signsIf there's no one beside youWhen your soul embarksThen I'll follow you into the darkIn Catholic school as vicious as Roman ruleI got my knuckles brusied by a lady in blackAnd I held my toungue as she told me"Son fear is the heart of love"So I never went backIf heaven and hell decideThat they both are satisfiedIlluminate the no's on their vacancy signsIf there's no one beside youWhen your soul embarksThen I'll follow you into the darkYou and me have seen everything to seeFrom Bangkok to CalgaryAnd the soles of your shoes are all worn downThe time for sleep is nowIt's nothing to cry aboutCause we'll hold each other soonThe blackest of roomsIf heaven and hell decideThat they both are satisfiedIlluminate the no's on their vacancy signsIf there's no one beside youWhen your soul embarksThen I'll follow you into the darkThen I'll follow you into the dark

I want to grow old with you

I am such a softy... true story.. today I started to cry out of the blue because I was watching a commercial of an elderly couple dancing and kissing. At first my eyes only got a little teary eyed and before I knew it I was balling. My sister and Brandon thought I was faking but after 3 minutes they knew that those were no crocodile tears. Once I composed myself I thought I was crazy... I do not often cry over a commercial! The reason I cried is because lately I have felt a closer bond to my loving husband then ever before. I get sad sometimes when he is not near me like the time he went to Tucson to a UofA game and I stayed home :( It was not the same without him for those 5 hours. I can only imagine how the wives of our troops must feel on a daily basis. That is why every day I wake up to this wonderful man I thank God for everyminute I have him in my life. I just do not know what I would do if I woke up one day and he was gone. If anyone knowns my husband you can see all the reasons why I am so deeply in love with him. I have never in my life met anyone as compassionate and sentimental as my husband. He wears his emotions on his sleeve and is not afraid to cry. I admire that about him because I think it is a quality some men do not have. He knows when to admit that he made a mistake and loves my imperfections. I love how he does not try to change me. Brandon loves my imperfections and it is why I strive to be a better person. Seing the elderly couple made me cry. My tears were not tears of sadness rather tears of joy because I pictured Brandon and I growing old together. It makes me so happy to know that even when we are old and are hands are wrinkled they will tell a story of all the loving memories we made as a young couple. I know that after we get old and die we will only die here on earth because we will continue to love each other endlessly in heaven. I am looking forward to getting sealed in the temple. I would go through all the heartache and shed as many tears in a heart beat because I know that it would lead me to sharing my life with Brandon. So long ago I remember staying up at night and praying that one day I would be happy. One of those prayers went unanswered but for all the right reasons :) It is like I said when I bared my testimony I had a beautiful picture in my mind of the canvas I wanted to draw but being baptized gave me all those tools to paint my beautiful picture. I know that my faith has only gotten stronger being next to Brandon and sharing my life with him has only made my testimony stronger. Because you know something that canvas was of my husband and I being together for all eternity with our heavenly father. So I can honestly say that my canvas is yet not complete but it has only began :)

My husband is my best friend :)

I never had no one
I could count on
Ive been let down so many times
I was tired of hurtin
So tired of searchin
til you walked into my life
It was a feelin
Id never known
And for the first time
I didnt feel alone

Youre more than a lover
There could never be another
To make me feel the way you do
Oh we just get closer
I fall in love all over
Everytime I look at you
I dont know where Id be
Without you here with me
Life with you makes perfect sense
Youre my best friend
Youre my best friend, oh yeah

You stand by me
And you believe in me
Like nobody ever has
When my world goes crazy
Youre right there to save me
You make me see how much I have
And I still tremble
When we touch
And oh the look in your eyes
When we make love

Youre more than a lover
There could never be another
To make me feel the way you do
Oh we just get closer
I fall in love all over
Everytime I look at you
And I dont know where Id be
Without you here with me
Life with you makes perfect sense
Youre my best friend
Youre my best friend

Youre more than a lover
There could never be another
To make me feel the way you do
Oh we just get closer
I fall in love all over
Everytime I look at you
And I dont know where Id be
Without you here with me
Life with you makes perfect sense
Youre my best friend

Chile Verde

If any of you have know me for a while, you may already know that when I get bored or I am having a stressful day. I do not call a friend and talk about it, I simply cook. I have used cooking as a way to express my feelings and cook with soul. Everything taste so much better when it is cooked with a little TLC and soul. Cooking has always been an outlet to let out all my frustration and joy. It is funny it is the one thing that will relax me when I just want to scream at the top of my lungs. Some of my best dishes have came out of those bad days! Here is a delicious recipe that came after my grandfather passed away. Green chille was his favorite. I never had the chance to say goodbye to my grandpa and felt really guilty for that. It was 2 am in the morning when I woke up to my mom crying and running down the stairs. She had just recived the call from the nursing home that my grandpa had passed away in his sleep. Not being able to sleep from the devestating news and the emptiness I felt. I sat in the kitchen remembering the good times I had with my grandpa and all the meals I had prepared for him. I sat there thinking of his favorite meals. One of them being chile verde. I got up from my kitchen table and went to the fridge and said grandpa tonight I wil prepare some chile verde and eat it with you. I cried the whole time I was making it. When it was all done I sat down and invited my sister to join me. Together we cried and in the end smiled because my grandpa would have really loved the green chille.

On a lighter note this is also the dish I prepared for my husband on our first date. A stomach in the key to a mans heart ladies :) After our first date I inharrited the name chile verde from his friends :)

1 pound of cubed beef

3 idaho potatoes peeled and cut into bite size pieces

7 jalapenos

5 tomatoes

1 medium chopped onion

1 clove of minced garlic

1 teaspoon of crushed cummin

1 teaspoon of salt

In a comal roast the jalapenos and tomatoes add in a ziplock bag while you peel and cut the potatoes. PLacing the jalapenos and tomatoes in a bag will allow them to cook more with steam and intensify the flavor.

In a skillet cook the meat until no longer pink. Drain the liquied and add potatoes and cook for about 5 minutes, then add the onions. It is very important to add salt when you add the potatoes because if you do not it will tast blant. Contimue to cook an stir until the onion is see through and potatoes are cooked. Set aside.

Peel the skin off the jalapenos and tomatoes. You might want to use cooking gloved so that you do not get spicy on your hands. I typically just peel them under cold water so that my fingers do not get spicy.

Once the jalapenos and tomatoes are all peeled remove the stems from the jalapenos.

Add the jalapenos, tomatoes, garlic, 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 cup of water to the blender.

Very Important Setting that you must use on your blender for this recipe to work:

Once it is all in the blender press the pulse setting about 3-4 times. This will allow a course chop and get a perfer consitancy of what the green chille should be.

Once you make your green sauce add to the meat and potatoe skillet. Add 1 teaspoon of crushed cummin and simmer for about 8 minutes.

There you have it the one recipe that got me through my sorrow and made me a bride :)

Veggie Enchiladas for my veggie lovers :)

This is a really delicious meal :) I once had a fundraiser and volunteered to bring in something that would sell. So I made about 8 cassaroles of my veggie enchiladas. A lady at the fund raiser had one bite and was hooked! She was the first to try them and ended up buying 4 of the casaroles :) I was only selling them by the plate and the lady said she had family coming in and had no time to cook. She called me the following week asking me if I could come live with her :)


24oz tub of sour cream
2 cans of mixed vegtables
1 can of corn
3 zuchini's
40 corn tortillas
1 bag of shredded mixed monterrey and cheddar cheese

Preperation:
Drain water out of the canned mixed vegtables and corn and add to a mixing bowl.
Cut zuchini in bite sizes pieces and cook until tender. Mix the veggies and zuchini.

In a skillet add 1 table spoon of oil and cook tortillas on both sides.
Set Tortillas aside to cool.

Once the tortillas are cooled. Place tortilla in your hand and hold like a taco. Place the following in the middle in this order: sour cream, mixed veggies and cheese. Roll 20 and place on a 9x13 baking dish. Once the baking dish is full spread a layer of sour cream on top and cheese. Stack the reaminder of the 20 enchiladas on top. Spread another layer of sour cream and cover with cheese.

Note: the more sour cream you place in between the layers and top layer the better they will hold.

Pre-heat oven to 375
bake covered for 35 minutes.

Brandon's Taquitos and Guacamole

1 pound of shredded beef ( Costco has a really good selection if you do not want to shredd your own)

You can also use shredded chicken :)

garlic salt

2 table spoons of black pepper

Guerrerro corn tortillas

toothpicks

Tip for easy cleaning before making the taquitos. Cover your work station with alluminum foil. This will allow you to have clean counter tops when you are all done and can just throw away the alluminum foil.

Preperation. Shredd the beef very thinly and add about 2 table spoons of black pepper to season.

In a comal heat desired tortillas on both sides. You do not want to over cook the tortillas just cook them enought to bend.

Note: if you place the tortillas on top of each other and cover them they will get soggy.

In a skillet heat about 3 cups of vegtable oil. Keep at medium high heat.

To roll the Taquitos:

Take a tortilla and place a desired amount of beef and roll. You want to make sure that you roll the taquitos this will prevent from too much oil to get into them. Put a toothpick in between to keep them from openning in the oil.

Cook about 4-6 at a time in the skillet depending on the size. Cook until they are golden brown. As you take them out put them on a baking dish with paper towels to drain out the oil. While they are still hot sprinkle desired garlic salt on top. You may put them in the oven to keep warm.

Guacamole:

5 avocados

1 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of low fat cottage cheese

Take the pit out of the avocados and dissgard.

With a potato smasher smash the avocados until you get the consistancy you would like. Add salt and cottage cheese after wards.

An walla there you have it, a simply dish that is a crowd pleaser!

As you may have read from my blog, I love to cook! One of this days I will be on the foodnetwork and sharing recipes with Paula Deen :) She is my favorite because she is a silly lady who loves her butter! LOL I will post some recipes on here that have been chosen by friends as their favorite dish :)

Hello Everyone,

My name is Yadira Richards.. and I am married to the love of my life Brandon Richards :) I am a girl who loves to eat and cook! Just ask my husband :) LOL Hmm lets see. My life at this moment is fullfield. Over the last year or two my life has been a roller coaster ride. I do not regret anything that has happened to me, it has braught me to this special moment in my life. I'm so grateful for all the friends I have, they are the best!!!! I have the best husband in the world, who'm I'm deeply in love with. It is the best feeling I have ever felt and I'm so glad that the puzzle pieces that were once missing are now in place. All thanks to Brandon ;) I could write a novel about all the blessing in my life. The most important one is having faith to know that God will always lead me in the right direction. I look forward to having many more blessings with my husband and maybe soon an addition to our family :)