Healthy recipes using shrimp

I am so glad the holidays are over. We did eat some wonderful food, but I am ready for something a little lighter. Noelia, her boys and I made tamales one day. That was my first time and they really came out well. I was in charge of spreading the masa. It’s time for some seafood.

GAUSE NEWS

Happy New Year to you and your family. (Hope you had blackeyed peas for New Year’s Day.) Monday was a beautiful day, even though it was cold. Time to take the Christ Time to take the Christmas trees down.

Soup recipes from Mill Street Cottage Tea Room

Georgia Rolan Zamora was nice enough to share her soup recipes from her Mill Street Cottage Tea Room with our readers. Georgia operated the tea room out of her house which was built by her father and grandfather, Glenn and Les Rolan, with wood from the old Sandow schoolhouse.

Foods to push you past post-lunch slump

Lunch is a welcome respite in the middle of the day. Lunch is coveted because it provides a break from work and a chance to sit down and refuel the body until dinnertime. Feelings of fatigue after eating a “hearty” lunch are not uncommon.

Benefit for Charles and Rose Starr

From Kevin Starr, Charles’ brother, “As many of you probably already know my brother, Charles Starr, has had multiple surgeries on his right foot with the last one being Dec. 6 following complications from diabetes.

Casino Night set for Feb. 5

The Rotary Club’s Casino Night will be held on Saturday, Feb. 5, at The Ranch at 6 p.m.. This event will raise money for local scholarships, intermediate school character building curriculum, leadership camp for local teens and Christmas for Senior Citizens to name a few.

Storm spotter training program to be held Jan. 12th

The 2022 severe weather season is not too far away, and the National Weather Service and local public safety officials want you to be ready. The National Weather Service will be conducting a free severe weather training class for Milam County on Wednesday Jan. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.

GONE TO THE BEACH

Thorndale High School junior Natalie Garcia never planned on playing college softball. Ending up with a Division I scholarship to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi? Definitely not planned either. “I never had the goal of going to college (for softball),” Garcia said laughing.

Allow God to lead

Happy New Year! Besides any hot summer day this is my favorite time of the year. I love that we throw away the old calendar that is on the side of the refrigerator and replace it with something new and fresh.

Where do the Christians stand?

One of most famous trials in literature is recorded in the Bible in the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts—Paul on trial before King Agrippa in Caesarea. He is accused of blasphemy by the Jews, which threatens the Jewish order, which, in turn, threatens the order kept by Rome.