Tiffany King Visits ATS and Shellie Fesses Up!

This is Shellie, AKA Belle of All Things Southern, helping hungry hearts feast on Jesus through humor & storytelling, and it’s a blessing to have you drop by. The men are still busy harvesting and I’m here in the office where I’ve prepared a fun show for y’all.

Author and host of the popular website eatathometonight.com Tiffany King will join me in a bit to talk about her debut cookbook Eat at Home Cooks. Tiffany King knows her way around the kitchen, a real kitchen that is, where the lives of busy families intersect. Tiffany can help you nourish your loved ones without spending all day in the kitchen and shopping for those hard to find ingredients. Stay with me for that conversation.

Of course, I’ll have some devotional thoughts before it’s done and naturally, there will be stories. Longtime listeners know there will be stories.

I’m fresh off a weekend road trip with the bestie. Translation. I don’t know where to begin. We were delighted to throw a SHINDIG for the women of Life Church in Commerce, TX, Friday night. (I hear you. More on SHINDIG in a moment.) The next day we traveled to Houston, TX where I thoroughly enjoyed speaking at the Renew conference.

Left to right, Rhonda, my daughter Jessica, and yours truly

It didn’t hurt that Houston happens to be where my daughter, so-in-law and two of The Fabulous Five reside. For newcomers, that would be my grandchildren, and oh, are they all grand. You’re fortunate I can’t whip out the pictures on this podcast.

My beautiful daughter, Jessica Maher

But, about SHINDIG. In a nutshell, SHINDIG was born out of my heart’s desire to help people stop compartmentalizing this uncompartmentable GOD of ours and learn to live one fully blended life for Christ. I’ve lassoed by bestie, Rhonda Perry, into helping me pull off these events! It’s a feasting kind of night of with music, storytelling, skits, worship, and yes, I get to bring a word. We have a bit of everything at our SHINDIGS…

For illustrative purposes, I’ll come clean right here in front of God and everybody and tell y’all what happened Friday night. Allow me to set up the scene.

Rhonda and I arrive at the events with my vehicle loaded down like a clown’s car from the circus. Picture it, the scene where everything imaginable begins to come out of the car and then it just keeps coming? That’s us!

Along with my product table and Rhonda’s sound board, we also set up a mobile backdrop on stage with a system of retractable poles and a large black curtain, draped with decorative lighting. During the SHINDIG all kinds of madness happens behind this backdrop as we change from one costume to the next, per the needs of the different skits.  I know. I know, I can’t do it justice with a few words. You’d have to see it to understand.

Well, during these costume changes, Red and I are often standing in one spot and changing our clothes and shoes as we hover over a standing mic and continue to keep up a running conversation for the benefit of the audience to “overhear”, all while trying not to get our lavalier mics twisted around our torsos. I hope y’all have a good visual because Friday night, I lost my mind.

That’s all I know to tell you. I had finished changing and began walking around the backdrop to open my storytelling part of the night when it hit me. One stride in and I knew something was wrong. My mind was trying to process what “it” was. Two strides in and I had pinpointed the problem, but I was also staring at the audience. As I met their eyes and began to laugh in spite of myself, I said, “Y’all, Rhonda’s gonna hurt me for this.”

You could hear her voice from “backstage”. “Shellie, what have you done now?”

I had to confess. I had put my cute little high heeled booties on the wrong feet. Yes’m. In those intervening seconds between my insight and my confession, I had argued with myself over whether or not I could do a full routine with my shoes on the wrong feet and decided that my brain wouldn’t be able to let go of it long enough to form a complete sentence.

A professional speaker couldn’t get away with something like that. Fortunately, I’m not a professional speaker. I’m a storyteller who takes Jesus seriously, myself not so much. Which is why I fessed up, and sat right down there on stage and changed ‘em…

We all had a good laugh, at my expense. But that’s okay, as I say on social media. #lifeisbetterwhenyourelaughing

Which reminds me, this is a shout out for my immediate family who like to pick at me because I’m always taking postings the goings on around here. A) My kids and grands are beautiful and I like to brag, I mean share. And B) Someone must document the madness. That said. I’m not an addict.

I saw where someone was selling shower curtains with, get this, see through plastic pouches where you could put your tech devices and keep them dry while you keep twittering and posting and instagraming away.

Now, that’s an addict.  I’m not there. But I might have to try it for y’all. You know, market research and all…

BUMPER

INTERVIEW with Tiffany King *you’ll find the audio file below or listen via iTunes and make sure to subscribe– it’s FREE!

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RECIPE

Welcome back to the kitchen, y’all! Here’s a great recipe for those back to school kids. I call ‘em The Belle’s Brown Honey Breakfast Bars, but the beloved farmer eats them snacks and treats, too!

Ingredients:

1 egg
½ cup butter
½ cup sugar
½ cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla (I use vanilla paste!)
1 cup flour
½ teaspoon soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup oatmeal
½ cup nuts
To stir them up, we’ll cream a half cup of butter with a half cup of sugar. Then we’ll add in one egg, a half cup of honey and a teaspoon of vanilla. (I’m using vanilla paste right now. I have some on hand and I think it packs more flavor.) We’ll beat this well and stir in our sifted ingredients—that’s 1 cup flour with ½ teaspoon each of baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Once blended we’ll stir in a cup of oatmeal and a ½ cup of your favorite nuts. That’s optional.

Take this batter to make the cutest little mini muffins, regular muffins, or spread it in a shallow baking dish and cut it into breakfast bars. You’ll need to adjust your cooking time accordingly. Average time is 25 minutes at 325. Just watch ‘em until they’ve risen and the middle springs back and you’re money! Enjoy my Brown Sugar Breakfast Bars. It’s good eating from the All Things Southern kitchen to yours~

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Southern Comfort

Let’s read the Word together…You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all of your heart. Jeremiah 9.12

Those words are for you, from your Creator. You aren’t the one person in all of history exempted from this verse. If we aren’t finding Him, our search is scattered and sporadic. I didn’t say it. He did.

Think about it.

That’s it for this week, y’all. This is Shellie with hugs for all~

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