Quick Summer Meal

Many of us are experiencing Summer; the time for beaches, pools, picnics and grilling. This recipe appeared in our June newsletter and I love quick, easy, one dish meals. While grilling is ideal for summer weather, this baked entrée is one of the healthiest and simplest recipes around, enabling you to spend more time at the beach, while looking great, too.  This would be perfect for the Ninja cooking system (it’s my new kitchen appliance crush).

Baked Fish and Vegetables

4 white fish filets (fresh or frozen, total of 16 to 20 oz.)
16 oz. mixed vegetables (frozen)
1 small onion (diced)
1 tsp. lemon juice (or fresh lemon, sliced thin)
1 tbsp. parsley flakes (dried or freshly chopped)
4 10×12 in. sheets of aluminum foil

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Separate and place fish filets in center of each tin foil square. Combine frozen vegetables and diced onion in a bowl and mix. Spoon vegetables around filets. Sprinkle with lemon juice (or top with lemon slice) and add parsley on top. Fold and bake for 10 minutes.

Yield: 4 servings. Each serving provides 360 calories, 12g total fat, 2g saturated fat, 120mg cholesterol and 130mg sodium.

Source: USDA

I’d love to see pictures of your creations !

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

All in the Family

It had been a very rainy morning and in between the showers I decided to head into the office. I  first stopped by the ATM for cash and as I was leaving captured this shot with my phone – a family out for their morning stroll.  What a rare opportunity – a fleeting moment indeed !

 

 

Daily Prompt: Never

Today’s challenge by Michelle W: Tell about a thing you’ll never write about, poets and photographers were asked to show Forbidden.

This piece was inspired by a forbidden love

 

Another Time and Place

you’re on my mind more than I care to say

I breathe you, taste you, feel you deep inside – only in my mind

carry you in my spirit like a mother pregnant with her first child

we laugh and love endlessly but only in my dreams

holding you close – only in bittersweet memories

you have a life outside – left wondering if I’ll ever have a chance to

show you how I feel

maybe in another time and place you could be mine

This was my never, what’s yours?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

Carrying the weight of the world

This week’s challenge by Michael Pick was to take a picture of yourself or someone else as a shadow, reflection, or a lesser part of a scene, making the background, or the foreground the center of attention.

Here’s my interpretation. This globe sits outside the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and I felt this was perfect for this challenge, to me it demonstrate how we are a small part of big world !

Let’s Hear It . .

I am thankful for the loyal supporters of thekreativecorner and want to provide more posts based on your interests. Here’s where you come in, let me know what you’d like to see more of at tkc by completing the poll below (available for 1 week).
Let’s take this journey to the next level, cast your vote today.

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Daily Prompt: Journey

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Traveling by rail is slowly regaining popularity, until last year taking a train anywhere was right up there with traveling by bus – too many hours riding and too many stops before you reach your destination. I’m finding I can tolerate … Continue reading →

Most Influential Blogger Award – 5/22/13

A special thank you to saminiaqbal27.wordpress.com for this nomination. Thank you for your thought-provoking posts that spotlight unsung community heroes and the citizens they serve.

I often wondered if I should continue blogging then I received this pleasant surprise. This affirms there is value in what I share and for that I am grateful.

The Rules of the Award are:

1. display the award logo on your blog

2. link back to the person who nominated you

3. answer seven questions

4. nominate (no limit on number of nominations) other bloggers for this award and link back to them

5. notify those bloggers of the nomination and the award requirements

Here are the seven questions:

1. If you could create your own planet, what would it look like?

My planet would be have lots of sunflowers, and clear streams that run over beautiful rocks. The air would be crisp and clean and there would be zero crime. In a word paradise.

2. If you could visit one nation you have never visited before, what nation would that be?

I would love to visit Israel.

3. Have you ever taken a long distance train trip?

As a toddler I traveled from Detroit MI to Charleston SC with my mother. Today, I prefer to fly – I’m too impatient.

4. What is something you would collectively change about humanity?

I would love to see more acceptance of people as individuals and less of a focus on ethnicity, economic/educational status, and sexual orientation.

5. What is your favorite song?

At the moment it is “Warm it up with Love” by Brandy, I wrote about this in a recent Daily Post challenge entitled “Ear worm”

6. If you could meet one person who is still alive who would you choose to meet?

I would love to meet Dr. Maya Angelou, she inspired my writing style based on reading her books and poetry

7. If you could choose one symbol to represent you, what would that symbol be? Why?

I would choose the butterfly. No two butterflies are the same and they represent freedom, grace and beauty.

My nominees are fellow bloggers (in no specific order) whose work consistently inspire and motivate me and I feel are worth a look:

1. http://1meremortal.wordpress.com
2. http://life-plan-blog.com
3. http://inspirationalgeek.wordpress.com
4. http://gingercarter.wordpress.com
5. http://liamrainsford.com
6. http://bettermanprojects.com

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MOST INFLUENTIAL BLOGGER AWARD

Reblogged from Samina's Forum for police support:

I would like to thank Ajay tao 2010. wordpress.com for nominating me for this lovely award. Thank You Ajay for the honor and for inspiring us all with your beautiful posts every day. My friends, check out Ajay's blog and you would be fascinated and inspired.

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This was my first nomination for an award and I was thrilled but at the same time being a new blogger did not know too many blogger friends I could nominate so I have waited a whole one and a half months for this ceremony.

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I am totally speechless and honored to be recognized by a fellow blogger.