Author: Ed Hart

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Eat

Basic Pan-Seared Tilapia

Making a pan-seared tilapia is really easy.  The hardest part is deciding what kind of seasoning or sauce you’d like to have on the fillets, but with fresh tilapia, they’re good even with just salt, pepper and freshly squeezed lemon juice.  This recipe is really just to instruct on the cooking method for pan searing the fillets.

Ingredients

  • 1-2 fillets per person
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Seasoning of your choice (I like Cavendar’s)
  • Lemon for searing and garnish

Directions

  1. Pat fish dry with a paper towel.
  2. Sprinkle fish with salt & pepper and seasoning
  3. Heat 1 Tbsp Olive Oil and 1 Tbsp Butter in a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat.  Allow the skillet time to get hot.
  4. Sauté the fillets for about 3-4 minutes (depending on thickness) on each side, squeezing lemon juice on them during cooking.  Tilapia should be lightly golden and just cooked through.  Use a fish spatula (larger, thin & slotted) to turn the fillets without tearing them up.
  5. Transfer to the plate and serve warm with lemon wedges
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Live

Who is a Refugee and How Did They Get Here?

Ran across this infographic from World Relief that is really helpful in understanding the process by which a refugee gets to the U.S.  It’s also important to be clear about who, exactly, is a refugee versus, say, an illegal alien or an internally displaced person, or an asylum seeker or a migrant.  Each term has a specific meaning (with an associated legal status).  When engaging in conversations about the current global refugee crisis, it’s important to define the terms since there’s a tremendous amount of mis-information that’s being fueled by the media. 

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Ed Unfiltered Live

A Personal Take on the Refugee Crisis, Part 3

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The third and last group we visited with was Friends of Refugees which is a community organization with the mission of Helping Refugees experience an abundant life in flourishing community and from what we were able to see, they are making an impact in Clarkston!

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Ed Unfiltered

My Friend Viktor

For a few weeks now, I’ve been looking forward to hosting a missionary from Kyrgyzstan on his travels through the U.S.  Each time we’ve had the opportunity to open our home, it’s been an incredible blessing.  The anticipation leading up to these visits excites my heart and is only matched in intensity by the sense of longing I experience afterwards!  So it is with Christian fellowship, foreshadowing the hope we have for the eternal community awaiting us at the end of this present age.

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Create Woodworking

Two Recently Updated Woodworking Plans

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I recently updated a couple of my woodworking plans with more detailed and thorough assembly instructions and updated the cut lists.  Since I wrote the original plans a couple years ago, I thought it might be helpful to post new links to them.

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Ed Unfiltered

A Personal Take on the Refugee Crisis, Part 2

Visiting Clarkston, Georgia was not only an eye opening experience, but a heart opening one as well.  After our morning introduction to Global Frontier Missions and their work training and equipping missionary candidates for cross-cultural ministry, we headed to the local office of World Relief, a non-profit organization which provides humanitarian aid, disaster and emergency relief through assistance programs to victims of poverty, disease, hunger, war, disasters and persecution.

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Create Ed Unfiltered

Don’t Throw That Old Christmas Tree Away!

Make a lenten cross with it!  We started this as a family tradition a number of years ago and it’s become woven into the fabric of our holiday seasons.  I love the continuity of celebrating Advent and Christmas with our Christmas tree, decorated with years of family ornaments, then using that same tree through the season of lent leading up to Easter as a reminder of the reason that we celebrate.

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Ed Unfiltered

A Personal Take on the Refugee Crisis, Part 1

So what’s this refugee thing really all about?  To find out the answer to that question, a group of us travelled to Clarkston, Georgia to see and hear first hand about this “refugee crisis” from several different perspectives.  The first was from Global Frontier Missions, a missionary training organization tucked away in a nondescript basement of one of the many apartment complexes tightly packed into this community.  After a brief tour of the facility, we sat down and talked about the history and mission of GFM.

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Create Learn Woodworking

SketchUp: My Most Valuable Woodworking Tool!

Sketchup Lesson

One of the most valuable tools I have isn’t a woodworking tool at all.  It’s software & it’s indispensable when I’m building a woodworking project!  I’m of course talking about SketchUp, the 3D modeling program that’s available for free.

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Woodworking

Farmhouse Table Plan – 5 Years Later

I recently got a question from one of my readers about how the Farmhouse Table has held up over time.  It’s been 5 years since I built mine and so I thought I’d share the good, the bad & and ugly!

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