Just a Reminder

Don’t forget Thursday’s recipe round up:

This month’s recipe collection will include supper recipes or supper menu ideas for families on the go—dishes and/or menus that are fast and easy. If they can be made up from items that might already be in the cupboard or freezer, so much the better.

 

 Need more info?  You’ll find it all here.

 

I’ve already received one entry, but I’m hoping for more soon so I can get some of Thursday’s collection prepared ahead of time.  Note that there are a few different ways you can participate.

• Post a recipe and send me the link. The post with the recipe does not need to be recent as long as the recipe fits the category.
  
• Send a link to a recipe posted on someone else’s blog.
  
• Email the recipe to me so I can post it for you. This option is for nonbloggers only.
  

Update on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 11:10AM by rebecca

I’m keeping this post on top as a constant reminder, so check for newer posts below.

Universal Pilaf

This recipe is more or less from The Tightwad Gazette III. (More or less because I do things a little differently than in the original recipe.)  It’s called Universal Pilaf because it’s just a recipe template, really, with many possible ways to put things together. You can use what you have and it always seems to turn out just fine.  This supposedly makes four servings, and there are four of us, but I always double the ingredients.  Draw your own conclusions.

• One cup of uncooked grain. Choose from brown or white rice, bulgar, couscous.  I usually use brown rice with a little Minnesota wild rice.
• Two tablespoons fat, either olive or other vegie oil or butter.
• Two or three cloves of garlic, minced.
• One small onion or three shallots or one small leek, diced.
• Two cups liquid: Chicken broth, beef broth, vegie broth, cooking water from boiled vegies, tomato juice or vegetable cocktail diluted with half water.  You can probably think of other possibilities.
  
• 1/2 to 2/3 cup cubed cooked meat or other protein: chicken, turkey, roast beef, steak, porkchop, pork roast, ground beef, leftover ground beef seasoned for tacos, white, red or black beans, etc. Half beans and half meat works well. The original recipe suggests white fish or canned tuna, too. 
  
• 1/2 cup vegetable: Frozen or fresh peas, frozen corn, thinly sliced or grated carrot,  green or red peppers, celery, etc.  Even finely chopped fresh spinach is okay.
• Seasonings according to your own taste and according to what goes well with your chosen meat and vegetable:  Salt and pepper, chervil, parsley, rosemary, chili powder, Worchestershire sauce, etc.

Heat fat in large skillet.  Add garlic and onion, shallots or leak; fry until tender.  Add the grain to the skillet and fry until it just begins to brown.  Pour in the liquid and bring to a boil.  Add the cubed meat or beans, along with your chosen vegetables and seasonings; stir and return to a boil.  Cover and cook until the grain is tender: about 15 minutes for white rice and up to 40 minutes for some of the whole grains.  Check periodically to make sure you don’t run out of liquid before the grain is tender.  Stir and serve.

Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church?

All that hear the gospel, and live in the visible church, are not saved; but they only who are true members of the church invisible.[1]

• John 12:38-40

  … so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

  Rom. 9:6

  But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel… ,
  

  Rom. 11:7

  What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened …

  Matt. 7:21

  Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven… .

  Matt. 22:14

  For many are called, but few are chosen.

Question 61, Westminster Larger Catechism

Update on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 10:58AM by rebecca

Do some of the proof texts seem a little odd to you?  Are you clueless as to how they apply?

They assume that the reader (learner?) already affirms a certain form of Covenant Theology, and they make sense as proof texts within that context.  But unless you are already on board with that view, they will indeed seem a little out in left field.