Scallops With Spicy Garlic Sauce

What is the worst the opposition can do? Kill you – though doubtless that will occur, at least for now, in this country. But even if that were case, the Scripture strips away that excuse citing that death for the Christian is the greatest event possible because only death has the ability to break the seal and usher you into inexpressible glory. Could the problem be that we simply have a too great a fascination with the things going on here and not enough desire to spend eternity with Christ? If we really “prefer” to be “home with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8), intimate, personal, visible communion with Christ that far exceeds our communion with Christ here (Heb. 11:10, 13), then we must be “absent from the body” (2 Cor. 5:8). In other words, we must die. Therefore death from that perspective doesn’t sound so bad. Only death can release me from “absent from the Lord” to be “home with the Lord.” So the worst the enemy can do is send me to paradise!

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Seafood	Japanese	Main dish, Shellfish	2	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6		Asparagus spears, cut
		diagonally into 1
		1/2-inch
		pieces
4	T	1/2 stick butter
6		Fresh shiitake mushrooms
		stemmed caps sliced
1	T	Minced garlic
2	T	Grated onion
1/4	c	Soy sauce
3	T	Sake
1	t	Hon-dashi, Japanese
		bonito-type soup stock
		granules is sold at
		Asian
		Markets
	pn	Of cayenne pepper
10		Sea scallops

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook asparagus in medium saucepan of boiling salted water 1 minute.
Drain.  Melt 2 tablespoons butter in heavy large skillet over medium
heat. Add  mushrooms and garlic; saut until mushrooms are tender, about
5  minutes. Add onion; stir 1 minute. Add soy sauce, sake, hon-dashi
and  cayenne; simmer until sauce thickens slightly, about 3 minutes.
Remove pan from heat.  Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in heavy
medium skillet over high  heat. Season scallops with salt and pepper.
Add scallops to skillet  and saut until almost cooked through, about 3
minutes. Add asparagus  and toss until heated through, about 1 minute.
Add sauce and simmer 1  minute. Bon Appetit September 1995 Source:
Matsuhisa; Beverly Hills,  CA Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #003
From: Julie Bertholf <jewel1@ix.netcom.com>  Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997
23:31:54 -0800

A Message from our Provider:

“People ignore God and then blame him for the chaos that results”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 693 Calories From Fat: 229 Total Fat: 26.2g Cholesterol: 61.1mg Sodium: 5756.7mg Potassium: 3150.6mg Carbohydrates: 99.6g Fiber: 18.7g Sugar: 26.8g Protein: 33.3g

Oh, it’s more than just the fear of being persecuted. When we choose to live lives that are not pleasing to the Lord, we do so because we fear missing out on fun, or fear that our idols of dependency will be snatched away, or fear God’s way won’t effectively get the job done, or fear we will be pulled out of our comfort zone, or fear that it is going to cost us too much. The list continues, but it all comes back to fear, and fear results because we walk by sight and a lack of faith in God’s promises (cf. 2 Cor. 5:7). We don’t always live to please God because we think we know better than God as to what it takes to make us more productive and content and happy.

Randy Smith