Skillet Smoked Salmon-martha Stewart Living

God is our all-sufficient Creator and Provider. In the first of the Ten Commandments He says, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Ex. 20:3). Yet with addictions, we are revealing the fact that our hearts are bowing down to something we believe God cannot provide. The alcohol and drugs are not the essence of the issue. The problem is a heart that worships other gods. Maybe it’s the god of pleasure or the god of love or the god of acceptance or the god of peace or the god of control. You see, the problem is not outside of us. It’s not ultimately at the liquor store or on the Internet. The problem is within us and the booze and pornography are only satisfiers of deeper idols within our hearts. The problem is not the idolatrous substance. The problem is a passion in our heart that is wrongly satisfied with a false god (Concept adapted from Ed Welch, Addictions, p. 49).

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Seafood		Bbq/grill, Fish/sea, Main dish, Soup/stews	2	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	T	Soy sauce
2	T	Granulated sugar
1	t	Szechuan peppercorns
		coarsely crushed
2		Salmon fillets, about 8 oz
		each skinned if desired
1/2	c	Loose black tea leaves
		such as Lapsang Souchong~
10		Whole star anise
2		Cinnamon sticks, broken in
		half
4		Thin strips of orange peel
1/4	c	Brown sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine soy sauce, granulated sugar, and peppercorns in a mixing  bowl.
Add salmon, coat well and marinate for 15 minutes. Meanwhile,  line a
cast-iron skillet or wok with foil. Add tea leaves, star  anise,
cinnamon sticks, orange peel, and brown sugar and toss  together. Heat
over medium-high heat until sugar bubbles and  ingredients begin to
smoke, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium;  place a rack in
skillet. Remove salmon from marinade and place fish  on rack skin side
down. Cover with a tight-fitting lid; allow to  smoke for 8 to 10
minutes. Turn off heat and let stand, covered, for  5 more minutes.
Serve hot or cold.  Martha Stewart Living/Feb. & March/94 Scanned &
fixed by Di and Gary  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #514 by kathy
<jbird21@mindspring.com>  on Mar 13, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Beauty: an act of God”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1137 Calories From Fat: 566 Total Fat: 63.1g Cholesterol: 303.9mg Sodium: 802.1mg Potassium: 1507.6mg Carbohydrates: 53.1g Fiber: 3.2g Sugar: 43.2g Protein: 87.5g

The church is the new covenant community – “This cup is the new covenant in my blood” (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25) – we say when we take communion. The new covenant is the spiritual work of God to put His Spirit within us, write the law on our hearts, and cause us to walk in His statutes. It is a spiritually authentic community. Unlike the old covenant community it is defined by true spiritual life and faith. Having these things is what it means to belong to the Church. Therefore to give the sign of the covenant, baptism, to those who are merely children of the flesh and who give no evidence of new birth or the presence of the Spirit or the law written on their heart or of vital faith in Christ is to contradict the meaning of the new covenant community and to go backwards in redemptive history.

John Piper