Spinach Potage With Chickpeas

Though a man of sorrow, He was even on earth anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows. Does this seem strange?... Shall we wonder that there was divine gladness in the heart of Him who came into this world not by constraint but willingly, not with a burning sense of wrong but with a grateful sense of high privilege, and that He had a blessed consciousness of fellowship with His Father who sent Him, during the whole of His pilgrimage through this vale of tears?

A.B. Bruce

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables	Vegetarian	Vegtime3	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		Olive oil cooking spray
1	c	Chopped onion
1	t	Minced garlic
4	c	Day-old bread cubes
4	c	Vegetable broth
2 1/2	c	Chopped tomatoes, canned
		drained
19	oz	Chickpeas, canned drained
10	oz	Fresh spinach
		Stemmed and coarsely chopped
1/2	t	Saffron
		Salt and freshly ground
		black pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

SERVINGS DAIRY-FREE This hearty and healthy peasant soup is based  on
one served at a private dinner at Nunez de Prado's organic olive  oil
mill in the Andalusia region of Spain. Our version was developed  by
recipe tester Stephanie Browner.  Lightly coat bottom of large nonstick
skillet with cooking spray and  heat pan until hot. Add onion and
garlic and cook, stirring often,  until soft, about 5 minutes. Add
bread cubes and cook, stirring  occasionally, until golden brown.
Remove from heat.  Pour broth into large pot and heat over medium heat.
Put half the  bread mixture and 1/2 cup tomatoes into food processor or
blender and  process until coarsely ground. Scrape mixture into pot
with broth and  repeat with remaining bread and an additional 1/2 cup
tomatoes.  Add remaining tomatoes, chickpeas, spinach, saffron, salt
and pepper  to pot. cook, stirring occasionally, until heated through,
about 10  minutes. Serve warm.  PER SERVING: 177 CAL.; 9G PROT.; 3G
TOTAL FAT (0 SAT. FAT); 31G  CARB.; 0 CHOL.; 115MG SOD.; 2G FIBER.
Converted by MC_Buster.  Recipe by: Vegetarian Times Magazine,
September 1998, page 30  Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1560 Calories From Fat: 217 Total Fat: 24.9g Cholesterol: 9.8mg Sodium: 10183.9mg Potassium: 4717.1mg Carbohydrates: 281.3g Fiber: 55.9g Sugar: 22.5g Protein: 68.6g

It is not persecution alone that we ought to fear, not those forces that in open warfare range abroad to overthrow and defeat the servants of God. It is easy enough to be on one’s guard when the danger is obvious; one can stir up one’s courage for the fight when the Enemy shows himself in his true colors. There is more need to fear and beware of the Enemy when he creeps up secretly, when he beguiles us by a show of peace and steals forward by those hidden approaches which have earned him the name of the 'Serpent.'… Those whom he has failed to keep in the blindness of their old [pagan] ways he beguiles, and leads them up a new road of illusion. He snatches away people from within the Church herself, and while they think that coming close to the light they have now done with the night of the world, he plunges them unexpectedly into darkness of another kind. They still call themselves Christians after abandoning the Gospel of Christ and the observance of His [moral] law; though walking in darkness they think they still enjoy the light.

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