Stir-fried Pumpkin With Scallions And Ginger

We evangelicals make the foolish mistake of thinking that when enough souls decide to make Jesus the Lord of their lives, that He will become the Lord of all things. The reality is that Jesus is already Lord over all things. His kingdom, strictly speaking, does not expand, for even now it knows no borders. He does not, therefore, engage in some sort of power sharing arrangement with other pretenders to His throne, whether they be false deities, or those who falsely worship them. His lordship is not something we accomplish. It is something we recognize and submit to. It is not something we negotiate; it is something we proclaim.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Meats		Cooking liv, Import	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	T	Soy, corn or olive oil
1/2	c	Finely chopped scallions
1	T	Grated peeled fresh
		gingerroot
1	lb	Piece pumpkin, or hubbard or
		butternut squash peeled
		with a knife seeded and
		cut into 1-inch cubes
		about 2 cups
1	T	Honey
1/2	c	Chicken broth
1	T	Sesame seeds, toasted until
		golden

INSTRUCTIONS

In a heavy skillet heat oil over moderate heat until hot but not
smoking and cook scallions and gingerroot, stirring, about 2 minutes,
or until light golden. Stir in pumpkin or other squash and honey and
saute over high heat, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes. Add broth,
stirring to loosen any brown bits, and simmer, covered, 5 minutes, or
until squash is tender but still retains its shape and texture.
Sprinkle squash with sesame seeds.  Yield: 2 servings  Recipe by:
Cooking Live Show #CL8994  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #903 by
"Angele and Jon Freeman"  <jfreeman@comteck.com> on Nov 12, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 195 Calories From Fat: 9 Total Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 384.7mg Potassium: 999.6mg Carbohydrates: 46.3g Fiber: 5.6g Sugar: 23.4g Protein: 5.5g

Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

B.B. Warfield