Wine And Cheese Bread Pudding

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
Dairy	French		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

10		French bread, 3/4 inch
		thick
1	c	Madeira wine
1/2	c	Raisins
1	c	4 oz. Sargento Fancy
		Supreme Shredded Monterey
		Jack Cheese
1	c	Sugar
1 1/2	c	Water
1	t	Cinnamon
1/4	c	Unsalted butter or margarine
		Whipped cream, optional

INSTRUCTIONS

Place bread slices on baking sheet and toast under broiler until light
brown. Tear into bite-size pieces; spread in even layer in 12 x 8 x
2-inch baking dish. Drizzle wine over bread so all is moistened.
Sprinkle raisins evenly over bread, then sprinkle evenly with  Monterey
Jack cheese; set aside.  In 2-quart heavy saucepan, cook sugar over
medium heat without  stirring until sugar begins to melt at edge. Start
stirring with  wooden spoon and stir until sugar melts completely and
turns  straw-colored. Reduce heat; stir constantly until sugar is color
of  dark honey. Remove from heat; add water very gradually, stirring
constantly. Mixture will boil up. If lumps of hard caramel develop,
return pan to heat; boil until mixture is smooth. Remove from heat;
stir in cinnamon and butter. Pour evenly over bread. Cover with foil;
bake at 350Ã¸F 30 minutes. Remove foil; cool 10 minutes. Serve warm
with whipped cream.  Posted to recipelu-digest by molony
<molony@scsn.net> on Feb 23, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 2677 Calories From Fat: 1011 Total Fat: 114.6g Cholesterol: 201.3mg Sodium: 3447.3mg Potassium: 1021.3mg Carbohydrates: 348.4g Fiber: 6.2g Sugar: 276.3g Protein: 78.2g

If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis