Bananas And Pancakes – We Love God!

Finishing life to the glory of Christ means resolutely resisting the typical American dream of retirement. It means being so satisfied with all that God promises to be for us in Christ that we are set free from the cravings that create so much emptiness and uselessness in retirement. Instead, knowing that we have an infinitely satisfying and everlasting inheritance in God just over the horizon of life makes us zealous in our few remaining years here to spend ourselves in the sacrifices of love, not the accumulation of comforts.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Desserts, Low fat	3	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Or 1-2 small bananas per
		Person
2	T	Lemon juice
2	T	Calvados, grand marnier or
		Cointreau
5		Oz orange juice
2	T	Molasses sugar
1		Egg
4	oz	Flour
10		Oz lager beer

INSTRUCTIONS

Make pancakes with lager, flour and egg, and cook in the normal way  (I
used a cooking spray to grease a non-stick frying pan). Fold each
pancake in half, and then in half again, so it forms a quarter-circle
(if you're as bad at cooking pancakes as I am, they'll come out in
bits anyway - if so, pretend it didn't happen!), and place them in a
large flan dish.  Peel bananas, cut in half long-ways and in half again
cross-ways, and  place face-down on top of the pancakes. Put the
remaining ingredients  into a frying pan or small saucepan, and boil
for 3-4 minutes, until  just beginning to be syrupy.  Pour over bananas
and pancakes, and  bake in a moderate oven (Mark 4 - 350 F) for 20-30
minutes.  I served this with fromage frais (cream substitute) and a
chocolate  sauce, for which the recipe follows:  Recipe by: Annabel
Smith Converted to MM by Donna Webster  donna@webster.demon.co.uk  From
Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 204 Calories From Fat: 19 Total Fat: 2.1g Cholesterol: 62mg Sodium: 25mg Potassium: 236.2mg Carbohydrates: 40g Fiber: 2.2g Sugar: 6g Protein: 6.5g

What skill doth every part of our work require! – and of how much moment is every part! To preach a sermon, I think, is not the hardest part; and yet what skill is necessary to make the truth plain; to convince the hearers, to let irresistible light in to their consciences, and to keep it there, and drive all home; to screw the truth into their minds, and work Christ into their affections; to meet every objection, and clearly to resolve it; to drive sinners to a stand, and make them see that there is no hope, but that they must unavoidably either be converted or condemned – and to do all this, as regards language and manner, as beseems our work, and yet as is most suitable to the capacities of our hearers. This, and a great deal more that should be done in every sermon, must surely require a great deal of holy skill.

Richard Baxter