A Christian is not a person who experiences no bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with those desires by the power of the Spirit. Conflict in your soul is not all bad. Even though we long for the day when our flesh will be utterly defunct and only pure and loving desires will fill our hearts, yet there is something worse than the war within between flesh and Spirit – namely, no war within because the flesh controls the citadel and all the outposts. Praise God for the war within! Serenity in sin is death. The Spirit has landed to do battle with the flesh. So take heart if your soul feels like a battlefield at times. The sign of whether you are indwelt by the Spirit is not that you have no bad desires, but that you are at war with them!

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Grains	Chinese	Vegetable	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Cakes bean curd
1		Scallion stalk (up to)
4	tb	0il
1/4	ts	Salt
2	tb	Soy sauce
1/4	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut each bean curd cake in 6 to 8 pieces or in 1-inch cubes. Cut
scallion stalk in 1-inch sections.
2. Heat oil. Add salt; then scallion, and stir-fry a few times until
translucent.  Add bean curd; stir-fry gently until heated through (2 to 3
minutes).
3. Sprinkle with soy sauce and remaining salt and stir in gently.
NOTE: Since bean curd is fragile, vigorous stir-frying will demolish it.
Therefore shake or tilt the pan from time to time to baste the bean curd
with hot oil; or else separately turn the pieces so they can heat through
evenly. VARIATIONS:
1. For the soy sauce, substitute oyster sauce.
2. Use 4 or 5 whole scallions, cut in 1-inch lengths.
3. Before serving, sprinkle bean curd with a few drops of sesame oil; or
garnish with minced raw scallion.
4. With Chinese sausage: Steam 4 Chinese sausages 15 minutes; then slice
thin. Add to heated oil in step 2 and brown lightly; then stir-fry scallion
and bean curd.
5. With mushrooms (fresh): In step 2, add after the scallion, 1/4 pound
fresh mushrooms, sliced, and stir-fry until slightly softened. Then add the
bean curd and continue as in steps 2 and 3.
6. With mushrooms (dried): After step 2, add 10 dried black mushrooms
(soaked), sliced, the soy sauce and 1/2 teaspoon sugar. Then gently stir in
1/2 cup of the mushroom-soaking liquid or stock. Bring to a boil and
simmer, covered, 5 minutes over medium heat.
7. With roast pork: In step 2, add after the scallion, 1/4 cup roast pork,
sliced or diced, and stir-fry a few times. Then add the bean curd and
continue as in steps 2 and 3.
8. With shrimp: In step 2, add after the scallion 1/4 cup raw shrimp,
shelled, deveined and cut in 1-inch pieces; stir-fry until pinkish. Then
add bean curd and continue as in steps 2 and 3.
From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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