Broccoli-spinach Spread

John Broadus (one of the founders of the Southern Baptist Seminary and the author of the most influential book on preaching ever written in America) was lecturing his class just nine days before he died when he paused and said: “Gentlemen, if this were the last time I should ever be permitted to address you, I would feel amply repaid for consuming the whole hour endeavoring to impress upon you these two things: true piety, and, like Apollos, to be men ‘mighty in the Scriptures.’” Broadus then paused and stood for a moment with his piercing eyes fixed upon the class. Over and over he repeated in that slow but wonderfully impressive style that was distinctively his, “Mighty in the Scriptures, mighty in the Scriptures.”

Kent Hughes

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Appetizers, Snacks, Spreads	24	Canapes

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Extra-virgin olive oil
1	t	Whole cumin seeds
1/2	t	Crushed red pepper flakes
2	T	Fresh lime juice
1/2	t	Salt
1/4	t	Black pepper
1	lb	Broccoli, cut into 1/4"
		pieces include stem
1/4	lb	Fresh spinach
1/2	c	Water
2	T	Grated coconut

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oil in non-stick frying pan over medium-low heat. Add cumin &
pepper flakes & fry for 1/2 minute.  Stir in lime juice, salt,  pepper,
vegetables & water. Cover & simmer until the vegetables are  reduced to
a chunky puree (45 to 60 minutes).  Stir occasionally.  Immediately
before serving, spread about 1 tb of mixture on poppy  seeds crackers,
(see recipe). Sprinkle with coconut.  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster
collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Many people give thanks to God when He gives. Job gave thanks when He took.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 9 Calories From Fat: 2 Total Fat: <1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 70.2mg Potassium: 80.6mg Carbohydrates: 1.6g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: <1g

Body to the soul: “O my soul, have we got together again after so long a separation? Have you come back to your old habitation, never more to leave? O joyful meeting! How unlike our present state is to what our condition was, when a separation was made between us at death! Now is our mourning turned into joy. The light and gladness sown before are now sprung up. Blessed be the day in which I was united to you, Soul, whose chief care was to get ‘Christ in us the hope of glory,’ and to make me a temple for his Holy Spirit. O blessed Soul, which in the time of our pilgrimage kept your eye to the land then afar off, but now near at hand! You took me into secret places, and there made me to bow these knees before the Lord, that I might bear a part in our humiliation before Him. And now is the time that I am lifted up. You employed this tongue in confessions, petitions and thanksgivings, which now on shall be employed in praising forevermore. You made these sometimes weeping eyes sow that seed of tears, now sprung up in joy that shall never end. I was happily beaten down by you and kept in subjection, while others pampered their flesh and made their bellies their gods, to their own destruction. But now I gloriously arise, to take my place in the mansions of glory, while they are dragged out of their graves to be cast into fiery flames. Now, my Soul, you shall complain no more of a sick and painful body, you shall be no more clogged up with weak and weary flesh. I shall now keep pace with you in the praises of our God forevermore.”

Thomas Boston