Name: Authentic Mexican Rice
Ingredients: 1 c Long-grain white rice, raw; 2 tb Vegetable oil; 1/2 md Onion, chopped; 1/3 c Salsa (Embasa brand); 3 c Water; 1 Tomato chicken boullion

Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.

Phillips Brooks

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Vegetables, Meats	Mexican	Mexican, Rice, Side dish	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Long-grain white rice, raw
2	tb	Vegetable oil
1/2	md	Onion, chopped
1/3	c	Salsa (Embasa brand)
3	c	Water
1		Tomato chicken boullion

INSTRUCTIONS

RECIPE CAN BE DOUBLED
Heat oil in saut. pan on medium-high.  Add uncooked rice and stir to coat
rice with oil. When rice is brown, add chopped onions and stir. When onions
start to brown, add in salsa tomatoes, stirring to coat rice. Add in water
and chicken-tomato seasoning and bring to a boil. Allow water to boil for 5
minutes, then lower heat to medium-low and cover.  Simmer for 10-15
minutes, stirring every few minutes.
When water is completely evaporated and rice is tender, remove from heat
and serve hot.
* NOTE:  Embasa Salsa comes canned and can be found in the ethnic section
of your grocery store. This is an authentic recipe from a Hispanic friend
of mine.
Contributor:  Frances Say
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by frances.m.say@bakernet.com on Apr 23, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“You think life is full of surprises? Wait till you die!”

Be very careful, then, how you live (Eph. 5:15), put on the full armor of God (Eph. 6:11), prepare your minds for action (1 Peter 1:13), make every effort (2 Peter 1:5), be self-controlled and alert (1 Peter 5:8). These are battle cries, and Scripture is full of them. But unlike our old conception of warfare, where battle lines are clear and the times of battle can almost be predicted, this is modern warfare in which you are not always sure where the enemy lurks. It is guerilla warfare. There are strategically placed snipers. You let down your guard for a moment and the village you thought was safe suddenly opens fire on you.

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