Name: Basic Red Sauce
Ingredients: 8 Ancho Chilies; 3 1/2 c Warm Water; 1/2 c Onion; Chopped; 2 Garlic; Cloves; chopped; 1/4 c Vegetable Oil; 8 oz Tomato Sauce; 1 cn; 1 tb Oregano Leaves; Dried; 1 tb Cumin Seed; 1 ts Salt

Shredded flesh against unforgiving wood, iron stakes pounded through bone and wracked nerves, joints wrenched out of socket by the sheer dead weight of the body, public humiliation before the eyes of family, friends, and the world – that was death on the cross, “the infamous stake” as the Romans called it, “the barren wood,” the maxima mala crux. Or as the Greeks spat it out, the stauros. No wonder no one talked about it. No wonder parents hid their children’s eyes from it. The stauros was a loathsome thing, and the one who died on it was loathsome too, a vile criminal whose only use was to hang there as a putrid, decaying warning to anyone else who might follow his example. That is how Jesus died.

Greg Gilbert

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Grains	Mexican	Mexican, Sauces, Tomato, Vegetables, Mc	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8		Ancho Chilies
3 1/2	c	Warm Water
1/2	c	Onion; Chopped
2		Garlic; Cloves; chopped
1/4	c	Vegetable Oil
8	oz	Tomato Sauce; 1 cn
1	tb	Oregano Leaves; Dried
1	tb	Cumin Seed
1	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Cover chiles with warm water. Let stand until softened, about 30 minutes;
drain. Strain liquid; reserve. Remove stems, seeds and membranes from
chilies. Cook and stir onion and garlic in oil in a 2-quart saucepan until
onion is tender. Stir in chilies, 2 cups of the reserved liquid and the
remaining ingredients. Heat ot boiling, reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, 20
minutes; cool. Pour into a food processor workbowl fitted with steel blade
or into a blender container; cover and process until smooth. Cover and
refrigerate up to 10 days. Makes about 2 1/2 cups sauce.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #744 by Kathy Meade <[email protected]> on
Aug 15, 1997

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