Name: Basil and Tomato Bread
Ingredients: 1/2 c Butter; softened; 1 tb Brown sugar; 1 tb Tomato paste; 1 Garlic clove; minced; 2 Eggs; 2 c Flour; 1 ts Baking powder; 1/2 ts Salt; 1/4 ts Cayenne pepper; * see note; 3 tb Fresh basil; * see note; 2/3 c Vegetable juice cocktail or tomato juice; 1 c Sharp cheddar cheese; grated; 2 Sun-dried tomatoes; oil-packed, minced

I always find it so amazing when you allow people to present their religious conviction, or we could say, “their worldview.' In other words, what helps them believe they will have a successful life after death or what gives them hope, strength and happiness? Often, they come up with some customized cocktail personally created composed of conversations and experiences they have picked up along the way. Take a few marvel movies. Add a memorable talk with the bartender after the night club closed. Sprinkle in some new age reasoning. Add a pinch of Confucius. Take some of the current talking points from 'The View.' Insert a splash of your own intuition and there you go! A customized worldview, one that everyone in the history of humanity has missed, but they are absolutely certain they are correct, and they are willing to base their life and eternity on it.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Vegetables, Dairy	Mexican	Bread, Mexican	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Butter; softened
1	tb	Brown sugar
1	tb	Tomato paste
1		Garlic clove; minced
2		Eggs
2	c	Flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
1/4	ts	Cayenne pepper; * see note
3	tb	Fresh basil; * see note
2/3	c	Vegetable juice cocktail or tomato juice
1	c	Sharp cheddar cheese; grated
2		Sun-dried tomatoes; oil-packed, minced

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat the oven at 350F. Cream the butter with the brown sugar. Add tomato
paste, garlic and eggs. Beat until well mix.
Shift the flour, baking powder and the salt. Add the cayenne pepper et
basil. Add about 1/3 of flour mixture to butter mixture, mix well. Pour
about half of the Vegetable juice, follow with another third of flour. Mix
well after each addition. Finally add the the remainder for the juice and
finish with the flour. At this point you will have a heavy sticky batter.
Add the cheese and sun-dired tomato. Put he mixture into a 8 1/2 x 4 1/2
inches oiled bread pan. Bake in oven for about an 1 hour or until a
thoothpick inserted in the middle come out clean. Let cool for 5 minutes
before removing from the pan.
Note 1: You can increase quantities of cayenne pepper if you would like
something with a kick.
Note 2: You can subtitute for 1 tablespoon of dry basil.
Recipe by: Les Collection Mini-Livres Bon Appeti
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by Andre Beaulieu <abeaul@colba.net> on Mar
07, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. #Harry Ironside”

“Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mt. 19:19) is considered the biblical proof text (for those who need one). When interpreted through cultural spectacles, this verse means that we must love ourselves in order to love other people. But in reality the passage doesn’t even suggest such an interpretation. Jesus spoke of these words to rich young man who clearly loved himself and his possessions too much. There is only one command in the passage, and it is “love your neighbor.” Nobody, including the writers of Scripture, could have dreamed that this passage taught self-love. It took some cultural changes to reinterpret it and turn our eyes inward.

Edward Welch