Dirty Rice (baked Rice Dressing)

Abuses of fasting: 1. Any attempt to earn God’s blessing through fasting is clearly in contradiction to the scriptural teaching that Jesus’ death and resurrection is the ground for every spiritual blessing. Fasting is the humble response that puts us in a place to receive the life and victory Jesus has won for us. 2. One should never view fasting as a substitute for repentance and obedience. To do so turns fasting into a form of penance (cf. Isaiah 59:1-22). 3. To use [fasting as a means] to impress others. This is clearly what Jesus forbids in Matthew 6:18. The question is not so much whether others know about our fast but rather why we want them to know about it. The Scriptures make reference to corporate fasts, and thus fasting is not always a private matter. 4. [When we use fasting] to belittle the kind gifts of God. While on the one hand we can fall in love with the gift of food and not the Giver, on the other hand we can fail to enjoy the food with the taste buds that He provided and glory in our will power.

Bill Thrasher

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy	Cajun	Rice	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	lb	Ground lean pork
1/2	c	Ground chicken gizzards
1	c	Raw rice
1		Onion soup
1		Cream of mushroom soup
1	c	Chopped green onion tops
		scallions
1/3	c	Celery chopped fine
1	c	Parsley, minced
1/3	c	Finely chopped onions
1/3	c	Chopped green bell pepper
		Red and black pepper to
		taste

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix ground meat with the raw rice.  Add onion, bell pepper, celery,
onion tops and parsley.  Mix the soups and season with red and black
pepper. Put into a heavy casserole dish and cover with close-fitting
cover in order to retain all the juice.  Bake at 325 degrees for 2
hours.  (Serves 4).  Taken from:  Tony Chachere's Cajun Country
Cookbook ISBN-09604580-1-8  PAT PATE <PATPATE@TENET.EDU>
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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 361 Calories From Fat: 113 Total Fat: 12.8g Cholesterol: 35.2mg Sodium: 584mg Potassium: 470mg Carbohydrates: 50.7g Fiber: 5.5g Sugar: 2.2g Protein: 15.3g