Name: Fire Stew
Ingredients: 2 1/2 lb Sugar-cured ham; 6 oz Dr. Schnitzel's hot sauce; 4 oz Scotch Bonnet pepper sauce; 1 lb Lentils; 1 lb Kidney Beans; 4 oz Tabasco Sauce; Water

A promise must be kept, even when it turns out to cost us more than we expected. Inconvenience does not dissolve obligation. Inconvenience makes promise-keeping all the more beautiful, even God-like. God is a promise-maker and a promise-keeper. He made us covenantal beings living in a covenantal universe. Our lives unfold with his beauty as we receive, believe, make and keep promises. It costs us. But it cost God too. His cross inspires in us the depth of personal character that doesn’t go with the flow but keeps a promise even when unforeseeable eventualities make it hard. The unforeseeableness of the future is the very reason why we make promises. It’s why promises are valuable. In a world of contingencies, promise-keeping is the glue that holds us together... Let’s cheerfully and wholeheartedly keep our word, no matter what. It’s the Christlike thing to do.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Spices/etc., Soups/stews	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2	lb	Sugar-cured ham
6	oz	Dr. Schnitzel's hot sauce
4	oz	Scotch Bonnet pepper sauce
1	lb	Lentils
1	lb	Kidney Beans
4	oz	Tabasco Sauce
		Water

INSTRUCTIONS

Put the ham, lentils and beans in enough water to cover.  Cook until
beans are done.  Put in all hot sauces.  Cook several more hours, until the
flavor is all through the ham, which is thoroughly broken apart.
Serve with something cold to drink.  It's great for your sinuses. I just
threw this together because I was feeling reckless, but the taste was
wonderful, and the stuff freezes well, too.  Both Dr. Schnitzel's and the
Scotch Bonnet pepper sauce are haba=A4ero sauces, which I think accounts
for the wonderful flavor (as well as the heat.) Tabasco alone would work,
if you used a *lot*, but the flavor wouldn't be as good, I think.
Happy sweating!
Recipe by Brian H. Groover.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #266
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 07:34:30 -0500
From: [email protected] (S.Pickell)

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