Kicked-up Squash – We Love God!

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			2	To 4

INGREDIENTS

1		Acorn Squash
1	T	Real Butter
2	T	heaping Brown Sugar
2		Strips of Bacon, preferably
		center cut
2	t	Vidalia Onion, diced
1		Jigger of Brandy, give or
		take

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut squash in half and clean thoroughly; be careful not to damage the
outer skin, as it needs to be liquid-tight.  Next, take a fork and
pierce the meat of the squash, again being  careful not to puncture the
skin. Do this to both the bottom and the  sides of the squash. When you
pierce the sides, hold the fork at a  45-degree angle to the side of
the squash with the fork pointed down  to the bottom.  Add one
tablespoon of butter, one tablespoon of brown sugar, one  slice of
bacon cut in half, and one teaspoon of diced onion to the  center well
of each acorn squash half.  Either divide one jigger of brandy between
the halves, or add one  jigger of brandy to each half; you can adjust
the amount to suit your  own preference.  Bake, covered, in a 350-F
degree oven for one hour, and serve. You'll  find this is very tasty as
either a side or a main dish.  Posted to dailyrecipe@recipe-a-day.com
by Recipe-a-Day  <recipe-a-day@bignetwork.com> on Jul 29, 1999,
converted by MM_Buster  v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus: Peacemaker”

A holy man used to say when he returned home from a night of table-talk that he would never accept such an invitation again, so remorseful did such nights always leave him; so impossible did he find it for him to hold his peace, and to speak only at the right moment, and only in the right way. And, without his holiness, I have often had his remorse, and so, I am quite sure, have many of you. There is no table we sit at very long that we do not more or less ruin either to ourselves or to someone else. We either talk too much, and thus weary and disgust people; or they weary and disgust us. We start ill-considered, unwise, untimeous topics. We blurt out our rude minds in rude words. We push aside our neighbour's opinion, as if both he and his opinion were worthless, and we thrust forward our own as if wisdom would die with us. We do not put ourselves into our neighbour's place. We have no imagination in conversation, and no humility, and no love. We lay down the law, and we instruct people who could buy us in one end of the market and sell us in the other if they thought us worth the trouble. It is easy to say grace; it is easy to eat and drink in moderation and with decorum and refinement; but it is our tongue that so ensnares us. For some men to command their tongue; to bridle, and guide, and moderate, and make just the right use of their tongue, is a conquest in religion, and in morals, and in good manners, that not one in a thousand of us has yet made over ourselves. [But Christ was such a one.] And much as I would have liked to see how He acted in everything, especially would I have watched Him how he guided, and steered, and changed, and moderated, and sweetened the talk of the table.

Alexander Whyte