Kielbasa, Potato And Leek Gratin

If I allow my work to get between my heart and the Master, it will be of little worth. We can only effectually serve Christ as we are enjoying Him. It is while the heart dwells upon His powerful attractions that the hands perform the most acceptable service to His name; nor is there anyone who can minister Christ with unction, freshness, and power to others, if he is not feeding upon Christ in the secret of his own soul. True, he may preach a sermon, deliver a lecture, utter prayers, write a book, and go through the entire routine of outward service, and yet not minister Christ. The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for himself.

C.H. Mackintosh

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Potatoes, Sausage, Taste	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	T	Butter
1 1/2	c	Minced leeks, white and
		light green parts only
3	T	Flour
2	c	Milk, heated
1/4	c	Grated gruyere cheese
1/4	c	Grated Parmesan cheese
1	T	Dijon mustard
		Salt, pepper and
		freshly-grated nutmeg
1		Garlic clove, peeled
2		Idaho potatoes, peeled and
		sliced
1 1/2	lb	Smoked kielbasa, diced
1/3	c	Buttered bread crumbs

INSTRUCTIONS

Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a medium saucepan, add leeks, cover and
cook over low heat for 5 minutes, until tender. Uncover, stir in  flour
and cook 1 minute. Add milk in a thin stream, whisking cons  tantly,
and simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat  and add
cheeses and mustard, stirring until cheese melts; season to  taste with
salt, pepper and nutmeg.  Meanwhile, rub a buttered oval gratin dish
with garlic clove. Layer  half of potatoes in bottom of dish, season
with salt and pepper and  top with half of kielbasa. Add half of leek
sauce, spreading it  evenly over sausage and potatoes. Repeat with
remaining potatoes,  sausage and sauce, generously seasoning potatoes.
Top with buttered  bread crumbs and dot with remaining tablespoon
butter. Bake grat in  until top is browned and bubbly, about 40
minutes.  Recipe by: David Rosengarten Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1
#513 by  "Master Harper Gaellon" <gaellon@inch.com> on Mar 12, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Lust and selfishness do not equal love”

We are trusted to spread the spirit of love. Tenderness in judgment, the habit of thinking the best of one another, unwillingness to believe evil, grief if we are forced to do so, eagerness to believe good, joy over one recovered from any slip or fall, unselfish gladness in another’s joys, sorrow in another’s sorrow, readiness to do anything to help another entirely irrespective of self – all this and much more is included in that wonderful word love. If love weakens among us, if it ever becomes possible to tolerate the least shadow of an unloving thought, our Fellowship will begin to perish. Unlove is deadly. It is a cancer. It may kill slowly but it always kills in the end. Let us fear it, fear to give room to it as we should fear to nurse a cobra. It is deadlier than any cobra. And just as one minute drop of the almost invisible cobra venom spreads swiftly all over the body of one into whom it has been injected, so one drop of the gall of unlove in my heart or yours, however unseen, has a terrible power of spreading all through our Family, for we are one body – we are parts of one another. If one member suffers loss, all suffer loss. Not one of us liveth to herself.

Amy Carmichael