Name: Orzo with Lamb, Lima Beans and Feta
Ingredients: 3 tb Olive oil; 2 Onions; chopped; 3 lg Garlic cloves; chopped; 2 1/4 lb Lamb stew meat; cut into 3/4-inch pieces; 3/4 c Dry white wine; 1 cn (28-oz) peeled tomatoes; 1 cn (14 1/2-oz) peeled tomatoes; 1 1/2 pk (10-oz) frozen baby lima beans (about 3 cups); thawed; 5 tb Chopped fresh marjoram or 5 teaspoons dried; 1 1/2 lb Orzo; (rice-shaped pasta; also called riso); 6 oz Feta cheese; crumbled; 6 Servings

But Pastor, doesn’t the verse teach that I am to love myself? Doesn’t it say to love your neighbor “as yourself?” Yes it does. So shouldn’t we then teach, as many secularists do that we cannot love others until we learn to first love ourselves? Answer: no. Because everything about the Christian faith is a death to self. 1 Corinthians 13:5, “Love “does not seek its own.” There is nothing supernatural about loving yourself. Jesus Christ did not deny Himself and give up Himself to make us learn to love ourselves more. He died because we already love ourselves too much! We are experts at putting ourselves first. Ephesians 5:29, “For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it.” So this is not a command for self-love. This is an assumption that we already love ourselves (not of which all is evil) and the way we love ourselves already is to be the example of how we are to love others.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains, Dairy	Dutch		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	tb	Olive oil
2		Onions; chopped
3	lg	Garlic cloves; chopped
2 1/4	lb	Lamb stew meat; cut into 3/4-inch pieces
3/4	c	Dry white wine
1	cn	(28-oz) peeled tomatoes
1	cn	(14 1/2-oz) peeled tomatoes
1 1/2	pk	(10-oz) frozen baby lima beans (about 3 cups); thawed
5	tb	Chopped fresh marjoram or 5 teaspoons dried
1 1/2	lb	Orzo; (rice-shaped pasta; also called riso)
6	oz	Feta cheese; crumbled
	6	Servings

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat 2 tablespoons oil in heavy large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add
onions and garlic and cook until tender, stirring frequently, about 10
minutes. Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Sprinkle lamb with salt and
pepper. Add to Dutch oven and stir until lamb begins to color, about 5
minutes. Add wine and tomatoes with their juices, breaking up tomatoes with
spoon. Simmer uncovered until sauce is thick and lamb is tender, about 1
hour 15 minutes. Add lima beans and simmer until just tender, about 15
minutes. Add marjoram and season to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be
prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Rewarm over medium heat before
serving.)
Cook orzo in large pot of rapidly boiling salted water until just tender
but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain orzo well. Transfer to
large bowl. Spoon lamb stew over. Sprinkle with feta cheese and serve.
Bon App.tit March 1995
Posted to recipelu-digest by molony <molony@scsn.net> on Feb 27, 1998

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