Name: Pickled Chinese Cabbage
Ingredients: 1 lb Chinese cabbage; 1 1/2 c Water; 2 tb Salt; 1 ts Szechwan peppercorns; 1 ts Sherry

When a couple speaks their vows, it is not a man or a woman or a pastor or parent who is the main actor – the main doer. God is. God joins a husband and a wife into a one-flesh union. God does that. The world does not know this. Which is one of the reasons why marriage is treated so casually. And Christians often act like they don’t know it, which is one of the reasons marriage in the church is not seen as the wonder it is. Marriage is God’s doing because it is a one-flesh union that God Himself performs.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Chinese	Appetizer	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Chinese cabbage
1 1/2	c	Water
2	tb	Salt
1	ts	Szechwan peppercorns
1	ts	Sherry

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut cabbage stems in 1/2- by 2-inch strips. (Save the green leaves
for soups or stir-fried dishes.) Let dry out several hours or overnight;
then place in a large jar.
2. Bring water almost to a boil, then remove from heat. Stir in salt to
dissolve; add Szechwan peppercorns and sherry. Let cool; then pour over
cabbage.
3. Cover and refrigerate 3 days. Before serving, drain cabbage well and
blot with paper toweling.
NOTE: To use marinade a second time, reheat and stir in another teaspoon
of salt.
VARIATIONS: For the Chinese cabbage, substitute string beans; or celery
or carrots, cut in strips about 2 inches long.
In step 1, add 1 or 2 whole dried red peppers to the jar.
From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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Though still set apart, retaining all His holiness and deity, God in His infinite wisdom became a man that first Christmas morning and chose to dwell intimately and personally amongst His creation. The God who created stars larger than our earth’s orbit and ten million times brighter than our sun, created the womb where He would grow and the manger where He would lay. The God who dwelt in perfect glory through eternity past would be wrapped in swaddling cloths to share space with barnyard animals. The God who deserved every right to born in a palace to royal people, humbled Himself and chose Bethlehem and a poor betrothed teenage couple named Mary and Joseph. Most humiliating was the fact that God, though without sin, took on human flesh with all its weaknesses and problems and chose to dwell among sinners.

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