Portobellos With Fusilli

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			4	-6

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Fusilli
1		Onion, finely chopped
2		Cloves garlic, crushed
1	c	Red wine
3		Portobello mushrooms, cut
		into bite-size pieces
1/2	T	Basil
		Oregano and pepper to taste
1/2	c	Sun-dried tomatoes, soaked
		in 1 c hot water about
		30
		min chopped
1	c	Veg boullion

INSTRUCTIONS

(original recipe by Ellen Lord)  Cook pasta while cooking sauce, so
they're done at about the same  time. Cook onion and garlic until
almost golden in a non-stick pan in  the liquid you prefer. Add wine to
deglaze the pan. Add the  mushrooms, herbs and pepper. Lower the heat
and simmer until the  mushrooms are almost done. Add the tomatoes and
their liquid and the  stock and cook until the stock just comes to a
boil, scraping the  bottom of the pan if necessary. Add the pasta, mix
well and heat  through. Posted to fatfree digest by The Bilinski Family
<twix@sover.net> on May 25, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 453 Calories From Fat: 18 Total Fat: 1.9g Cholesterol: <1mg Sodium: 16.8mg Potassium: 287.9mg Carbohydrates: 89.3g Fiber: 3.6g Sugar: 1.8g Protein: 15.3g

I also know that there is only one place where that angry, reactive, overwhelmed self can be transformed – the same place that Mary chose – the feet of Jesus… When I get into His presence, the whole world looks different. When I draw close to His heart, I find mercy when I know I deserve judgment; I find forgiveness for all my petty, selfish ways; I find grace for all my inadequacies; I find peace for my troubled heart; I find perspective for my distorted views. In Him, I find an eye in the midst of the storm. Oh the storm around me may not immediately subside; but the storm within me is made calm.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

The Lord waits so long in His graciousness that people think He cannot judge, but when He does come in judgment, it is so decisive that it seems as if He cannot show mercy. For this is not the sudden anger of an irritable temper, easily inflamed but equally easily pacified. This is deliberate, measure wrath, following a full investigation of the facts. There can be no last-minute appeals or reprieves, for there is no higher court to whom appeal can be made, and no pertinent facts have been overlooked in reaching the verdict. So it was with Sodom and Gomorrah, and so it shall be at the end of history [see Luke 17:28-30].

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