Name: Saucy Pizza Burgers
Ingredients: 1 lb Ground beef; 1/2 ts Garlic salt; 1 c Mozzarella cheese; shredded; 1 8 oz can pizza sauce; 1 4 oz can mushroom stems and pieces; drained; 1/2 ts Dried oregano; 1 md Onion; sliced; 1 tb Butter or margarine; 4 Hamburger buns; split

Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.

Greg Gilbert

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy			4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Ground beef
1/2	ts	Garlic salt
1	c	Mozzarella cheese; shredded
1		8 oz can pizza sauce
1		4 oz can mushroom stems and pieces; drained
1/2	ts	Dried oregano
1	md	Onion; sliced
1	tb	Butter or margarine
4		Hamburger buns; split

INSTRUCTIONS

In a bowl, combine beef and garlic salt.  Shape into eight patties; top
four of the patties with cheese.  Cover with remaining patties; press edges
to seal.  Refrigerate.  In a saucepan, combine the pizza sauce, mushrooms
and oregano; cover and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. In a
skillet, saute onion in butter until tender; set aside. Pan-fry, grill or
broil burgers until no longer pink.  Spread bottoms of buns with a little
of the sauce; top with burgers, onion and remaining sauce. Replace tops.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 21 Jul 96
Date:    Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:19:57 -0400
From:    Taillon <taillon@ACCESS.MOUNTAIN.NET>
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