Scalloped Corn And Tomatoes

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables		Vegetable	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	T	Onion, minced
2	T	Green bell pepper, minced
3	T	Butter
1 1/4	c	Ripe tomatoes, chopped
1/2		up to
2/3	c	Cooked corn
2	T	Slivered ripe olives
1	t	Granulated sugar
1/4	t	Salt
1/4	t	Dried oregano or sage
		crumbled
1/8	t	Fresh ground black pepper
1/2	c	Stale bread, cubed
1/4	c	Parmesan crumb topping

INSTRUCTIONS

Preaheat oven to 350 degrees. Saute onion and bell pepper in 2
tablespoons butter until softened. Combine with tomatoes, corn,
olives, sugar, seasonings and bread. Adjust seasonings and transfer  to
shallow baking dish.  Sprinkle evenly with topping. Dot with remaining
1 tablespoon butter  and bake in preheated oven 15-20 minutes, or until
heated through and  lightly browned. Serves 3-4.  FROM NEWSPAPER
ARTICLE  From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which
contained lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc.  Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 188 Calories From Fat: 82 Total Fat: 9.4g Cholesterol: 22.9mg Sodium: 565.1mg Potassium: 200.6mg Carbohydrates: 24.6g Fiber: 1.3g Sugar: 3.2g Protein: 1.7g

According to the opening chapters of 2 Corinthians we see the progression from trials to the resultant joy. Consider how Paul’s life was filled with hardship: “Affliction” (1:4), “abundant…suffering” (1:5), “burdened excessively, beyond...strength” (1:8), “sentence of death within ourselves” (1:9), “sorrowful” (2:1), “affliction and anguish of heart” (2:4), “afflicted [and] perplexed” (4:8), “persecuted [and] struck down (4:9), “constantly being delivered over to death” (4:11), “beatings...imprisonments...tumults...labors...sleeplessness...hunger” (6:5), “dishonor [and] evil report” (6:8), “dying [and] punished (6:9) and “having nothing (6:10). And that only takes us through chapter 6! And might I add that most if not all of this was related to his faithful service to Christ. So how can you go from this agony to praise to God? Answer: It was Paul knowing that Christians need to “walk by faith [and] not by sight” (5:7). And it’s this faith that recalls that every promise of God is fulfilled to us in Christ (1:20). We know we are “established…and anointed…in Christ” (1:21). We are “sealed” and given “the [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as a pledge” (1:22). We are “reconciled to God” (5:20). As a result of these truths, we “do not lose heart” (4:1) because we are [controlled by] the love of Christ” (5:14)and through our trials we are learning in those trials to “trust [more]...in God who raises the dead” (1:9). So therefore while we are “sorrowful” as a result of trials, we are because of God's promises 'always rejoicing' (6:10).

Randy Smith