Name: Sesame Rice Noodles
Ingredients: 4 oz Rice vermicelli; Hot water; 1 1/2 tb Oriental sesame oil; 1 ts Chili oil; Or crushed red pepper flakes to taste; 3 Green onions, cut into slivers; 1/2 Red bell pepper, seeded, cut into paper-thin slivers; 1 c Fresh bean sprouts; 1/4 c Fresh cilantro, minced; Salt to taste

Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.

Phillips Brooks

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	Chinese	Chinese, Hot, Appetizers	3	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	oz	Rice vermicelli
		Hot water
1 1/2	tb	Oriental sesame oil
1	ts	Chili oil
		Or crushed red pepper flakes to taste
3		Green onions, cut into slivers
1/2		Red bell pepper, seeded, cut into paper-thin slivers
1	c	Fresh bean sprouts
1/4	c	Fresh cilantro, minced
		Salt to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Put vermicelli in a large bowl and cover with hot tap water. Soak until
soft, 10 minutes; drain.
2. Heat both oils in a wok or large skillet over high heat. When it is hot,
add noodles, stir well and cook 45 seconds. Add onions, bell pepper,
sprouts, cilantro and salt; cook and stir 30 seconds. Remove from heat and
serve hot or at room temperature.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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