Name: Southwestern Bean Salad
Ingredients: 1 cn 15 oz. kidney, wax, green or; Whatever you prefer, beans; 1 cn 15 oz. black beans; 1 cn 15 oz. garbanzo beans, rinsd; 2 Celery ribs, sliced; 1 Medium onion, diced; 1 Medium tomato, diced, or can; Stewed or diced tomatoes; 1 c Corn, frozen or canned; 3/4 c Thick and chunky salsa; 1/4 c Veg oil; 1/4 c Lime juice; 1 1/2 ts Chili powder; 1 ts Salt; 1/2 ts Ground cumin

Nativity scenes and Christmas cards make the birthing place of Jesus like something out of a “Tennessee Made-for-Television Christmas Special” with Garth Brooks sitting on a bale of hay strumming some of our Holiday favorites in a clean barn with domesticated animals and seats for the children to drink their hot chocolate. Clearly this was not the case for Joseph and Mary. The conditions were crude. We can assume animals were present, but the text never confirms it. Animals probably were at some time housed there since Jesus was placed in a manger, which is a feeding trough for animals. The whole place smelled not only from animal droppings, but also from poverty, scandal, insignificance, helplessness, humiliation and embarrassment.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Salads, Bean/legume	10	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	cn	15 oz. kidney, wax, green or
		Whatever you prefer, beans
1	cn	15 oz. black beans
1	cn	15 oz. garbanzo beans, rinsd
2		Celery ribs, sliced
1		Medium onion, diced
1		Medium tomato, diced, or can
		Stewed or diced tomatoes
1	c	Corn, frozen or canned
3/4	c	Thick and chunky salsa
1/4	c	Veg oil
1/4	c	Lime juice
1 1/2	ts	Chili powder
1	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Ground cumin

INSTRUCTIONS

combine beans, celery, onion, tomato and corn.  combine dressing
ingredients, mix well.  chill for at least two hours.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #329 by BobbieB1 <BobbieB1@aol.com> on Dec
18, 1997

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