Thick Rice Soup (joak) – We Love God!

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Meats	Chinese	Chinese, Dim sum	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		** NO E ***
		Karen Adler FNGP13B.
		Yield: Serves 4 to 8
1/2	c	Long grained rice
1/2	c	Glutinous rice
5	qt	Chicken broth
1	lb	Ground pork
1	T	Dark soy sauce
1	t	Salt
2		Green onion stalks
12		Water chestnuts
		Sesame oil
		White pepper
2		Green onions, chop fine OR
3		Green onions
1		Chinese parsley
		cilentro
		finely chopped
1/2	c	Tea melon, sweet cucumber
		finely chopped
1/2	c	Szechwan turnip, ja choy
		finely chopped
1/2	c	Peanuts, chopped
		10-12 deep fried devils*

INSTRUCTIONS

Recipe is included in this collection. PREPARATION:       Rinse rice  2
or 3 times. Soak overnight. Mince green onions and water chestnuts.
Mix with ground pork, soy      sauce and salt. COOKING: Bring stock
and rice to a boil. Turn heat down and simmer for 2-3 hours or until  
the rice breaks down completely and the soup becomes       thick  and
creamy. Turn heat up and add ground pork         mixture, shaping  1 t.
at a time into a small ball and      dropping it into the soup.  Cook
for 5 minutes or  until pork balls are done. Correct seasoning. Serve
in individual soup  bowls. Pass the condiments around for each person
to  choose his favorite toppings. Do ahead      notes: Make ahead and
reheat slowly. COMMENTS: You can     also use chicken slices, ground
beef, fish filet or        ham slices. A roast chicken or turkey
carcass is  excellent for making the stock. Just cook the carcass, rice
and water  together. Take out the carcass when the soup is done.
Source: "Dim  Sum" by Rhoda Fong Yee. Formatted for MM by Karen Adler
FNGP13B.  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #174  Date: 29 Jul 96 11:20:56
From: "steven.h.bergstein"  <steven.h.bergstein@ac.com>

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 3322 Calories From Fat: 2342 Total Fat: 261g Cholesterol: 296.8mg Sodium: 21737.1mg Potassium: 5796.1mg Carbohydrates: 61.9g Fiber: 8.6g Sugar: 19g Protein: 170.3g

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