Name: Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Ingredients: 4 Rice paper rounds -; (12" dia); 3 oz Rice vermicelli - (1 Pkg); soaked in boiling; Water until soft; 2 tb Cilantro leaves; 2 tb Mint leaves; 2 Romaine lettuce leaves; rolled lengthwise,; And cut in thin strips; 1 c Cooked; peeled, deveined medium shrimp, (21 to 25 shrimp); Salt; to taste; Freshly-ground white pepper; to taste; 1/2 c Hoisin sauce; (available in most Asian markets); 2 tb Chopped roasted peanuts

Make him a minister of the Word! Fling him into his office, tear the office sign from the door and nail on the sign: Study. Take him off the mailing list, lock him up with his books and his typewriter and his Bible. Slam him down on his knees before texts, broken hearts, the flippant lives of a superficial flock, and the Holy God. Force him to be the one man in our surfeited communities who knows about God. Throw him into the ring to box with God until he learns how short his arms are. Let him come out only when he is bruised and beaten into being a blessing. Set a time clock on him that will imprison him with thought and writing about God for 40 hours a week. Shut his garrulous mouth forever spouting "remarks" and stop his tongue always tripping lightly over everything nonessential. Require him to have something to say before he dare break silence. Bend his knees in the lonesome valley, fire him from the PTA and cancel his country club membership; burn his eyes with weary study, wreck his emotional poise with worry for God, and make him exchange his pious stance for a humble walk before God and man. Make him spend and be spent for the glory of God. Rip out his telephone, burn up his ecclesiastical success sheets, refuse his glad hand, and put water in the gas tank of his community buggy. Give him a Bible and tie him in his pulpit and make him preach the Word of the living God. Test him, quiz him and examine him; humiliate him for his ignorance of things divine, and shame him for his glib comprehension of finances, batting averages, and political in-fighting. Laugh at his frustrated effort to play psychiatrist, scorn his insipid morality, refuse his supine intelligence, and compel him to be a minister of the Word. If he dotes on being pleasing, demand that he please God and not man. Form a choir and raise a chant and haunt him with it night and day: "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." When at long last, he dares assay the pulpit, ask him if he has a Word from God; if he does not, then dismiss him and tell him you can read the morning paper, digest the television commentaries, think through the day's superficial problems, manage the community's myriad drives, and bless assorted baked potatoes and green beans ad infinitum better than he can. Command him not to come back until he has read and re-read, written and re-written, until he can stand up, worn and forlorn, and say, "Thus saith the Lord." And when he is burned out by the flaming Word that coursed through him, when he is consumed at last by the fiery Grace blazing through him, and when he who was privileged to translate the truth of God to man is finally translated from earth to heaven, then bear him away gently, blow a muted trumpet and lay him down softly, place a two-edged sword on his coffin and raise a tune triumphant, for he was a brave soldier of the Word and e'er he died he had become a spokesman for his God.

Floyd Shafer

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	Vietnamese	Essnce13	1	servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Rice paper rounds -; (12" dia)
3	oz	Rice vermicelli – (1 Pkg); soaked in boiling
		Water until soft
2	tb	Cilantro leaves
2	tb	Mint leaves
2		Romaine lettuce leaves; rolled lengthwise,
		And cut in thin strips
1	c	Cooked; peeled, deveined medium shrimp, (21 to 25 shrimp)
		Salt; to taste
		Freshly-ground white pepper; to taste
1/2	c	Hoisin sauce
		(available in most Asian markets)
2	tb	Chopped roasted peanuts

INSTRUCTIONS

On work surface arrange a shallow bowl of warm water, a dry dish towel, a
large plate covered with a damp dish cloth, and filling ingredients in
small bowls. Working with one at a time, briefly immerse a rice paper round
in warm water and transfer to dry cloth; let soften for 30 seconds. On
bottom third of rice paper layer noodles, herbs, lettuce and shrimp; season
with salt and pepper. Roll up one-third of way then fold sides in to
enclose filling. Continue rolling into a tight cylinder and seal. Transfer
to plate and cover loosely with a damp towel. Repeat with remaining rice
papers. When all rolls are prepared, use a sharp knife to quarter rolls on
the bias, arrange on a serving platter and serve immediately. Accompany
rolls with a small bowl of hoisin sauce sprinkled with peanuts. This recipe
yields 16 pieces.
Recipe Source: ESSENCE OF EMERIL with Emeril Lagasse From the TV FOOD
NETWORK - (Show # EE-059 broadcast 04-01-1997) Downloaded from their
Web-Site - http://www.foodtv.com
Formatted for MasterCook by Joe Comiskey, aka MR MAD - jpmd44a@prodigy.com
~or- MAD-SQUAD@prodigy.net
04-19-1997
Recipe by: Emeril Lagasse
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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