Warm Polenta And Oxtail Cakes On Fennel Salad

if there is no personal God, then the concept of beauty dissolves into personal idiosyncrasy. That is, unless beauty is rooted in God's mind rather than your mind, every time you say, 'That is beautiful,' all you really mean is, 'I like that.' Unless there is a God, your praise of beauty can be no more than expressions of your own personal preferences. But I think there is in every one of you a dissatisfaction with the notion that your judgments about beauty have no more validity than your preference for coffee over tea. And I think your dissatisfaction with pure subjectivism and relativism is a remnant of God's image in your soul and evidence of his reality. It is an echo, however faint, of a voice that once called you into being.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Meats, Grains	Sami	Eastwest2	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Leftover polenta -, to 3
		cups see * Note
1/2	c	Grated asiago cheese
1	c	Minced leftover oxtail meat
		see * Note
1/4	c	Sliced green scallions
		Salt, to taste
		Freshly-ground black pepper
		to taste
		=== FENNEL SALAD ===
3	c	Shaved fennel
		Juice of 1 lemon
1/4	c	Extra-virgin olive oil
1	t	Coarse-ground coriander seed
		Salt, to taste
		Freshly-ground black pepper
		to taste
		=== DARK VINEGAR SYRUP ===
2	c	Balsamic vinegar
1/2	c	Chinese vinegar

INSTRUCTIONS

Note: See the "Aromatic Braised Oxtail With Preserved Lemon Polenta"
recipe which is included in this collection.  Reheat polenta. Mix in
cheese, oxtail and scallions. Check for  seasoning. Mold in baking dish
so polenta is at least 1-inch thick.  Refrigerate overnight. Cut
squares or circles and grill until hot.  Can also saute in nonstick
pan.  Serve warm on top of Fennel Salad. Garnish with Dark Vinegar
Syrup and  fennel sprigs.  For the Fennel Salad: Mix all in large bowl.
Check for seasoning.  For the Dark Vinegar Syrup: In a stainless steel
pan, slowly reduce  vinegars by 80 percent until a syrup consistency is
achieved.  This recipe yields 4 servings.  Source: "EAST MEETS WEST
with Ming Tsai - (Show # MT-1A29) - from the  TV FOOD NETWORK"
S(Formatted for MC5): "10-27-1999 by Joe Comiskey -
jcomiskey@krypto.net"  Per serving: 138 Calories (kcal); 14g Total Fat;
(79% calories from  fat); 0g Protein; 8g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol;
1mg Sodium Food  Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable;
1/2 Fruit; 2  1/2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates  Recipe by: Ming Tsai
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 411 Calories From Fat: 124 Total Fat: 14.5g Cholesterol: 12.6mg Sodium: 409.8mg Potassium: 1365.7mg Carbohydrates: 60.4g Fiber: 28.2g Sugar: 19.6g Protein: 15.4g

This is what sin is all about. Sin is all about promising us satisfaction, but it never keeps its promises. It can’t, because we weren’t made to satisfy ourselves. No, all sin does is blind us to the truth… We were made to find our satisfaction in a loving relationship with God, but sin convinces us to spend our lives in a self-loving relationship with ourselves. The tragedy is that in the end it doesn’t even work. Sin leaves us bitter, empty, and filled with regret. Worst of all, it leaves us outside the love of God, the one thing that could have satisfied us. It leaves us exposed to His righteous anger that was provoked by our decision to love anything and everything except Him, the one and only who was worthy of our love.

Michael Lawrence