Name: Warm Spinach Salad with Currants and Walnuts
Ingredients: -ELAINE RADIS BGMB90B; 2 lb Spinach; stemmed, washed well and spun dry.; 1 c Walnut pieces; 1/2 c Currants; 1 sm Red onion; thinly sliced; Freshly ground pepper; to taste; 1/2 c White wine vinegar; good quality; 2 ts Dijon mustard; 2 tb Sugar; 2 tb Heavy cream; 3/4 c Olive oil; more or less to taste

Whenever happy confidence in the sovereign power of God for our own lives and the lives of others grows weak, legalism creeps in. We inevitably try to compensate for loss of dynamic faith by increased moral resolve and the addition of man-made regulations. But wherever joyful confidence in the power of God is waning, the flesh is waxing. Which means that the morality we had hoped would save ourselves and the regulations we hoped would purify our church fall victim to the massive power of the flesh and become its instruments of self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Dairy		Salads, Vegetables, Holiday, Fruits, Nuts	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		-ELAINE RADIS BGMB90B
2	lb	Spinach; stemmed, washed well and spun dry.
1	c	Walnut pieces
1/2	c	Currants
1	sm	Red onion; thinly sliced
		Freshly ground pepper; to taste
1/2	c	White wine vinegar; good quality
2	ts	Dijon mustard
2	tb	Sugar
2	tb	Heavy cream
3/4	c	Olive oil; more or less to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

DRESSING
Place the spinach, walnuts, currants and red onion in a large salad bowl.
In a sauce pan, add the salt, pepper, vinegar, mustard and sugar and heat
to simmering while whisking occasionally. Whisk in the heavy cram and then
the olive oil in a steady stream. Taste for seasoning and add more salt or
pepper if necessary. Cool.
Just before serving time, pour the over the salad mixture and toss
together.  Serve immediately!
ELAINE'S NOTE:  I would prepare separately and bring in different
containers.
Source:  THE BOSTON GLOBE; November, 1993
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus: Never-ending fulfillment”

If Christ loved the weak believer to the extent of laying down his life for his salvation, how alien to the demands of this love is the refusal on the part of the strong to forego the use of a certain article of food [or anything else] when the religious interests of the one for whom Christ died are thereby imperiled! It is the contrast between what the extreme sacrifice of Christ exemplified and the paltry demand devolving upon us that accentuates the meanness of our attitude when we discard the interests of a weak brother. And since the death of Christ as the price of redemption for all believers is the bond uniting them in fellowship, how contradictory is any behavior that is not patterned after the love which Christ’s death exhibited!

John Murray