Watercress Salad With Tangelos And Pomegranates

The Bible warns against being self-willed or creating factions. Furthermore, James tells us that when it comes in corporate worship, we should not play favorites or create distinctions among one another. Of course, we celebrate family and friendships, but Sunday morning is not to celebrate the people we like the most. It is to celebrate the oneness we have in Christ with each other. That’s what makes us different than the world. That’s what heaven is all about. That’s a biblical church with one accord with each other, not several factions splintered among family and friendship distinctions or at worse 'toxic tribalism.' That gets celebrated outside the body, but not when the body of Christ gathers. Understanding the balance calls for discernment and self-control and love. It calls for Christian maturity.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Grains		Salads	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

5		Tangelos
2	T	Minced fresh basil
1/4	t	Pepper
1/8	t	Salt
2	T	Red wine vinegar
1	T	Walnut oil, or vegetable oil
8	c	Watercress, trimmed
1	c	Pomegranate seeds

INSTRUCTIONS

Grate 2 tablespoons rind from tangelos. Squeeze 1 tangelo to extract 3
tablespoons juice; discard tangelo. Combine tangelo rind, tangelo
juice, basil, and the next 4 ingredients in a large bowl. Cover and
let stand 2 hours.  Peel and section remaining 4 tangelos; set aside.
Stir tangelo juice mixture; add the watercress, and toss gently.  Place
1 cup watercress mixture on each of 8 salad plates; arrange the
tangelo sections and pomegranate seeds on top of the watercress
mixture. Yield: 8 servings.  Serving Ideas : Serve immediately.  Recipe
by: Cooking Light, Nov/Dec 1994, page 172  Posted to Digest
eat-lf.v097.n305 by snardo@onramp.net on Dec 01, 1997

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 22 Calories From Fat: 16 Total Fat: 1.8g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 51.4mg Potassium: 144.1mg Carbohydrates: 1g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: 1g

Mercy even with us is an optional virtue; we do not have to be merciful. We usually admire people who are, but we do not say that people must be so. We say everybody must be just. We say, for example, an employer, if he agrees to pay a certain wage, must pay that particular wage. If he does not pay it, then he is unjust and is liable to a lawsuit. All our contracts are based on the integrity and honesty and justice of people with whom we do business. They are actually subject to trials and imprisonment and even execution if they violate their duty of man to man. What about mercy among men? We love it. We admire it. We encourage it. We sometimes practice it. But we do not say mercy is obligatory… If this is true even of human affairs, we can see immediately that God does not have to be merciful. He gave us life and conscience. He gave us intelligence to meet our obligations, and He has a right to hold us responsible for using them. He has no further obligation to forgive us if we do not. We say that the Judge of all the earth cannot do wrong, but we cannot say that the Judge of all the earth must be merciful.

John Gerstner