Name: Wine and Vegetable Soup
Ingredients: 4 lg Potatoes; 2 1/2 c Vegetable stock; 2 tb Margarine; 1 Garlic clove, crushed; 1 lg Onion, chopped; 2 Stalks celery, chopped; 2 ts Fresh thyme/basil, chopped; 1 tb Olive oil; 1/2 c White wine; 1 tb Soy sauce

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

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables		Soups, Vegetables	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lg	Potatoes
2 1/2	c	Vegetable stock
2	tb	Margarine
1		Garlic clove, crushed
1	lg	Onion, chopped
2		Stalks celery, chopped
2	ts	Fresh thyme/basil, chopped
1	tb	Olive oil
1/2	c	White wine
1	tb	Soy sauce

INSTRUCTIONS

Peel and cube the potatoes and boil them in the stock
for 15 mins, until tender.
In a large saucepan, melt the butter and saute the
garlic and onion. Add the celery, carrots and herbs.
Add the olive oil, potatoes and stock.  Stir well,
cover and simmer 20 mins.
Pour in the wine and soy sauce, stir again, cover and
simmer a further 20 mins, adding extra water or veg
stock if necessary.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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