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What’s Cookin’ in the Parsonage?

My kitchen was unused this weekend, due to a wonderful trip to the Creation Museum. Oh, if you have the opportunity to go, you really need to see all that this place shows. I came home with a humbled heart at a wonderful, omnipotent God Who created a vast universe, and yet is mindful of me! What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Psalm 8:4 It was humbling, indeed!

I have tried a couple of new recipes lately that we enjoyed so much and I want to share them with you. The first is a main dish called Wasabi and Panko Crusted Pork with Gingered Soy Sauce. Wow! It was so good!

It calls for Wasabi paste which I’d never used before, but it really gives great flavor to the sauce. It also calls for sake (no idea what it is!) or dry sherry. I personally never add alcohol to a recipe. I usually just add chicken broth in its place and have never missed it. I’ll leave that up to your personal conviction.

I served the dish with rice and peas. It’s a quick fix meal as well. I hope you’ll try it!

The other recipe I tried was for Chocolate Chip Raisin Biscotti. These look hard, but they’re super simple, fat free and wonderful with a good cup of coffee!

Chocolate Chip Raisin Biscotti

2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup superfine sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup raisins
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour 2 baking sheets. Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Whisk the eggs and vanilla extract together then stir into the dry ingredients. Add the chocolate chips and raisins and stir them into the dough. The dough should be sticky.
Divide the dough between the baking sheets and shape into 2 flat loaves about 10 in. long and 2 in. wide. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until pale golden. Remove from the oven onto a chopping board and immediately slice into thin pieces about 1/2 in. wide.

Lay the slices back onto the baking sheets and cook for 10 to 15 minutes. Turn over each slice and cook for a further 10 to 15 minutes, or until the slices are golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.

When cool, store in an airtight container. The biscotti will keep for a couple of weeks.
What’s been cookin’ in your kitchen lately?

With love,

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