| From the AMP meeting at the Ong's
What I wrote down:
White Shoepeg Corn
Blackeyed Peas
Cilantro
3-4 stalks of green onion
4-6 Roma tomatoes
Avocado
1/2 cup of Olive Oil
1/2 cup of Red wine vinegar
4 cloves of pressed garlic
1/4 teaspoon of pepper
1 and 1/2 teaspoon cumin
What I found out on my first test run:
- I don't know where to buy shoepeg corn (and, at first, I thought it was a type of bean -_-) so by the time I was making it I had to substitute yellow corn which is a little sweeter. I suggest using white corn which is probably the same as shoepeg anyways. (Thank you wikipedia)
- The olive oil that I own is ... lackluster. It isn't Safeway brand, but it's only one step above. Fine for cooking, but I didn't want to spoil my salsa with it. I added only a drizzle since it didn't seem to be adding any real flavor.
- Cilantro: the more the merrier.
- I used 2 avocados because avocado is better than ezra
- Only had 2 cloves of garlic and want to remind the reader that pressed garlic is way stronger than chopped up garlic. I would have like to add more to bring in some more zing. The final product needs zing.
- Only 4 tomatoes. This makes a lot of stuff.
My final analysis? I think I needed more salt and more zing. But hey, I found out that salsa-making is pretty easy, just mix and mash. Also, the dish appears a little more watery than I would like: probably because of the tomatoes? There are different ways around that. More drainage is a solution... I wonder if I prepped the tomatoes somehow if that would be fun ... like soaking them in the vinegar first. Ok, anyways, THE END.
Sorry no photos... um.. I can give you something else I guess...
A reminder to self:
Post this when it gets online -- NPR on the topic of "Bait and Switch" one of the discussions is on the style of evangelism on college campuses (they bring in an ex-campus crusader from the 70s and critique the "Spiritual Survey")
Bait & Switch
Hey look, a Joss Whedon interview... http://www.826nyc.org/interview/Joss_Whedon_interview.mp3
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| I wanna go to a church where people don't have to replace "Halloween" with "Autumn Festival". You know, just to see what it's like.
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| Thank you http://kogibbq.com/ for the inspiration. Without you, I never would have thought to make a...
...curry taco.
You saw it here first. Nom nom nom.
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| I was thinking the other day,
Christian Culture should remain undefined. Murky.
Sure, fine. Let the sociologists and anthropologists nail down what 1st-world, anglo-facebookian Christians sound like. The kind of music that they listen to and activities that they do. The congregating habits of them as housewives and househusbands.
There will be common elements, but they cannot be defining elements of a new Christian tradition or moral code. They may be results, but they should never be the drivers. Once the Sunday school teachers, the preachers, and the politicians begin to talk about Christian movements and a Christian society (read: nation), we cannot forget that every clear stake that we put in the ground is nothing more than a sign of the times and not a measure that God uses to welcome His own into heaven (and especially not to exclude).
You know this: The heavenly population is going to look surprisingly unlike the church of yuppie, clean-shaven, un-deviant, broad-roaders. And, on a deep glance, the eclectic elect will make perfect, justified, sanctified, God-glorying sense.
So, whenever a Christian Culture is investigated or promoted, I always think of a caveat: it isn't the whole picture and never should be. I don't think God allowed Protestants to abandon "Tradition" with a capital "T" only to create a card-carrying, WWJD-bracelet wearing, set of normals.
References
(See that verse about permissability/profitability, and verses on Broad road/Narrow road and check any mainstream cultural belief of US Christianity by looking for direct verses about those beliefs and compare that list against the major themes in the Bible, notice that most of the Biblical support is inferred. and Romans 14 is kinda related, too)
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