GardenersCardiff answers:

I love the below meatball recipe, but it is made with turkey rather than ground beef:

1 small onion, grated
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 large egg
1/4 cup dried bread crumbs
3 tablespoons ketchup
1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
1/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 pound ground dark turkey meat
3 tablespoons olive oil
26 ounces Simple Tomato Sauce, recipe follows, or store-bought marinara sauce

Directions:

Add the onion, garlic, egg, bread crumbs, ketchup, parsley, Parmesan, Pecorino, salt and pepper to a large bowl and blend. Mix in the turkey. Shape the turkey mixture into 1 1/4-inch-diameter meatballs. Place on a large plate or baking sheet.

Heat the oil in a heavy large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the meatballs and saute until browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Turn off heat. Transfer the meatballs to a plate. Pour off any excess oil. Add the marinara sauce, about 3 cups.

Return all the meatballs to the pan. Turn the heat to medium-low and simmer until the sauce thickens slightly and the flavors blend, 15 to 20 minutes. Season the sauce, to taste, with salt and pepper.

Transfer the meatball mixture to a serving bowl. Serve with toothpicks.

Simple Tomato Sauce:

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

1 small onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 stalk celery, chopped

1 carrot, chopped

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 (32-ounce) cans crushed tomatoes

4 to 6 basil leaves

2 dried bay leaves

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, optional

In a large casserole pot, heat oil over medium high heat. Add onion and garlic and saute until soft and translucent, about 2 minutes. Add celery and carrots and season with salt and pepper. Saute until all the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes.

Add tomatoes, basil, and bay leaves and simmer covered on low heat for 1 hour or until thick. Remove bay leaves and check for seasoning. If sauce still tastes acidic, add unsalted butter, 1 tablespoon at a time to round out the flavors.

Add half the tomato sauce into the bowl of a food processor. Process until smooth. Continue with remaining tomato sauce.

If not using all the sauce, allow it to cool completely and pour 1 to 2 cup portions into freezer plastic bags. This will freeze up to 6 months.

Yield: 6 cups

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes

Ease of Preparation: Easy

GardenersCardiff answers:

I like studying languages so im gonna tell you my thoughts on that, without having official knowledge on linguistics.

In many languages verbs are conjugated by adding several suffixes in the end, which determine the subject. For example, ‘je joue’ but ‘tu joues’.so suffixes are there to differentiate among the different subjects (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they).

Now, while in English and French (as I gave the example above), it is absolutely necessary to keep the personal pronoun in the sentence (or any other subject you may use: *Tina* is playing in the garden, *Economy* is in crisis nowadays) in order to make sense of the subject of the verb, in other languages (e.g., Greek) you may omit the subject and still make sense of whether the verb is conjugated in the first person, or the second etc.

So, in English you are obliged to say ‘We play the guitar well’ in order to differentiate from ‘You play the guitar well’, while in Greek and in some other languages which use suffixes, you can say ‘Play the guitar (and it’s clear that it’s ‘we’ who Play the guitar well: ‘Παίζουμε κιθάρα καλά’, while ‘Παιζουν κιθάρα καλά’ shows that it’s them who play it well). Mind you, other languages (I think Arabic) use different suffixes in the verbs to differentiate between ‘he’ and ‘she’!

So English may have used suffixes imitating other older languages on the use of preffixes.

Hope this has made sense to you!!

GardenersCardiff answers:

Little Red Riding Hood and The Logical Jedi have some good points.

However, there is at least one important point that no one has mentioned: “Adam was not deceived” (1 Timothy 2:14).

Satan (and the Serpent WAS Satan, as Riding Hood and Revelation 12:9 & 20:2 point out) had certainly studied the situation to map out the weaknesses in the couple. And he saw these:
1) Eve didn’t have the correct warning (whether she was instructed incorrectly or confused the message in her own mind, it is not clear) — leaving an opportunity for doubt to enter in;
2) Women (in general) are more susceptible to deception than men (I know I’ll get flack for that, in this “politically correct” but spiritually corrupt society);
3) Adam’s weakness was Eve — in the same way women can bend the will of their men even today.

Though Eve was deceived, Adam was not (1 Timothy 2:14); however, Adam allowed himself to be swayed by his wife (“Then to Adam He [God] said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife…” — Genesis 3:17). The implication here is, that Adam allowed his wife to “convince” him to do what he knew was wrong. And because Adam KNEW he was doing wrong, his is the greater sin (Luke 12:47-48).

Satan attacks us at our weaknesses — whether directly or through others.

Relevant Scriptures:
1 Timothy 2:14 — And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

Genesis 3:17 — Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife,

Warning to Adam:
Genesis 2:16-17 — And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Message Eve Had:
Genesis 3:2 — And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

Luke 12:47-48 — And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
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GardenersCardiff answers:

You can have whatever kind of side you want or would have with other sandwiches (fries, chips, crackers, pita chips, my favorite: bagel chips) when i’m lazy, i just use mayo, dijon, oinios, and celery, but here’s a few easy GREAT variations. The foolproof way for perfect hard eggs is to simple put them in a pot of COLD water. Bring the water to a boil, cover and REMOVE from heat. Let them sit for about 15 minutes. Dunk in ice water to stop cooking. Perfect, not rubbery, no green ring on yolk!

Garden Egg Salad

6 large eggs
1/2 cup low-fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons whole-grain mustard
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 scallions (white and green), thinly sliced,
1 rib celery, minced, scant 1/2 cup
2 radishes, grated on the large holes of a box grater
8 romaine lettuce leaves
1 cup pea or other sprouts

Put the eggs in a saucepan with enough cold water to cover. Bring to a boil, cover, and remove from the heat. Set aside for 12 minutes. Drain the eggs and roll them between your palm and the counter to crack the shell, then peel under cool running water.
Dice the eggs. Combine the eggs with mayonnaise, mustard and season with the salt and pepper. Stir in the scallions, celery, and radish.

Divide the egg salad among the lettuce leaves, top with the sprouts and roll up.

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Curried Egg Salad

6 hard boiled eggs
1 stalk celery, finely diced
1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and finely diced
1 heaping teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 cup mayonnaise
2 cloves roasted garlic
2 teaspoons curry powder
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 ciabatta, sliced in thirds and halved

In a large bowl mash eggs with a fork. Stir in diced celery and red pepper. In a separate bowl mix together the mustard, mayonnaise, roasted garlic, curry powder, salt and pepper. Add dressing to eggs, mix well. Mound 1/2 of mixture to make each sandwich on 1/3 of ciabatta.