Time for a break.

Hello there! Just a quick note to let you know the blog is going on a little holiday for the first few months of this year. I am going to focus on reading more of the bible and digesting it in good time. I am going to spend a little less time saying what I think and spend a little more time listening to God and other people. I’m going to try and sit at my computer less often. Don’t get the wrong idea: I fully intend to recommence sharing my thoughts and reading adventures…but just in a little while. Hope that’s okay.

I leave you with a summery recipe and a comforting passage. Both food for thought, in a way…

Salmon Salad with Salty, Sour, Spicy Sauce (serves 2)

Marinade 2 tail pieces of Tasmanian salmon in the juice of 1 lime, a crushed garlic clove and a teaspoon of drizzled honey. Leave for 30 mins at least. Meanwhile construct a salad of softened glass noodles (or vermicelli), shaved cucumber, blanched baby corn, blanched snow peas and 2 finely shopped spring onions (ratio/quantities to taste/preference). Make a dressing of 1 teaspoon sesame oil, 4 table spoons soy sauce, juice of 1 lime and 1 chopped chilli. Stir dressing through salad. Sear salmon on a griddle pan, lightly sprayed with canola oil, until cooked to taste (approx 2.5 mins each side). Sprinkle coarse chunks of salmon into salad and serve with a grind of fresh black pepper. My mum loved it. Hope yours does too.

Psalm 13

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me.

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