Give Thanks

Tonight was wonderful because my friend came with her brother and he made omelet cheese. It was fantastic. Not only that, I made pork trotter stew with potatoes. Yummy. It was a good time of fellowship and all the more because it was blessed with the encouraging Word of God.

At times of suffering and trials, Christians will find no other place to put their trust in but to God alone. When we are friendless, helpless and hopeless, we would run towards the everlasting arms of God and it is there that we find comfort in times of trouble, peace in times of turbulent storm, mercy in times of abandonment, grace in times of persecution, security in times of vulnerability and love in times of trouble. When we are weak and the weight of the world in pressing down against us, we find strength in our Lord and a shoulder to bear the burdens for us. When we are poor and life seems to be on the verge of hopelessness, we find richness of spirit in our Lord and assurance in the sovereignty of our Lord.

Unbelief would be a dishonor to the name of our Lord. Therefore, let us run towards Him knowing that all things, be it, sufferings or goodness are under the control of our Lord. Every circumstances shall be nothing to us but a heart of gladness, giving thanks to God. In the end, God's name shall be glorified.

At the end of our sharing, we sang Give Thanks and made a simple prayer.

Give thanks with a grateful heart,
Give thanks to the Holy One,
Give thanks because He has given,
Jesus Christ, His Son.

And now, let the weak say I am strong,
Let the poor say I am rich,
Because of what the Lord has done for us.
Give thanks.

Mushroom Soup Recipe

Hey hey, I am here to share with you the mushroom soup recipe. Well, do give any feedback on how i could improve it next time but this is what you need first; 2 cans of campbell mushroom soup, a cube of chicken stock, swiss brown mushroom, white button mushroom, brown button mushroom, enoki mushroom, 3 stalks of celery, a can of fresh corns, 3 potatoes, Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning and bay leaves.

First, slice all the mushrooms and celeries and leave it aside. Next, cut the potatoes into small cubes. After that, boil a pot of water (at least 8 to 10 cups) and when it is boiling, add in the campbell mushroom soup and also the chicken stock. Leave it to boil for a few minutes then you add everything inside except the Parmesan cheese. (This might sound lazy but my mum always told me that the secret to boil soup is to dump everything inside). Leave it to boil for about half an hour while stirring it occasionally.

While it is boiling, you can start doing garlic bread. It is simple. You will need a stick of baguette, minced garlic and butter. First, mince the garlic like mincing pork meat. Next, spread the butter on the nicely sliced bread and then place the garlic and some italian seasoning on top. Send the bread into the oven and toast it for 5 minutes.

Having done with that, you can add Parmesan cheese into your soup and let it boil for a few minutes. After that, place the yummy soup onto a plate and then decorate it with brocoli on top. Remember to have the brocoli "fly over water", it means to blanch it first. Haha.

Wa lau wehh..so nice with the garlic bread. Those who are reading must be hungry right now. Haha. Well, sorry, there's no picture but let me describe the flavour and texture. It is creamy, cheesy, rich in flavour and most important, filled with the grace of God.

Hate evil, you who love the Lord

That was the title of the Word being shared during Kitchen's Fellowship last Wednesday. It was a great time coming together with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ prior to Bible Study. Over the simple meal, we learnt what it meant by holy hatred. It is not a human emotion of hatred but it is a hatred towards sins and things that are against God. Let's take a moment to ponder upon ourselves and look into things that are not pleasing to God; pride, arrogance, anger, rage, malice, jealousy and the list goes on.

We should not give place to sin at all in our life. If we love the Lord, we would hate sin. If we love to see His name glorify, we would hate things that pollutes His name. If we love to obey His commandments, we would hate things that would stop us. If we love the Lord, we would at all cost make sure that sin does not have a foot step in our life.

Well, praise the Lord for the desire to love Him comes from Him too, therefore, the Holy Spirit would be more than glad to guide and lead us, making sure that as we pray, we would pray to look at things the way the Lord would look at, to hate what He hates and to love what He loves.

The Oreo Recipe

You should try this at home. My friend's brother made this and it was awesome. You will need a pack of oreo, ice cubes, sugar and fresh milk.

First, add in 8 to 10 ice cubes into a blender and then, fill in with milk until it covers up the ice. Next, add in one teaspoon of sugar and also the oreos. Remember, 3 to 4 oreos per person. After that, blend everything together until it is smooth.

Here's a few tips to achieve the perfect drink.
If there is not enough taste, add in another teaspoon of sugar.
If it is still not up to your standard, add in 1 or 2 oreo and blend it again.
If the colour is too dark, add in more milk.

If you desire to have it minty, add in 5 to 6 ecllipse mint.

Serve it in a nice cup and decorate it by placing one oreo on top of the drink. There you have it.
The famous Oreo Drink. Try this at home but do let your mother know that you are going to mess up the blender and the kitchen. Haha.

Mushroom Soup

Thanks to the by-election, we had a public holiday today. It was a quiet afternoon and the aroma of the mushroom soup filled the whole house. Abe and I was creating the special secret recipe. It was as if we were creating the powerpuff girls but we lacked Chemical X. Haha. Anyway, we threw in anything we got from Tesco and also anything we could find inside the refrigerator. There are button mushrooms, brown swiss mushrooms, enoki mushrooms and brown mushrooms. Not only that, we added celery, chicken peas, parmesan cheese, corn and potatoes. Not to forget also is 2 large campbell-mushroom-soup cans. It was a recipe for disaster but it turned out "perfecto". P.S: The combination of mushroom soup and garlic bread was "emmmuack".

The best thing was the Word that was being shared. It was about the covenant that God has made before the beginning of time. It was the covenant of grace. Grace that carries the weight of sin in this world, grace that provides the way to Him, grace that preserves our faith till the day He returns or till the day we see Him, grace that sends down that perfect gift and grace that glorifies His name. What a wonderful thing to know that the grace of God is all-sufficient and it is being renewed daily.

At the end of the day, nothing beats the fragrance of grace filling the whole house as we ate together under the grace of God.

Another One?

Haha, don't be suprised. I'm creating this new blog just for Kitchen's Fellowship so my other blog will be my personal stuffs. Haha. Well, it won't be that personal as all of you could read my blog. Haha. Anyway, this blog is committed to sharing new recipes..yummy..and also to write about the things we learnt over Kitchen's Fellowship. Hope you will enjoy both the physical and also spiritual food.