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Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Salad
Jennifer wasn’t looking forward to another bout of turkey sandwiches, and we had just run out of bagles recently. Frankly, the humble bagel is the One True Bread for eating leftover turkey sandwiches. Anyway, with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches looming on our lunchtime horizons, I stepped in to contrive an easy and delicious Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Salad.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cooked turkey, cubed (1/2″ or so)
- 1 cup seedless grapes, quartered
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 1/2 cup white cheese (I used Italian)
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ginger powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 cup dried sweetened cranberries
Preparation:
- In a medium bowl, combine the turkey, grapes, almonds, and cheese.
- In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, salt, ginger, and onion, and mix well.
- Add the mayonnaise mixture into the turkey mixture, stirring well to distribute the mayonnaise thoroughly.
- Serve sprinkled with dried cranberries.
This recipe serves 2 as main portions or 4 as a side item. Enjoy!
Fixing volume control on Inspiron 9400 / E1705 in Ubuntu Karmic
So there was one other problem aside from the nearly flawless install of Ubuntu Karmic I did a few days ago. Apparently the Dell Inspiron 9400 (also known as the E1705, if you bought it through the Dell Home store instead of Dell Small Business like I did) has the STAC9200 audio chipset, and ALSA doesn’t do a good job of correctly mapping the volume control. Symptoms of this include the volume sliders not doing anything, except at about 10% where there is an abrupt cut between 100% loud and muted. Fortunately, according to these directions given by geopteryx in the Ubuntu Forums, it’s easy to fix.
Instead of restarting the computer afterward as it says in the article, you can just run these commands to restart the sound system.
- sudo invoke-rc.d alsa-utils restart
- killall pulseaudio
- pulse-session
Trust and Priorities
Occasion: Thanksgiving Eve, Year B
Text: Matthew 6:25-33
This sermon was prepared for the joint Thanksgiving Eve service between St. John’s and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Sterling, IL, and Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rock Falls, IL.
This evening, as we consider Jesus’ words in the Gospel, I think we’ve got a long way to go. “Do not worry about your life?” Maybe he didn’t get the memo. We’re in the biggest economic disaster since the Great Depression. If ever there was a time to worry about our lives, this would be one. Let’s see here: the economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation, Iran, domestic terrorism, Islamic terrorism, the health care debate, unemployment over 10% nationwide but closer to 16% in parts of this area… and that’s just the short list. We haven’t even started talking about how stressful Thanksgiving can be! Got to get the bird cooked, the table set, and make sure that everyone gets along. Lord Jesus preserve us from talking about politics or religion at the dinner table, right? It’s easy to believe that Jesus had no idea what we’re facing. Jesus, how can you tell us not to worry? You must not have seen this coming.
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Fixing Broken WiFi on Inspiron 9400 in Ubuntu Karmic
I just got done with a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic on my big laptop – the 17″ Dell Inspiron 9400. Almost everything installed flawlessly – I continue to be amazed at how much faster and easier it is to install Ubuntu than other operating systems and even Linux distributions. The one problem was with wireless.
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Stuffed Peppers for Two
Ingredients
- 2 medium green peppers
- 1/2 pound ground beef
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- 1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
- 1 1/2 cups cooked brown rice
- 1/4 cup shredded Italian cheese
- 2 tsp dried minced onion
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 2 thin slices feta cheese
Directions
- Prepare the peppers: Preheat oven to 400 F. Cut the tops off the peppers, clean them out, and place them cut side down on a foil-lined baking sheet. Bake 20-25 minutes until soft.
- Cook the beef: Brown the ground beef in a frying pan over medium heat. Add garlic, sauté one minute longer.
- Prepare the filling: In a medium bowl, combine tomato sauce, rice, Italian cheese, onion, basil, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. Mix filling with beef and cook in frying pan on medium heat until heated through.
- Assemble the peppers: Flip peppers on baking sheet so that the open side is up. Spoon filling into peppers and top each with a slice of feta cheese. Return to 400 F oven and heat 5-8 minutes until feta cheese begins to melt. Serve hot from the oven.
Who Is Your King?
Occasion: Feast of Christ the King, Year B
Text: John 18:33-37
This sermon was prepared for services at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Sterling, IL on November 18 and 22.
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not from here.”
“For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
Christos Pantokratoros (Christ the Sovreign-King)
Pontius Pilate can’t believe his eyes. On one side of his fortress walls, a mob is calling for the death of Jesus. They say that he has claimed to be the revolutionary “king of the Jews.” But here, inside, the man he sees doesn’t fit the bill. When he thinks of a king, he thinks of someone like himself – military leader, judge, lawgiver. But here stands no military leader, he is not armed, and he doesn’t have the look of a soldier. On top of that, judges and lawgivers are known for their words – they would not stand passively in silence.
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Impermanence
Occasion: Pentecost 24, Year B
Text: Mark 13:1-8, Daniel 12:1-3, Hebrews 10.11-18
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This sermon was prepared for services at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Sterling, IL on November 11 and 15.
Beginning in 1831, a baptist preacher in New England named William Miller thought that he had, by working out dates in the Bible, discovered the true date that Jesus Christ would return to Earth in the second coming to judge the living and the dead. The date picked was sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. Many of his followers, called “Millerites” after their leader, sold their property to be fully prepared to embrace the second coming. They even put on white robes and climbed to the top of a mountain – I guess they wanted to be first in line. When March 21, 1844, the latest possible date came and went, he revised his views – instead, Jesus would return on April 18. When that day came and went without blessed incident, another leader in the movement predicted on the basis of a complex analysis of Holy Scripture that the true date of Jesus’ return would be October 22. You can probably guess what didn’t happen next. Keep reading…
Keeping Baptismal Promises
This article ran in the November 2009 issue of The Messenger, the newsletter of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Sterling, IL.
Two months after Jennifer and I attended our good friends’ son’s baptism as his baptismal sponsors, I find myself reflecting on the nature of the promises that parents and sponsors make in baptism. Have you been a Godparent or sponsor to someone in baptism? Have your children been baptized? It’s quite a humbling list of responsibilities that we take upon ourselves in this role.
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