Welcome Heart, Sue Donaldson, Speaker

Four friends, three candles, twenty-seven - give or take a few - prayer requests plus homemade egg rolls, moo chu pork and egg-drop chicken soup. Due to the heavy volume of requests, prayer time was a record 3 minutes - "Lord, thanks for giving us to each other -- You know our needs - now please help us all!"

Now for the Moo Chu~

Moo Chu What-You-Have

You can use 1 pork chop, a cup of leftover roast, or a chicken breast instead of the beef round tip steak for this quick and tasty Chinese dish.  Serve with white or fried rice.

  1 lb. beef round tip steak, 2 T. soy sauce, 2 T. water, 3 cups packaged coleslaw mix, 1 T. sesame oil, 2/3 cup sliced green onions, 1 t. cornstarch, dissolved in ¼ cup water, 2 garlic cloves, 8 medium flour tortillas, warmed; 2 t. sugar; 1/3 cup hoisin sauce or plum sauce.

   Cut steak into thin strips.  Combine soy sauce and water, add beef, tossing to coat.  Cover and marinate in refrigerator 20 minutes.  Remove beef and discard marinade.  Heat large skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add beef and stir-fry 1 to 2 minutes.  Add coleslaw mix, green onion and cornstarch mixture.  Cook and stir until sauce is thickened.  To assemble, spread one side of tortilla with 2 t. hoisin or plum sauce.  Spoon ½ cup beef mixture in center of each tortilla.  Fold bottom edge up over filling and overlap edges like a burrito.

Chinese food is lots of chopping, but the coleslaw mix makes this recipe a breeze. Of course, since I had eggs rolls frying and soup simmering and friends arriving, I left out the cornstarch mixture and didn't discover it until cleaning up hours later. Glad they were good friends - no one noticed that I noticed... maybe I'll leave it out on purpose next time.

You don't need to wait for a rainy day to use all the ingredients above. We've been meeting once a month for the last 12 years. If you start this week-- you can say that, too-- in just 12 years!