28.3.14

Dinner Tonight

Beef with Broccoli

Recipe courtesy Ching-He Huang, 2011
I'll serve with Brown Rice ...

                        

Ingredients

  • 1 to 2 teaspoons honey
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons light soy
  • 1 teaspoon dark soy
  • 1/4 cup hot vegetable stock
  • 1 heaping tablespoon cornstarch, blended with 2 tablespoons cold water

Directions

Heat a wok over high heat and add the oil. When the oil begins to smoke, add the garlic and Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry quickly for a few seconds.

Add the beef and let it settle for a moment. As it starts to turn brown, after a minute or so, add the broccoli florets and the rice wine. Stir-fry for a few seconds.

Season the beef and broccoli with the honey, light soy and dark soy.

Add in the vegetable stock and bring the mixture to a boil. Stir in the cornstarch and water mixture and cook to thicken, about 1 minute. Serve immediately
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Gobekli Tepe: Fantastic New Photos Of 11,000 Year Old Temple Complex, The Oldest Known

Gobekli Tepe: Fantastic New Photos Of 11,000 Year Old Temple Complex, The Oldest Known

The sculpture of an animal at Gobekli Tepe, cl...
The sculpture of an animal at Gobekli Tepe, close to Sanliurfa. The photo was taken during a visit to Gobekli Tepe in 2008. Cropped the image a bit to focus on the interesting pillar. To the best of my knowledge it was one of the recent finds from Prof. Schmidt's group, when the photo was taken. Decided to put it online after it appeared also in a BBC documentary. (Photo credit: WikipediaClick on Photo









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Orthodox Churches Will Hold First Ecumenical Council In 1,200 Years In Istanbul

Second Council of Nicea - Sümela Monastery - Turkey





On- March 10, 2013 -

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Patriarchs of the world's 250 million Orthodox Christians ended a rare summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday calling for a peaceful end to the crisis in Ukraine and denouncing violence driving Christians out of the Middle East. Twelve heads of autonomous Orthodox Churches, the second-largest family of Christian Churches after the 1.2-billion-member Catholic Church, also agreed to hold the "sacred and great" pan-Orthodox Synod, a summit of bishops, or ecumenical council, in 2016, which will be the first in over 1,200 years. 
A Preparatory Commission consisting of a bishop from each Church has been set up to prepare the introductory documents. The Istanbul talks were called to decide on the council, which the Orthodox have been preparing on and off since the 1960s, but the Ukraine crisis overshadowed their talks at the office of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, regarded as the spiritual leader of worldwide Orthodox Christians. Orthodox Christianity links 14 independent churches, based in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East. The Damascus-based church of Antioch and the Czech and Slovak Church did not attend the Istanbul meeting because of disputes with other churches.
                                                                                                              
The Orthodox recognize seven Ecumenical Councils, beginning with the Council of Nicaea in 325, which refuted Arianism, and ending with the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which restored the veneration of icons and is the last Council to be accepted by both the Eastern and Western Churches. Some Orthodox Christians also include two other meetings of Eastern bishops as Councils, but most consider them local synods. The Western Church recognizes 21 Councils, the most recent being the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

The 2016 council will be held in Hagia Irene, a Byzantine church building in the outer courtyard of the Ottoman sultans' Topkapi Palace. Now a museum, it has not been used as a church since the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in 1453.




Hagia Irene, Topkpi Palace Istanbul
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