Green-tea drenched pears

Ingredients:
4 hard ripe Bartlett pears; 2 lemons' worth of juice; 4 green tea bags; 2 1/4 cups of sand sugar; 4 bat gok; 2 tsps of vanilla essence; 1 cup of mascarpone cheese

1. Mix 1 lemon's juice with one cup of cold water - remove core of pears and put into water.
2. Boil 5 cups of water, add teabags. Turn off stove and leave for 3 minutes. Take away tea bags and add sugar, bak gok, vailla essence and 1 lemon's juiice. Boil till sugar melts. Remove from stove.
3. Place pears in tea. Cover pears with wax paper and press down with lid. Boil, turn to slow nad cover for 5 minutes, till pears are easily pierced by toothpick. REmove from stove and cool.
4. Pour 2 cups of pear juice into little potand boil till there is only 2/3 of a cup. Cool.
5. Add cheese and 2 tsps. of juice into blender and mix. Carefully put pear in dessert plate cetre. Pour 2 tsps. of the sauce and the remainig juice.

Bon appetit.

Spectrum of Miracles

It's awfully hot in Toronto. To me, my attic room is a sauna. Even this I can bear, when I think about how soon I will leave it. Korean restaurants, the nice quality of even cheap clothes, wide streets, junk food, everything, from this cloudy sky and cardboard model houses, I can withstand and marvel. How You brought me to this place of awe is beyond me. But I know it thrills my heart every time I think that someone so big is a breathe away. Like Queen Sheba, trekking from a far place, just to come to this place, have my questions answered by the experiences You've given me. I am taking away more camels, spices and gold than I brought to you.

While I look in awe of the quiet miracles of Your creation, the invisble miracles of the heart are even more beautiful to witness. Experiencing contact with the invisible is incredible. I guess that is the Holy Spirit's way. You are letting me share in the beauty of helping another person, ministering to the needs of their heart. Therein lies my attraction to You. Take me deeper, call me, I am willing.

Beautiful.

Balsamic Vinegar Strawberries Dessert

Ingredients:
1 pound of strawberries
60 ml Balsamic Vinegar
2 tsps. Sugar
2 tsps. lemon juice
several leaves of mint

1. Wash strawberries and cut in half
2. Put sugar into vinegar and melt. After cooled, add lemon juice and mint leaves
3. Put strawberries into vinegar and mix. Fridge for 1 hour. Eat with ice cream.