Just a note about what I've been reading over the past few months...slowly. It's amazing how tenacious the Church was after Christ's ascension. For the first 600 years, the church fathers diligently and doggedly thought and wrote and solidified the theology of Christ as God and man, as redeemer, as Savior, as King, as faithful high Priest...
The Church combated the heresies of Christ as some weird amalgamation/fusion of God and man (rendering neither God or man), as less than God, as simply a holy man and a spiritual advisor, as just a manifestation of God in a different form (therefore, God the Father ceasing to exist when Christ existed) and as an example to follow so one could attain secret knowledge. I'm sure that you can recognize some of these heresies in some of the religions around us today.
As a result, the resurrection and complete redemption of the world and of man (of those men who chose to submit and acknowledge Christ as Lord and Savior) as accomplished in Christ on the cross as written in the NT remains a bedrock of our faith.
Thank God that the Holy Spirit is willing to work with man so that God's knowledge as revealed in Christ was not lost but continues with us today! Thank God for working in the early Fathers who stood boldly and courageously against heresy!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Kogi BBQ rocks!!!
So here's the lowdown...I finally had a Thursday afternoon without home improvement, work or dental appointments to worry about. I've heard about how good the food is from the Kogi food trucks in LA. I haven't been to the OC in a quite a while, so I made an afternoon and evening of it. In the end, my taste buds were blown away by a symphony of taste!
$2-$3 tacos, $5 burritos and quesadillas. All with a combination of Korean spices and flavors wrapped in tortillas. Short-rib tacos: Man, the sweetness, sourness, crunch of the kim-chi and the umami of the short ribs and soy sauce combined to explode in a ball of flavor fire in my mouth. I was still thinking about how good it tasted a week later! The chef's special, the sweet chili chicken quesadilla with naranja sauce was a great blend of sweet heat, sesame, onion and chicken (I'm sure it was flatiron grilled). I was a little disappointed by the blackjack quesadilla but the Kogi Dog was outrageous!. A large sausage covered with kim-chi and sesame seeds in a traditional bun and (man I wish I could remember the other ingredients)my taste buds were off to the massage parlor again. The dog had a great snap and once again the umami of the flavors with the spiciness and slight sourness of the fermented cabbaged was rockin'!
Kogi, I'm looking forward to tracking down one of your trucks again, soon!
$2-$3 tacos, $5 burritos and quesadillas. All with a combination of Korean spices and flavors wrapped in tortillas. Short-rib tacos: Man, the sweetness, sourness, crunch of the kim-chi and the umami of the short ribs and soy sauce combined to explode in a ball of flavor fire in my mouth. I was still thinking about how good it tasted a week later! The chef's special, the sweet chili chicken quesadilla with naranja sauce was a great blend of sweet heat, sesame, onion and chicken (I'm sure it was flatiron grilled). I was a little disappointed by the blackjack quesadilla but the Kogi Dog was outrageous!. A large sausage covered with kim-chi and sesame seeds in a traditional bun and (man I wish I could remember the other ingredients)my taste buds were off to the massage parlor again. The dog had a great snap and once again the umami of the flavors with the spiciness and slight sourness of the fermented cabbaged was rockin'!
Kogi, I'm looking forward to tracking down one of your trucks again, soon!
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