MEAT LOAF
ROAST BEEF
MASHED POTATOES
GREEN BEANS
COLE SLAW
A TON OF DESSERTS (more on that later)
SWEET TEA/ WATER/ SODA
TYLER / CHRISTIAN / J.BOGGS / CHRIS / JOSH / HAMPTON / MARK / TOMMY / CHUCK / TWIG / WAYNE / MITCH / SAM / BOONE / WADE / JANE / BECCA MORGAN / MORGZILLA /CREEEECH! /
ALEXIS / ALEX / JAMIE / ELAINE / CECELIA / CHAMBERLAIN / BRIEN / MARILYN /
Some of the things that happened this week -
Tuesday was the birthday of Charles Grimes Rollins, Jr. aka "TWIG". Jane brought him a cookie cake and shared it with everyone.
CECELIA has been wanting to bake a cake for a couple of weeks and we finally got to it this week. Turned out great. CHAMBERLAIN and JAMIE helped. They actually made two. They iced one with chocolate icing but didn't have enough for the second one. Keep reading and you'll see what they came up with for the second cake.
CHRIS and JOSH Armstrong are home from college for the summer and came down. Always good to see them.
Had a guy visit last week named TOMMY. He's an older gentleman who says he comes to FBC sometimes. He asked about what we we did and said he had worked for a hotel chain in the food services area for a long time. He said he'd like to help and he'd be back. He came back this week.
John Liverman brought a pan of Roast beef and Mashed potatoes, a pan of green beans, and a pan of Banana Puddding from his Rotary Club luncheon. It was catered by Pearl's. That was a huge help because it allowed us to load up the plates.
If it ever comes down to a situation where I'm gonna be allowed a last meal (let's hope not, but.....), roast beef and mashed potatoes will be in the conversation.
If you read the names each week, you might notice CREEEECH! is in there every week. That's Kelsey Creech. She was in my Bible classes at Hoggard, and I never called anybody by their first name, just Mr. or Miss "their last name". And with her, it wasn't even that, it was just her last name. And when she walked in for the first time every day, it was longer and louder-CREEEEEEEEECH!
Well a couple of weeks ago I was at the comic book store looking in the dollar boxes and saw a Comic called "The Creech". I grabbed it and gave it to her last night. She got a kick out of it and that's what I was shooting for.
ALEX Miller came late and she'd never driven by herself to the 2nd stop. For some reason, she drives a big ol' full size truck. She called and got directions and I told her to just pull in the parking lot when she got there.
I saw her pull up and go past us. About 10 minutes later she came walking up. I asked where she'd been. She said"I'm not a good parallel parker". She'd been wrestling that truck into a parking space out on the street the whole time!
We set out the Banana Pudding at the 2nd stop and told them they had a choice between that and yellow cake with chocolate icing for dessert. It was never even a contest. Only 3 people had opted for the cake by the time the Banana Pudding ran out.
Duh. We're in the South.
My night was already complete the minute BECCA MORGAN showed up. I love BECCA MORGAN. If you don't, it's only because you haven't met her yet. She just graduated from Davidson and is home for the week before she heads for training with TEACH AMERICA. She'll be teaching High School in Charlotte next year. I have known her since she was very little. She tried to bust me last night. We were talking and a kid walked over and I said something to them and BECCA said You still using that line? You were using that when I was in Youth Group!
It's all right. I still love her. Plus, she's right. You only got to have 6 years worth of material, then you can start using it all over again.
When we started up to the first stop, I let Cecelia stay down to ice her cakes. When she came up, she showed me the chocolate iced cake and then showed me the other one. It had a fancy looking crumbly topping on it. She said it was pineapple and rice krispies with some butter. ?. I didn't even know we had any of that stuff. I asked her who made that?
Take a guess.
TOMMY.
First week in the kitchen and he whips up some kind of gourmet topping for cake out of scratch.
Hope he comes back. I would've told her to just.....
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Gotta start posting these when I write 'em.........
BAILEY / SAM / CHRISTIAN / J.BOGGS / LIZ / MARK / RYAN / ELAINE / MERRITT / ELLEN /HALEY / BLAKE / HAMPTON / JASON / TYLER / TWIG / WAYNE / TERESA / TERESA /MITCH / SEAN / make the kitchen downtown a great place to be on Tuesday night.
It was "Breakfast for Supper" time again. Instead of serving the sausage separately, though, we crumbled sausage into the pancakes once we poured them on the griddle so it was in the pancake. Heard about it being done that way so we tried it. It was okay. We didn't do all of them like that, though. Believe it or not, some people don't like sausage.
I like to pour the batter and let it cook, drop a cooked sausage patty in the center, cover it with batter and then flip it. Then when you're done - you've got a sausage patty inside your pancake. NICE. It also works for bacon, you just have to pour a strip of batter instead of a circle. It looks cool, too; a plate full of long pancakes instead of round ones.
Twig's stepson Hayden is an RA at N.C. State. He and a group of them from University Towers were down for training and helped serve at the first and second stops.
It was "Breakfast for Supper" time again. Instead of serving the sausage separately, though, we crumbled sausage into the pancakes once we poured them on the griddle so it was in the pancake. Heard about it being done that way so we tried it. It was okay. We didn't do all of them like that, though. Believe it or not, some people don't like sausage.
I like to pour the batter and let it cook, drop a cooked sausage patty in the center, cover it with batter and then flip it. Then when you're done - you've got a sausage patty inside your pancake. NICE. It also works for bacon, you just have to pour a strip of batter instead of a circle. It looks cool, too; a plate full of long pancakes instead of round ones.
Twig's stepson Hayden is an RA at N.C. State. He and a group of them from University Towers were down for training and helped serve at the first and second stops.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Tuesdays with Warden
This week's meal was planned and provided by the Fellowship Sunday School class. This crowd was organized and ready to go. I made sure I got there at 5:55 because I told them 6:00. I walked in and they already beans and corn on the stove, and the ham sliced, ready to go in the oven.
I could get used to that.
They came in two waves. The first wave was the cooking wave and then the serving wave came around 7:00, ready to carry food out and start passing out food.
I had kids come, too, so I set up as much interaction between the two groups as I could. I sort of assigned kids places to hang out to show the adults where things were and to answer questions about how we did things. They liked having answers for the adults.
The menu
BAKED HAM
CORN
GREEN BEANS
DINNER ROLLS
DESSERT
SWEET TEA/ WATER
It was another one of those great days where heaven just opened up and rained food on us. We were given a huge box of fruit, somebody brought a big garbage bag full of artisan breads and bagels and we had more cookies than we could use for the meal.
Hmmmm .....bread....fruit....cookies.....The Walkaway Special!
We took the lunch meat we had and made ham and cheese bagels and peanut butter bagels, and tossed them in lunch bags with a couple of pieces of fruit and 2 cookies.
Nice.
WAYNE AND KATIE HILL / GAYE THOMAS / JIMMY AND TOM WALLACE / GLENDA AND JIM CURRIN / LINDA GURGANUS / VICKIE PORTER / MIKE AND ANNE COCKERHAM / CHARLES LIESE / JERRI ROGERS / KERRY TAYLOR were the members of the class who were able to come and be a part of the night. I'd also like to recognize and thank the members of the class who weren't able to come but provided money and prayed for us. We appreciate their efforts.
WAYNE / STEVE / ANNA / J.BOGGS / TYLER / EBY / CHRISTIAN / JASON / BAILEY / SHANE / PEYSON / ALEXIS / CREEEECH! / MO-GAN / BLAKE / are great people that do amazing things on Tuesday nights.
Not so quick story: Mike Cockerham is in the Fellowship class and came Tuesday night. I haven't called him "Mike" or "Mr. Cockerham" in years. He's always "Warden".
He was a chaperon with us years ago on a ski trip. We had a rule about no CD players on the trip because we wanted kids interacting not secluding. Most of the kids brought them anyway and there were several wearing them on the bus ride. Don saw them and we talked about it and decided everyone that brought one would miss the morning ski session. "Mike" volunteered to stay back at the house with the rule breakers. We started joking about house arrest and when we came in for lunch I saw him and said" How'd it go, Warden?"
And to this day that's the only name I've ever needed for him.
He doesn't call me "Gary" either, but you'll have to ask him about the reason for that. g
I could get used to that.
They came in two waves. The first wave was the cooking wave and then the serving wave came around 7:00, ready to carry food out and start passing out food.
I had kids come, too, so I set up as much interaction between the two groups as I could. I sort of assigned kids places to hang out to show the adults where things were and to answer questions about how we did things. They liked having answers for the adults.
The menu
BAKED HAM
CORN
GREEN BEANS
DINNER ROLLS
DESSERT
SWEET TEA/ WATER
It was another one of those great days where heaven just opened up and rained food on us. We were given a huge box of fruit, somebody brought a big garbage bag full of artisan breads and bagels and we had more cookies than we could use for the meal.
Hmmmm .....bread....fruit....cookies.....The Walkaway Special!
We took the lunch meat we had and made ham and cheese bagels and peanut butter bagels, and tossed them in lunch bags with a couple of pieces of fruit and 2 cookies.
Nice.
WAYNE AND KATIE HILL / GAYE THOMAS / JIMMY AND TOM WALLACE / GLENDA AND JIM CURRIN / LINDA GURGANUS / VICKIE PORTER / MIKE AND ANNE COCKERHAM / CHARLES LIESE / JERRI ROGERS / KERRY TAYLOR were the members of the class who were able to come and be a part of the night. I'd also like to recognize and thank the members of the class who weren't able to come but provided money and prayed for us. We appreciate their efforts.
WAYNE / STEVE / ANNA / J.BOGGS / TYLER / EBY / CHRISTIAN / JASON / BAILEY / SHANE / PEYSON / ALEXIS / CREEEECH! / MO-GAN / BLAKE / are great people that do amazing things on Tuesday nights.
Not so quick story: Mike Cockerham is in the Fellowship class and came Tuesday night. I haven't called him "Mike" or "Mr. Cockerham" in years. He's always "Warden".
He was a chaperon with us years ago on a ski trip. We had a rule about no CD players on the trip because we wanted kids interacting not secluding. Most of the kids brought them anyway and there were several wearing them on the bus ride. Don saw them and we talked about it and decided everyone that brought one would miss the morning ski session. "Mike" volunteered to stay back at the house with the rule breakers. We started joking about house arrest and when we came in for lunch I saw him and said" How'd it go, Warden?"
And to this day that's the only name I've ever needed for him.
He doesn't call me "Gary" either, but you'll have to ask him about the reason for that. g
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
......Mother's Day Special !
Boggs has writer's block and hasn't posted so I'm going to recap last week real quick and then move on to last night.
He served a great meal of baked chicken, mac'n cheese, and homemade banana pudding. Knocked the meal out of the park. Had a beautiful spring night for it. I stayed out of the kitchen so J.Boggs would have to be the voice and the ramrod for getting things done. He did a great job all the way around. He'll fill in on the rest.
Last Wednesday, another one of our regular Seniors, Tyler Bordeaux, held a chili supper as part of his Sr. Project. It was a donation affair and the proceeds went to us, the Tuesday Night Feeding Ministry. It was very well attended and he raised over $900. Very nice. He did a great job.
Wayne and Katie Hill donated 5 Boston pork butts to us from a fundraiser that Wayne is part of. It was a no-brainer to go with BBQ sandwiches this week. We thawed some brunswick stew we had saved, put some baked beans in it, got some cole slaw, and used the pans of mac'n cheese we saved from last week and we were good to go! We also switched it up a little this week. Instead of Sweet Tea we served.....Lemonade. That cool refreshing drink. (Eddie Murphy reference!)
Everything outside was wet so the first stop was served inside, which is always kinda nice but different.
We serve in Fireside Hall which is comfortable and roomy but it feels muted. No traffic noise, everybody is aware of their volume (most people anyway)....it's different. Time goes faster, too. We looked outside, saw some blue and decided to roll the dice on the next stop and set up outside instead of fixing plates to hand out. Turned out to be a good call.
One of our guys is leaving to go to S.C. and start an Electrical business with a partner. Next week will probably be his last. His name's Omar and we'll be praying for him. He's going to bring his daughter to church Sunday.
BBQ SANDWICHES
COLE SLAW
BRUNSWICK STEW
MAC'N CHEESE
DESSERTS
LEMONADE/WATER .....were fixed and served by....
... ELAINE / CECELIA / HAMPTON / EBY / J.BOGGS / TWIG / TERESA / BRIEN / MITCH / WAYNE / STEVE /
TYLER / CHRISTIAN / MO -GAN / ALEXIS / BLAKE / CREEEEEEECH! / JASON / LITTLE THUG / JADE / ALYSSA / ELLYN /
The thing kids like about making BBQ sandwiches is tearing up the Boston butts and chopping them into BBQ. Our guys like it "wet" so we mix Sonny's Sweet BBQ sauce into it. My spectrum for how I like my BBQ is wide enough to be classified as "It's all good".
So, I'm easy like that.
Gonna be a showing of THE BLIND SIDE this weekend at FBC Cinema 1. You're invited to come hang out with us and watch it. Admission is free, concessions are free, sodas are free.
For those of y'all who forget what day it is until you get to church, it could turn into a .......
He served a great meal of baked chicken, mac'n cheese, and homemade banana pudding. Knocked the meal out of the park. Had a beautiful spring night for it. I stayed out of the kitchen so J.Boggs would have to be the voice and the ramrod for getting things done. He did a great job all the way around. He'll fill in on the rest.
Last Wednesday, another one of our regular Seniors, Tyler Bordeaux, held a chili supper as part of his Sr. Project. It was a donation affair and the proceeds went to us, the Tuesday Night Feeding Ministry. It was very well attended and he raised over $900. Very nice. He did a great job.
Wayne and Katie Hill donated 5 Boston pork butts to us from a fundraiser that Wayne is part of. It was a no-brainer to go with BBQ sandwiches this week. We thawed some brunswick stew we had saved, put some baked beans in it, got some cole slaw, and used the pans of mac'n cheese we saved from last week and we were good to go! We also switched it up a little this week. Instead of Sweet Tea we served.....Lemonade. That cool refreshing drink. (Eddie Murphy reference!)
Everything outside was wet so the first stop was served inside, which is always kinda nice but different.
We serve in Fireside Hall which is comfortable and roomy but it feels muted. No traffic noise, everybody is aware of their volume (most people anyway)....it's different. Time goes faster, too. We looked outside, saw some blue and decided to roll the dice on the next stop and set up outside instead of fixing plates to hand out. Turned out to be a good call.
One of our guys is leaving to go to S.C. and start an Electrical business with a partner. Next week will probably be his last. His name's Omar and we'll be praying for him. He's going to bring his daughter to church Sunday.
BBQ SANDWICHES
COLE SLAW
BRUNSWICK STEW
MAC'N CHEESE
DESSERTS
LEMONADE/WATER .....were fixed and served by....
... ELAINE / CECELIA / HAMPTON / EBY / J.BOGGS / TWIG / TERESA / BRIEN / MITCH / WAYNE / STEVE /
TYLER / CHRISTIAN / MO -GAN / ALEXIS / BLAKE / CREEEEEEECH! / JASON / LITTLE THUG / JADE / ALYSSA / ELLYN /
The thing kids like about making BBQ sandwiches is tearing up the Boston butts and chopping them into BBQ. Our guys like it "wet" so we mix Sonny's Sweet BBQ sauce into it. My spectrum for how I like my BBQ is wide enough to be classified as "It's all good".
So, I'm easy like that.
Gonna be a showing of THE BLIND SIDE this weekend at FBC Cinema 1. You're invited to come hang out with us and watch it. Admission is free, concessions are free, sodas are free.
For those of y'all who forget what day it is until you get to church, it could turn into a .......
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