On the Sunday lunch and volunteering.

I just got home from the church. My feet hurt.  I supervised the Sunday lunch today.

Yesterday I got the main meal ready, because I am lay Eucharistic minister today. Normally I come in early and boil the pasta or cook the rice if needed. Next week the preliminary cooking won’t be needed as I am using canned beans. The bags of beef stroganoff are already thawed and ready to go, and I bless Second Harvest again for having those meals available. Certainly I can’t cook that well- I wish! No, I mix the thawed meal with the pasta in the restaurant pans and put foil over it.
 I shove the restaurant pans in the oven, yank out the twenty four cans of peas and put out the hamburger and hot dog buns we are using as rolls today.  Then I look to see how many deserts we have.  There are two large sheet cakes and two layer cakes, with two small one layer cakes.  I save the two one-layer cakes for anyone who might have a birthday, and plan to use the larger cakes, with some breakfast sweets and large cookies as backup if needed.

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