"Sheldon" wrote

>> Our church is having their Christmas potluck dinner on Sunday, and I'm
>> all out of inspiration for what to make! Tomorrow is our wedding

>I don't know how many you need feed. But chicken is reasonably
>priced. Get a couple of roasters. Quarter them, lay then in a big
>pan, season and roast in your oven. Then let cool a bit and remove
>the meat fom the bones. In the same roasting pan make up a cream
>sauce with onion and celery... use canned creamed soup if you must...
>add the chicken pieces, a package of frozen peas and carrots, and top
>with a couple tubes of those Dough Boy biscuits and bake.

Grin, not bad actually! I think I'd add red and green bell peppers at this
season for the color.

I assist a local church with a sort of food bank in winter. They pickup
even so have the following ready for tomorrow (due to hard times, they now
operate Sat and Sunday).

For Saturday:

4 gallons Dashi with chinese broccoli and kangkoon (a spinach sort) and 10
minced cherry stone clams (40 cents each here) and some onaga and gindai
(sorry, keep forgetting english for them, fish types. Momentary brain
freeze). (slight break, onaga is snapper. Gindai is ....a snapper type as
well but looks pretty different when whole).

10 lbs crockpotted 'baked' potatoes

With this goes a grocery bag full of canned items: 2 canned hams, 1 large
can beef stew, 10 cans various veggies, 2 bags dried pasta, 3 cans creamed
soups. Not fancy grant you but what we could afford. Sunday they split
this up with those who need it.

Sunday:
More dashi but this one with croppie and grouper and a stray big eyed scad
and more spinach-y stuff plus udon noodles.

10 lbs yams from crockpot with honey and figs

4 loaves fresh bread from breadmaker (first one churning now, a rye and
white sort)

2 lbs butter, rolled in spices to make 'butter logs' of parsely, garlic,
paprika etc.