A Bird of a Different Feather
This Thanksgiving we had Homemade or should I say home grown turkey. Yes, that is right. My family in Easley got a shipment of little turkeys and have fattened them up for Thanksgiving. The Turkey was dispatched on Wednesday and then placed in a brine. It cooked up to be a very flavorful and moist bird. Unfortunatly since I was on my second Thanksgiving dinner in five hours I was not able to try the dark meat. Maybe next year.
Canned Jelly???
I uploaded some photos from Thanksgiving of our youngest daughter. She decided that she really liked the mom's cranberry sauces. I am usually all for home-made over the canned, but I really do like the can cranberry sauce. I know this is heresy for a foodie, but I do not care. It's not that I do not like the real cranberries. It is that the canned Jelly type just reminds me of my childhood.
All Dressed Up!
If you forced me to choose just one Thanksgiving favorite, I know it would have to be the dressing. This year mom made it with cornbread and biscuits. It was wonderful! Well I hope that you all had a wonderful thanksgiving and are thinking about your Christmas foods!
Excuses, Excuses!
I have not been writting much this month. You can see from my post that I was in Grand Rapids for a few days. There is a lot of good things happening at the Church and in the Community, that just means that I stay busy.
Good Eatings!
The Hungry Preacher
Sunday, November 29, 2009
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Baby and Cranberry sauce
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Monday, November 16, 2009
The Cottage Bar, est 1927.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Happy Reformation Day!
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Trick or Treat Candy
Trick or Treat was a huge part of my life growing up. We would get all the cousins together and go around the mill hill at Arial and to our friends and family around the community between Easley and Pickens. Then came the Tylenol scare and it seems like Trick or Treat dried up. Was it the scare or had I just gotten to the age that I did not care about it anymore. Really it was hard being a six-foot tall, 11 year old. Here is how it would go:
"Aren't you a little old for Trick or Treat?" they would say.
Then I would respond "I am only 11!"
Then they would say "sure you are."
Like I did not know how old I was.
My favorite thing to get was Reese's Cup. Peanut Butter and Chocolate really do go together (Olives and Peanut Butter not so much). I also liked Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts. I wish I could give out something a little less processed. Trader Joe's Belgium Milk Chocolate bars are good, but at $1.79 for 3 that is a little expensive for your average Trick or Treat bucket. Beside the quality of Belgium chocolate is lost on most kids. Maybe I could give out their suckers they are really good, especially the Pomegranate. Yet the joy of a pomegranate sucker is lost on most kids as well.
I had thought about making homemade suckers, in all my spare time. So I do not know what we will do. We actually Trunk or Treat at our Fall Festival. Church folks sit by their car trunks and give out candy at the end of the Fall Festival. While not as much fun as wandering the neighborhood, it is much safer and a lot less walking.
If anyone has any suggestions for homemade trick or treat (trunk or treat in our case) candy let us know. All of you in and around Lancaster come to First ARP for our Fall Festival, October 31. It will begin around 6pm with Hot dogs, games, contests, and all the fun stuff. We are having a pumpkin carving contest this year so have your entries in by 6:30! Trunk or Treat is at the end around 8pm.
Good Eatings and Boo!
The Hungry Preacher
Church Traditions
I love traditions. They connect us to the past and they often serve to keep us connect to each other. Slowing down to cook for a fundraiser or dinner gives time for fellowship and to take stock of relationships. When I was at the Smyrna ARP church, we started having a once a month Deacon's dinner. On Saturday or Sunday night, the deacons of the church would cook a meal together for the whole church. We had Country Fried Steak, Fried Chicken, Salmon Stew, and Oyster Stew dinners, just to name a few. Those were fun time with wonderful people and really good food.
The Bethany ARP church, near Clover, had a tradition where each fall the men of the church would eat Oyster stew together. Families in the church owned hunting land on the coast and on returning from hunting would bring back several bushels of oysters and make stew. I know this was still going on when I was at Smyrna from 1997 to 2005.
Several Churches have BBQ fundraisers. The Coddle Creek ARP Church has a very famous one from what I hear. This weekend the Shiloh ARP Church in Lancaster is having their annual BBQ. Some would say why do this? Well it is not always about the money. There is something important about men spending time together cooking and serving BBQ. I know some of you are saying "What?" Trust me this is male bonding at its best.
I think that too often we are driven by the bottom line in church. We often think that the goal is to raise money, fix the lights, clean the church, in other words to accomplish the goal. These things need to be done but at the same time when we do them together something else happens that is important. The journey is just as important as the destination. We become a family and we connect with one another. The Shiloh ARP Church men get together every other Saturday during the grass cutting season to eat breakfast and cut the grass together. Now they could pay someone to do this for them, but there is something special about getting together and working together.
Think about this, if you have a new young man in the church and he is willing to come. What an opprotunity for fellowship over breakfast and for him to feel like he is contributing to the church. Even more important is feeling like a part of the church.
These traditions are not just things we always have done or just a way to fund mission projects or youth group trips. These are opportunities to help us bind ourselves together and make new people feel apart of something. It can even remind older missing members part of what they are missing. Yes, these BBQs, Hash Dinners, Hot Dog Suppers, and the like are an important part of our church lives beyond the money raised and the food consumed.
So does your church not have a tradition? Have you not been a part of your church's tradition? Then go get involved. Tomorrow you can get involved by buying some BBQ at Shiloh ARP. You know it has to be good! The BBQ connoisseur is the pastor there.
Good Eatings!
The Hungry Preacher
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