Subj : Kitchens [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Fri Aug 22 2025 15:08:30 Hi Dave, DD> After my friend John passed Les and I were helping his daughter clean DD> out hia kitchen. St. Martin de Porres food pantry took all of the DD> sealed jars and containers. Les and I divided the open chilli stuff DD> and the rest went to one of the neighbours for her kitchen. RH> Sounds like good choices all the way around. DD> Whatever works and makes sense. That's the usual M.O. (G) DD> Different churches have different set-ups. From doing chilli supper DD> fund raisers I know that St. Paul's (Anglican), St. Peter's (Roman), DD> Westminster Presbyterian, Central Baptist, Trinity Lutheran and Temple DD> B'rith Sholom all have kitchens that would do a restaurant proud. RH> We have basically a home kitchen set up. One fridge (we donated a DD> All of those I named have large halls w/lots of seating and tables. I DD> remember one year at St. Katherine Drexel (nee St.Peter's) the first DD> rush used two 5 gallon pots of chilli. Fortunately Les and I had gone DD> in the day before and made up 5 of the big containers and putthem in DD> the walk-in cooler. Our church is small, as are most of them around here. A couple of them are large; we have the Purple Heart Banquet in one of them. I've not seen their kitchen but it's probably on par with any good sized restaurant. DD> All of those I named have equipment that came from a restaurant DD> supplier and large commercial ice boxes/freezersas well as walk-in DD> coolers. The RH> We've been members off churchs with kitchens like that. Our Legion Post RH> has a commercial kitchen also. DD> We have two Legion posts - a hangover from the bad old days of DD> segregation. Post 32 has calls their kitchen "The Mess Hall" and is DD> open to the public. Post 809 doesn't open their kitchen to the public DD> except on special days. Our post rents out its kitchen since it is commercial certified. I know there's a baker that comes once a week, another day a lady that makes pimento cheese comes in and makes huge batches of it. We are a dry post. DD> temple also has two complete sets of cooking vessels - one of which DD> never see any dairy or dairy products. RH> As well as a set that doesn't see any meat or meat products. (G) DD> Well, yeah. It doesn't have to make sense - it's Kosher. Bv)= I know, just giving you a bit of a hard time. DD> Title: Potluck Taco Casserole DD> Categories: Beef, Herbs, Dairy, Vegetables, Cheese DD> Yield: 8 servings RH> Looks good. I try to get an idea of allergies, etc if I'm cooking for a RH> group so would have to check for dairy issues with this one. We had a RH> family in church at one time who had a child extremely allergic to milk RH> and milk products so I had to be careful when cooking, knowing he would RH> be eating whatever was being served. Made his day when he was 3 and had RH> never eaten ice cream--we made a mango sorbet that he devoured. The RH> look of sheer delight on his face--an ice cream that he could eat--was RH> priceless! DD> I have a grand nephew who had that problem. Couldn't do any milk DD> except his mother's. I told my niece to check with the pediatritian DD> for a usable form of Lact Aid - which proved to be a workable deal. RH> We used to go thru a lot of that. Steve has to watch his dairy intake DD> My house mate is mildly lactose intolerant - and he didn't know DD> about Lact Aid until after he came to live here. I went down the RH> We (and it's mostly me) go thru a lot of yogurt. It's one of my RH> breakfast staples. DD> I keep it around for snacking - especially the Dannon DD> chocolate-raspberry and the OIkos "Fruit onthe bottom" stuff. I usually get the Wegman's house brand in strawberry, mixed berry, blueberry, peach and raspberry. If we're travelling, I'll get Dannon or whatever else is close to the Wegman's. DD> I often thank my lucky stars that I don't have and food allergies DD> except the banana thinf - which I'm not a fan of anyway. I can do DD> all the dairy and nuts. RH> I don't have any food allergies, just some strong dislikes. DD> I know all about that. Mine is mostly bologna .... and hominy/grits. DD> Just that the grits or hominy don't make me hurl.I just don'tm want DD> to put them in my face. DD> You don't have to mess with them because of Steve's corn problem. I'll get them sometimes when we're travelling and having breakfast out. I like to mix them with scrambled eggs and/or cheese. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Are you sure you really want to know that? --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .