March was the third month that the Kitchen Kabinet members made casseroles and soups for sale on Sunday after the service. We don’t make a big profit, but so far we have made enough to cover the costs of ingredients and the containers, and we have purchased a nice food processor. We have money above these expenses that hopefully will grow to be enough to buy pull-out shelves for the lower cabinets in the kitchen – then we won’t have to get down on the floor to find things!
We started to think about what we should prepare for April Casserole and Soup sales.
We managed to get EVERYONE in the parish hall right after the March 15 service to celebrate Fr Brian’s birthday with a surprise Build-Your-Own-Sandwich Bar and huge birthday cake. When asked what he wished for, he said he wished he could blow out all the candles!
For Palm Sunday, which happened to fall on the March $5 Breakfast day, we served foods like Jesus would have eaten on Palm Sunday. Not a Passover meal, that came 5 days after he came into Jerusalem. The day he came into Jerusalem was not a feast day, and he would have eaten ordinary Galilean peasant foods – we served lentil-chickpea soup, barley bread with olive oil for dipping, dried figs and dates, grapes, and olives.
~Barbara Stone