From Stephen Foster: Our next meal prep, 3/20

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The menu is:

Salmon pie

white asparagus

soda bread

peaches

desert

Sunday's:

Han & pickle salad sandwich

fruit cup

desert

Food for Friends March and April choices

From: Beverly Pead
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 2:21 PM
To: Mary Ann Wordsworth; Stephanie Smith; Anita Sarro; Donna Pinciak; Branda Mathieu; Sheila Fitzgerald; Carol Brunelle; Carol Deten; Doris Gagnon
Cc: Beverly Pead
Subject: Food for Friends March and April choices

Dear Bakers,

I am trying to give you more advanced notice about upcoming desserts.  Please let me know which desserts you would prefer to bake.  I will make March choices "first come, first served" and then reverse the order for April.  In other words, if you are the last to reply and have to make something you didn't want to make in March, you will get your choice of desserts for April.

The choices for March are oatmeal raisin cookies or blueberry muffins.

The choices for April are brownies or blueberry crumble.

I will be sending recipes soon.  I will be testing the oatmeal raisin cookie, blueberry crumble and blueberry muffin recipes.  As always, if you have your own favorite recipe for an item, you may substitute it for the one I send, as long as the serving sizes are comparable.  You may use any brownie recipe or mix as long as you add nuts.

I want to streamline my deliveries as well, so I will be planning to deliver items once every two months. 

I will be bringing everyone a two-month supply of gloves and hairnets.

I will bring frozen blueberries to all those who will be making either the muffins or the crumble. 

I will bring containers to those making crumble.

Let me know if you will be needing more baggies for packaging the cookies, brownies, or muffins.

Nuts will be used in the cookies and brownies.  Let me know if you still have some left or if you need me to bring you a bag of nuts.

I will need you to be home for the blueberry deliveries so that they do not defrost.   I will e-mail later to make these arrangements.

See you in about two weeks for the deliveries.

Bev

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February desserts

Dear Bakers,

It's that time again!

This Saturday we are delivering chocolate cupcakes with white frosting (any recipe is fine) and cherry cheesecake (see recipe below). 

We need a total of 72 of each item.  We need 6 people to make, frost and bag 6 dozen cupcakes.  Since each recipe of cheesecake makes 8 servings, we need some of our bakers to make 2 recipes and some to make one.  Our newest volunteer (whose recipe we are using) is making 2 recipes, so we need a total of 7 more batches.

Please let me know which item you wish to make.

Let me know if you need containers, bags, hair nets, gloves or cherries.

Let me know if you want me to pick up your baked goods on Friday evening or Saturday morning, or if you will be delivering them to the United Methodist Church between 7 and 5:30 on Friday or if you will be delivering these items to the Congo Church on Saturday morning.

I also need ideas for next month.  We now have frozen blueberries.  Any ideas?  Any good recipes?

Thanks!

Bev

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SHANNON'S NO-BAKE CHEESECAKE

·        1 Package cream cheese

·        ¼ Cup sugar

·        1 8oz. tub of Cool Whip

·        1 Tablespoon milk

·        1 graham cracker crust

Blend cream cheese until smooth and then add sugar.  Blend until smooth and add Cool Whip and milk.  Blend until smooth and pout into crust.  Cool until firm (about 4 hours)

CHERRY PIE FILLING

·        3 cups cherries

·        ¾  cup water

·        ¾  cup sugar

·        3 Tablespoons cornstarch

In a saucepan cook cherries in water for 10 minutes.  Mix together the sugar and cornstarch; add to cherries.  Cook cherry mixture until thickened.  Cool.

PACKAGING DIRECTIONS

Cut pie into 8 slices.  Put one slice in each container.  Spoon cherry pie filling over each piece.  Put  covers on containers.  

January desserts - From Beverly Pead

Hi, Everyone!

..We are having blonde brownies and cherry-chocolate chip muffins.  Next month we are having cherry cheese cake and chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting.

Bev

From: Beverly Pead
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:00 AM
To: Mary Ann Wordsworth; Stephanie Smith; Anita Sarro; Donna Pinciak; Branda Mathieu; Sheils; Carol Brunelle; Carol Deten
Cc: Beverly Pead
Subject: Food for Friends - January desserts

Dear Bakers,

I hope everyone had a blessed Christmas and that your New Year is off to a good start.

First, I want to thank you for your extra effort for the December desserts.  The holiday treats were greatly enjoyed!

This month we are making 2 simpler recipes, both of which are attached.  Please let me know:
1.  Would you prefer to make the bars or the muffins?

2.  Do you need any hair nets, gloves, bags, nuts, or cherries?  (I can deliver them on Tuesday if I hear from you by then or on Thursday)

3.  Do you want to deliver them to the Congo church on Saturday morning, to the UMC on Friday before 5:00, or do you want me to pick them up on either Friday evening between 5:30 and 6:30 or on Saturday morning between 8:00 and 9:00?  I am now free on Saturday mornings, so I can give you more options.

4.  In February, we are going to be making no-bake cherry cheese cake and chocolate cupcakes with white frosting.  You can use the cheese cake recipe I will provide or use one of your own.  Likewise, you can use your own chocolate cupcake recipe or a mix.  Likewise, you can make your own frosting or use a pre-made one.  I will give you details re: amounts later.  Let me know now which you wish to make for February.

Thank you for all that you do!

Bev
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CARAMEL (BLOND) BROWNIES
Recipe provided by Mary Ann Wordsworth

350 degrees     25-30 minutes
9 x 13 pan, greased

2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1/2 cup butter +2T
2 eggs
2 t. vanilla
2 cups brown sugar, packed
1 cup nuts

Melt butter
Add sugar and cool
Add eggs and vanilla; beat
Add dry ingredients ; beat altogether
Add nuts; Pour into pan and bake.  When cool, cut into 16 bars and place each bar into a bag.

Some people like to add chocolate or butterscotch bits to blonde brownies.  You can if you want to, but it isn’t necessary.  These are truly delicious as they are.  Thank you, Mary Ann!

Cherry & Chocolate Chip Muffins

Based on a recipe by Charishma Ramchandani, as found on Recipezaar.com

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

Grease 16 muffin cups or use liners

Combine in a bowl :

1¼ C cherries, quartered

¾ C chocolate chips

½ C chopped walnuts

 In a large bowl combine:

2 C all-purpose flour

1/3 C light-brown sugar, packed

1/3 C sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt

In another bowl, stir together:

2/3 C milk

½ C butter, melted and cooled

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 tsp. vanilla

 Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.  Add wet ingredients and stir just to combine.  Stir in the chips, cherries and nuts.

Spoon into muffin cups and bake 15 – 20 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean when inserted.

Remove muffin tins to wire rack to cool for 5 minutes.  Remove muffins from tins to finish cooling.  When cool, place each muffin in a bag.
  

FFF Meal Count for this Saturday, plus menu!

From: Charlotte Buijnarowski <charlottecb@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Subject: FFF Meal Count for this Saturday, plus menu!
To: ...

Meal count:  64 as of today.

Menu sent from Steve (yummy!):

Saturday

mushroom and broccoli quiche

sweet potatoes

peas

peaches

desert ?

Sunday

tuna salad

pineapple chunks

desert ?

We picked up some blue berries (30lb. for the bakers) and I need to call or email Bev.

see ya soon

Steve

From Joe Nadeau and Jim Corey

Bob

I sent an email to Joe Nadeau

I think we should invite Joe and St. Pat's cook to make all of our menu's to complement each other.

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From: Joe Nadeau
To: Jim Corey
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 3:13:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Take and Eat Blog

Hi Jim,

I do have your "Food for Friends' Blog site address. I also would like to set up a co-ordinated 3 month combined menu for the three groups.

Once I have the five meals scheduled for the next three months how do I enter them into your blog?

As for suggestions for sandwich meats, I wouldn't use cold cuts. I plan on making meatloaf , chicken salad, ham salad, tuna salad, or sliced ham sandwiches or even sliced turkey or sliced chicken sandwiches. The chemicals in deli meats don't go over to big with my nutritionist. Other cold meals I have thought about are pasta salads, egg salads, potato salads etc...etc..

So.... it appears the the first thing to be done is get the list of meals prepared. Because our weekend for October is a Holiday weekend, We also will be making two meals for the 11th and 12th of the month. The hot meal will be chicken pot pie, with roll, and for desert it will be sliced peaches, and cookies. The cold meal will be chicken salad sandwiches, potato salad, fruit cocktail and cupcakes. as soon as I know what it will be in November and December I will let you know. November we will be doing two meals on the 8th and the 29th. So the faster we get this done the easier it will be for all three groups.

Has anyone contacted St. Pats yet?

I will be watching your blog everyday
Thanks again

Joe Nadeau
Coordinator for:
St Theresa's People feeding People

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From: Jim Corey
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:22 AM
To: Joe Nadeau
Subject: Take and Eat Blog

Hi Joe

Do not know if you have our "Food for Friends" Blog site address yet - try the link below:

http://southhadleygranbyfoodforfriends.blogspot.com/

I would like to setup a co-ordinated 2-3 month combined menu of our three groups - your group, St. Pat's, and our group - so that we may complement each other's menu's.

By listing the names of the meals we would eliminate duplication within the chosen time frame.

Also do have any suggestion for cold meals (sandwiches)? Since we are delivering on Saturday, we would like to add something for Sunday for our clients.

Jim Corey
Food for Friends
Co-Cook

Food and the menu

Hi
A little information to consider for our journey

We are providing for the "Elderly" who have some simple needs - Soft/paliable, low salt/fat/seasoning levels - and a simple "menu" of entree, vegetable, fruit, carb (bread type, ie. sliced, roll, biscuit, dumpling), and dessert.

Plus we are doing this for a Saturday delivery and we should consider a cold meal to be for Sunday. A sandwich with a fruit and possibly another desert.

I have a list of possible Saturday entree's but I'm in need of a few suggestions for the sandwich meal.

I believe this blog will help us communicate with the community and may produce suggestions from the public.

Jim Corey