WEDNESDAY EVENING MEAL
CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH
RAPID CITY, SD
October 10, 2012
4:45 – 6:15 pm
All members and visitors are welcome to join us for dinner.
Suggested Donation $4 per person
Tony Balay (the Lone Star Smoke Ranger) is on the grill this week!)
Third Graders and their families are special guests tonight.
Bratwurst and Sauerkraut
Hotdogs
Macaroni and Cheese
Jello Salad with Fruit
Fresh Veggie Trays
Ice Cream Sundae Bar
A few people have asked for the recipe for the Rhubarb Apple Crisp we served last Wednesday, so I thought I would share it here. I adapted it from the cookbook Barefoot Contessa Parties!
Rhubarb Apple Crisp
Serves 20
12 cups apples (either canned apples packed in water or fresh) sliced and coarsely chopped
Fresh diced rhubarb 3-4 cups
Grated zest of 1 orange
Grated zest of 2 lemons
2 TBSP freshly squeezed orange juice
2 TBSP freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
3/4 tsp ground nutmeg
Topping:
1 ½ cups flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup oatmeal
½ pound cold unsalted butter, diced
To make the topping, combine the flour, sugars, salt, oatmeal, and cold butter in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or combine by hand). Mix on low speed until the mixture is crumbly and the butter is the size of peas.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter baking pans.
Combine the apples and rhubarb with the zests, juices, sugar, and spices. Pour into the pans.
Bake apples/rhubarb in 350* oven for about an hour or until apples and rhubard are tender and bubbly. Stir, add topping evening on top, and bake for 20-30 minutes until browned.
Serve with vanilla ice cream
Thanks for coming down to church last night, especially all 620 of you who made it for dinner! With 5 guys out working on two big grills and the griddle going in the kitchen, we managed to cook up 400 quarterpounders and 480 sliders and keep up with the demand fairly well. We also served up 20 pans of baked beans, about 120 pounds of fresh fruit, 150 pounds of tater tots, 24 pans of apple rhubarb crisp and 14 gallons of Blue Bunny vanilla ice cream. A very special thank you goes out to Helena Bauer who donated about 160 cups of diced rhubarb! I hear we also have some special guests who like to frequent our meals…the Texas Hold ’em group from the Senior Citizens’ Center. Welcome!
Coming next week, Sept. 26th: Soft Tacos with Ground Beef, Grilled Chicken and Veggies with all the fixin’s. Full menu will be posted here soon. Hope you can join us!
We had a great crowd of 600 for dinner at Calvary Lutheran last night, our biggest turnout ever for the opening night of Wednesday Evening Education and Worship! It’s quite a challenge to get dinner served to 600 in just an hour and a half, but with a great team of worker bees in the kitchen and dining room we got it done. A special thanks to Tony Balay of LoneStar Smoke Rangers for bringing his BBQ expertise, equipment, and donating his time to smoke those delicious briskets and pulled pork for us. His made from scratch secret recipe BBQ sauce on top of that meat was excellent. Don’t bother asking for the recipe, his lips are sealed. We’ll be seeing Tony again on October 10th for an Octoberfest Brats and Hotdog Feast. He’s promised to help us out with a main dish once a month this year, and we are so grateful.
Are you curious about what goes into a dinner like that? Here’s a few items to give you an idea:
300 pounds of beef brisket
230 pounds of pork butts
120 pounds of hashbrown potatoes
600 dinner rolls
64 pounds green beans
16 gallons of milk to make pudding
5 pounds of vanilla wafers
10 volunteers Tuesday morning for 2 1/2 hours
12 volunteers in the kitchen on Wednesday from 1:00 to 8:30pm
Countless volunteers to set up and take down tables, scrape dirty dishes, and vacuum
Thanks to all the volunteers and a special thanks to our guest griller, Tony, and Lori Litzen who helped him get the meat on the grill at 3 am Wednesday morning!
This is what it’s all about. Our church family is truly a blessing from God.
If you’ve been missing the fellowship and food on Wednesdays at Calvary, the wait is almost over! Starting on September 12th, dinner will be served from 4:45 to 6:15pm on Wednesdays through the end of April, except for a few breaks for holidays. (There will be no dinner, worship or education on October 31, November 21, December 26, January 2 or 9, and March 27.) All members are invited to join us for dinner each week, and guests are always welcome.
I’m excited to announce that our September 12th menu will feature BBQ brisket prepared by Tony Balay, of Lone Star Smoke Rangers BBQ cook-off fame. Tony, a Texas native and new resident of Rapid City, will be bringing his own BBQ pit to church to BBQ the briskets for us. The Wednesday meal crew will provide the sides dishes and desserts. This is a meal you won’t want to miss, and a great way to kick off the new school year of church education and worship.
If you’d like to join the fun in the kitchen preparing the meals on Tuesday mornings and/or Wednesday afternoons/evenings, please contact Karen Schleusener to volunteer, either by email at kschleusener@gmail.com, or home phone 348-9085 or cell phone 484-4858. Many opportunities are also available to help on Wednesdays with table set up and take down, dish scraping, dish washing, and dessert serving. Please contact Shad Storm to volunteer for these much needed jobs at shad@calvaryrapidcity.org or call the church office for Shad at 342-9043. Volunteers like you make this meal ministry possible!
Germanfest at Calvary
Live Accordian Music by our very own Al Spreizer
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
4:45 pm – 6:16 pm
Bratwurst or Hotdogs
Sauerkraut
German Potato Salad
Fresh Fruit
Rootbeer Floats &
Molasses Cookies
(Lederhosen and Dirndls are Optional but Encouraged!)
Visitors and members of Calvary are all invited to join us for the special celebration of the ending of our church school year. Suggested donation is $4 per person. This will be our last Wednesday evening meal until September. It has been a pleasure serving you each week.
Möge dir dein Weg leicht werden
Möge dir der Wind immer von hinten kommen
Möge dir die Sonne warm ins Gesicht scheinen
Möge dir ein sanfter Regen auf die Felder fallen
und bis wir uns wiedersehen
möge Gott dich in seiner Hand halten.
(May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.)
WEDNESDAY EVENING MEAL
April 18, 2012
4:45 – 6:15 pm
All members and visitors welcome to join us for dinner. Suggested Donation $4 per person
Fried Chicken
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Green Beans
Steamed Broccoli
Biscuits
Black Forest Chocolate Cake
There will not be dinner or education classes this Wednesday. Please join us for worship this week:
April 5th – Maundy Thursday
12:00 Noon Worship Service with Pastor Kirstin
Lunch will be served after the service at noon on Thursday
Soup – JoAnn Piebenga Bread – Charlene Keen
Bars/Cookies – Pam Asbridge
7:00 pm Worship Service – Pastor Kirstin
April 6th – Good Friday
12:00 Noon Ecumenical Service at
St. Andrew’s Episcopal
7:00 pm Tenebrae Service at Calvary Lutheran
Easter Services – April 7th & 8th
Saturday – 5:30 pm – Pastor Dwight Stensgaard
Sunday -7:00- 8:15- 10:15 am- Pastor Dwight Stensgaard
Easter Breakfast served from 7:30-10:45 am
The High School Youth will be hosting the annual Easter Breakfast on Easter morning, April 8th, from 7:30 am – 10:45 am. We will be featuring delicious homemade Quiche, cinnamon and caramel rolls, assorted muffins, fruit platters, fruit cocktail, beverages and a new addition… …Biscuits and Gravy!!! This is a wonderful event that takes place every year on Easter Sunday. Please make plans to bring your family and friends and join in this important meal ministry. There will be a free-will offering and all proceeds from the breakfast will help the High School Youth go on their summer trip to the ELCA High School Youth National Gathering in New Orleans. We will be taking 40 students and 7 adults on the trip.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING MEAL
March 28, 2012
4:45 – 6:15 pm
All members and visitors are welcome to join us for dinner.
Chicken Tetrazzini
(cheesy chicken spaghetti)
Fresh Steamed Broccoli
Tuscan Artisan Bread
Apple Cobbler
Vanilla Ice Cream
Suggested Donation $4 per person
Wednesday Evening Meal
March 21, 2012
4:45 – 6:15 pm
All members and visitors welcome to join us for dinner.
Suggested Donation $4 per person
Tatertot Casserole
Mandarin Orange Jello Salad
Tossed Garden Salad
Dinner Rolls
Boston Cream Pie
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