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Chicken Pot Pie

2 pans full size disposable

about 25 servings per pan

550 servings: Make recipe 11 times (22 pans)

5# cooked, shredded Chicken Breasts (55# cooked, 140# bone-in chicken breast or 80# boneless)

88 oz (5 ½ #) frozen Mixed Vegetables (60#)

1# Chopped Onion   (11#)

Vegetable or olive oil for sautéing

1 #3 Can (46 oz) Cream of Chicken Soup (11 cans)

1 #3 Can (46 oz) Cream of Mushroom Soup (11 cans)

7 ½ Cups Milk     (5 gallons)

2 tsp Pepper

1 TBSP Thyme (11 TBSP)

3 TBSP flour

2 ½ Pastry Sheets (27 ½ sheets) 1 full sheet doesn’t cover, so use about ¼ of another sheet to cover the top.

• Season chicken with salt and pepper and bake on foil lined baking sheets at 350* for 20-30 min.
• Sauté onion in vegetable oil
• Boil veggies until hot
• Stir together soups, milk and spices
• Stir in chicken, veggies and onion
• Pour into lined 2 inch pan or use disposable pans
• Bake covered at 350° for about 45 min. until hot and bubbly
• Stir and top with pastry sheet
• Bake uncovered at 375* for about 30 min. or until brown and internal temp is 180 

Check the Calvary Lutheran Church website What’s For Supper for this week’s menu and for the latest update on whether the weather will cause us to cancel. If school is cancelled tomorrow, then it is likely that the church will also be closed.  The church Facebook page may also have the latest on closing: Calvary on Facebook

Extremely Merry Youth Leader!

Rejoicing Kitchen Elves

Smiling Ham Servers

Our Favorite Cheesy Church Potatoes

Homemade Cookies…difficult choice to make

Cherry Salad…at Christmas we can call a dessert a salad if it has fruit in it!

Cheerful Servers

Happy Dishwasher

Merry Cooks

Second Week of Advent in our Beautiful Sanctuary

A Church Full of St. Nick’s Helpers

St. Nick Come Out!

St Nick has arrived!

…and leaves treats in shoes

MERRY CHRISTMAS from Calvary Lutheran Church!

Menu for December 9, 2015

French dip sandwiches – French fries – Coleslaw – Salad bar

Peaches & cream dessert

Dinner is served from 4:45-6:15pm and all are welcome!

Worship in the sanctuary follows immediately after dinner.

At the request of a fellow Wednesday night church cook, I’m sharing the recipes for the potato casserole and the cherry salad that we’re having for dinner this week. We’ve been making these potatoes for 8 years, so we fondly call it “Cheesy Church Potatoes.” The Cherry Salad is a family favorite from Karla that will be a new addition to our menu this year. Her recipe for 10 servings will be multiplied many times for dinner on Wednesday night.

Calvary’s Cheesy Church Potatoes

Serves 600

Makes 30 half size disposable steamtable pans, 20 servings/pan

120# shredded hashbrowns (24 5# bags), thawed

8# melted butter

12 50 oz cans cream of chicken soup

10# cheese, grated cheddar

18# sour cream

8# diced onions (4 2# bags frozen onions), thawed

16 Tbsp salt (1 cup)

Divide above ingredients into 12 batches: Each batch will fill 2 1/2 pans and make about 50 servings

2 bags hashbrowns (5# per bag)

2/3 # melted butter

1 50 oz can cream of chicken soup

3/4# grated cheese

1 ½# sour cream

2/3# diced onions

1 1/3 TBSP salt

Bake pans covered at 350*, stirring once after about an hour. Cook for about another 45 minutes covered. Stir again, and top with cornflake mixture. Bake an additional 15-20 minutes uncovered until browned.

Topping Mixture for 30 pans:

60 cups crushed cornflakes (about 4 34 oz bags)

4# melted butter

Cherry Salad Recipe, 10-12 servings

8 oz coolwhip

14 oz can sweetened condensed milk

1 can (13 1/2 oz) crushed pineapple

1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling

Nuts are optional

Mix all ingredients, chill and serve.

December 2, 2015

Calvary Lutheran Church 

Dinner is served 4:45 – 6:15 pm

Suggested Donation is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12

We welcome all members and visitors to join us for dinner and stay for worship afterwards at 6:30 in the sanctuary.

Baked Ham

Cheesy Potato Casserole

Salad Bar

Cherry Salad

Homemade Cookie Assortment

The Wall Street Journal picked up the story of the Calvary in Action knitting and High School youth distributing hats and scarves on the presidential statues! It’s on the front page of today’s WSJ paper, and you can find it here in their online edition.

There is a huge pile of yarn in the church office if anyone wants to join the knitting brigade!  Help keep someone warm this winter while enjoying a little fellowship with some crafty people at Calvary.

Next Wednesday, November 11th, is the Veteran’s Day holiday. Since there is no school, there will also be no Wednesday activities or dinner at Calvary Lutheran Church.  See you the following week!

Here are a few photos from last night. We had an attendance of 430 for dinner, celebrated the Lord’s Prayer milestone with our 2nd graders and their families, and enjoyed special music from our 3rd-5th graders during worship. A special shout out to the confirmation group who volunteered their time to serve us dinner and scrape our dirty dishes. We appreciate all the help we get from the young people of our congregation and we love to see their smiling faces!

WEDNESDAY EVENING MEAL

Calvary Lutheran Church

November 18, 2015

Dinner is served from 4:45 – 6:15 pm

All members and visitors are welcome to join us for dinner and worship.

Worship service begins at 6:30 in the sanctuary

Suggested Dinner Donation: $5 for 12 and over, $3 under 12

Baked Potato Bar

Ham, Chili, Broccoli

Salad Bar

Bread Pudding

WEDNESDAY EVENING MEAL

Calvary Lutheran Church

November 4, 2015

Dinner is served from 4:45 – 6:15 pm

All members and visitors are welcome to join us for dinner and worship.

Worship service begins at 6:30 in the sanctuary.

Suggested Dinner Donation: $5 for 12 and over, $3 under 12

Deconstructed Cordon Bleu

Salad Bar

Broccoli and Cheese Sauce

Rhubarb and Apple Crisp

We’ve had great attendance at the Wednesday meals so far this year with over 500 each week.  If you’d like to volunteer in the kitchen or dining room for as little as one week or more, please contact the church office and ask for Karla to get signed up or to get more information.

CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH 

WEDNESDAY EVENING MEAL

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Suggested Donation $5 per person, $3 for children (under 12)
All Members and Visitors are Welcome

SERVING FROM 4:45 – 6:15 PM

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP IN THE SANCTUARY FROM 6:30 TO 7:00PM

This week our special guest for music and the message during worship is Rachel Kurtz, followed by a  concert by Rachel Kurtz and her band. For more information click here

Lasagna
Green Beans
Salad Bar
Garlic Toast
Carrot Cake

Please note that next week there will be no regular classes, dinner or worship service.  Instead, you’re invited with your little trick or treaters to join us for TRUNK OR TREAT NIGHT from 6-7pm. Walking Tacos will be offered for $4