A few Saturdays ago, I was finishing icons in the barn while listening to the great line up of NPR programs: Car Talk, You Bet Your Garden, A Chef’s Table and Fresh Air. There was nothing significant on Car Talk, but the other three shows really were packed with thought provoking perspectives on food. Dave Lieberman and Anahad O’Connor, authors . . . → Read More: Taking It Up a Notch
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One of the first Thursdays in Lent, I heard from a Greek priest, a Russian priest and an Antiochian priest that they were each going to join us on the street that evening. I told Bethann and Hilary that at the dinner table. They both looked at me waiting for the punchline. We did have great fun . . . → Read More: Where’s the Punchline? This Spring, while you are planning and planting your garden, plant one more row than you normally would. When harvest time comes, give some of the firstfruits at the beginning and the overflow at the end, to help feed the homeless. Through the years, we have learned to be very creative in our use of ingredients. I’m . . . → Read More: Plant Another Row For over twenty years I have been giving the same instructions to those who want to make sandwiches. It goes like this: Make the sandwiches like you would like to eat them, except no mayonnaise, (because of the eggs going bad). Put the sandwiches in individual baggies; stack them back into the loaf bag and write . . . → Read More: Sandwiches with Whole Grain Bread Fruit has always been a luxury item on our menu, but it is so beneficial in so many ways. The fiber, the vitamins, the portability of fresh fruit. A high percentage of our clientele are diabetic, so whole grains and naturally sweet treats are to be preferred over simple carbohydrates and refined sugars. Apples are not a . . . → Read More: Donate Fruit The incredible edible egg! This Pascha, have as much fun as you want boiling and dying eggs without worrying about who is going to eat all of them, before they turn south. Save the cartons. Put them back into the cartons and get them to someone who is going to serve the homeless on a Thursday . . . → Read More: Make Extra Easter Eggs We have had such good times the last couple of years at our TKJ picnics, that we are going to try it again. This year, Dormition falls on a Sunday, so we’ll try that. That’s Sunday, August 15, at our house in Souderton, after Liturgy, of course. It’s potluck. At least two grills will be running. . . . → Read More: Mark Your Calendar Something else we have done the last two years is a daylily sale. I am not announcing another daylily and hosta sale. Now I want you to let those plants do their work to remind you all through the warmer half of the year to remember the poor and homeless in your flowerbeds, in your gardens, in . . . → Read More: Consider the Lilies … The plan is to start serving one Tuesday night per month, in addition to Thursdays, starting in May. We are stepping out in faith here. A few volunteers have said they can help or switch to Tuesdays. Financial support has not increased to cover the additional meat and supplies needed, however. I am not really worried. . . . → Read More: Last Tuesdays |
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