From: "patricia burroughs" 
Subject: Recipes?
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 

Anybody got recipes you like to use to take food to the bereaved?

You know, something you can possibly put in a disposable pan, something easy
for them to handle, and something delicious enough to tempt even when people
don't feel like eating?

Pooks

Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 
Subject: Re: Recipes?
From: Laura Denny 
To: anglican@list.stsams.org

On Saturday, April 3, 2004, patricia burroughs wrote:
> Anybody got recipes you like to use to take food to the bereaved?

My favorite "disasterole"....  SEE RECIPE

Peace,
Laura

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Follow-up

From: "Barbara D. Colt 

It might be a good idea when possible to check with friends about any 
idiosyncrasies of taste.  As an example, I can't stand bell peppers 
of any color.

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From: sr.cyndy.ambrose

I won't post a recipe exactly but say careful of allergies, I'm
allergic to lemons for example.

As far as food for the bereaved or for families with someone in 
the hospital, times like that I have a few suggestions. First, if the
food is frozen but in something that can be heated and then to table 
that's good so they don't end up with too much at once and have to 
throw things away. Also something like Lasagna that when reheated 
is better than when fresh and don't forget to (esp. if a group like a
church is doing it) do some potatoes, veggies, etc. I have a twice baked 
potato recipe that can be frozen. My mother used to make a big batch 
of them, stick them in the freezer and then take them out 1,2 or however
many she needed like when friends would drop by. She could ask them
to stay, use a few frozen things like the potatoes and put on quite the 
spread at a moments notice. Want me to find the recipe?

Mother was an executive secretary, a very good one. She was
extremely organized and prepared. Things like the potatoes freed
her to ask folk to stay without putting her into a panic. When she went
into the hospital for the last time they just thought it was pneumonia
and no big deal. She had a stroke that night and never left the hospital.
But when my sister went down to Mother's, in Florida. from South 
Carolina the day after the stroke happened she arrived at the house to
find that Mother had -just in case- put the files with all her important
medical and financial papers right out on the dining room table so we
could find them easily. She was amazing, made a neat Altar Guild
Directress too. I just wish I was more like her ;-}

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From: "Chef Paul II" 

The only thing I ask is about allergies to food.  If I set it down on
the table, I don't care what one person's preferences will be, someone
will eat it.  And if someone has to explain to me why I shouldn't have
made a particular recipe because they don't like this vegetable or
that kind of meat or garnish, it's not worth listening.  They can pick
something else.