Month: October 2025

December meal for the church: Tatiana has been recruiting more guests – 120 people. Maybe Tudor.

• Gwyn and Gobban are providing bread.
• Brigida is making a bunch of chicken and barley stew, honey butter
• Stasi – Pork with lingonberry sauce. Food cards/labels?
• Sofya will do Armored Turnips, Cold Spiced Beet Soup (Cold Sweet Borscht)
• Brighid doing a desert (rice pudding) and an appetizer.
• Juliana making marzipan table subtleties and orange butters.
• Avelyn and Randal making wassail to drink.

Menu, served buffet style:

• At Table: Breads, butters, marzipan subtleties (in the stemmed candy dishes?), Brighid’s appetizer (something tangy?)
• Main Dish/es: chicken and barley stew (bowls in drawers), pork with lingonberry sauce
• Sides: armored turnips, cold sweet borsch (small bowls/cups)
• Desserts: marzipan subtleties, rice pudding
• Beverages: wassail, others?

Special supplies:

• Labels for the buffet, ingredient lists/recipes, program?
• Crock pots for Brighid’s rice pudding
• Casseroles for Sofya’s armored turnips – twenty 9×9 casseroles or thirteen 9×13 casseroles?

Suggested Lunch Portions per Person

• Salad: 1 cup salad per person as a side and 3 cups salad per person as a main entree
• Soup: 8 to 10 ounces of soup per person
• Sandwiches: 1 whole sandwich per person
• Pasta: 6 to 8 ounces of pasta per person

Suggested Dinner Portions per Person

• Meat and Fish: 4 – 6 ounces of protein per person, 6 – 8 ounces of protein for buffets or barbecues
• Starches: 4 – 6 ounces of starches (like rice, pasta, or potatoes) per person
• Vegetables: 4 – 6 ounces of vegetables per person
• Salad: 1 cup salad per person as a side and 2 cups salad per person as a main entree
• Bread: 1 – 2 rolls or slices of bread per person

Suggested Dessert Portions per Person

• Cake: 1″ x 2″ (!) slice per person for a single-layer cake and 1″ x 1″ to 1″ x 2″ slice (!) per person for a layer cake
• Cupcakes: 1 standard cupcake per person and 2-3 mini cupcakes per person.
• Cookies: 1 to 2 cookies per person
• Pies and Tarts: 1 slice per person or 1 individual tart per person
• Dessert Bars: 1 to 2 brownies or blondies per person

• per https://www.webstaurantstore.com/article/1013/catering-portion-size-guide.html?srsltid=AfmBOooTCvqZKGV8K-11xH7KaDnCDZMa5fqTwUwjjhwrNiMSVJmW0ehV

8 October 2025, First Methodist Church

Attending: Brigida, Berndt, Rune, Avelyn, Randall, Sofya, Sifrid, Brighid, Gwyn, Gobban.

Event Wrap-up: Brighid is still working on listing the camp kitchen to sell.

A&S: working on her quarterly report. Brighid is working on walnut hull ink. Brigida planning 1 pm November 16th dying class at Deodar. Brighid is pondering ideas for the A&S meeting. Project Day will be on the 25th at the Park House.

Archery: we have bows, arrows, plumbatas… we’ve had a couple of practices over the summer.

Exchequer: we have money. The event report got sent in.

Web Minister: we have a webpage. The Deputy is putting in notes.

Chronicler: nothing new.

Herald: Gida’s heraldic title is at Laurel receiving commentary.

Seneschal: remember to copy her in on your 3rd quarter officer reports. The Grafton towels got washed and returned. November and December A&S dates are all on top of the holidays, so we’re thinking we’ll just cancel those. She looked into paid storage options around town, all about $100/mo and too big for our needs. So we’ll get the stuff Juliana is storing into the Park House.

December meal for the church: Tatiana has been recruiting more guests – 120 people. Maybe Tudor.

• Brigida is making a bunch of chicken and barley stew, honey butter
• Gwyn and Gobban are providing bread.
• Avelyn and Randal making wassail.
• Brighid doing a desert and an appetizer.
• Sofya will do Armored Turnips, another veggie dish? A salad?

Kingdom A&S bid: We need to finalize our big for Kingdom A&S. Figure 200 people. Site expense ~$600. Narthex $400, fellowship hall $150, three classroooms $75. Site fee $25/15 (children $5). ePay required for pre-reg b/c kingdom event. $600 for a good inn.