Sunday Dinner, November 16, 2008

I have to tell y'all, I'm busier than a one armed paper hanger tonight. My church is having an old fashioned harvest dinner for the noon meal Sunday and I'm in the midst of cooking for it.

I'm making homemade chicken and dressing so I've already boiled my chicken and made my cornbread. I'm waiting now for the chicken and cornbread to cool enough so that I don't burn my hands when I pick the chicken off the bones and crumble the cornbread for the dressing.

I'll make my dressing in my slow cooker ceramic crock and put it in the fridge overnight, then put it on to bake early in the morning. I'll put the crock into the base and plug it in on "Warm" at church until time to eat.

I'm also making candied sweet potatoes. I boiled the sweet potatoes whole with the skin on so I'm waiting for them to cool enough to peel them and cut them up. I'll go ahead and get them ready to bake, dotting them with butter and sprinkling them generously with brown sugar, but I'll refrigerate them overnight and bake them in the morning at the same time as the dressing so they'll still be warm for the noon meal at church.

While I'm on a sweet potato kick I might as well make it complete by making a couple of sweet potato pies.

And I think that's the menu for tomorrow. Well, that's my contribution to it anyway.

What's on the menu at your place for this Sunday's Dinner? Share your menu/plans in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.We're also dressing old fashioned and I've got to go see if I can dig out my bonnet from wherever I stashed it. A dear church friend loaned me a long skirt so I've also got to find a blouse to wear with it. I don't have anything particularly old fashioned but I'll do the best I can. I do have a black fringed shawl to wear that will go nicely with everything.

I don't have any old fashioned shoes. Old shoes, yes; old fashioned, no. I have some flat Mary Janes that will have to do. They're comfortable and at this stage of my life comfort comes before fashion, especially when it comes to an extended service at church.

We're having an old fashioned service with lighted kerosene lamps and lanterns, and an old fashioned song service before preaching. We'll have guitars, harmonicas, maybe some fiddles, and maybe some surprises from what I hear. I think JESSICA is playing the piano. No telling what kind of instruments they'll come up with.

It promises to be a memorable service and I'll try to get lots of pictures, not just to share here on the blog, but also to keep as a remembrance and to look back on in years to come.Oh, and by the way: Since I'm so busy cooking tonight for Sunday Dinner, this is what we had for supper tonight:I think my chicken, cornbread and sweet taters have cooled off enough to handle, so I'd better get busy.

Y'all have a great Sunday. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share.