Gumbo!

One of the worst things that you can do in a church is to volunteer for something, some group, project, committie, dinner or anything else that is going on. Because before you know it you will become involved in it full time and if you are not really careful you will end up leading the event or outreach. While wondering how did I get involved in that.

Well on Tuesday night I made that mistake, because I volunteered to cook the lighthouse outreach dinner for 120 people. What insanity came over me?? Well a few did. Let's start with the first, nothing was planned, nobody was in charge. So when you say what's going on with the dinner. You quickly become the cook for the night.
The second reason is it was fat tuesday. And what food better celebrates fat tuesday and madris gras??? Gumbo.
And the third and most important reason I wanted to eat some Gumbo and that settled the menu. And besides Gumbo is a great party food. And what better excuse to have Gumbo than Madris Gras!


And when you get a chance to introduce Gumbo, to aussies, kiwis, norwegians, peruivians, chillieans and couple of other countries it's a great night.


So after a day of shopping, chopping, dicing, simmering and baking. It all came together. The menu was supplmented with corn bread and some cheese bread followed with some cookies. All topped off with a pie eating contest. It was good. So good in fact there was no Gumbo left at the end of the night!

So in all it was great night.