It's an amazing feeling to feed that many people and engage with our community. Many sports teams do this because it takes quite a few people to prepare a meal that large, as well as serve it to that many people. The Congregational Church hosts the dinners every week, but it's organized by an outside group, and they coordinate the volunteers, but we did the shopping, and all of the meal preparation/serving/cleaning.
We did our night on Valentine's Day this year, so it was an extra special evening! We wanted to make lasagna, so we actually prepped most of the dinner on Thursday afternoon. Corley and Lucy were on dessert duty, making three HUGE pans of brownies.
Ali cooked and seasoned the meat while Maggie, Jane and I assembled the lasagna. (No Boil noodles made this task much simpler, and just as tasty!)
The day of we prepared huge bowls of salad by cutting up cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and carrots to add to the greens. All agreed it was a fun event and would love to do it again!
The finished product looked great, and we got rave reviews about how good it all tasted, as well as how nice the team was to engage with the community members by not only helping them get served dinner, but also just chatting with them during dinner. I think we made 11 double pans of lasagna, which is a ton of lasagna!
AND, of course, we had to clean up afterward! Good job, TEAM!! The saying, "It takes a Village" is ever so true, and especially in small communities like Middlebury. This is a win-win for our team since it's a huge help to the community, and rewarding for us to contribute and work together on a project about more than personal betterment.
