Dutch Treat name Speculaas

Cookie Walk is Saturday, December 1st, from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM. We’re asking each parish family for ten pounds of cookies to make this year better than ever. To encourage your contribution, we’re providing recipes that have proven especially popular in the past.

Variations of speculaas (or speculoos) are common in the Low Countries, . . . → Read More: Dutch Treat name Speculaas

Hermits

Cookie Walk is Saturday, December 1st, from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM. We’re asking each parish family for ten pounds of cookies to make this year better than ever. To encourage your contribution, we’re providing recipes that have proven especially popular in the past.

Hermits are a traditional American recipe. They are a particularly flavorsome . . . → Read More: Hermits

The Cookie Walk Secret

The secret of a successful Cookie Walk is scrumptious, homemade COOKIES—your scrumptious home made cookies, to be precise. And every year the Parish Life Committee asks each parish family to contribute at least ten pounds of cookies to the Cookie Walk.

Just a few of the varieties of cookies available (Cookie . . . → Read More: The Cookie Walk Secret

All Saints Evensong

This evening’s Evensong for All Saints was a rousing success. The Gentlemen of the Choir sang an arrangement by the Choirmaster of Bainton’s And I Saw A New Heaven, and Canticles by Sumsion, with Preces and Responses after Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices. Isaac was appropriately attired for the occasion. The post-Evensong was a rousing . . . → Read More: All Saints Evensong

Please help us to meet our 1,000 lbs sales goal

A Brazen Appeal from the Eagle

Saturday, December 1st is the date for our Twenty First Annual Cookie Walk. It will take place from 9:00 AM ’til 1:00 PM at the church. We have a great sale in the making, including wonderful cookies, jams and jellies, peanut brittle, bean soup, greens, table arrangements, wreaths, candied . . . → Read More: Please help us to meet our 1,000 lbs sales goal

Secondhand Rose, Second time around

Our Secondhand Rose Sale last week was quite a success. We have raised a considerable amount of money for the Sunday School playground. On the other hand, our donors surpassed themselves in their generosity, and we still have a substantial amount of gently-used clothing and accessories for sale. So we’re going for Round . . . → Read More: Secondhand Rose, Second time around

It’s time to start thinking about Cookie Walk 2012

Here I am again. They won’t let me air my views on politics or religion or, in fact, anything controversial. All they do is pressgang me into writing commercials for Cookie Walk 2012. The Cookie Walk will be early this year. The event takes place on Saturday, December 1st from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. . . . → Read More: It’s time to start thinking about Cookie Walk 2012

Our “Secondhand Rose” sale

Some folks (our rector, for example) seem quite incapable of throwing things out. The rector not only still owns the suit he was married in, but the sports jacket and slacks he wore on his honeymoon. In fact, his closets would fill a fashion museum with garments stretching back through the “Swinging London” era of . . . → Read More: Our “Secondhand Rose” sale

The Last of the Summer Wine

The final “Silly Summer Supper” of the 2012 season will take place on Thursday, September 20th, at 5:30 PM. This last hurrah will be a Potluck Supper, giving our summer cooks a chance to take the week off. You are encouraged to bring an entrée, a side dish, a salad, or a dessert. If you . . . → Read More: The Last of the Summer Wine

Summer Blood Drive

It’s that time of year again… Time for St Stephen’s quarterly community blood drive. Blood banks are chronically in short supply, and in the last several months there have been occasions when shortages were so severe that hospitals had to postpone elective surgeries. Summer, on the other hand, sees a surge in the need for . . . → Read More: Summer Blood Drive