Food

Music and Soup/ la musique et la soupe

Southwest Music † Musique sud-ouest

 

SUNDAY MARCH 4

MUSIC, with Arielle Soucy, our very own Steve Scales and the fabulous SouthWest Choir! Arielle has sung at the Church a few times now, and it’s a real treat. Rockin’ Steve needs no introduction! The choir is providing the soups for the Lenten Lunch after the service, so you’ll have lots to choose from.

This is also a SOUP DRIVE, so we’re asking you to come with tins, packets, and containers of soup to replenish the shelves at Manna Verdun and the Mission.

See you Sunday!

 

DIMANCHE LE 4 MARS

Un dimanche en MUSIQUE : la soprane Arielle Soucy, qui est déjà venu chanter à l’église à quelques reprises, notre chanteur « Soul » maison, Steve Scales, et le Chœur Sud-ouest. Restez après la célébration pour un bol de soupe, cuisiné par les membres du chœur !

Pour notre COLLECTE DE SOUPE, on vous demande d’apporter des contenants ou des paquets de soupe qu’on donnera par la suite à Manna Verdun et à la Mission.

À dimanche !

Sarah Fraser

March Break Cooking Camp

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Our community chef, Leonore, is proposing a day camp the week of March 5th to 9th for young cooks age 10 to 15. Don't want them home staring at screens all week? This could be the answer. Youngsters will learn basic skills they can use all their lives. In the course of the week they will help prepare a community meal (Wednesday) and a High tea on the Friday. They are also sure to bring some tasty things home to their families in the course of the week. The camp will be bilingual. 9AM - 4PM Monday to Friday. Cost: $250 per child. For safety reasons, and to ensure one-on-one attention for each camper, there are only five places available. If interested, contact leonore.pion@gmail.com

Bake sale and food drive this Sunday

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This Sunday, February 18th, is the first of Lent. There will be communion during the 10 AM service and those who are able are asked to bring non-perishable food items to support our food security initiatives. After the service, there will be regular fellowship time, but also sandwiches and a bake sale. If you have baked goods to contribute, bring them along a little early Sunday morning. 1445 Clemenceau, Verdun.

News from SouthWest Music

Colds, flu, mountains of snow: we love the winter! If music at SouthWest has been lingering on the back burner of late, we’re all clearing our throats to heat things up a bit. Lent is a time for both quiet reflection and calls to action, and music can help unlock the keys to both.

 SUNDAY SERVICE WORKGROUP*

 March 4: Soup Drive

You are invited to a simple lunch of homemade soup and bread downstairs after the service. You are also invited to bring along a few tins of soup, which will be collected.
Although all music is special, we will have a few guests for this service.
Details to follow.

March 18: Food for Thought

Once more, you are invited to share a simple meal of soup and bread after the service.
If it has been easier to sidestep issues concerning First Nations People in Canada in the past, it is no longer. This is a huge topic for discussion, but we’re going to make a start at our own round table after lunch.
Details to follow.

*Doug Hastie, Dennis Brown, Aline Sorel, Steve Scales, Darlene Halfyard,
Sarah Fraser.

Welcome Wednesday featuring Mini-Market (Feb. 14)

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One thing our chef can reveal about next Wednesday's community lunch: there will be chocolate! It's Valentine's Day after all. The menu will be inspired by the hot sun of Mexico with a main course featuring cerdo con molle (pork with rich dark molle sauce). As always there will be a vegetarian option, and of course, plenty of dessert!
Lunch is served/ le dîner est servi/ El almuerzo está servida @12H30

The mini-market on the same day will feature a variety of fruits and vegetables at affordable prices. Please see the order form attached below. Send it in to Sheila or Maurice ahead of time if you want to be sure to get the produce you want. Market is open from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM. 

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Bakers wanted!

Southwest is planning a bake sale on Sunday, February 18 following worship. The ladies are preparing sandwiches so you can purchase your lunch if you want to, then stock up on baked goods. We always like to try new goodies, so if you have a specialty, please consider donating a batch. Worship is from 10AM to about 11AM, sale will start around 11:30. If you need help getting your baked goods to church, contact Darlene, halfyard1960@gmail.com

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Ash Wednesday

At SouthWest, we don't always do things in a traditional way. Take the lead-up to Lent, next week. In the Christian tradition, Tuesday is Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, also known as Shrove Tuesday, when traditionally families ate rich, fatty foods to sort of "stock up" before the fasting of Lent. The extent of "fasting" varies among Christian groups, and often means giving up meat, or sweets, or alcohol - or all three - for the forty days leading up to Easter. In modern times we may give up things other than food: everything from cigarettes to social media.

Regardless of what you give up, the day after Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, is traditionally the first day or deprivation. I'm not sure when it started, but at SouthWest we like to do a mash-up of those two days on the Wednesday. So we invite all and sundry to enjoy pancakes and sausages in the church basement, followed by a simple celebration with ashes to officially start us on our Lenten journey. Rev. David will be back from vacation and we hope to see many of you out, weather permitting. After all, it's a SouthWest tradition!

Wednesday, February 14, pancakes at 6PM, followed by celebration.
1445 Clemenceau, Verdun

February at SouthWest Kitchens!

Already February, my kitchen friends!
It’s cold outside, oh yes, but so warm over a simmering saucepan: fancy a good kitchen sweat?!

PATCHING-UP CHORES

Our beautiful community kitchen needs love.
Last month, I told you about the dangerously dangling faucet and the dying kitchen counter. The list of repairs is getting longer : the walls need patches of plaster, the cupboard doors could definetely use a touch of paint, and – last and certainly not least – our big refrigerator is leaning forward, like the tower of Pisa.

The replacement of the sink, faucet and counter will be done very shortly by a professional. The other chores, however, could become the duty of a happy few who have painting, repairing and/or lifting skills. Any volunteers? Please let me know asap and I will find a date to suit everyone.

WHILE WAITING FOR LOVE

While waiting for the kitchen to receive the love he/she/it deserves (does a kitchen have a gender in English ?), I have to admit I’m a little reluctant to fit extra activities in the schedule, as I’m a little concerned a faucet incident is about to occur.
Hence, February will be another month without cooking workshops for adults – with two notable exceptions : community production workshops every Wednesday morning, and the Centre des femmes’s collective cooking workshop on Feb. 26th.
Talking about production and love, should anyone be reminded that St. Valentine’s Day is coming up ? For the occasion, I’d like to serve a special Valentine menu at Feb. 14th Welcome Wednesday community meal. I’m thinking chocolate for dessert, of course, and pork mole, a Mexican stew cooked in a hot pepper and cocoa sauce. Any other ideas ? Shoot them ! The menu is still in the making, nothing has been decided yet.

SPONSOR SOS
We are very lucky, at SouthWest, to be able to count on food donations from Harvest Montreal and our other partners – thanks to them, we are able to keep our grocery bills low, and offer meals at very gentle prices.
Milk and eggs are part of those ingredients we don’t have to buy anymore, thanks to our Breakfast Club coordinators who give us their surplusses. Cans of chick peas and other legumes come to us in such great quantities that we hardly know where to stock them anymore !
However, other basic ingredients are considered as small luxuries in our kitchen : unsalted butter, coco oil, milk and cream, olive oil, chocolate, nuts or specialty flours (buckwheat, rye, rice, etc.). For those products we are looking for sponsors. Maybe you could be one – and get the Mission a pound of butter when it’s on special offer at Pharmaprix – or maybe you know a local business owner who would like to help us out ? Please ask around: Verdun is a small community, and there’re many people out there who want to help. We just need to find them !

For the complete program of cooking activities at the Mission and the dates of the next community meals, please download the attached calendars, produced by Verdun’s food security table Verdun sans faim. The one on the left shows where to find community meals; the one on the right has information on collective kitchens and food security.

 Share the news, share the warmth !

En cuisine ce froid février

Février, amis des cuisines !
Il fait froid dehors, mais si chaud au-dessus du fourneau

 

CORVÉE DE RAFISTOLAGE

Notre belle cuisine communautaire a besoin d’amour.
Je vous parlais en janvier de la robinetterie mourante et du comptoir qui s’effrite. À cela, j’ose ajouter deux ou trois bricoles : le plâtre des murs s’écaille par endroits, les portes des armoires du bas sont branlantes et/ou tâchées par les coulures de bouffe (maudit curcuma); enfin, le meilleur pour la fin, notre grand réfrigérateur communautaire penche comme la tour de Pise !
En principe, le remplacement du comptoir et de la robinetterie va être réalisé par un professionnel, qui devrait faire la job dans les jours qui viennent. Le reste, en revanche, mériterait bien une petite corvée communautaire de rafistolage.
Qui se sent d’attaque ?
Pour remettre d’aplomb le réfrigérateur/tour de Pise, on me dit que ça va prendre au moins quatre personnes musclées et des crics hydrauliques. Pour le reste, ça nous prend des gens qui savent manier la truelle et/ou le pinceau.
Que ceux et celles qui sont intéressés me fassent signe rapidement, et je trouverai une date qui convient à tout le monde.

EN ATTENDANT L’AMOUR

En attendant que la cuisine reçoive l’amour qu’elle mérite, je vous avoue que je suis un peu réticente à surcharger le calendrier des activités, craintive que je suis de l’imminence d’un bris de tuyauterie.
Février sera donc encore un mois sans ateliers de cuisine pour adultes, autres que les habituelles périodes de production communautaire du mercredi matin et la cuisine collective du Centre des femmes le 26 février.
Parlant de production et d’amour, la Saint-Valentin s’en vient et, avec, un repas communautaire thématique. Je nous vois déjà, équipe de cuisine, paradant dans de beaux casques de bain roses à dentelle, servant à nos invités du chocolat, du chocolat et encore du chocolat… Plus sérieusement, je caresse l’idée d’un mole de porc, un plat mexicain traditionnel mijoté dans une sauce à base de piment et de cacao. C’est très bon J
Si la Saint-Valentin vous inspire autre chose, partagez vos envies avec moi : le menu du repas en est encore à ses premiers balbutiements et se prête encore très bien à tous les changements.

SOS COMMANDITES

Nous sommes extrêmement chanceux, à la Mission du Sud-Ouest, de pouvoir compter sur les dons de nourriture de Moisson Montréal et de nos autres partenaires pour réduire notre facture d’épicerie et offrir des repas et des plats pour emporter à des prix tout doux.
Parmi les choses qui ne figurent plus sur notre liste d’achats, il y a le lait et les œufs : les coordonnatrices du Club des petits déjeuners nous offrent leurs excédents et nous permettent ainsi de réaliser de substantielles économies. Il y a aussi les légumineuses – les fameux pois chiches – que nous récupérons en si grandes quantités qu’on finirait par ne plus savoir où les stocker.
Il y a en revanche d’autres aliments qui font figure de petits luxes dans notre cuisine : le beurre doux, l’huile, le lait et la crème de coco, l’huile d’olive, le chocolat, les noix ou encore les farines de spécialité (sarrasin, seigle, épeautre, riz, etc.). Pour ces produits-là, nous sommes à la recherche de commandites. Le commanditaire pourrait très bien être vous – « Tiens, le beurre doux est en spécial au Pharmaprix, j’en prends une livre pour la Mission » – ou une entreprise de votre connaissance : imaginez qu’un restaurateur de Verdun nous offre 10 livres de beurre par mois… On ne sait jamais, hein… parfois, il n’y a qu’à demander pour obtenir ! Alors si vous connaissez la personne à qui on pourrait faire la grande demande, levez la main bien haut J

Pour le programme complet des activités de février et les dates des repas communautaires, téléchargez les deux calendriers en pièces jointes, réalisés par Verdun sans faim, la table de concertation en sécurité alimentaire et en agriculture urbaine de Verdun. Celui à gauche indique où vous trouverez les repas communautaires et celui à la droite contient tout sur les cuisines collectives, ainsi que le dépannage alimentaire. N’hésitez pas à les faire tourner dans vos réseaux.

Bon temps des glaces !

Léonore Pion, chef cuisinière
leonore.pion@gmail.com

 

 

Mini-market January 31st/ Mini-marché 31 janvier

Winter wears on, but the fresh fruits and vegetables at SouthWest's Mini-market are a colourful reminder of summer.  Visit us at the Mission next Wednesday, January 31st, between 10:30 and 3:30 and get your produce for the week, at great low prices. And for a special treat to get you through the long winter evenings, why not try some of Sheila's home baking? You can also browse in our Community Dépanneur which includes shelves of preserves and a freezer full of soups and single-serving meals. Don't forget to join us for a tasty lunch at 12:30 prepared by the Dream Team Cuisine supervised by chef Léonore. We are becoming well-known in the community for these Welcome Wednesdays.
If weather or a disability prevents you from getting out, you can still place your market order using the downloadable form below and calling or e-mailing Sheila or Maurice. 

L'hiver est long, mais les fruits et légumes frais disponibles à notre Mini-marché rapellent les couleurs de l'été. Passez nous voir mercredi prochain, le 31 janvier, entre 10H30 et 15H30 et achetez vos épiceries pour la semaine à des prix qui font sourire. Gâtez-vous en goutant des patisseries maison de Sheila. Jetez un coup d'oeil également sur notre Dépanneur communautaire, consistant d'étagères de conserves et d'un congélateur plein de soupes et de plats délicieux en portions individuelles. Et bien sûr n'oubliez pas de prendre votre place à table à 12H30 pour un dîner préparé par le Dream team cuisine sous la direction de chef Léonore. Tous les deux semaines, Mercredi m'attend à SouthWest!
Si le mauvais temps ou la mobilité réduite vous empêche d'être parmi nous, vous pouvez toutefois placer une commande en téléchargeant le formulaire ci-dessous. Les livraisons sont possibles sur le territoire de Verdun.

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