Recipe help: Gearing up for Lent

[augustineguy]

Hey all, this post might be a little early, but the readiness is all, so here goes:

My wife and I attend and are very active in the mission church at the University we both teach at. Last year we cooked a big communal meal for all the kids and our priest each Friday in Lent. These were big, mass-production type meals sans meat: Manicotti and stuffed shells, my wife’s potato pancakes (guys out there: marry a girl who’s half Italian, half Slovak. Trust me. Beautiful wife + pirogi + canoli=marital bliss) a big meatless chili night, and a baked potato night.

We’re doing it again this year due to popular demand, so I need some help. Any ideas on how to feed 30+ people a good meatless meal on the cheap? Any suggestions are welcome, and I’ll post some recipes as well.

 

[kage_ar]

Black Bean Chili

Red Beans and Rice

Soup and Corn Bread

Bean Burritos (do the beans from dried beans, you can cook them in the crock pot!)

Eggs - I love boiled egg gravy on biscuits or toast

Pimento cheese rollups

Tuna Casserole

Lentil Tacos

 

[augustineguy]

Thanks for the help!

Lentil Tacos sound awesome (everyone loves a ‘build your own’ meal).

Also, I live in South Carolina. Pimento cheese is in my blood. I harbor suspicions that Christ freed his followers from Kosher laws so that, one day, Pimento cheese might be applied to hamburgers for the good of all mankind.