Spaghetti Sauce, 300 servings (made the day before)

6 large cans, 106 oz spaghetti sauce
6 large cans, 106 oz tomato sauce
38 pounds ground meat
Italian Seasoning
Oregano
1 jar Minced Garlic, 4.5 oz (located in produce section)
Brown Sugar

 

  1. Brown the Ground Beef 
    1. This takes about 1/5 to 2 hours. (Easiest to brown the beef outdoors using Wade's WOK/ LP burner.)
    2. Can be done 2 days before the event.
  2. Using 3 extra large stainless pots on low heat, stirring constantly.
  3. To each pot add;
    1. 2 cans spaghetti sauce
    2. 2 cans tomato sauce
    3. 1 cup brown sugar
    4. 1/2 cup Italian seasoning (cover the entire surface)
    5. 1/4 cup Oregano (cover half the surface)
    6. 1 heaping tablespoon of salt
    7. 1/3 of jar of garlic
  4. Continue stirring until warm
  5. Taste and adjust seasonings
  6. Remove enough of sauce from each pot  to fill one of the deep / half size warmer pans and set aside for mixing with noodles later
  7. add 1/3 of the meat to each pot.
  8. Continue to cook / stir until hot.
  9. Transfer to large pans in the warmer
  10. Set the warmer between 1 and 2, leave simmering all night.

 

 

Noodles, 300 servings (made the day of)

20 each 2 lb packages of noodles

After cooking noodles, store in a large pot of cool water that just covers the surface of the noodles, then as needed transfer to warmer tray and add some of the sauce that was held back to help warm them up for serving.

Owen's Note:  I would suggest that the noodles be cooked the day before, coated with a bit of olive oil or sauce to keep from sticking and put in the fridge.  Raise the sauce temperature so compensate for the cold noodles. Actual results for number of servings for 2006 event was about 200 servings from 14 packages, package indicates 2 oz per serving, we served closer to 2.5 oz per serving.  4 lbs per batch is good, the large colander at the church holds the 4 pounds well, 6 pounds is too much for it.  Removing the noodles from the pot, putting in cold water for 5 minutes to stop the cooking (water is hot again because of the noodles) then drain again.

 

Salad, 300 servings  (made the day before)

16 heads lettuce
6 heads cabbage
3 cans black olives, pitted medium, 6 oz cans
3 jars green olives, sliced salad olives, 10 oz jars
1 bundle celery
28 medium tomatoes, approx 14 - 15 lbs
4 pounds carrots

Chop ingredients, mix in a  doubled plastic garbage bags and store in church fridge over night.

10 bottles of salad dressing, Italian, add to the salad on day of event
or 6 bottles of 24oz salad dressing

Garlic Bread Spread

2 tubs of cheap margarine, 32 oz
1/2 cup parsley flakes
1/2 cup garlic powder
1 cup parmesan cheese

Soften the margarine on counter for a little while, mix all of the ingredients in a bowl and then spread on the bread before baking the bread

Bread (made the day of)  10 to 15 minutes oven time

30 twin loaves (60 loaves total) of French bread, order the bread from the piggly wiggly bakery by Thursday for a pickup late Saturday afternoon.

Tea

3 gallons of sweet ice tea for dine in only.
use 1.5 to 2 cups of sugar per gallon of tea
use gallon size tea bags or use 12 regular tea bags per gallon

Desert

Sysco frozen peach cobbler, cook time about 45 minutes to 1 hour

 

Mrs. Smith's peach cobbler, cook time about 1 hour 45 minutes
15 each 5 lb cobblers to feed 300 servings, 20 servings per cobbler
Preheat over to 400 degrees
Put 4 cobblers in each oven.
Bake for 90 minues
Remove cobblers on the top racks
Bake remaining cobblers for 15 minutes more
Repeat with remaining cobblers

Owen's Note:  We cooked the cobblers on Saturday, covered and left on stove overnight.  Put all 15 back in the oven on Sunday morning at 300 degrees for about 45 minutes and reheat and they were just right.

Monday:
Order the Peach Cobbler from Sysco
   
Thursday:
Order the bread from Piggly Wiggly
   
Friday:
Purchase Groceries
Brown the ground beef
Get Big pot from Wade
Get the burner from Aaron
   
Saturday

 

Chop / Mix the salad
Make the sauce
Make Tea
Cook the Cobblers
Pickup bread from Piggly Wiggly
   
Sunday:
Start ovens as soon as you arrive.
Reheat Cobbler from 7:30 to 9:30
Cook Noodles
Cook Bread from 9:30 to 10:30
Add dressing to salad and put in serving tray
Setup Tables with table cloths
Put out napkins, forks etc.
Dish first plates starting about 10:15 using to-go plates
   
Sunday Afternoon
Cleanup
Warmer trays
Unplug Warmer trays
Sweep Kitchen
Mop Kitchen (as required)
Sweep dining room\
Make Notes about quantities etc so that we can do it better next time.

 Worksheet for lining up work crew for Spaghetti Dinner.

Budget for Spaghetti Dinner

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