Church Suppers Cookbook

This Monday morning dawned rainy and dreary. We often assign Mondays as our "day off" and try to incorporate some form of recreation. This morning, we opted for a short road trip that would end in a delightful ambiance for our morning coffee. We opted for Stoughton, Wisconsin, and a place called Cheesers.

While Dotti went next door to buy some yarn, I sat at a table in the window and enjoyed a bottomless cup of coffee and my half of our white chocolate raspberry scone. As I sat there, I spied a rack of cookbooks.


I never opened the cookbook titled Church Suppers, but its title inspired the following 8-stanza Haiku:

church suppers cookbook
traditional recipes
to nourish your soul

ethnic heritagge
hot food for the family
and a dish to pass

eating together
church basement or out-of-doors
time spent with others

wrapped in a cozy
retain the heat until served
always enough food

food shared with kindred
lives shared for generations
wisdom love hope faith

finding together
courage to live useful lives
serve God and others

beautiful cookbook
recipes from cooks now gone
memories live on

fast food and drive-thus
rob joys from communities
joys of church suppers

We've shared many happy hours at church suppers. Those times are among our fond memories.