FAR HORIZONS
COMPUTER CLUB MEETING
February 9, 2007
The meeting was called to order in the Fiesta Room and minutes were read on the blog projected on the screen. Jean La Voie, treasurer reported we have a balance of $2,241.71. There were 29 members in attendance.
Janee will put all of the information regarding preparing and serving our annual Computer Club dinner on the blog, including Jim Pederson’s famous meat loaf recipe ( with out his permission, gulp). A suggestion was made to cut butter quarters in half next year as we wasted a lot.
There will be no meeting next week and the following week the group that has shown interest in genealogy will present a program.
It was stated that by going to power options one can save electricity by putting a computer in hibernate or sleep mode and setting it to come on after 30-45 minutes of inactivity and standby after 15 minutes.
Bob Rogers installed our new Office Home and Student Software during the meeting and showed us some of the features. Notepad was new to most of us.
Janee Aronoff gave permission for us to check on some of the favorite sites she has on her computer by going to------myjanee.com/more links.HTM. If one needs to translate from a foreign language, go to
World.AltaVista.com/TR.
Meeting adjourned at 9:45.
Ardell Easterday, Recorder
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
Computer Club Dinner
Computer Club Dinner Recipe and shopping tips as of 2006
Bob Rogers brogere644@yahoo.com
Meat Loaf
14# seasoned pork, frozen rolls; 4 should be hot seasoned; best place to buy = Save A Lot
44# 80% hamburger meat; negotiate with Sunflower/ Save A Lot etc. Will probably be better than Costco, but check there also.
(we increased all the amounts because we ended up serving about 210 meals, and we wanted to make big servings.)
3 doz. Eggs
2 large loaves white bread cut up (cheap white bread)
1 gallon whole milk
16 large yellow onions chopped in LARGE pieces ( ½ inch; do not dice small)
1 large bottle worchestershire sauce
Other spices:
9 Tablespoons Lawrys Seasoning Salt
3 mounded tablespoons: poultry seasoning, dry mustard, black pepper, garlic salt: mix dry spices together and divide by 4
Divide the rest of the ingredients by 4 and mix each large bowl/pan.. Prepare six roasters with water in the bottom; test each one. Divide the meat loaf mix between six large oval pans from Frys, bend the slightly to fit the roasters. Pat the mixture firmly and spread ketchup on top before cooking.
Keep some water in the bottom of each roaster (outside the meat mixture!) and turn the heat all the way up. Cook until thermometer shows 160 degrees then turn to low until time to cut and serve. The roasters vary in cooking time, so check often. Leave at least 2 hours for cooking. Don’t over cook! Keep the lids on; essential for moistness.
Potatoes
60# red potatoes, cut in ¼ or 1/6 (some like them smaller)
Sprinkle with salt (we used seasoned salt) pepper, dry parsley and vegetable oil. (we used a full litre of oil on 8 pans of potatoes
Cook in HOT oven 500 degrees. (at 450 it took more than two hours in 06!) Stir at least once and rotate between ovens as the right one is hotter. We used 8 pans to fill both ovens.
Corn
9 #10 cans of corn
2 pounds of butter
3 bunches green onions chopped (use most of the green)
5 peppers, mix of red, orange and green, or just red
Saute green onions and pepper until soft and divide between two large aluminum pans of corn and butter: warm slowly over an hour or so.
Salad
8 large bags of Dole salad mix from Costco (25 servings from each bag)
4 bottles Vidalia honey Mustard dressing (unless you can find something else on sale! We used hand me down ranch and it was popular) Pre mix dressing and put on table; takes too long for people to put on themselves at end of serving line)
Cake
5 filled slab cakes from Costco. Get the ones that are scored in the icing for 48 pieces per cake (each has a rose!) Get as many combinations of cake color, icing and filling as possible; people love the ritual of trading cakes at the tables! (HINT: tear down the sides of the box and use dental floss to cut the cake; less messy and quicker than with knives; downside is no knives to lick!
Rolls and Butter
Bags of rolls for 200 + Costco has them, but I’m not sure you couldn’t negotiate better at one of the other in-store bakeries. We divided up six pounds of butter to put on the tables and most of it was eaten.
Things We Learned
I pre-shopped before we set the price for the dinner. This made final shopping the day before the dinner much easier and gave confidence we would make the profit we wanted.
Costco is great for most of the stuff, but not everything.
Costco: salad, corn, potatoes, small dinner plates, square pans for potatoes, catsup, salad/ cake plates, butter, rolls and cakes.
Sunflower: ground beef, yellow onions, green onions, red, orange and green peppers.
Frys: oil, bread, all the spices, meat loaf oval baking pans.
Save A Lot: frozen spiced pork. (This was a big savings, and good. I would suggest checking with them for the hamburger also)
We barely got things cooked again! Leave plenty of time and start the meatloaf and potatoes around 2pm if dinner time is 5pm. The potatoes can be covered with foil if they have to wait in a warm oven for awhile, and the meatloaf will be fine if left covered on low.
Outside the kitchen:
What a crew! Things went very quickly and smoothly during seating, and the serving was the quickest anybody had ever seen! Great job.
Two thoughts: we forgot to take care of the disabled. We don’t want walkers in the line, and not everyone has a helper. Maybe we could designate helpers to serve them first. Also it would be nice for groups to be able to sit together if it is not too difficult to arrange.
Thanks to everyone for stepping forward to help out. I don’t know how much fun you had out front, but we had a blast in the kitchen.
Oh, and we made good money too!
Bob Rogers brogere644@yahoo.com
Meat Loaf
14# seasoned pork, frozen rolls; 4 should be hot seasoned; best place to buy = Save A Lot
44# 80% hamburger meat; negotiate with Sunflower/ Save A Lot etc. Will probably be better than Costco, but check there also.
(we increased all the amounts because we ended up serving about 210 meals, and we wanted to make big servings.)
3 doz. Eggs
2 large loaves white bread cut up (cheap white bread)
1 gallon whole milk
16 large yellow onions chopped in LARGE pieces ( ½ inch; do not dice small)
1 large bottle worchestershire sauce
Other spices:
9 Tablespoons Lawrys Seasoning Salt
3 mounded tablespoons: poultry seasoning, dry mustard, black pepper, garlic salt: mix dry spices together and divide by 4
Divide the rest of the ingredients by 4 and mix each large bowl/pan.. Prepare six roasters with water in the bottom; test each one. Divide the meat loaf mix between six large oval pans from Frys, bend the slightly to fit the roasters. Pat the mixture firmly and spread ketchup on top before cooking.
Keep some water in the bottom of each roaster (outside the meat mixture!) and turn the heat all the way up. Cook until thermometer shows 160 degrees then turn to low until time to cut and serve. The roasters vary in cooking time, so check often. Leave at least 2 hours for cooking. Don’t over cook! Keep the lids on; essential for moistness.
Potatoes
60# red potatoes, cut in ¼ or 1/6 (some like them smaller)
Sprinkle with salt (we used seasoned salt) pepper, dry parsley and vegetable oil. (we used a full litre of oil on 8 pans of potatoes
Cook in HOT oven 500 degrees. (at 450 it took more than two hours in 06!) Stir at least once and rotate between ovens as the right one is hotter. We used 8 pans to fill both ovens.
Corn
9 #10 cans of corn
2 pounds of butter
3 bunches green onions chopped (use most of the green)
5 peppers, mix of red, orange and green, or just red
Saute green onions and pepper until soft and divide between two large aluminum pans of corn and butter: warm slowly over an hour or so.
Salad
8 large bags of Dole salad mix from Costco (25 servings from each bag)
4 bottles Vidalia honey Mustard dressing (unless you can find something else on sale! We used hand me down ranch and it was popular) Pre mix dressing and put on table; takes too long for people to put on themselves at end of serving line)
Cake
5 filled slab cakes from Costco. Get the ones that are scored in the icing for 48 pieces per cake (each has a rose!) Get as many combinations of cake color, icing and filling as possible; people love the ritual of trading cakes at the tables! (HINT: tear down the sides of the box and use dental floss to cut the cake; less messy and quicker than with knives; downside is no knives to lick!
Rolls and Butter
Bags of rolls for 200 + Costco has them, but I’m not sure you couldn’t negotiate better at one of the other in-store bakeries. We divided up six pounds of butter to put on the tables and most of it was eaten.
Things We Learned
I pre-shopped before we set the price for the dinner. This made final shopping the day before the dinner much easier and gave confidence we would make the profit we wanted.
Costco is great for most of the stuff, but not everything.
Costco: salad, corn, potatoes, small dinner plates, square pans for potatoes, catsup, salad/ cake plates, butter, rolls and cakes.
Sunflower: ground beef, yellow onions, green onions, red, orange and green peppers.
Frys: oil, bread, all the spices, meat loaf oval baking pans.
Save A Lot: frozen spiced pork. (This was a big savings, and good. I would suggest checking with them for the hamburger also)
We barely got things cooked again! Leave plenty of time and start the meatloaf and potatoes around 2pm if dinner time is 5pm. The potatoes can be covered with foil if they have to wait in a warm oven for awhile, and the meatloaf will be fine if left covered on low.
Outside the kitchen:
What a crew! Things went very quickly and smoothly during seating, and the serving was the quickest anybody had ever seen! Great job.
Two thoughts: we forgot to take care of the disabled. We don’t want walkers in the line, and not everyone has a helper. Maybe we could designate helpers to serve them first. Also it would be nice for groups to be able to sit together if it is not too difficult to arrange.
Thanks to everyone for stepping forward to help out. I don’t know how much fun you had out front, but we had a blast in the kitchen.
Oh, and we made good money too!
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Minutes of Feb 2 meeting
FAR HORIZONS
COMPUTER CLUB MEETING
February 2, 2007
The meeting was called to order in the Fiesta Room and the minutes were read and approved. Treasurer Jean La Voie reported a balance of
$2,229.55. Our profit on our very successful dinner was $877.22. All those who worked on the dinner were thanked for their help, especially Bob, Claire, Dolores,Jean, and Ray who were the cooks.
Bob Rogers plans to write a detailed report including recipes and amounts to facilitate future dinner plans.
Under new business, Al Mendenhall made a motion and Bob seconded it that we purchase the Office Home and Student Software that includes power point, excel and word and Adobe Photoshop for the club laptop. Ann Iverson will purchase them at CostCo.
Those present were asked to sign one of four interest sheets for future programs. They are: E Bay, Geneology,Business and Greeting Cards, and Working With Digital Photos.
Our program presenters were Al Mendenhall and Ann Iverson. Al showed us how we can track financial info using Yahoo and also showed on the screen the update on the FHTV invest he had been tracking for five of his committee members. Ann told us how easy and safe it is to do our banking on line using Microsoft Money. She gave us handouts on various uses for Money software.
Meeting adjourned at 9:45.
Ardell Easterday, Recorder
COMPUTER CLUB MEETING
February 2, 2007
The meeting was called to order in the Fiesta Room and the minutes were read and approved. Treasurer Jean La Voie reported a balance of
$2,229.55. Our profit on our very successful dinner was $877.22. All those who worked on the dinner were thanked for their help, especially Bob, Claire, Dolores,Jean, and Ray who were the cooks.
Bob Rogers plans to write a detailed report including recipes and amounts to facilitate future dinner plans.
Under new business, Al Mendenhall made a motion and Bob seconded it that we purchase the Office Home and Student Software that includes power point, excel and word and Adobe Photoshop for the club laptop. Ann Iverson will purchase them at CostCo.
Those present were asked to sign one of four interest sheets for future programs. They are: E Bay, Geneology,Business and Greeting Cards, and Working With Digital Photos.
Our program presenters were Al Mendenhall and Ann Iverson. Al showed us how we can track financial info using Yahoo and also showed on the screen the update on the FHTV invest he had been tracking for five of his committee members. Ann told us how easy and safe it is to do our banking on line using Microsoft Money. She gave us handouts on various uses for Money software.
Meeting adjourned at 9:45.
Ardell Easterday, Recorder
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