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The Peculiar Zen of Meal Prep
We’re not doing meal prep anymore. Street Angels has a legit kitchen now and a pro in charge. But I miss it, I really do.
Every now and then, on no particular schedule, when I think I should or when I feel the need for total immersion in a task that is immediate and elemental, I do meal prep.
Meal prep is what Street Angels calls preparing and packaging hot meals for the homeless people on our outreach route. So depending on the time of the year, anywhere from 40 to 120 hot meals are needed for each night of outreach – Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday.
Volunteers do this. They buy, cook, package, and transport hot meals to the Street Angels bus by 5:45 p.m. on outreach nights. It’s both a science and an art. Food has to be generally appealing, nutritious, but most of all, hot. The food has to be hot. There’s a trick to that. I haven’t perfected it yet but liquid is key – sauce, gravy, soup, chili – liquids…
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Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect.
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect May 27, 2020
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
Can’t tell you how thrilled I was by the recount in urban Wisconsin. Biden gained votes!
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The people in charge of the election here in Milwaukee were ON IT from the beginning. So organized, thorough, careful. And I am really grateful.
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He still seems to be moaning about Wisconsin today.
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it’s all so amazing that this happens
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