Sunday, November 16, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
First Real Food Challenge Meal a Huge Success!!
I believe that our first meal would be considered an unqualified success by all 21 diners in the Husky Den on Friday night. It was amazing how everything got done in time for us all to sit down together promptly at 7. Xia Zhang took lots of pictures and I hope to upload a slide show of the event to the website soon. I would also like to upload copies of the recipes we used, so please send them to me as soon as you can, given how busy everyone is at this time of the quarter.
The finances worked out well within budget. We have about $45.00 left in the pot for the next meal. I know some of you paid in $20 because of the lack of change and I have you on record so you can pay $10 for next time.
There seemed to be general agreement that we should have our next meal earlier in Winter quarter, preferably before midterms begin. I am open to possible dates. Friday night seemed to work out well this time, so be thinking of an ideal Friday in January for our next foray in communal cooking.
The finances worked out well within budget. We have about $45.00 left in the pot for the next meal. I know some of you paid in $20 because of the lack of change and I have you on record so you can pay $10 for next time.
There seemed to be general agreement that we should have our next meal earlier in Winter quarter, preferably before midterms begin. I am open to possible dates. Friday night seemed to work out well this time, so be thinking of an ideal Friday in January for our next foray in communal cooking.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Update for November 14
A bunch of us went shopping at the Farmer's Market, where we purchased a lot of the ingredients for our first meal this Friday, and then we went to my house and made ricotta cheese for the lasagna, roasted pumpkin and shelled walnuts for the pumpkin walnut bread.
If any of you have receipts for anything purchased for the meal, please keep them and give them to me when we get together for cooking on Thursday and Friday. But do send me an email with how much you spent, what it is for, and if you remember, who you purchased them from. We would like to make this as much of a farm-to-table meal as possible and it would be fun to keep track of where we sourced the food. I just want to keep close track before we forget. We can settle up on Friday.
For the Apple Cobbler work team (Andrea and Laura), I just want to let you know that we purchased apples at the market for the apple cobbler. There was some talk of maybe doing a crisp instead. Let us know what you have planned and if you are still able to join us.
I know a lot of you are getting slammed by the unrelenting quarter system, but if you are planning on coming, please do confirm your seat. We need to work out portions to make sure there is plenty to go around.
If any of you have receipts for anything purchased for the meal, please keep them and give them to me when we get together for cooking on Thursday and Friday. But do send me an email with how much you spent, what it is for, and if you remember, who you purchased them from. We would like to make this as much of a farm-to-table meal as possible and it would be fun to keep track of where we sourced the food. I just want to keep close track before we forget. We can settle up on Friday.
For the Apple Cobbler work team (Andrea and Laura), I just want to let you know that we purchased apples at the market for the apple cobbler. There was some talk of maybe doing a crisp instead. Let us know what you have planned and if you are still able to join us.
I know a lot of you are getting slammed by the unrelenting quarter system, but if you are planning on coming, please do confirm your seat. We need to work out portions to make sure there is plenty to go around.
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