January 9 Meeting

Sara McCurdy, Brady Ryan, Theresa Klaassen, Trang Ta, and Ann met to discuss our next event. Instead of coming up with a menu, we decided to embrace the challenge of seasonality and work with a local farm to see what is available in early February and have that set the menu for our next meal. Ann will visit the Farmer's Market tomorrow to talk to the farmers who are still bringing produce to market to explore with them what they might have in a month's time. Another sub-theme for this event might be "expanding our vegetable vocabulary." Maria Hines, of Tilth Restaurant, was interviewed on KUOW yesterday evening and she was talking about the year she spent in France and the tremendous diversity of winter vegetables you can find there that we hardly ever see here. You can find some of the recipes using these vegetables on her blog.

We decided to move the date to Friday, February 6. We also set a deadline of January 28 to get a head count for dinner and collect money ahead of time as much as possible so we have some funds for shopping for the meal. We are keeping the cost to $15.00 for participants, plus $10.00 for guests. Those of you who overpaid last time can deduct that amount for this time. We are also planning a trip to the farm to pick up the produce either Jan 31 or Feb 1, and we will need to get a head count for that activity as well so that we can plan transportation.