I’ve designed the post-Mayday Parade Volunteer Feast menu for 60 tired, hungry and cold volunteers and artists. This dinner isn’t served until 10pm – 11pm, b/c that is when they have finished transporting all the giant puppets & floats from Powderhorn Park back to the Theatre. Probably half of the workers will have been outside [...]
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More April Menus
Posted in Delivered Dish of the Week, Personal Chef, tagged ajwain, buckwheat groats, cabbage, carrots, dairy-free, ginger, gluten-free, healthy_dishes, kamut, kasha, lentils, mint, vegan, vinaigrette, whole grains on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here are the menus for next 2 weeks’ Delivered Dish of the Week. April 15 – 21 1) Gingery Lentil & Carrot Stew. Vegan and gluten-free. A vegetarian staple, to which I will add “ajwain”, an interesting Indian spice that smells like thyme. See previous blog posting “Trying New Spices”. 2) Cumin-scented Kasha Pilaf with Cabbage & Spiced [...]
Spontaneous Combinations
Posted in General news, tagged celery, combining ingredients, dairy-free, experimenting in kitchen, gluten-free, parsnip & celery soup, parsnips on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
About this Parsnip & Celery Soup I’m making. I didn’t find a recipe that was perfect (ie dairy-free) after looking online for 5 minutes, so I am combining two similar soup recipes. I wanted to combine these two veggies b/c they seem compatible and seasonal. Like other root veg, parsnips shrink when cooked, so I [...]
Success and Gratitude
Posted in Catering, Recipes, tagged cabbage, catering, cilantro, coleslaw, collards, complex carbs, dairy-free, fresh, gluten-free, greens, lentils, super foods, vegan, vinaigrette, whole grains on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The big Auction Dinner on Sat went well and I am so thankful to the 20 volunteer cooks and servers who helped me pull it off! They chopped, stirred, sauteed, baked and blended with aplomb, good humor and minimal direction. Susan made the collard dish from start to finish, and she’d never even tried collards [...]
Caribbean Dinner Menu
Posted in Catering, tagged catering, coleslaw, collards, dairy-free, farmers_market, gluten-free, healthy_dishes, lentils, tempeh, vegan, vegetarian, whole_foods on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As mentioned in earlier posts and my weekly email blast, I’m cooking dinner for 175 people this weekend at a church auction event. Many many volunteers will be helping me prep cook, serve, etc. I am shopping like crazy, will hit the farmers market tomorrow morning for collards etc, and then start banging around the [...]
Keen for Quinoa
Posted in Catering, Cooking lessons, Delivered Dish of the Week, Personal Chef, tagged beans, catering, collards, dairy-free, gluten-free, lentils, pumpkin, quinoa, tofu, vegan, vinaigrette on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NOTICE: I am taking next week off. Delivered Dish of the Week returns for Thanksgiving. Yesterday I spent the afternoon with a family who is going gluten- and dairy-free for behavioral/medical reasons. I showed them 4 easy ways to eat quinoa: plain like rice; hot cereal w/ soy milk & raisins; in a tabbouleh-like vegetable [...]
Sustainable Sustenance
Posted in Catering, Cooking lessons, General news, tagged cabbage, coleslaw, dairy-free, eggplant, farmers_market, First Universalist Church, fresh, gluten-free, locavore, organic, ratatouille, roasting vegetables, tomatoes, vegan, vegan chocolate pudding, vinaigrette, whole_foods, zucchini on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I oversaw a community dinner for 60. The goal was to make it locavore and vegan. Sized up what was available at the farmers’ market and decided on Ratatouille to take advantage of the very last zucchini and to bid farewell to summer. Main components are zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes, with optional bell [...]
Guests with Dietary Restrictions? Don’t Fret!
Posted in General news, tagged black-eyed peas, cabbage, catering, collards, cooking lessons, dairy-free, dietary restrictions, farmers_market, fresh, ginger, gluten-free, greens, vegan, whole grains on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As much as I love to write — and read my own writing — I haven’t been blogging. Why? Mainly because I’ve been keeping very busy lately and all the updates pile up in my head. Besides the Delivered Dish of the Week service, I’ve been catering and teaching cooking to small groups. A few [...]
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