Category Archives: Announcements

FND 07/10/09: Grilled

Posted on July 9, 2009 by skome | 1 comment

Friday Night Dinner will be grilled outside, sort of an instant replay of last weekend, everyone had a great time I hope.
Ray and Mimi are away so adjust your expectations, but they said we could use their stuff.

I have Hamburgers, hot dogs, and even maybe a salmon burger plus several veggie burgers. Anything else that gets tasty over fire?
Breads, toppings, sides? Dessert could be vanilla ice cream and/or those little mango/vanilla frozen things from Trader Joes. Yum.

Last week’s pancakes and waffles and bacon and sausage ice cream and (grabs chest), well it was great. We’ll do that again next month.

See you/have a great weekend!

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7/3/09: Breakfast

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Rachel Levy | 6 comments

Hi Folks,

The veggie extravaganza was a great success — gotta do that again sometime.

This week we are having breakfast for dinner. We will wrangle some waffles and if you bring fillings, we can make omelets. I am always in favor of cherry pie for breakfast or really any kind of pastry. Fruit salad and mimosas sound refreshing too…

As always RSVP on the web with who and what you are bringing.

http://fndeats.wordpress.com/

Ray, Sam, Mimi

PS — Nobody has claimed the kid’s jacket or two forks from the lost and found.

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6/26/09: Vegetarian Delights

Posted on June 24, 2009 by skome | 5 comments

Our friend Ana is here from NC and we want to show her some good eats. We will make some Ethiopian specialties. Anyone make a terrific veggie lasagne? How about veggie chili? Mac and cheese? Please avoid veggie burgers — we have done too much of those already.

Also note the new Lost and Found Posting.

As always, if you are coming, let everyone know who is gonna be here and what you are bringing at
fndeats.wordpress.com

Click on the word ‘comments’ (or ‘no comments’ if you are the first to comment) and leave a message.

See you soon,
Sam, Ray and Mimi

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Posted in Announcements, Vegetarian

Lost Items — Look Familiar?

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Rachel Levy | Leave a comment

Child's hoodie and 2 forks

6/12: Sandwiches

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Rachel Levy | 4 comments

Last week was souper duper. Really.

Anna brought cheese and Jeff brought bread and more cheese! Mimi made matzo ball soup! Talithia made miso soup! Stuart made gazpacho! Ray made garlic knots and challah and banana fritters! Sam made frozen yogurt!

Good eats were had by all. Some of the die-hard-anti-cold-soup-folks even thought the gazpacho was yummy. And in a convergence of awesome babyness, our youngest guests Josiah and Riley got to see each other!

This week we are going to make sandwiches. Bring your favorites sandwich fillers, spreads, and breads — but please don’t bring mustard because we have enough to sink several ships.

Drinks, sides and desserts also welcome.

As usual, please rsvp who and what here. Click on ‘comments’ and leave yours!

Cheers!

Sam, Ray and Mimi

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6/5/2009: Summer Soups (Hot or Cold), Assorted Cheeses and Homemade Bread

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Rachel Levy | 7 comments

If you missed last week, it was amaaazing to have just dessert.

Sam made mini homemade chocolate-dipped meringues in three flavors: vanilla, chocolate and coffee.
AND Sam made homemade strawberry-lime frozen yogurt
AND Sam made homemade apple galletes
AND Sam made homemade sauces.
Deena and Art made yummy cookies
Allegra made amazing “quesadillas” with cream cheese and chocolate chips and cinnamon
Talithia and Don were going to make margaritas and we were all stuffed to the gills, so we took a rain check!

This week we are having summer soups, sordid cheeses and homemade bread. Soup can be hot or cold… If you ask Sam and Talithia, it should be hot!

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FND 05/29: Just Desserts

Posted on May 27, 2009 by skome | 2 comments

It’s a 5th Friday – a rare occurence, so we’re going to try something unusual: just desserts. You always wanted this to happen and it never did (did it? you lucky rascal.)
I will make a galette or 2; they will go fabulously with feta and a fruit reduction. Oh yes, it’s all about AND. Also don’t put it past me to make something more savory than sweet – but not weird I promise. Not too weird. Mostly.

If this works out we’ll do it again the next month with 5 Fridays. My scientists say that will be July – many fruits in season.

Bring a dessert or the makings, bring a friend with a sweet tooth, drinks always help, most of all bring your whew-glad-THAT-week’s-over.
Let us know which/all at http://fndeats.wordpress.com by clicking on words that look like ‘comment’

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Posted in Announcements, Dessert

5/22/09: Tacos

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Rachel Levy | 11 comments

If you missed last week’s pizza-o-rama, you might not know that the national pizza of Germany is tuna fish pizza! It was pretty tasty, even though I was quite skeptical. Sam’s gourmet white pizza was a big hit and the other gazillion pizzas we made weren’t too shabby, either.

This week the theme is TACOS. If we get inspired, maybe we’ll even make some homemade tortillas for taquitos.

Please RSVP on this blog if you are planning to come, and post what you are bringing so other folks can see what is still needed. To make a comment click “comment” (or click “no comment” if you are the first to comment).

See ya soon,

Ray, Sam and Mimi

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Pizza – May 15th

Posted on May 14, 2009 by skome | 4 comments

We’ll roll it and stretch it and throw it (which is stretching it) and cook it and eat it and you can help!

We like to make pizza from scratch once a month; this month I’m eyeing a recipe for white pie – not something I usually go for, but I can respect it. Traditional tomato sauce pizza will happen too.
If you can make a brilliant dough, or sauce, go for it, otherwise bring along your favorite brand of anchovies or pizza-related beverage.

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Comfort Food – May 8th 2009

Posted on May 6, 2009 by skome | 2 comments

I will cook up a vat of mashed potatoes to go with the cauldron of collards (or kale if I can find some). What do Californians count as comfort food? Maybe not collards. Too bad.

For a main dish…hmmm ham hocks? No? A roast chicken is better? Ok. And a vegetarian sump’n, I guarantee it’ll be fried.
If it looks like a lot of folks are coming, someone grab a steer or more chickens, or a wildebeest.

We still have about 6 beers and several bottles of wine; could use other drinks.
The sorbet survived and we have some frozen cherries. Other dessert ideas?

See you, and/or have a great weekend!

(hint: click the word ‘comment’ wherever you see it to let folks know what/who you’re bringing)