Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Favorite Community meals?

[Catya Belfer (catya]

Want to share your chana masala recipe?  I'd love to try it out!

     - cat

Catya Belfer
My sites:   www.catya.org & CuriosityktCat.etsy.com
Cohousing:  www.cohousing.org & www.mosaic-commons.org

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:52 PM, Beverly Jones Redekop <
beverly.jones.redekop [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> My husband and I make the same thing about 90% of the time, and neighbours
> are sometimes disappointed if we make something else :-)  We make chana
> masala, which is a chickpea curry (onions, tomatoes, chick peas, chana
> masala spice mix).  We serve it with grated carrots, grated beets, and
> plain high-fat yogurt.  Occasionally we add chapatis or samosas, but not
> often.
>
> Here are some themes for gratitude dinners (where parents collaboratively
> cook an extra meal to thank the people without kids at home for feeding
> their kids):
> 1.  Scottish theme for Robbie Burns day (lots of Googling for this one!)
> 2.  Greek feast
> 3.  taco bar
> 4.  salad bar
> 5.  Mediterranean meal
> 6.  one mile diet (20 acres of our property is a farm)
>
> Other meals my neighbours make:
> * tacosagna (lasagna with taco chips)
> * frittata (the people with chickens make this egg-heavy meal!)
> * barbeque burgers and salads
> * soup and salad
>
> Groundswell Cohousing at Yarrow Ecovillage in Yarrow, BC
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 at 18:17 Ruth J Hirsch <heidinys [at] earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > It’s been fun to see the range of methods of payment etc for community
> > meals.
> >
> > So now it’d be great to see some menus and recipes.
> > I find that deciding what to cook can be a stumbling block.
> > What are some favorites?
> > Some very easy meals?
> >
> > Whatever you want to share around these questions, please do.
> >
> > I did recently do a brunch with an 8 year old neighbor.   It may have
> been
> > more elaborate than I’d have done— and it was fun.  Also, a fair amt of
> > decorated foods involved!
> > We had decorated crackers and cheese hors d’oeuvres,
> > french toast with warmed maple syrup,
> > mini peppers stuffed with egg salad,
> > oh, and raisin bread cream cheese triangles.
> > Oh and we decorated (store-bought) cookies
> >
> > ok, look forward to hearing from you,
> > Ruth Hirsch
> > Cantines Island, Saugerties
> > Glad to have another family buy an available house here!
> >
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