Hello my fellow foodies! After a LONG dry spell and no dinners as of yet this year we finally have a location courtesy of lovely Victoria in South Austin. I will email all confirmed guests as to exact address the week before the event. We will get things started around 5PM and go until 10PM respectively.
The above beautiful potatoes I found at boggy creek farms will be one of our produce offerings for our dinner on Saturday May 22nd. The meat selection, and the rest of our choices are listed below:
Meat Selection: ANY TEXAS GULF SEAFOOD
Produce Offerings: Any potato variety that you can find that has been grown locally
summer squash
snow peas
lettuces & any beet variety
Fruit Selection: Strawberries
For those of you who are not familiar with how it works, there are categories you may sign up for. Appetizers, Main course, Deserts, Sides, or Wine/Beer. The host provides the location, as well as bottled water for the event, and they can cook something too if they like. You may bring your selection pot luck style, or if you wish to cook on site, please let us know that in the post as well as we have six burners and a grill so we will need to adjust times for each person to cook accordingly. Make a dish however you like using locally, organically produced produce and/or meat from the selections I have chosen above. You can use other ingredients as well, but try and make one them your 'main event". You will need to subscribe to the feed, and at the end of this post place a comment on what category you would like to sign up for. Categories are listed below:
7 participants will make main courses for 6 people each (including some vegetarian options)
4 participants will make appetizers for 10 people each
6 participants will make salads/sides for 8-10 people each
3 participants will make a dessert for 12 people each
5 participants will bring at least 2 bottles of good *locally produced* wine (in Texas it is OK for any wine) per person (not per couple) and some *locally-brewed* beer. Consider that most cooks spend $25-50 (and up!) just on their ingredients. If you're not cooking, you should be prepared to spend at least this much on beverages, out of respect for your chefs.
Please let me know who is coming by name. Once we reach 25 people confirmed, I will close the event and start another post for the waiting list. If the slots are full for what you'd like to bring, please choose something else instead. (Don't worry: There will always be another event to showcase your skills.)
So post a comment at the end of this POST in the 'comments' section (not the end of the web page!) letting me know the following:
First and last name
Email address
What you'll be bringing (appetizer, main course, etc. and as detailed as you can so we don't have duplicates)
If you brought wine last time, you should now cook something (unless you cooked as part of a couple and made a large entree).
If too many people pick the same course, I'll have to assign a different course to the last entrant.
If the votes are tied for ingredients, I'll flip a coin.
This is going to be great! So sign up before the spaces are gone!
A presto! Shannon Sofia Kimball
I'll be cooking a main course and helping with the event!
Posted by: Shannon Kimball | 05/06/2010 at 09:23 AM
Amanda & Michael joyner would like to do dessert!!!
Posted by: amanda & michael joyner | 05/06/2010 at 11:47 AM
Sonia Dutton would like to do dessert, also.
Posted by: Sonia Dutton | 05/06/2010 at 11:57 AM
The Chance Ranch will be there and bringing deviled eggs (and local beer. duh.)
:)
Posted by: Jennifer Chance | 05/06/2010 at 01:19 PM
Guess I should do this right.
Jennifer & Laurel Chance
jenchance@gmaill.com
Deviled eggs (side? appetizer? deviled egg course? can you ever get enough?) from our 10 chicken ladies.
Posted by: Jennifer Chance | 05/06/2010 at 01:34 PM
I will bring rosemary potatos.
My homegrown rosemary & taters from boggy creek (depending on what they have that day).
Posted by: Jaci Caldwell | 05/07/2010 at 07:43 AM
Jennifer Brinlee will bring local wine and beer.
Posted by: Jennifer Brinlee | 05/07/2010 at 08:02 AM
Nadine and Andy Crouch
We're bringing Salmon Carbonara
and Homemade strawberry ice cream
Posted by: nadine | 05/07/2010 at 09:10 AM
2 people with 2 sets of appetizers
Posted by: Marcy Shapiro | 05/07/2010 at 04:07 PM
Bringing a main course of shrimp or fish curry.
Posted by: Shefaly Ravula | 05/07/2010 at 04:09 PM
yes!
will bring a salad and a side...
Ilse Frank
Kevin Gedko
Posted by: Ilse Frank | 05/09/2010 at 04:34 PM
Lorette Russenberger and Sara Wilson would love to attend. Will bring a vegetable side (new peas...) and wine.
Posted by: Lorette Russenberger | 05/09/2010 at 06:35 PM
Laura & Jose Minguell
we'll bring a main dish
+ side (or a mint beverage?)
Posted by: Laura | 05/10/2010 at 09:54 AM
Dear Shannon,
Sadly I have to withdraw because of an unexpected trip overseas, pronto. I wish I could come - sounds like a good, delicious time. So someone lucky can have my dessert spot!
Hope to do it one day again soon.
Best,
Sonia
Posted by: Sonia Dutton | 05/11/2010 at 08:39 AM
Bringing an appetizer of raspberry beet borscht
Posted by: Rachel Keith | 05/15/2010 at 05:39 AM
Hi. I'm sorry but I'm not going to be able to attend after all.
This leaves open a wine/beer spot.
Best,
Jennifer Brinlee
Posted by: Jennifer Brinlee | 05/17/2010 at 09:04 AM