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April 5th, 2009
Sunday Cooking Club’s first meeting was held, and it was tasty fabulosity! Thanks to all of you who joined in on the fun. For those of you unable to make today’s Club or who live too far away (*sniff sniff) to be here, I thought I’d recap the day’s events. Maybe you’d like to start a chapter of Sunday Cooking Club where you are! (Suddenly this is starting to feel like a sorority…hmmm… Let’s move on, shall we?)
The day’s conversation kind of went like this:
-Cute retro aprons.
-What a fresh, uncooked butternut squash looks like (quite phallic, in this case.)
-Big knives.
-How to cut an onion without crying.
-Melissa and Janeen found out they have both lived in Atlanta.
-yogaHOPE, an organization bringing yoga to underserved women.
-Lots of sweet potato chopping.
-Janeen’s demonstration of how to properly hold a knife while cutting.
-Buying a brand new couch with your boyfriend.
-Being newly single and doing new things, like running and playing drums.
-Soaking beans to make them less gassy.
-Grand, the store Wendy owns in Union Square, Somerville, MA.
-Canola oil vs. olive oil and deciding the best oil to use is the one you have on hand.
-What is escarole? What is kale? What’s the difference?
-Cats who fight but are lovely and cute.
It’s like you were there, right? Except you didn’t get to eat the delicious food we made. Sadness. Why not sign up now for Sunday Cooking Club on May 3, 2009?
So, as you can see, there’s no way a group is going to get together to cook and not talk about, well…everything else! And that’s just how it should be. Cooking is traditionally a way people came together, like our ancestors gathered around the fire. It’s my intention with Cooking Club to make food preparation a little bit more like traditional times. We used whole, natural ingredients and the community aspect was very important. We learned a lot from each other – which is good because I’m no Martha Stewart!
As a health counselor, I hear over and over from people that they have sugar cravings. Today’s menu was designed to incorporate sweet vegetables and help eliminate those cravings. Tomorrow, (or the next day, let’s be honest) I will share some recipes from today, and talk about how you can save money cooking with whole, natural food.
Time’s running out! Have you entered to win a free Kripalu vegetarian cookbook? Contest ends April 8, 2009 at 10am EST.
