Cooking Collective!

[Tina Neogi]

Hello Cooking Collective,

Our cooking date is coming up fast upon us.  Next Sunday, August 26th, in fact.  We have a lot to do between now an then.

• Still haven't heard from everyone re: decision on the meals.  On the table was a dicussion re: adding/replacing one of the purpose meals with the kale gratin or other recipes.  Any thoughts?
• Does any one know where the pantry is?
  
• Once we decide the recipes, Margaret, could you please review the shopping list and recipes to ensure that they are correct?
  
• We will be holding the next cooking session at Melissa's house.  Melissa, if you could take inventory of your kitchen, and what supplies you may need, that would be great!
• Shoppers, get ready to shop when the lists are ready.

Please send a response by Saturday regarding whether we which recipes should be replaced. 

Thanks,

Tina

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Margaret Pai <marga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey everyone:

I took a closer look at the menu, and there are NO no-cook recipes on it, which means everything is going to need stove time.  Because of that, I'm a little hesitant to add the kale gratin, which does require significant stove time to cook--I think last time we made it, it was on the stove for at least an hour, possibly more.

Also, I wonder if we could ditch one of the pineapple dishes?  While *I* love pineapple, I can't say the same for my menfolk, so it would be nice to only have to force them to eat one pineapple dish :-).  Maybe we could replace the lentil bake with the lentil thing we made at our second meeting?

--Margaret

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Margaret Pai <marga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sounds good to me!

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Michelle Farris <mgeri...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've never had seitan, but would be open to using it, or doing chicken!

Btw, the coconut chicken is awesome! I'm planning to make more next time QFC has a sale on fresh chicken!!

Michelle Geri Farris

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On Jul 17, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Tina Neogi <tina...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Melissa!  I agree with your suggestion about switching to Margaret's kale gratin (I wish I could take credit for this delicious dish)!  If people want a meat-y dish, we could sub the seitan for chicken for the orange seitan dish (although I personally love seitan).

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Melissa Knox <kno...@gmail.com> wrote:

They just posted a vegan mini-menu on the OAMM site!  It's pretty
similar to the dinner selections from the larger vegetarian lists:
http://onceamonthmom.com/10-day-mini-vegan-july-2012-menu/  Are you
guys interested?  If so, can I suggest one adjustment?  I think we
should make Margaret's kale gratin (with rice or quinoa) instead of
the quinoa and kale side dishes they include for the "Vegan Meat and
Potatoes".

Melissa

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[Melissa Knox]

Hi Tina,

I have the pantry box.  I can check it against the shopping list when it's posted.  

Melissa

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[Michelle Farris]

What if we substituted that kale recipe with a no-cook crockpot or meat marinade meal that we’ve done in the past? I liked the pork carnitas! That might be easy.

[Melissa Knox]

While that sounds good, remember that I was originally proposing the
kale gratin to replace the boring-sounding steamed kale and boiled
quinoa (we need to freeze that? seriously?) that was part of the
portobello steaks recipe. This would be adding a whole new dinner to
the list. Do we want to go that far? Maybe we're just better off
doing the original recipe as written or leaving that part of it out
(my preference) and making this cooking session easy on ourselves.

Melissa

[Melissa Knox]

Oh crap, I just looked at the menu and realized that Margaret had
proposed subbing in a different meal for the pineapple lentil bake so
what I wrote makes no sense. I'm up for anything, then, but maybe we
should have a quick vote.

Can everyone reply saying whether they prefer:
-Original pineapple lentil bake
-The lentil dish we made in the past
-Crockpot carnitas

That way we can get started on adapting the shopping list if necessary.

Tina, I think you can go ahead and put the recipes and shopping lists
online. It seems that we're all on board with the vegan menu in
general.

[Melissa Knox]

I vote for the carnitas!

[Michelle Farris]

Carnitas. Pork is always the best accompaniment to a vegan menu!!!!! :)

[Margaret Pai]

I'm good with carnitas, and with going with the original recipe with the quinoa instead of subbing in the kale gratin as a side dish, because my other concern with the kale gratin was the amount of stove time we were talking about.  The kale gratin alone would use over an hour of stove time, whereas I think the quinoa side dish is a bit more manageable in terms of stove time.

 

I am out of town until Sunday morning, but will try to look at/create the shopping list and timeline Sunday evening or Monday.  When do shoppers need to shop?

 

--Margaret

[Michelle Farris]

I’m happy to do anything but Costco. I can shop on Saturday or Thursday, but I’ll be in Bellingham for work on Friday.

[bethany.sjoberg]

Hi All, Sorry I didn't see these posts before.  I thought that they would be sent to my e-mail, but they were not. (How do I set that up?)  I am still happy to do the Costco shopping.  I also like the idea of Carnitas. 

 

ALso, I thought I already posted this message, but I don't see it on the board, so I am trying again. 

 

[Michelle Farris]

Bethany,

Sorry you didn’t get them emails directly! I’m excited to see you on Sunday!

Mickie

 

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Hi All, Sorry I didn't see these posts before.  I thought that they would be sent to my e-mail, but they were not. (How do I set that up?)  I am still happy to do the Costco shopping.  I also like the idea of Carnitas. 

 

ALso, I thought I already posted this message, but I don't see it on the board, so I am trying again. 

 

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[Margaret Pai]

Bethany, you have to visit the group and change your email preferences in order to receive the emails; it doesn't do that automatically.

[Margaret Pai]

HI everyone:

Sorry, been buried since I got home, forgot all about this.  Am looking at the cards right now and it looks like this will take a while--a recipe calling for 9-15 basil leaves turns into a shopping list calling for 20 bunches of basil??  I will try to get it done by this evening.  Sorry, shoppers.

--Margaret

[Margaret Pai]

Hi everyone:

I'm in the process of working these recipes and grocery list into some kind of shape, and I have to say, while I felt the last once a month mom menu we used had some issues, this one is a disaster.  It's pretty obvious it wasn't very well fact checked, and seriously--two pineapple dishes and THREE quinoa dishes?  I have the feeling once a month mom has no use for vegans (as you might suppose from her meat heavy usual menus). 

Everything on the shopping list is in ounces, without specifying liquid or weight.  7.5 cups of brown sugar may be 60 fluid ounces but it sure isn't 60 weight ounces.  One recipe calls for cooked quinoa, another for cooked lentils.  The former is OK, since we're cooking quinoa anyway; the latter will add stove time to a menu that is already completely on the stove.

I admit, the need for cooked lentils is caused by my putting the lentil bake back in and taking out the pineapple quinoa because I really feel three quinoa dishes (six since we're all getting double recipes) is just too much.

Anyway, I'm sleep deprived and crabby :-).  I will get this uploaded tonight if it kills me.

--Margaret

[Melissa Knox]

Ok,
1. Why don't we drop the quinoa from the "vegan meat and potatoes"?
That is a huge waste of stove time and I would personally rather just
make a side of mashed potatoes on my own. (Not if it adds to your
work, of course, but it's just so dumb).

2. TJs sells cooked lentils. I would be glad to go there and buy them for us.

3. This menu sucks, so I am not surprised that it is also a pain in
the ass. Thank you so much for doing so much work, Margaret!

Melissa

[Margaret Pai]

I've dropped the quinoa from the veggie meat and potatoes--if we want to add it back in, add 10 cups of dry quinoa and 1.67 cups of minced garlic to the list.

I definitely think this time around we can buy pre-minced garlic.  We're looking at over a cup of garlic!

I've also decided that for the meat and potatoes recipes, we can use vegetable oil or butter rather than coconut oil or vegan butter.  It also calls for veggie stock, but if we have chicken stock in the pantry I say let's use it.

I would be fine with buying cooked lentils, but it would be 40 cups, which I think might be way too expensive (if TJ even stocks that much).  I put 20 cups dry on the list, but if you want to see how much 40 cups cooked would be, go ahead.

Do we still have panko in the pantry?  The list calls for bread crumbs for the lentil bake, and since part of it is for topping, I think panko would be nicer than regular breadcrumbs.

I'd still like to leave out the pineapple quinoa, since adding it back in will also add in a huge list of specialized ingredients which I've just deleted from the shopping list :-).

If I recall, we didn't chop up the meat for the carnitas, and we didn't make the salsa, correct? 

The Seitan requires flouring and frying on the night of serving, and the coating mix calls for a whole lot of cornstarch.  Do we want to send everyone home with two bags of pre-mixed coating?  I've got the ingredients on the list if so, but if not, let me know and I can delete them.

Costco shopper, buy more bags--we always need them.  Both gallon size freezer and pint or sandwich size. 

The list calls for 20 8x8 baking dishes--this is for the stuffed peppers and the lentil bake.  I'm not totally convinced we need pans for either--the lentils could go in a bag and the topping go in a smaller separate bag; stuffed peppers would roll around in a pan, but I'm not sure they'd do better in a bag--maybe if wrapped in foil?  What do you all think?

Melissa, please check to see if we have foil in the pantry.

[Bethany Sjoberg]

Is there anything that someone could put in a crockpot the night before (like lentils), in order to save cooking time on our assembly day?

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Bethany

[bethany.sjoberg]

So how do we divide up the shopping?  I'm supposed to be the Costco shopper, but i'm not sure how you all have done the shopping duties in the past. 

 

Also, I think I heard someone mention sticking to the dirty dozen for organic shopping.  Is that an agreed upon norm?

 

[Melissa Knox]

I think that usually the Costco shopper goes first and gets everything they can there.  The rest is bought at the grocery.  We are all over the place wrt organics, but dirty dozen sounds good to me.

Margaret, you are probably right about the 40 cups being too much to buy at TJs, but crap tgat's a lot of lentils any way you shake it.  How can we even cook that? Can we cook everything else and then send home a bag of uncooked lentils?  

I'll check the pantry tomorrow, but we do have some panko and probably half a large roll of foil.

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On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:46 PM, "bethany.sjoberg" <bethany...@gmail.com> wrote:

So how do we divide up the shopping?  I'm supposed to be the Costco shopper, but i'm not sure how you all have done the shopping duties in the past. 

 

Also, I think I heard someone mention sticking to the dirty dozen for organic shopping.  Is that an agreed upon norm?

 

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[Margaret Pai]

We don't get the pork at Costco, but usually get it somewhere where we can get antibiotic-free pork (organic pork being impossible).

We could possibly send home uncooked lentils; I kind of would like to avoid too many steps left to do on the night of cookng, but we're so far in it we can't change course now.  I do have a pot which would be big enough to cook it all, I think, but getting it to simmer would be a nightmare.

Maybe we can do it beforehand at a couple houses.  Tomorrow I'll see if lentils can be done in the crockpot.  Bed now.

[bethany.sjoberg]

Today I bought the items that made sense to buy at Costco, and highlighted them on the spreadsheet.

 

 

[Melissa Knox]

I updated the list with what we have in the pantry.

What if each of us buys 4 cups of lentils, cooks them at home, and
brings them the day of? I think lentils usually cook pretty fast.

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[Michelle Farris]

I plan to do my shopping on Saturday afternoon and pick up the last odds and ends that we need or couldn’t find elsewhere. Is that okay?

Mickie

 

Also, I like the plan of everyone pre-cooking lentils. Or, I guess we could each bring our crock pots and have them going during our cooking session – the once a month moms authors often have multiple crock pots going ar3o2.und 26 the house during their sessions (that was Luke, pissed at me for typing. Gotta go)

 

Mickie

 

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We don't get the pork at Costco, but usually get it somewhere where we can get antibiotic-free pork (organic pork being impossible).

[Melissa Knox]

What time are we meeting tomorrow?  12?  Also, my mom offered to come and give us a hand.  Is there any objection to her joining us? Be honest, please, as I will totally understand.

What have we decided about the lentils?  

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[Tina Neogi]

Hello everyone,

I sincerely apologize for the radio silence.  Many thanks to all of you, especially to Margaret for uploading and checking the grocery list and recipes.  Melissa, I would be glad to have your mom help!  We had originally proposed 12:30 for start time; my kiddos have swim lessons at Mountlake at 11:30, so I will probably be able to be at your house between 12:30 and 1 pm.

It looks like the remainder of the components could be purchased at the regular grocery store; however, Mickie, if you have any difficulty, please let me know.  I could go to the grocery store or Costco tomorrow, if need be.
 
I believe this Sunday will be my last Cooking Collective until the Spring.  I have enjoyed getting to know you all,   and I will look forward to rejoining you in the spring.  These last few have been and next few months will be exceptionally busy, so I don't want to be the factor that slows the group down in our cooking endeavors.

Thanks,
Tina

[Margaret Pai]

I'm fine with everyone buying 4 cups (dry) lentils and cooking them at home beforehand.  Everyone else OK with that?

I'd prefer a 12:30 or 1pm start.

[Melissa Knox]

I'm fine with cooking my lentils.

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[Michelle Farris]

I’m going shopping in a few hours – just to clarify, anything that’s not highlighted on the list, or noted to be in the pantry still needs to be purchased?

[Michelle Farris]

I got all groceries except the pans, which I'll get tomorrow morning. I can also print labels if you'd like!

Michelle Geri Farris

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On Aug 25, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Margaret Pai <marga...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Melissa Knox]

I thought we were skipping the pans?  Margaret suggested we could put the lentils in bags and wrap the peppers in foil.

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[Bethany Sjoberg]

I need an address for today's session.  Also, is 1:00 best for everyone?

[Tina Neogi]

Hello everyone,

Let's meet at Melissa's house at 1 pm.  Please bring coolers, lentils, knives, supplies for bringing things home, check books.  Anything else?

Melissa, could you send your address out again to the group?

Thanks,
Tina

[Melissa Knox]

My address is 3514 NE 91st St.  See you all at 1!

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[Margaret Pai]

Mickie, please print labels if you ave time this morning. 

If anyone's got large bowl or pots, bring 'em along.

See you at 1:00!

[Melissa Knox]

I bought 2 large bowls from the restaurant supply, so that should help.  Also, I will print the recipes.

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[Tina]

I am on my way!

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[Tina Neogi]

Hello Cooks,

Well done, everyone.  Another successful (albeit preemptively stressful) cooking endeavor!  Thanks again to Melissa for hosting and for the delicious treats (complete with milk :D).

We are decided on our menu, and Margaret is armed with the chosen menu + the meatball recipe to check and create a grocery list.  We decided she has until Nov. 1rst..  The rest of the roles will stay the same, including Melissa hosting, Mickie being general shopper, and Bethany being the Costco shopper. 

The next cooking night will be December 16th.  I presume it will be the same start time.

Cheers,
Tina

PS-Bethany, we have some size 4 little movers diapers (huggies) that are not suiting my daughter.  You are welcome to them, if you would like?

[Melissa Knox]

Thanks, everyone, for coming and for cleaning up so well.  The place looks great!

Margaret, you left behind your lentil containers and Tina you left your Econ book.  Let me know what you want me to do with them, guys.

Melissa

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[Tina Neogi]

Ack, thanks!  I can stop by on Tuesday to pick up the Econ book...when do you leave for GWL (Great Wolf Lodge)?

[Melissa Knox]

We'll probably leave by 10, but I can leave it on the porch for you if
you like.

[Bethany Sjoberg]

Hi Everyone! I just saw that Once A Month mom is becoming a paid site on September 1st, for all menus prepared in 2012 and forward.  We should download that second Vegetarian menu before it's too late.

I enjoyed cooking with you all yesterday.

Bethany