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starwomyn 70F
5469 posts
10/14/2018 3:37 pm

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Book Clubs & Quaker Potlucks - Where's the Recipe?

Five years ago, I started attending Quaker Meetings on a regular basis. We have a pot luck on the last "First Day" of the month. I would always pick up a desert at the grocery store. Several of us started a monthly book club and do the same. I have progressed from the "pick something up at the store" days

This month, I made Pumpkin Curry Soup using chicken bone broth, pumpkin, coconut milk, curry, spices and maple syrup. Last month I made Vietnamese inspired Pho. The month before, I made Teff Waffles. When I post these on a FB group that I belong to, I am asked, "What's the recipe!" The challenge is that I don't use a recipe.

My girlfriend gave me a recipe for minimal pumpkin soup a few years ago. I use the recipe as a guide but tweak the heck out of it. That recipe is designed for vegans. Bone broth is definitely not a component of veganism. The soup I made is designed for people who want to fix digestive and arthritic problems. That is where the bone broth comes in. Spices are used that reduce inflammation of the joints.

Last year, my fellow Quakers and I travelled to Birmingham, Alabama for a meeting. We stopped at an Ethiopian restaurant and decided to use that concept for our next pot luck. My girlfriend and I made the Injera bread which is quite the process especially for two white women. Teff has so many wonderful nutritional
values and is gluten free and low carbs - far as grains go. I started making Teff Waffles which is much simpler to make than the traditional Injera bread. There is no particular recipe. I just toss it together and it turns out yummy.

I was at the local butcher shop when the gentleman working there described how to make Pho that he learned from his visit to Vietnam. I used the information he described but roasting beef bones, garlic, ginger, and star anise over an open fire would not work in my humble kitchen. Nevertheless, it was a hit for the pot luck.

I may never become a culinary goddess in this world but there might be hope in the next world. On to the next pot luck...…..






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starwomyn 70F
8871 posts
10/14/2018 3:38 pm

My Microwave Oven died last year and I haven't been inclined to replace it.

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MrsJoe 76F
17308 posts
10/14/2018 5:44 pm

I'm smiling at the thought of you as a culinary goddess...... but I admire your adventuresome attitude, even in the kitchen.

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