Have you signed up for April's cooking club?

If not, our Asian food gathering needs you!

We still need a few signups - go to the sign-up post here and add your dish in the comments section!

Mexican gathering pictures!

Sopapillas! Yum!

Fried Ice Cream

Jonathan & Rose - servin' fried ice cream

Heidi - making fried ice cream & sopapillas

Kristi & Michelle enjoying the meal

Fresh Salsa

Taquitos

Too many cooks in the kitchen!

Phil slicing fajita steak

Jarritos, the Mexican soda

Mexican soup

Mexican soup
Originally uploaded by krisde.

made by Phil and Rose Postma
Mexican fiesta, March 2006

soup, beer, and heidi

soup, beer, and heidi
Originally uploaded by krisde.

Mexican fiesta, March 2006

April Gathering

The 6th Ragamuffin Cooking Club gathering is hereby announced!!

Theme: Asian Fusion
Let's do a Japanese/Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai blend for this one! (No Indian food, leave that for another time.)

Date & Time: Saturday, April 8th, 6:00pm
Place: Chad & Karen's

We need signups for the following:

• Soup -
• Main dish 1 - Chad & Karen will do a main dish
• Main dish 2 -
• Side dish 1 -
• Side dish 2 -
• Dessert -
• Drinks -
• Cups & Plates -

Need recipe ideas? Check out the Asian Fusion recipes on Food Network, Asian Society's Asia Food, Asian All Recipes, Bite of Asia, or the Gusty Gourmet.

Also, check out the "informal poll" posting and give some feedback for springtime club ideas! One of the ideas mentioned is baking for the local fire dept. - our church is doing a local baked goods drive for firefighters on 3/25 and 6/24 this spring. Contact Karen for details if you want to donate.

Fantástico!

I don't know about everyone else, but I thought this past weekend's Mexican Fiesta was great! It certainly took a lot of work, especially for the meal team, but I think the change of pace was worth the fun experiment. Thanks again to everyone for their hard work and another successful club gathering!

We enjoyed in true Mexican style:

• Refried Bean Dip from Heather & Dave
• Green Posole with Chicken from Phil
• Roasted Chipotle Salsa from the meal team (Jonathan expertly roasted tomatoes. We added three chipotle peppers, not one)
• Fresh tomoato salsa from the meal team (Phil chopped tomatoes like nobody's business, and Chad had lots o' chopped veggies to add. We added serano peppers to this one for hotness. Source: Weber's Big Book of Grilling)
• Chorizo Taquitos from the meal team (interesting feats with chorizo grease from Dave. We didn't use guacamole, but added the fresh tomato salsa to these)
• Steak and Chicken Fajitas from the meal team (Chad marinated like a pro. We used Corona instead of tequila and didn't add coriander)
• brown rice (yeah, it was instant) from Karen
• Jarritos sodas in tamarind and tutti-frutti from Kristi
• Fried Ice Cream with chocolate sauce from Heidi, Rose & Kristi (with expert frying equipment & advice from Michelle)
• Sopapillas with powdered sugar and honey from Jill, Michelle & Karen

All I can say is - YUMMY in my tummy, and hopefully yours too.