September's Monthly Meeting

Time to start planning next months meeting...

Date: Thurs Sept. 11th

Time: 7:00

Place: Kelly's

Theme: Breakfast

Activity: Pizza Assembly

Snack: Amy (you did volunteer, right?)

RSVP: Sept 3rd

Some breakfast meal ideas:

Sausage Breakfast Muffins http://www.recipezaar.com/87629

Bagel Breakfast Sandwiches http://www.recipezaar.com/120519

Berry Good Moirning Breakfast Casserole http://www.recipezaar.com/122197

Breakfast Bake http://www.recipezaar.com/262761

Breakfast Burritos http://www.recipezaar.com/191627

Quick bread/muffins (banana, pumpkin, zucchinni)

We'd like to start committing to whether or not you can come by the first of the month in order to better plan the number of meals that we'd need to make. Since I'm getting a late start, I extended it to the 3rd, but please let me know ASAP is you will or will not be coming and if you know what you'd like to make. As soon as I hear from everyone, I'll send out a message to the group.

I will also create a sign-up sheet for the pizza ingredients. If you have a bread maker and would be able to make some dough, let me know.

During the meeting we'll also attempt plan dates, locations and themes for the rest of the year. So some prepared with some potential ideas for our meetings and when you might be able to host.

Some potential ideas:

-Christmas cookies in November

-Meatless meals

-Apple night: applesauce, pies, fritters in the fall (many hands make the cutting go so much faster)!

-More sewing projects

We could also try to plan another field trip and hope we don't get rained out again. I'll look into some potential apple orchards.

Already looking forward to our next meeting!

Appetizer and Dessert ideas

Artichoke Dip - Krista's got this one down!
Sausage and Mushroom pizza pockets
Chili's salsa
Ham It Up Crescent Rolls
Eggrolls
Pizza Spirals
Bacon Roll ups
Chicken Empanadas

Desserts
Raspberry Summer Sensation
Caramel Dessert
Orange Cream Freezer Dessert
Heidi's Chocolate Chip Cookies (which you know you can make up and freeze)

August meeting

July went well. We made a few bags despite a few glitches with our sewing machines. If Heidi will send me a picture of her's I will post it here. August's meeting is the 14th. We have to decide who is hosting and what we are going to do.

Several people mentioned making August - appetizer and dessert month. I agree! So post some ideas here when you get time.

June Cooking Club

This month we are going to be picking strawberries. I believe this will happen this coming weekend. Remember to bring your coolers packed with ice and your meals to the strawberry picking. Maybe try some recipes that would be good on the grill since it is grilling season. Below are some ideas. With these you could put all of the ingredients in a bag or foil packet and then thaw overnight in the fridge and grill!

Grilled Chicken Breast with BBQ Glaze
Smokin' Chicken Kabobs - I'm sure you can substitute veggies of your choice that freeze well
Beef Kabobs
Grilled Ginger Salmon
Grilled Steak Soft Taco
Shrimp Robby
Veggie Burger
Lemon Pepper Chicken

Also, don't forget how to make strawberry jam.

May Days!

Well, I am obviously getting late in posting this, but here goes! Comment to this post about what you are bringing for next week. It is on the 15th remember at 6:45 pm. We are having a "guest" speaker come this month to teach us how to can strawberry jam, which will come in handy since we are planning on picking strawberries next month. I think I am going to make Easy Teriyaki Chicken.

I will try to update this site a little better and add recipes and tips for OAMC! Since we are make strawberry jam and we all get to take some home, let's not make a side dish or dessert this time unless you absolutely want to, and Krista is bringing dessert!

April's Meals and Cooking together

Please comment to this post as to what you are bringing. I am bringing calzones.

Also, when you comment decide what side dishes/dessert you want to make:
Choose one out of these side dishes:
Glazed Baby Carrots - http://www.recipezaar.com/255213
Cheddar Cauliflower cheese - http://www.recipezaar.com/216237
Hashbrown casserole - http://www.recipezaar.com/57129
No Cheeze Whiz broccoli rice casserole - http://www.recipezaar.com/105080

And desserts:
Cookies - http://www.recipezaar.com/16110 (we could substitute chocolate chips for butterscotch)
Easy Chocolate Chip Pan Squares - http://www.recipezaar.com/133150
Brownie Finger Recipe - http://www.recipezaar.com/92296

Also, if you have your own ideas let me know.

I figure once we decide up on what side dish/dessert everyone wants to make (majority rules) we can assign people to bring the certain ingredients necessary to make the above. Let me know if this is not okay or if you have other ideas.

Thanks!

Cooking Club Instructions

Ladies, welcome to the Once-a-Month Cooking Club! Gretchen and Krista are really excited about this idea! I think we all agree that the last thing we feel like doing at the end of each busy day is making dinner. So, we'd like to try a dinner swap of main entrees so that during this cold winter we have some home cooked meals on hand.

For those of you participating please post your entree selection (i.e. what you plan to make) for the next month. This way we won't end up with 20 lasagnas! Everyone please bring a four-serving entree per person to the swap. Each four-serving entree would be wrapped and ready to go straight to the freezer (foil, ziploc bags, etc). Consider a serving to be about a cup to a cup and a half. We're looking for main dishes only here! And do your best to make the dishes hearty and healthy.

To RSVP, just add a comment to this post. Also, please email us a copy of the recipe or bring several copies with you.

Be sure to use disposable dishes so that we don't have to worry about getting that casserole pan back to you once we've eaten your yummy meal.

Remember - Dishes that Freeze Well!