Sunday, February 7, 2010

The French Laundromat is in da club.

















The French Laundromat is a cooking club started by beautiful, talented, smart and high-achieving individuals whose mission is to "enjoy extraordinary food by cooking more and learning new methods through good friends and company."

Our Values:
- Appreciate good food
- Celebrate friendships
- Be curious
- Keep an open mind
- Be creative
- Remember the journey

Our Commandmants:
- Show up! Take it seriously!

- Document your culinary adventure by committing to updating our club’s blog at least 1x/month for each dish you prepare showing thought process, ingredients, technique, final recipe, and a photo of the dish

- Members must post the recipe they are planning to prepare for the next meeting at least 3 weeks before the meeting. All members must prepare each members' recipe before the meeting and bring the recipe they posted to the meeting.

- Members must bring an appropriate drink pairing (can be non-alcoholic) for their dish to the meeting.

- The dinner will be a four course meal consisting of a starter, first course, second course, and dessert. Members will rotate the type of dish they bring to each meeting.

- Have fun! Don’t take it too seriously. Think outside your culinary box

Sample Themes:

- Cook w/ a main ingredient that is the color _________
- Cook using a new technique
- Cook using a new tool/utensil
- Cook w/ a main ingredient that starts with the letter ___________
- Cook a dish from a particular geographic region (i.e., Southern, Asian, Slavic)
- Recreate a tasting menu item (menu decided beforehand) with your own twist
- Cook a dish that will go well with “x” (i.e., type of beverage, condiment)

Our first meeting will be on Saturday March 13th, 8pm at Tim and Agnes' house.

Team member's recipes must be posted by Friday, Feb 12th.

The theme for our first meeting is "French Bistro" cooking.

Dinner assignment for March 13th:

Starter: Agnes/Tim
1st Course: John/Lee
2nd Course: Andrew/Yurah
Dessert: Kirk/Ei-Lun

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