Lily Storm/Dan Cantrell dinner/concert Dec 17, 2011

Very delighted that this wonderful duo will return to our dinner/concert series!! Stunningly beautiful music from 2 bay area musicians i greatly admire.


Lily Storm - voice
Dan Cantrell - accordion

Saturday, December 17
  8 pm
loft in oakland
$55/person, byob
for more information or to make reservations, vegshaku8 at gmail or 510 393 6096
 
soup
buckwheat, red bean, sweet potato, sauerkraut soup

2nd
roasted beets with romaine and yuzu poppyseed miso dressing

small plate
knishes (pumpkin dough filled with roasted/mashed root vegetables;potato, celery root, parsnip, turnip and leek) with mustard
brussel sprouts with hickory smoked tofu and capers

entree
dumpling squash stuffed with heirloom beans, sauteed greens, wild rice pilaf, cranberry - yuzu sauce

dessert
pecan rosewater pie
cranberry walnut rosewater sorbet

fried food class for chanukah

And the lord said, fry it up in some fat. Well, not exactly. But an interesting myth about some oil burning for a long time after the Jews got their asses kicked and the temple destroyed. Personally, i would prefer a supreme being to help out in ways beyond long burning oil....nonetheless fry we shall!

Tuesday December 20, 2011
7 pm
limited space for 8
$50/person
for more information or to make reservations vegshaku8 at gmail or 510 393 6096

all hands on class
we shall make
potato chips with rosemary salt
latkes (potato pancakes) and applesauce
donuts
lotus root tempura
pumpkin pakoras


and much more

bread baking class, january 15

Saturday, January 15
noon
limited space for 8
$50/person
for more information or to make reservations vegshaku8 at gmail or 510 393 6096

hands on bagel shop style baking class. Knead, roll, twist, turn, top, bake

bagels
pumpkin bagels
bialys

and to go with it
hummous
red lentil spread
basil walnut pesto
faux cream "cheese"

thanksgiving menu, 2011

Serving thanksgiving dinner at our favorite clients in the Berkeley hills. Prefer to think of them as friends, actually! Always a fun time at their events and dinners!  The friendly atmosphere the amazing view, the wonderful wines, always inspire us to present serious dishes.


November 24, 2011

appetizers
homemade potato chips with rosemary salt
knishes: potato-semolina dough filled with roasted potatoes, parsnip, celery root, leeks, chives and parsley

soup
Matsutake mushroom soup served in yuzu "cup" garnished with nameko mushroom and chives
side of yuba drizzled with yuzu and shoyu

entree
dumpling squash stuffed with goat’s eye  beans, chestnuts, sage, and collard greens
cauliflower steak with basil-walnut pesto
wild rice pilaf
cranberry madeira sauce
homemade multi grain rolls
pan seared brussel sprouts with smoked tofu (smoked with apple, pecan and alder wood)
green salad with lemon poppyseed miso dressing

dessert to include:
kafir lime truffles
cranberry-walnut sorbet

i would like to be minister of food

As the occupy wall street movement grows and evolves, it appears that there will be some changes coming in the future. What these will be, is highly unpredictable. Will marshall law and a massive police state be the rule? We are already seeing insane amounts of police brutality with marines being hospitalized, 85 year old women being pepper sprayed and so on. Or will a more sane form of government actually come to fruition, somehow. Seems rather remote but perhaps there is a chance.
If so, i would like to be considered for the position of secretary of food. For decades, this position has been filled by someone from Monsanto or Conagra or some other absurd huge corporation. My first item of agenda if i was appointed this position would be to close the doors of Monsanto. Then close the doors of Conagra and then ADM, Dupont, and move down the line and utterly remove those corporations who have worked so hard to destroy our food sources.
I would then redistribute their wealth, land, resources (including the many brilliant (though without ethics) people who work for them) to small (25 acre or less) organic farmers.
People voted for change when they gave Obama the presidency. In terms of food (and most other things) we got status quo as he appointed a Monsanto lawyer as the food czar. In other words, the fox is guarding the chicken coop and having a field day. We need real change! Is occupy wall street going to be the answer? I have no idea but am enjoying watching the revolts begin and develop through the country and will continue to observe in person what is happening in the San Francisco bay area!

As minister of food, i wont offer any miniscule, tiny, ridiculous baby steps. Baby steps are for babies and well, apparently, also for the democratic party.  I will offer great strides in real food being grown to feed our country by closing the doors of  the corporations who have worked to destroy our food sources. And opening doors of truly sustainable agriculture and distribution

old client returns

Very glad to have an old client return the bay area. After a VP position at google, he then had an under secretary position with the Obama cabinet and is now back in the bay area about to start up his own company.  I first met him and his wife when they were looking for food for their wedding a few years ago. That wedding was the first of many times we have prepared food for them and their friends and family. This time we are catering a party of 75 for a fundraiser for the circus school that his wife is part of.
All finger foods that we will be passing around.

-kaifir lime sorbet, served in the limes and spiked deeply with rum
-socca, chickpea flatbread topped with julienned vegetables
-tofu smoked with tea and apple wood, wrapped in yuba, steamed and served with cranberry mustard.
-cranberry-pumpkin muffins
-kascha knishes. Pumpkin dough wrapped around buckwheat filling.
-ruggelach, our take on the classic jewish pastry, filled with fig jam, walnuts and raisins.

interesting note that at their wedding, i realized i had seen her father pitch against the mets a couple of times back when i was a young child.

chinese dinner in San Francisco

A last minute call for a Chinese dinner in San Francisco that we will be serving on Saturday, November 12.
-watercress soup
-Smoked tofu and snow peas wrapped in yuba with cranberry mustard.
-tofu stir fried with peanuts and brocolli
-sichuan hot pot. Spicy broth at the table with tofu, flat tofu, eggplant, choy sum, bok choy, homemade noodles
-fried dumplings; homemade dough filled with taro, leek and sprouts
-jade pearl rice
-green tea ice "cream"