FOOD BLOGGER'S POTLUCK

Today was the food blogger's potluck, it was so nice meeting everyone and putting faces with blogs. Everyone did a wonderful job on the food!! There was a wide variety of appetizer, salads, main dishes and deserts.
Thank you Garret and Elise for putting on this event and being such gracious hosts. The backyard of Elise's home was huge with every kind of fruit tree imaginable plus her herb and vegetable garden. The day was perfect for an out door potluck.
Some of the foods were the meatballs w/ peanut sauce, little stuffed potatoes, prosciutto wrapped marinated asparagus, my chicken salad, a quinoa salad, brown rice salad, a salt cod (I think) dish, barbecued duck, duck sausage, antelope, a Filipino cake called San Rival, chocolate/chili torte, strawberry rhubarb terrine,and a lot of other things I know I ate but don't remember what they were.. there was a lot of food.. all so good.
Here are some pictures of the wonderful food...

Here are the blogs of some of the people I met, there were quite a few I didn't get to meet and talk to.. hopefully next time.

Vanilla Garlic, ,Simply Recipes Food and Cooking Blog ,Sac Foodies, ~MUNCHIE MUSINGS, Sacatomato, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook — Finding the Forgotten Feast, Rookie Cookery, Everything on a Waffle..., The Peanut Butter Boy, Everything Rachael Ray, The Sac Rag: Sacramento News, Gossip & Snark

_Eileen_

INDIAN POTLUCK

Shankari and our potluck spread

Last night Shankari Easwaran hosted our first annual (?) Indian potluck party. Shankari teaches Indian cooking classes at Sacramento Natural Food C0-0p, Whole Foods, and is often seen on TV. Most of the guests were students from her class at the Co-op and a couple of bloggers.

Of course all us students were under pressure to do well in creating one of her recipes, I'd say we all did a fabulous job as everything was delicious.

Mona and her husband brought both Lamb and Pork Vindaloo, Dave and Mel brought Buccaneer Chicken as well as drinks, Carolyn and Gary brought Chana Masala w/potatoes, Ann and Bob brought a cucumber salad , Roger brought Chipati, pita bread, and a sour dough wheat bread and rolls (Roger grows his own yeast! He is a bread master), Karen brought a bell pepper curry,I brought the Pani Puri, Shankari provided the Vegetable Biryiani, Raitha, Puffed rice appetizer, and Mango cream desert and Steven brought a Almond Torte,though not Indian it was out of this world. We all stuffed ourselves with the delicious food and had a great time.

the potluck group

here are some pictures of the food:

for more pictures go:Picasa Web Albums - Shankari - 2008_05_17_po...
also, check out http://Stream of Consciousness..


_Eileen_