MEEAL 17 : East End Victory Garden - POSTPONED

This meeal is a challenge to eat EXTREMELY locally....none of this "within 100 miles" stuff...We're tighting the food radius to 100 feet!

MEEAL 17: East End Victory Garden: Montrose Heights Yard-to-Table Supper

A sampling of Southern summer foods, featuring very very local ingredients.

**Postponed-with a chance of a late summer harvest. Even better! Stay tuned**

Seating Availability (12-14):
Suggested Donation: $20
Date: TDB
Location: Montrose Heights

MEEAL 16 : Pot Lucky!

7 Plates!
That is a lot of food, but we happily managed...




Course 1:
spaghetti sqaush with meatless balls in sauce arrabbiata


Course 2:
crabby crab rangoon and scallions


Course 3:
puree of celery root soup with shards of baked parmesan cheese


Course 4:
sliced sirlion marinated in miso and wasabi then grilled to bloody perfection, paired with lemony sauteed brussel sprouts and pistachios


Course 5:
creamy shahi paneer (homemade paneer) on fennel infused basmati rice


Course 6:
rich chocolate mousse with chocolate shavings and rasberries


Course 7:
an army of red-velvet cake pops with dark chocolate shell










All of the plates were stunningly beautiful and delicious!
Everyone had the a chance to play in the kitchen then relax and be served.
We need to do this again very soon...I'm finally getting hungry.

MEEAL 15 : GREEN FOODS

The food was GREEN the atmosphere had ART IN IT!
Over all delicious and cool...especially if you accidentally stomp through the indoor wishing well.



Drinks-
Pinot grigio
San pellegrino
Secretive styrofoam cups with false colorful beverage screen to hide the debauchery within.

Pre-
Guacamus or hummumole and toasted pita wdeges
Spinach salad with goat cheese, walnuts, and balsamic vinagrete






Main-
Creamy spinach alfredo with roasted green and red peppers
over fettucini and chicken sausage

Sweets-
Key lime pie
Mint chocolate chip ice cream





Go to the Reference gallery, they might have leftovers.
Mmmmmmmm.

MEEAL 16 - pot LUCKY

a DIY meeal

bring a small plate composition : savory and/or sweet : we want it all
enough portions to share with a minimum of 10 people.
(drink accompaniments are encouraged...otherwise bring for you and yours)

in house access to stove-oven-microwave-fridge-outlets-tools-utensils-plates

seating availability : wandering space for plenty
suggested donation: your FOODS
date: January 29th 8:00pm
location: 2735 west grace street apt 1

MEEAL 15 - Green Foods: A REFERENCE Art Gallery Fundraiser

Seating Availability (19): Open
Suggested Donation: $20
Date: December 04, 2010 @ 6:00pm
Location: 3rd and Main street (REFERENCE Art Gallery)

MEEAL 14 - The Tangier the Better - EEATEN

The fruit of the bay, so fresh I almost lost a finger.



Munchie conversation piece:
Smoked Blue Fish Dip



Hands on action:
Oysters-Both Raw and Roasted with House Cocktail Sauce and/or Shallot Vinigrette
(with shucking lesson)



Cocktails:
Littleneck Clams Steamed in White Wine and Shallots



Wrestling match:
Steamed Chesapeake Blue Crabs
-drawn butter
-boiled potatoes


Dessert:
Salt Encrusted Roasted Rockfish


Second Dessert:
Smith Island Cake


Drinks:
-Beers(s)
-Wines(s)
-Gin & Vodka & their friends
-Clam Broth





Entertainment:
-Crab Irony
-Zooey and Ponzu
-Ball of Fire

MEEAL 14: The Tangier the Better

delicious delicious isolation


Reap the harvest of the Chesapeake and
enjoy some conversation, Cornish optional.

Possible pre-feast activity....crab racing.



Seating Availability (12): Full
Suggested Donation: $20
Date: October 23, 2010 @ 7:30
Location: 3207 Grace Street.

Ahoy.

MEEAL 12: GOODZILLA EATEN!!!

what was GOODZILLA?


BOMBS!!!! (sake)

FIRE!!!! (hibachi)

and

Hand Rolled Sushi appetizer *DAMN why didn't I take a photo of the MOUNTAIN of hand rolled sushi I made..!!*
Miso Soup
Grilled Kabobs with beef, tofu, onions, peppers on top of spicy soy ginger udon noodles

plus

Sweets:
homemade ginger ice cream with handmade fortune cookies (including fortunes!)

more beers more wines (rice, grape, etc)

And Mothra?! (apparently attracted to the light)

MEEAL 12 : GOODZILLA: King of MEeals!

The original unEEATen version – never before released in the US!
A monster of mEEal of destruction!


Seating Availability (12): 5 Seats Available
Suggested Donation: $20
Date: August 28, 2010 @ 8:00pm
Location: 3125 Patterson Avenue, Over the Rainbow

MEEAL 11: Midsummer Night's MysterymeEAT

As Titania, Queen of the Fairies, commands of Mustardseed, Cobweb, Moth, and Peaseblossom: we will be kind and courteaous to you; we will feed you with apricocks and dewberries, with purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries; we will steal the honey-bags from the humble-bees and fan you with their wings...

Seating Availability (0): No Availability
Suggested Donation: $20
Date: July 31, 2010
Location: South of the James Richmond Va

MEEAL 10: Bonk

Hammer Gel, Gatorade, Salted Boiled Potatoes, Goo, Power Bars....a buffet of performance food product to replace the calories you may have burned while sitting in traffic or clicking through comcast.

Partake in the carbloaded caffinated prepackaged fuel feast. Nothing says summer like a mouthful of warm choclate muscle milk.

MEEAL 9: EEATEN

The lighting strike brunch on Monument Avenue was eaten without incedent (with exception of a couple of guests being too "Liberty Valanced" to make it to the first couple of courses). There were a few gawkers, photographers, and couch surfers...but the table was generally left to enjoy thier meal in as much peace as a traffic median can allow.

Menu:

Surry Sausage in Buttermilk Pancake with Virginia Maple Syrup

Poached Egg over Wilted Spinach and Surry Ham on English Muffin, topped with Sauce Morney and Roasted Asparaguas

Balsalmic Vinegrette Chicken Salad with Spring Onions, Toasted Pecans, Strawberries, and Crostini

Honey Vanilla Ice Cream with Pecan Lace Cookie

Mimosa
Bloody Mary
Diluted Orange Juice over Ice (for our dehydrated friends)

Dogs Eat Free.

MEEAL 9: PrimaVera....Sort of

Menu moved from Spring....to a study in pancake (or flat flour-y things processed with heat)...with some spring thrown in there.

Momument and Boulevarde, Stone Wall Jackson will hold the table.

Alternate: 2735 West Grace St, Apt 1.

MEEAL 8: Mojo De Ajo-Say What?-EEATEN

Buffet style...so you could load up your tortilla soup and tacos with as much sweet garlicy goodness (mojo de ajo) as possible.

La Carta:

Tortilla Soup, both chicken and vegetarian, piled with crispy fresh tortilla chips and accessorized as desired (see list below).

Taco Assembly Options (including but not limited to):
-Roasted Pork (with the texture of velvet butter)
-Mojo de Ajo Grilled Shrimp
-Wild Mushrooms and Spinach Saute
-Roasted Corn Salsa
-Queso Fresca
-Guacamole
-Pico de Gallo
-Various Salsas
-Onions
-Peppers
-on and on...

Dessert was a tropical fruit (pineapple, coconut, orange, lemon) sorbet...served in it's shell.

Drinks were buffet style as well, promoting memorable concoctions such as the "Flaming Wheeler"-strawberry puree, lime juice with simple syrup, tonic water, vodka, and a couple drops jalapeno wine.

*Appetizers-Grazing on the house herb garden.

A good time and a wrestled Pomeranian.

MEEAL 7: 'le Fast-Food'_Eaten

The perfect recovery from a French 10k weekend.

Seating Availability (12): No Seats Available
Suggested Donation: $20
Date: March 27, 2010
Location: 101 W Marshall unit 45, Richmond Va

Meeal 9: PrimaVera

Saturday Brunch on Monument Avenue and Boulevarde
...the grassy part (mother nature permiting)

Menu+

Birds
Bees
Green

Seating Availability (12): 6 Available
Suggested Donation: $20
Date: May 15, Saturday, 2010
Time: Noon
Location: Monument Avenue and Boulevarde,
Richmond, VA 23220
(alt: 2735 W Grace St, Apt 1)