Monday Gourmet Vegetarian Dinners in Palo Alto

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The Peninsula Macrobiotic Community serves a Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner

every Monday (except major holidays) in Palo Alto. This is a full

vegan dinner which includes soup, grain, beans or bean products,

vegetables, dessert, and beverage, prepared by expert natural foods

Chef Gary Alinder, our Chef since our inception in 1987. All are welcome!

 

Website: http://peninsulamacro.org - featuring newsletter, dinner

menus, and related information.

 

Dinner Reservations: please try to make your Dinner reservations by

Monday morning, 9:30 AM; call 650 599-3320. If it's after 9:30 and

you're still interested in coming, call and leave a number for the

manager to call you back if there is space. It is not necessary to

reserve for the After-Dinner presentation.

 

Time: dinner is served at 6:30 PM every Monday except major holidays;

the after-dinner presentation (once per month) starts at 8 pm.

 

Price: $15 for Dinner (increase effective February 4), $5-10 donation

suggested for optional after-dinner presentation (once per month)

 

Location: The First Baptist Church, 305 North California Avenue at

Bryant, Palo Alto, 1/4 mile East of Alma and the California Avenue

Caltrain Station.

 

After-Dinner Presentation: each month we feature an After-Dinner

Lecture or Event, described in the newsletter and website. Lectures

are usually on macrobiotic or other health related topics, by a

variety of speakers including macrobiotic counselors, medical doctors,

cooking teachers, and people who have dealt successfully with serious

diseases using macrobiotic or similar approaches. Other events have

included performances by folk singers and vegetarian Chinese acrobats.

We have a pass-the-hat policy for our events; we suggest a donation of

$5-10.

 

Who Should Attend: All are welcome at our Dinners, vegetarian or not.

The Dinners are particularly helpful for those who want to eat in

healthy ways, but may not know how to get started. Many who attend may

have the same health concerns you have.

 

Dinner attendance ranges from 40 to 100, with a full spectrum of ages

spanning newborns to grandparents, including quite a few interesting

singles. Come with a friend or by yourself; singles easily integrate

into our friendly group, where seating is communal. Many long-term

friendships have started at a Monday Dinner, and are renewed every week!

 

 

NATURE'S BOUNTY FROM THE SEA - SEA VEGETABLES

 

From Head Chef Gary Alinder: my mother never said to me, " Gary, eat

your sea veggies. " While mothers like mine did not know of them,

native coast-dwelling people in many parts of the world have eaten sea

vegetables for millennia. In recent decades small but important sea

vegetable gathering industries have been revived in places as diverse

as northern California and western Ireland. During February (11 and

25) and March (10 and 24), I'll include a number of sea vegetable

preparations in our Monday night menus. You'll find nutritious and

tasty sea vegetables such as dulse, nori, kombu, wakame, sea palm,

hijiki, arame and agar in soups, main dishes, side dishes, and even

desserts. With their diverse flavors and textures, sea vegetables can

be a welcome addition to the diet of all adventuresome eaters. For

more information on these nutritional wonders, visit the following:

 

- article on sea vegetables by Aveline Kushi:

http://www.natural-connection.com/kitchen/chefs_corner/aveline_kushi/sea-vegetab\

les.html

 

- Maine Coast Sea Vegetables: http://www.seaveg.com

- Mendocino Sea Vegetable Co.: http://www.seaweed.net

- Rising Tide Sea Vegetables: http://www.loveseaweed.com

 

 

GOURMET VEGETARIAN DINNER MENU, FEBRUARY 11, 6:30 PM - SEA VEGETABLE

CELEBRATION I

 

Caldo Verde: Potato, Kale and Sea Greens Soup *

Cranberry Bean, Hominy and Winter Squash Stew with

Tangy Parsley Salsa

Quinoa Pilaf

Winter Greens Sauté with Plantain Chips

Carrot, Radish Salad with Lime Dressing

Creamy Coconut Agar Custard with Mango Topping *

Herbal Teas

 

*includes sea vegetables; other Dinners featuring sea vegetables will

be served on February 25, March 10 and 24

 

Dinner Details:

- Monday, February 11, 6:30 pm

- $15 for Dinner

- please reserve for Dinner by Monday morning, 9:30 AM (650 599-3320)

- The First Baptist Church, 305 North California Avenue at Bryant,

Palo Alto, 1/4 mile East of Alma and the California Avenue Caltrain

Station

 

 

UPCOMING AFTER-DINNER PRESENTATIONS

 

Monday, February 25, 8 pm: Clinical Hypnotherapist Elka Vera speaks on

Meet the Healer Within: Using Hypnosis to Access Inner Resources for

Wellness.

 

Monday, March 10, 8 pm: Nutrition Consultant Christine Rosche speaks

on Essential Cleansing For Optimal Health and Weight Loss.

 

For details, visit http://peninsulamacro.org, After-Dinner Events.

And join us for a Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner before the presentation at

6:30 pm!

 

 

We hope to see you at a Monday Dinner! Please forward this message to

friends who may be interested.

 

Gerard Lum, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster

Peninsula Macrobiotic Community, http://peninsulamacro.org