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Photo Friday - Q for Quaker Potlucks We usually have a potluck once a month. I am not known for cooking or baking but one of the first potlucks, I won a cake in a raffle to took it to the potluc We had gone to an event in Alabama and went to an Ethiopian Restaurant hence came the brilliant idea of doing Ethiopean cuisine for our next Potluc My friend Deni and I volunteered to make the Injera Bread which is quite the challenge for two European American women. I finally started making Teff Waffles for our potlucks. It's much easier than Injera Breads. It turns out that the natives usually just buy it in the store. My Jamaican friend taught me how to make Jambalaya Jamaican style> It a tad too spicy for some in the crowd but my teff waffle seem to be popular. Happily, teff waffles are easier to make than injera bread/        Abracadabra  |
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I took part in a challenge to raise money for Syrian Refugees by eating Syrian cuisine for a week. I used teff instead of flour for flatbread. Abracadabra
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Post the recipes
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Mmm...I love Ethiopian food, though I've only eaten it a couple of times...My best friend's boyfriend was Ethiopian and cooked a meal for us...He showed up with the ingredients, including a pre-made spice mixture. He made me a list of the spices, but not the proportions...It was a very long list...He also brought the Injera bread and told us how it was made and that's it's an acquired skill, like a perfect crepe....The coffee is spectacular. I live in a very pot-lucky culture....Some people even do potlucks at their wedding....I think maybe Potlucks are what I have missed the most during Covid. I often made fancy desserts....There are so many regulars who specialize in certain main dishes....fishermen and farmers who bring the meats, fish and veggies....It's a process...people bring what they have plenty of or what they are good at and after a while, we count on it....Part of the reason I like bringing desserts, is that there is so much room for being creative...and sometimes I get too creative...end up making something so weird that no one even tries it..... So this one potluck...I can't recall what the occasion was, but it was at the Community Center...It all started with a Marilyn Monroe mask..one of those moulded plastic masks. I made jelly using concentrated fruit juices to make skin-coloured juice and added some coconut milk to make it opaque. I extended the sides of the mask with some plastic cut out of some food containers and made a very life-like face, tinting the cheeks and lips and eye-lids with food colouring.....I made eye-balls out of grapes.....The hair was sliced peaches ...I don't remember all the details... So after the dinner was mostly over and the crowd had thinned, I was ready for dessert and headed for the table against the back wall....there were only a few remains of the desserts left....All except mine, which was still completely intact...no one had touched it....and suddenly I could see why....It was eerily realistic...a decapitated Marilyn head served up like John the Baptist...
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Jamaican me hungry! lol A day without dance is .... just kidding. I have no idea!
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Very tasty offering of "Q" dishes there, Star.  
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Ha ha...Sorry Star[, I got carried away. I didn't even register that this was a photo Friday blog...How the bleep did it get to be Friday already? As usual, your blog is really creative and interesting and that's some pretty decent looking Injera bread...you have to tear it apart to eat it anyways....I agree with Darter, please post recipes...
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Ha ha...Sorry Star[, I got carried away. I didn't even register that this was a photo Friday blog...How the bleep did it get to be Friday already? As usual, your blog is really creative and interesting and that's some pretty decent looking Injera bread...you have to tear it apart to eat it anyways....I agree with Darter, please post recipes... Abracadabra
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Post the recipes Abracadabra
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We have a lady in our meeting who's husband was born in Puerto Rico so she often makes Puerto Rican cuisine. I find it interesting how it is so much different from many of the Latin cuisines that we find in the United States. Abracadabra
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I imagine a Quaker potluck to be just as good as any other church potluck.... ours always seemed to have so much scrumptious food. A little bit of that, and a little bit of this, and then track down the cook to get a recipe! Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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