123rd meeting. Chili

Where? G's (Cook: M)
Attendants: D, M, G, C, Ch, and L

Menu
1) Chili
2) Salad
3) Pineapple


Chili

122nd meeting. Red-lentil soup

Where? G's (Cook: A)
Attendants:

1) Red-lentil soup
2) Green peas and mushrooms
3) Pineapple





Red-lentil soup



Green peas and mushrooms

121st meeting. Soup

Where? G's
Cook: D
Attendants: G, A, C, L, Y, D, M, and guest C

Menu:
1) Carrot soup with pita wedges
2) Slow-baked sweet and sour lima beam tomato soup with Y's bread
3) Chocolate ice cream



Lucky carrots



C salts the pita wedges before baking them


The soups



Carrot soup with pita wedges


Lima bean soup

120th meeting. Mushroom Risotto

Where? G's
Attendants: M, A, Y, C, G, D, and special guest C

1) Mushroom risotto with broccoli, and roasted butternut squash
2) Grapes



Satisfied diner


Preparations



Voila!

119th meeting. Fall Mac and Cheeze

Where? G's

Attendants: G, Y, A, C, and L

Menu:

1) Butternut Squash Mac and Cheeze

http://ohsheglows.com/2011/10/03/butternut-squash-mac-n-cheeze/

2) Apple crisp

118th. Lentil Soup

Where? G's

Attendants: G, M, Cy, L, Y, A, and D, with guest M

Menu:

1) Salad

2) Lentil Soup

3) Caramelized Walnuts

Meeting 117th. Shepherdess Pie

Where? C and L's

Attendants: C, L, M, G, A, Cy, T, D and guests M, and J

Menu:

1) Salad

2) Shepherdess Pie

3) Cupcakes

116th meeting. Fajitas

Where? G's

Attendants: C, L, Y, A, G, M, and D, plus special guests J and M

Menu:

1) Vegetable fajitas with onions, peppers, grilled portabellas

2) Guacamole

3) Spanish rice and refried beans

115th. Fried green tomatoes

Where? G's

Attendants: C, M, D, G, and special guest A

Menu:

1) Fried lucky green tomatoes with a tofu mushroom stir-fry.

2) Roasted chestnuts.

114th meeting. Thai

Where? G's

Attendants: G, Y, C, A, M, and D

Menu:

1) Tom Yum soup (with chard, and lucky tomatoes, mushrooms)

2) Fried rice (with lucky carrot, tofu, and green beans)

3) Salad

113th. Lentil/brown rice pizza

Where? D's

Attendants: C, Y, L, G, M, A, D

Menu:

1) Lentil/brown rice pizza with lucky tomato and basil topping

2) Salad

3) Farmers Market Peaches

112th. Stuffed peppers

Where? G's

Attendants: M, G, Y, L, D and guests C and R

Menu:

1) Cucumber, onion, and lucky tomato salad

2) Peppers stuffed with quinoa

3) Grape sorbet

111th meeting. Ratatouille

Where? D's

Attendants: A, Y, Ch, L, G, M, D, and guest C

Menu:

1) Salad (lettuce, lucky tomatoes, cashews, peppers, corn chips, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds) with creamy dressing (olive oil, apple cider vinegar, salt, black pepper, tahini, and nutritional yeast)

2) Ratatouille (eggplant, zucchini, onions, lucky tomatoes) with buckwheat

3) Brownies

Salad and dressing

Buckwheat

Ratatouille

Dinner's ready

Idem

110th meeting. Minestrone

Where? G's
Attendants: G, Y, M, D and guests C, and R

Menu:
1) Lucky minestrone soup with 4 varieties of lucky tomatoes, lucky zucchini, and lucky kale (adapted from http://www.vocalvegan.com/2011/05/kale-minestrone-soup/)
2) Fresh cherry and nectarine crumble

109th meeting. Burritos

Where? M's
Attendants: M, G, D, A, L, C, and guests M and R

Menu:
1) Lentil-leek burritos, with black-crim pico de gallo, and chopped black-crim and brandywine tomatoes
2) Salad
3) Cookies

"It feels real good when you lick my fingers, especially if I close my eyes and forget that you are a dog"


Dinner



Origamis


Postprandial entertainment



R

108th meeting. Falafel

Where? D's
Attendants: M, G, A, Y, L, C, D, and guest P

Menu:
1) Lucky zucchini fritters (adapted from veganepicurean.blogspot.com)
2) Lucky zucchini soup

3) Falafel with lucky sungold tomatoes, lettuce, red cabbage slaw, and tahini sauce

107th meeting. Casserole

Where? G's
Attendants: L, C, G, M, A, D, and special guest R

Menu:
1) Casserole on noodles with lucky zucchini, tomatoes and basil with cashew-nutritional yeast sauce



Special guest R


Two, in case one is not enough



M with special guest R


G's creation for a steamy summer evening



Casserole


Dinner

106th meeting. Acrostic dinner

Where? G's
Attendants: M, G, A, C, Y, and D

Menu:

Yam
Vindaloo with
Onion
Nan and
Nectarines under
Elderflower
Sorbet


Yam Vindaloo



Onion Nan


Nectarines under Elderflower Sorbet


Birthday girl

105th meeting. Dal

Where? C and L's
Attendants: C, L, M, G, A, Y, D, and guest

Menu:
1) Salad
2) Dal
3) Cupcakes

104th meeting. Mac and 'shews

Where? D's
Attendants: Y, A, G, L, C, and D

Menu:
1) Salad (mixed greens, tomatoes)
2) Mac and 'shews (adapted from the postpunk kitchen)
3) Braised lucky kale
4) Frozen Blueberries

Discussion: "I'd rather get gonorrhea than pregnant"


Members team up



Lucky kale


Farmer's Market salad



Mac and 'shews



Members at the dinner table

102nd. Letter-A foods.

Where? G's
Attendants: A, C, G, D, plus special guest M

Menu:
1) Salad
2) Lasagna
3) Cava
4) Baklava


Chef spicing up lasagna filling


Protolasagna


Lasagna


Baklava


Birthday girl enjoys baklava

103rd. London

Where? London and Blacksburg
Attendants? London: G, Y, D; Blacksburg: C, A, L

Menu:

Lunch:
London, 222 Veggie Vegan http://www.222veggievegan.com/
Blacksburg, Gillie's

Dinner
London, Manna http://www.mannav.com/


Self-titled



Lunch: (clockwise from the top) Lentil salad, cabbage salad, carrot quiche, tomato cucumber salad, chickpea stew with thai spices, tomatoes stuffed with better than ricotta, avocado green pea mint salad, spicy cous-cous.



Member enjoys lunch at 222 Veggie Vegan



Vespertine walk




Right outside Manna


A disappointing Rioja (organic)


Appetizers (clockwise from top): Tofu kebabs, oyster mushrooms and tempeh, cabbage salad,
and ravioli

(a crisped ravioli filled with wild mushroom & walnut pâté with fennel cream sauce, sundried tomato pesto & balsamic reduction) Chef's special: green curried soup, chutney, deep-fried pistachio-almond balls, brown rice, cole slaw Risotto strudel over bed of greens Cheesecake tiramisu and mango sorbet