290th gathering. Pasta and ice cream

Where? G's
Attendants: G, L, A, D

Menu:
1)Lucky tomato spaghetti sauce with eggplant.
2) Chocolate ice cream

289th gathering. Thanksgiving

Where? C's
Attendants: C, A, P, and D

Menu:
1) Tofurkey with roasted veggies, cranberry sauce, and stuffing
2) Spinach and pecan salad
3) chocolate cake with salted caramel icing

288th gathering. Thanksgiving tryouts

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

Menu:
1) Cauliflower soup
2) Warm lentil salad with balsamic butternut squash
3) Slate chocolate chip cookies

287th gathering. Split-pea soup

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

Menu:
1) Split-pea soup
2) Garlic Bread
3) Roasted Brussel Sprouts
4) Chai oatmeal raisin bars

286th gathering. Chowder

Where? G's (Cook: B)
Attendants: L, C, M, G, B, D, and guests N and little T

Menu:
1) Chowder with palm hearts, potatoes, and tofu
2) Homemade bread

285th gathering. Burritos

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

1) Black bean burritos with guacamole, corn, cheeze, lettuce, homegrown diced tomatoes, and blue corn chips.

284th gathering. Enchiladas verdes

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

Menu
1) Miso-eggplant spread on toast
2) Enchiladas verdes. Black beans, red pepper, and mushroom enchiladas in homegrown roasted tomatillo salsa verde
3) Chocolate

283rd gathering. Enchiladas

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

Menu:

1) Enchiladas with lucky butternut and salsa verde. Spanish rice with lucky tomatoes. Beans

282nd gathering. Soup

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

Menu:
1) Quinoa, kale, chard, curried soup
2) Unsalted bread and garlic
3) Cupcakes with chocolate frosting

281st gathering. Stir fry

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

Menu:
1) Zucchini, sausage, and coconut milk stir fry
2) Cauliflower and green pea spicy stir fry
3) Brown rice
4) Bread and hummus
5) Chocolate cake

280th gathering. Bruschetta

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

Menu:
1) Lucky zucchini soup
2) Lucky bruschetta

279th gathering. Salsa verde

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

Menu:
1) Falafel with salsa verde, sliced tomatoes, and chopped tomatoes and red peppers
2) Pickled zucchini
3) Pineapple

278 gathering. Mexican

Where? G's (cook: M)
Attendants: M, G, A, P, and D

Menu:
1) Black bean burritos with guacamole, corn, homegrown tomatoes, red onion, shredded cheese, lettuce.
3) Blue Corn Chips
2) Pineapple

277th gathering. Quinoa salad

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

Menu:
1) Asian quinoa salad with edamame, tomatoes, cucumbers
2) Pea hummus
3) Watermelon

276th gathering. Stir fry

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

Menu:
1) Homegrown tomatoes
2) Tofu stir fry
3) Sausage and mushroom stir fry
4) Chocolate pie

275th gathering. Terquasquicentennial celebration

Where? G's

Attendants: M, A, G, L, and D

Menu:
1) Carrot celery potato cream soup without the cream
https://www.mysanfranciscokitchen.com/carrot-celery-potato-cream-soup/

2) Frittata with lucky zucchini and basil. Also nutritional yeast
http://chefchloe.com/entrees/end-of-summer-frittata.html

3) Lightly pickled lucky cucumber

4) Meyer lemon bars with lucky lemon
http://www.siftandwhisk.com/blog/vegan-meyer-lemon-bars/

274th gathering. Summer Soba Noodles

Where? D's
Attendants: M, A, L, and D

Menu:
1) Pickled homegrown zucchini salad
2) Pickled homegrown cucumber salad
3) Summer soba noodles (cold soba noodles with homegrown cucumbers, purple cabbage slaw, peanuts, bean sprouts, red pepper, and scallions tossed with a tamari, apple cider vinegar, tomato paste, and peanut butter sauce)
4) Cantaloupe

273rd gathering. Thai fried rice

Where? G's (Cooks: G and D)
Attendants: G, L, and D

Menu:
1) Thai fried rice with onions, serrano peppers, red peppers, scallions, tempeh, homegrown zucchini, homegrown thai basil, and golden mountain sauce.

272nd gathering. Casserole

Where? G's (Cooks: M and G)
Attendants: M, G, C, L, P and A

Menu:
1) Rice and vegetable casserole
2) Hummus
3) Sundaes with pineapple coconut ice cream, strawberry sauce, fresh strawberries, strawberry meringue (made with the aquafaba of the chickpeas used for the hummus) and nuts.

271st gathering. Snobby Joes

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

Menu:
1) Snobby Joes
2) Salad
3) Mustard-shallot vinaigrette
4) Chocolate peanut butter brownies

270th gathering. Birthday celebration

Where? G's (Cooks: M, G, and P)
Attendants: P, A, C, L, M, G, and D

Menu:
1) Broccoli quesadillas
2) Grilled portobellos, peppers, and onions
3) Tomato-avocado salsa and chips
4) Guacamole
5) Coconut chocolate ice cream
6) Cava

269th gathering. Pad thai

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

Menu:
1) Sunflower seed pate on cucumber rounds
2) Pad thai

268th gathering. Spaghetti

Where? G's
Attendants: A, P, G, and D

Menu:
1) Spaghetti with roasted-eggplant lucky tomato sauce

267th gathering. Pasta

Where? C and L's
Attendants: C, L, M, G, B, D, and guests N and L

Menu:
1) Pasta with veggie-heavy sauce
2) Bread and butter
3) Bake apples with nuts

266th gathering. Chili verde

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

Menu:
1) Chili verde
2) Ash cakes
3) Cantaloupe

265th gathering. Japanese again

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

Menu:
1) Salad with miso ginger dressing
2) Miso soup with ginger dressing (see prior entry for recipe)
3) Gyoza (dumplings)

4) Okonomiyaki with sriracha mayo

264th gathering. Japanese

Where? G's
Attendants: L, M, G, and D

Menu:
1) Oyakodon (adapted with tofu thickened with corn starch and tempeh)
2) Salad with miso-ginger dressing

263rd gathering. The famous tofu-broccoli-peanut dish

Where? P and A's
Attendants: P, A, C, L, G, and guests E, and H

Menu:
1) That famous tofu-broccoli-peanut dish
2) Quinoa
3) Salad
4) Spice Cake

262nd gathering. Peanut soup

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

Menu:
1) West African Peanut soup (adapted from the Moosewood recipe).
2) Steamed snow peas
3) Edamame
4) Cantaloupe

261st gathering. Nepalese

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

Menu:
1) Nepalese cabbage and coconut milk curry
2) Nepalese cauliflower curry
3) White rice
4) Chocolate pie

260th gathering. Moroccan chickpea stew

Where? G's
Attendants: G, B, L, C, D, and guests N and T

Menu:
1) Moroccan chickpea stew with fennel, apricots, and preserved lemon peel

259th gathering. Lunar New Year Hot Pot

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

Menu:
1) Hot pot in which carrots, red pepper, tofu, napa cabbage, spinach, five types of mushrooms (shiitake, mushroom, oyster, straw, and abalone), baby corn, water chestnut, dumplings, and baby bok choy were submerged. Eaten with bean-thread noodles, special sauce, and an assortment of other sauces.
2) Brownies

258th gathering. Cacahuete Mole

Where? G's (Cook: B)
Attendants: B, A, D, C, L, and guests N and wee T

Menu:
1) Cucumber radish salad
2) Tofu in cacahuete mole salad
3) White rice
4) Steamed brocoli

257th gathering. 6th anniversary

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

Menu:
1) Miso soup
2) Daikon radish homemade kimchi
3) Soba noodles with roasted winter roots (purple sweet potatoes, turnips, and carrots)
4) Inari sushi
5) Brownies

256th gathering. Pasta

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

Menu:
1) Pasta with Alton Brown's tomato sauce
2) Lemon bars
3) Champagne

255th gathering. Umami soup

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

Menu:
1) Tempeh, shiitake, rutabaga, and pea stew
2) Bread
3) Spice applesauce cake

254th gathering. Chili and cornbread

Where? G's (Cooks: M and G)
Attendants: C, L, P, A, M, G, and D

Menu:
1) Multi-bean chili
2) Corn bread
3) Cake

253rd gathering. Smorgasbord

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

Menu:
1) Angel-hair pasta
2) Steamed broccoli
3) Hummus and celery
4) Sweet potato, pecan, and apple casserole
5) Chik'n nuggets
6) Bread
7) Cookies