Food and Drink at the permies house for the Permaculture Voices conference - Kitchen Commander?

I'm not sure how to quote but two thumbs up for Rob's menu suggestion!!

I have no medical dietary restrictions and am not a vegetarian. Also my friend Lise who attending has no dietary restrictions. We are willing to do some of the cooking as needed and/or night before prep. Lise has some experience with cooking for groups and is Nourishing Traditions Sally Fallon fan as well as a experienced fermenter.
Also we are looking for a carpool ride from the LAX airport on March 12th we fly in around 12 or 1pm can't remember exact time.

Two other places you guys may want to check into for organic food stuffs are Trader Joe's and Sprouts. Both are in Temecula. Also, if you need another crock pot I have one you can borrow. I live close to Temecula.

Adam Klaus wrote:

Julia Winter wrote:What would be fabulous is a cooler like that, full of delicious food from your farm!! Eggs? Meat?

Anything that would survive the trip, really. . .

Now you're talking my language. That is just the way I roll. Leaving the farm is rough, but leaving the farm food is particularly painful.

Here's what I could offer to bring-
2 whole frozen chickens (5 lb each)
1 quart raw butter (2 lb)
1 pint ghee (1 lb)
5 dozen eggs
50 pounds potatoes
25 pounds apples
11 quarts tomato sauce
1 quart dried corn for posole

Hope that helps. I am actually heading to Cali in less than a week, doing some vacationing before the conference during the off-season. Let's coordinate what you'd like me to bring asap, and I can bring it out with me, and store it at my folks' house until the conference.

Let me know how that sounds,
Adam

How does this sound?

SIIIIIIIIIIIICK

Woot Woot!

I'll eat almost anything. A large portion of my diet is fruits and vegetables.

I usually try to limit my meat consumption, but we need not make any special dietary arrangements for me.

I have cooking experience and am good at cutting veggies and other prep work.

thanks for the input, everyone! I think we're going to work this out.

I'm about ready to give up on the Azure Standard order, as I can't figure out how to have somebody reliable meet the truck on February 25, and then how does the food get stored until Paul and Jocelyn show up on March 9th?

I think we'll have to source our food locally, but it sounds like we can choose and prepare a variety of foods. If we all work together to do food prep in the evenings then the food can start cooking in the morning and be ready to eat after we come back.

I'm PMing everyone directly,
trying to...
about the Zello channel. Don't know that everyone will be interested,
but I find it easier than typing and typing.

Should be more like a conversation, could get some good ideas going quickly!

Thanks again,
C

Ce Rice wrote:I'm PMing everyone directly,
trying to...
about the Zello channel. Don't know that everyone will be interested,
but I find it easier than typing and typing.

Should be more like a conversation, could get some good ideas going quickly!

Thanks again,
C

I began experimenting on Zello last weekend. It does seem like a good way to get some conversation going.

I'd be interested in doing it if we were able to schedule a time.

I found out on Wednesday that my broken radius & ulna stayed in place (yes!) and I can now safely move/use my thumb and fingers (double-yes!) BUT I will remain in my cast the whole of the Voices trip. Which means I will be slower help than I'd like to be with chopping, washing, cooking, etc.--darn it any way!

There is a Wednesday Farmers Market in Temecula. It is at the Promenade Mall, from 9am to 1pm. If folks were there at the house, this would be a really good opportunity to actually buy 'better than organic' food. In all honesty, the organic produce at either Costco or Trader Joes is the bare minimum of organic, with an absolute minimum of freshness. The Farmers Market would be a much better option for salad and other fresh produce.

Here is a link to the Temecula Farmers Market- http://www.temeculainformation.com/farmersmarket/

I wont be in until Thursday, but if there were folks already at the house, it would probably be an interesting and fun time to go to the farmers market, and it would be a great way to get some truly good food.

Permies house food 2.0

Hey all,
Seth here,

I like all the ideas and enthusiasm I am hearing!!

Sorry I haven't been on the last week, work/life was hectic. As I said, I'm a professional cook and happy to help take on kitchen commanding.

I reread through the emails and tried to sum up the salient points as well as including my own thoughts and then suggest an action plan below. It is divided into two parts: the logistics and the food.


THE LOGISTICS

Setup an online document where people can enter the important info we need. Everyone should specify days they will be at the house and want food, any dietary restrictions, as well as a couple of preferences, their ability to help with both cooking and cleaning. Any pie mavens out there?

Have a daily schedule of who is helping to clean and cook. I imagine 4 people to cook and 3 people to clean per day and we can rotate so that everybody does everything a little. So, for 20 people, if 4 of them cook every night, you can go five days with everybody helping to cook only once.


Sources that people have mentioned are mail order, local costco, LA and San Diego for people passing through with cars

We need to know if they are serving lunch at the conference (I imagine so, but I don't know, Diego? anyone?) and more importantly, if so, what are they serving?


THE FOOD
Make it simple.

I think that bares repeating,

Make it simple and keep it simple.

But also make it healthy and delicious!

Basically a Weston A. Price diet that allows for everyone's needs. So far we have requests for paleo, gluten free, vegetarian, etc. We should use healthy fats, 'unprocessed' lard, butter, olive oil, ghee, palm oil and coconut oil or butter. As well as yogurts and raw cheese. We oughtta include fermented foods of all kinds from kraut to olives, kimchi to pickles, salumi, and we already mentioned cheese and yogurt. I think most of us also dream of having raw milk, there are two or three legal producers in CA, but if someone has a cow or goat share milk connection or other connections to farms, and were driving to the conference with coolers... Yes we dream. We should soak/ferment any grains or beans we cook. And we should go as far past organic as are situation allows us, but be willing to compromise where necessary.



BREAKFAST: eggs, toast, coffee, oatmeal, bacon, fruit, cereal, milk, yogurt, cheese, pancakes, etc.

LUNCH: We could have food for to go style lunch bags; sandwiches or wraps, drinks, fruit, chips, fermented veggies, potato salad/coleslaw, granola bars/trail mix, etc. that people could make their own sandwich and take it to go.

DINNER: soup/stew, roast chicken and veggies, a taco night, a BBQ night, maybe even pot roast or some other braise, Thai curry fish stew, stuffed roasted peppers, stir fry with rice, soups a plenty, hot pot, tamale pie baked casserole

DESSERT: pie, ice cream, fruit, cupcakes, brownies, cookies...


I originally ballparked $20-30 per day to cover food Asa a reasonable estimate. But, this cost can come down a little depending on people's needs and wants and whether or not they are serving lunch.


So, yeah this are just some preliminary thoughts, everybody please chime in, since it is just an initial brainstorm.

We could even consider some sort of a big feast night towards the end, or at the end of the conference.

Jump at the sun,
Seth

At this point I don't think we have any vegans or vegetarians in the group. We have people who avoid gluten, who avoid dairy (milk, cheese and cream, but butter is OK) and many who avoid carbohydrates in excess or in general.

What am I missing?

Hi everyone,

No food allergies or preferences. I'll eat whatever's served and throw my hand to being sous as much as needed

The menu laid out on the Google Doc looks fabulous!
Two thumbs up!

I don't think we're likely to find that much "organic or better" pork in southern California, so I do think that menu will need some fine tuning. I want to thank Jocelyn for taking the time to get us started!

Adam has pointed out that local resources will likely include citrus, avocados, maybe some passion fruit (? I never eat these, but it sounds fabulous) and asparagus, it being spring already in California.

Any local folks reading this? Any good sources of meat near Temecula?

Any more thoughts on AMAZON orders? Julia, did the owner say he could accept packages and hold them? Should we send some Coconut oil that way? A 1 gal size would be the minimum for a group of our size, right?

Anyway, our window for Ama orders is getting close.

Let me know, I'd be willing to put in one or two of the orders, just need a consensus.

Well, there's a Costco in Temecula, and most of those sell organic coconut oil, so I think that might be a better source.

The owner can not accept packages or deliveries--he's up in the mountains building another house. When I was trying to set up a big Azure Standard delivery, we were talking about having one of his cleaning staff meet the truck, for something like $40, and it all got too complicated and difficult.