Ninecooks

Providence gets a new super-secret supper club, opening May 2. Now you know.

Have you read about underground restaurants, the super-secret supper clubs that appear like magic, sell out dinners before anyone even knows about them, and feature local chefs cutting loose from their restaurant gigs to create fabulous food with local ingredients?

Well, the secret's out!

Beginning on May 2, Rhode Island can boast its very own underground supper club, in a private home 10 minutes from Providence:

3 Chefs' Collective

The opening night dinner ($65 per person; 16 seats) features a menu filled with local ingredients and an adventurous spirit:

• Roasted Red Pepper & Fennel Soup with Sambucca Cream
• Jeweled Beet Carpaccio with Narragansett Creamery Goat Cheese & Orange Supremes
• 3 Little Fish | Fried with Housemade Tartar Sauce | Smoked with Apple Manchego Salad | On Toasts with a 25 Minute Egg
• Spring Lamb with a Pistachio Crust, Carrot Ginger Crème Fraiche, Wilted Watercress and Potato Rosti
• “Milk and Cookies”

Make your reservations on the 3 Chefs web site here: http://3chefscollective.weebly.com/how-to.html.

If you can't make it to the first dinner, be sure to sign up for the mailing list to find out when and where the next one will be.

Now, how cool is that?

A cooking class you won't want to miss: Lasagna from Scratch

Learn to make the very best lasagna you've ever tasted, completely from scratch (yes, the cheeses, too!), in this special hands-on cooking class to benefit Drop In & Decorate: Cookies for Donation, the nonprofit organization founded in the Ninecooks kitchen.

LASAGNA FROM SCRATCH
Saturday, April 16
10 am – 2 pm
Location: Northwest Rhode Island

Guest chef Julia Shanks teaches us to make every part of a classic Italian lasagna -- the Bolognese meat and tomato sauce, the pasta, and those wonderful cheeses: fresh, creamy ricotta and softballs of mozzarella. Then, we’ll put it all together to create a lasagna you can make at home to wow your friends. The class, which meets in the log house kitchen of food blogger Lydia Walshin, founder of Drop In & Decorate, includes three hours of hands-on cooking time, plus time to sit together and enjoy our lasagna, with salad, bread and wine, for lunch.

Participation limited to 8.

$90 per person (tax-deductible contribution)
includes lunch, recipes and leftovers, if there are any!

(Note: this class is not for vegetarians or anyone allergic to cats.)

Chef Julia, who graduated from the California Culinary Academy, has cooked for (then president) Bill and Hillary Clinton while at Restaurant Nora in her native Washington, DC, and furthered her training at cooking schools in Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico and China. In 1997, Julia launched her first business, Interactive Cuisine. Through this innovative service, she provided informal cooking lessons in the comfort of the home kitchen, while preparing a gourmet three-course meal. Currently a food business consultant, Julia is a member of the Drop In & Decorate Advisory Council and is active with Share Our Strength.

Space is limited, so register early. Click on the "pay now" button to register. (You do not need to have a PayPal account in order to register.)

 

Please note:

1. If the class is sold out, you will be redirected to a page that tells you how to add your name to the wait list. If space becomes available -- and it's very possible that will happen -- we'll let you know as soon as possible.

2. If we have a large wait list, we'll consider adding another date, so please sign up for the wait list if you're interested.

3. No refunds, unless the class is cancelled by Drop In & Decorate. We are a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization, and we are grateful for your tax-deductible contribution. If you cannot attend, give your spot to a friend or family member, or let us offer the spot to someone on the wait list.

You'll receive a confirmation of registration, including directions to the location, by email -- not an automated process, but we promise to try and send confirmation the same day.

Please contact us at ly[email protected] or 401-567-4460 if you have questions.

Come cook with us, and help support Drop In & Decorate® events all around Rhode Island.

Welcome, Yankee Magazine readers!

If you've found your way from Yankee Magazine's "Angels Among Us" article, welcome.

I hope you'll hop over to the Drop In & Decorate site to learn more about our cookies-for-donation programs around the country.

Please visit The Perfect Pantry and Soup Chick, my food blogs, for recipes that use the ingredients we all keep in our pantries.

And, if you're interested in cooking classes in the Ninecooks kitchen, please email to me (lydia AT ninecooks DOT com) for more information. I'm booking classes now for February, March and April 2011.

Thanks again for stopping by.

South Boston Grows, and you can help

Join Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline on Saturday, May 15, 11 am until 3 pm, for a family-friendly day of gardening.

South Boston Grows aims to improve community green space and to increase knowledge of growing edible plans, with the long-term goal of increasing access and exposure to and intake of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs among under-served populations in South Boston.

This promises to be a very fun day of planting and gardening! 

· Children are welcome. (all children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian)
· We will be planting and gardening rain or shine!
· Let us know if you can bring your own work gloves.
· Lunch will be provided (we will try to accommodate dietary restrictions).

The service site is at 70 Devine Way, South Boston.

Street parking is available and the Andrew T stop is only a 5 minute walk.

RSVP by May 1 to Tony at tdel[email protected] or 617-774-1326. Please call if you have questions.

 
 

Bake sale to help fight childhood hunger

 

What are you doing on Saturday, April 17?

(Yes, this coming Saturday!)

Check out the first National Food Bloggers Bake Sale -- part of the Great American Bake Sale -- raising money for Share Our Strength (SOS), a national organization fighting to end childhood hunger in the United States. Events are going on all around the country on the same day.

In Rhode Island, where the recent flooding has resulted in more homeless families, it's great to have a delicious way to help fight hunger.

Corn muffins, sweet potato-zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, biscotti, chocolate covered pretzels, fresh breads, whoopie pies and more!

Saturday, April 17th
11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
The Pizza Place Restaurant, 43 Broad Street, downtown Westerly, RI.

Bake, sell or buy some tasty food -- all for a good cause.

For more info, contact Jennifer (savorthethyme AT cox DOT net).