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Grex Utne Item 3: Food
Entered by nsiddall on Sun Oct 13 20:31:05 UTC 1996:

I'm thinking of Maslow's theory about the hierarchy of needs, so I'll
start out with something basic.  Food.  The idea is we post recipes here
for the most successful dishes that we've brought to our potlucks.  (Or
some other good recipe, restaurant reviews, or anything else related to
food.)  When we've accumulated a good set of responses we can print it
out, put it in a handsome binder, and give it to our mothers-in-law for
Christmas.

10 responses total.

#1 of 10 by nsiddall on Sun Oct 13 20:37:26 1996:

Gigi's (slow-baking) Banana Bread.

I never did bring this to the potluck, 'cause it took longer to bake than
I thought.  But it was delicious when I got home.  When I was working in
San Francisco I used to promote in-the-office potlucks, to create a spirit
of camaraderie amongst the staff, and because all the Filipinos there
brought good food.  (At the travel agency downstairs they had an open bar
on Friday afternoons!)  My colleague Gigi brought this, and gave me the
recipe.

3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon powder
2 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups cooking oil
1 cup crushed pineapple with juice
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
2 cups mashed bananas
walnuts (optional)

Sift dry ingredients together.  Add mashed bananas.  Add oil, vanilla,
egg, pineapple.  Blend with a spoon (not a mixer).  Pour in greased loaf
pans.  Bake at 350 for 1 hour 20 minutes. 

Utne variation:  Put too much batter in loaf pan.  After 1 hour 20
minutes, poke bread with a knife to see if it's done.  Repeat frequently. 
Give up in disgust; turn off oven, leave bread in oven and go to the
brunch.  Let stand for approximately 4 hours.  This yields a crispier
version.

#2 of 10 by nsiddall on Sun Oct 13 20:39:55 1996:

(By the way--today's buffet was especially delicious... The pear and
walnut salad; the egg thing--was that a quiche or an omelete?  And
everything else, too.)

#3 of 10 by nsiddall on Sun Oct 13 20:43:56 1996:

#4 of 10 by e4808mc on Sun Oct 13 23:15:57 1996:

you folks might want to check out the kitchen conference; lots of good
recipes, restaurants, etc sitting right there right now.

#5 of 10 by janc on Wed Oct 16 17:25:15 1996:

I've always been baffled by potlucks.  To survive as a bachelor, instead of
learning to cook anything, I've learned to eat anything.

#6 of 10 by popcorn on Wed Oct 16 21:26:35 1996:

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#7 of 10 by robh on Wed Oct 16 22:28:39 1996:

I've heard it hypothesized that the reason comparatively few men
are getting married these days is because it's become sufficiently
easy to survive as a bachelor, i.e. single men can feed themselves
more easily with TV dinners and the like, advances in fabrics mean
that men who can't operate an iron can still look passingly good,
etc.  In earlier times, men would have been desperate to marry anyone
off the street rather than try to feed themselves, I guess.  >8)

#8 of 10 by nsiddall on Wed Oct 16 23:00:32 1996:

Here's what puzzles me about potlucks: Everyone makes a dish according to an
ordinary recipe that says "serves 4" or "serves 6".  So we should end up with
4 or 6 times more food than we need.  Yet it all gets eaten...

#9 of 10 by robh on Thu Oct 17 06:53:40 1996:

Maybe only one-quarter or one-sixth of the people remember to
bring food?  That happens in my church a lot.  >8)

#10 of 10 by popcorn on Sun Oct 20 02:26:59 1996:

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