October: Pumpkin Appetizers and more!

Thanks for everyone that showed up to the first cooking meeting of Food at UCLA. We ended up creating 5 total dishes because we had some leftover ingredients after creating the pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, and stuffed pumpkin. The other two dishes were roasted pumpkin seeds and pumpkin cookies. Some of the recipes posted earlier were modified and will be e-mailed in the next newsletter.

In other news, a website for shall be up and running within this month!

Here's a few pictures of our success!


















Healthy Pumpkin Bread



















Pumpkin Soup



















Stuffed Pumpkin


















Pumpkin Cookies

[Week 3] Newsletter

Hello foodies!

DineLA recap
Last week, we did not have a meeting. Instead, the club went out to La Vecchia Cucina, an Italian restaurant, for DineLA. Thanks to all the people that showed up. It was a great opportunity to explore and taste "higher" end food. Overall, the group had an average rating of about 7.0 out of 10. DineLA is still going on next week! If you missed out, it is still not too late to go.Here's their website: http://discoverlosangeles.com/restaurantweekv2/details.html?id=12071.

Upcoming Restaurant Events

October 11, 2010 (Monday)
The Stand Hot Dog Run
Meet at Bruin Bear at 7:15pm.

On Monday, The Stand has $1 hot dogs, $1.50 hot dogs with 3 special toppings, and $2 amber ale. If your going to go e-mail foodatucla@gmail.com. Their hot dogs are delicious!

October 19, 2010 (Tuesday)
Tengu Sake Sampler
Meet at Bruin Bear at 7:00pm

Tengu will have a sake sampler. See flier below for details. RSVP at foodatucla@gmail.com or let Jon know that you are coming by October 15, 2010. Must be over 21 to go.
http://www.tengu.com/_files/MLG_364_tasting.jpg

Monthly Theme (Pumpkin)
READ EVERYTHING!!!!
Appetizers
October 15, 2010 (Friday)
Meet at the Bruin Bear at 6:00 pm (we're going to Trader Joes then Jon's apt)
RSVP by October 14, 2010

This month, our theme is pumpkin in celebration of fall and Halloween. This week, we are going to make 2 appetizers and a bread. The bread is pumpkin bread, provided by Cynthia (our Vice President). The other appetizers are pumpkin soup and stuffed pumpkin. During this meeting, we will learn how to select pumpkins, improve knife skills, and heat control.

The recipes for these dishes are going to be under the section Theme or Recipes. Read it over! It will be your homework!!!. If you have any other recipes, please e-mail them to foodatucla@gmail.com.

Come with a partially empty stomach because we might not eat until 7:30 or something.

Things to bring:
Kitchen knife and cutting board. I don't have enough boards and knives.
Bring like around $10 for food supplies. We'll divide the total cost of food at the meeting after buying the ingredients.

Cya at the events!
Your lovely president,
Jon

[Week 2] Newsletter

Hello foodies!

Thanks to all the people that showed up to the meeting last Friday. The food was delicious! We had vodka cream sauce pasta, rice balls, peach cobbler, and tropical orgasm (drink). The recipes will be posted on our website foodatucla.blogspot.com.

Events

October 8th, 2010: 7:00pm
Dine LA

Instead of a meeting at Jon's apartment, there will be a restaurant outing at La Vecchia Cucina Friday night. We will be meeting at Akerman Turnaround at 6:50pm and will be leaving at approximately 7:15 pm. RSVP at foodatucla@gmail.com. There are reservations for 10, first come first serve, expect for drivers. Drivers get first priority. Bring about 40 dollars to include tax and tip in the bill.

Here's the address and menu of the place.

2654 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
lavecchia.com
310.399.7979

http://discoverlosangeles.com/restaurantweekv2/details.html?id=12071

October 19th, 2010: 7:00pm Tuesday.

Tengu Sake Sampler

Tengu will have a sake sampler. See flier below. RSVP at foodatucla@gmail.com by October 15, 2010.

http://www.tengu.com/_files/MLG_364_tasting.jpg

Monthly Theme

Find recipes for the following for next week:

Stuffed pumpkin and soup e-mail recipes to foodatucla@gmail.com by October 13, Wednesday.

October 15, 2010: 6:30pm Friday.

We will be meeting at Jon’s apartment at 6:30 and go shopping at Trader Joes for ingredients for Stuffed pumpkin and pumpkin soup.

Recipe of the week

Spaghetti alla Carbonara brought to you by Jon

Ingredients

5 slabs Bacon

2 Eggs

1 Egg yolk

1/2 lb Spaghetti

1/4 cup Parmesan cheese

1/4 cup Romano cheese

1 tbs Combination ground Green pepper, white pepper, black pepper (you can exclude green if you can't find it or you can also use medley of peppercorns from your local supermarket)

Salt

Preparation for simplicity

1. Beat the egg, egg yolk

2. Mix in cheeses, peppers, and salt

3. Boil water with salt in it

4. Warm up a bowl by putting it in the oven (use thermometer and check if 80-100F range)

*Note before cooking: Make sure when you mix the pasta the egg does not curdle or be too liquidy. Temperature control is key.

Cooking*

1. Throw in noodles to cook for 10-15 minutes

2. In a pan heat up a little oil and cook bacon until crispy

3. Chop bacon into bits

4. Remove noodles and add to bacon fat/oil and toss around quickly.

5. Remove bowl from oven and throw in bacon and noodles

6. Slowly drip the egg mixture while stirring quickly until noodles are evenly coated.

1st Meeting

First meeting is tonight!!
We are doing a potluck and collecting recipes from the food brought over.

Time: Around 5:30 PM

Location: Jon's Apartment by Trader Joes

Give us an e-mail (foodatucla@gmail.com) if you are going to come.

Welcome to Food at UCLA

Welcome new freshmen and welcome back returning students.

If you would like to join this club, e-mail us at foodatucla@gmail.com.

What is the Food at UCLA?
This is an unofficial club at UCLA, where we meet at Jon's apartment whenever we all have time.
It is good way to explore new types of food, learn and perfect your cooking techniques.
In addition to cooking, we will explore restaurants all over the place and write reviews for them.
Recipes will also be posted here.

If you have any other suggestions, feel free to e-mail us.

Also,
We also need officers.
So far we have:
Founder/ President: Jon Lin
Beverage Master: Antony Tan
Food Critic:
Pastry Princess:Jeannie Chen
Iron Chef:
Treasure Keeper:
Scribe: Nancy Hsieh
Recipe Hoarder:

E-mail us if you want any of those positions or any new positions.