A few of us have been interested in the idea of communal dinner(s) in the Makerspace. The gist could be something along these lines.
FORMAT:
A semi-regular meal, each led by a different maker(s) with supporting chef(s)
A donation of choice from participants to cover the cost of ingredients and a little surplus towards a kitchen kitty
A list to register interest in the proposed menu, suitable for feeding 16 or so with limited kitchen facilities
Eating together around the main table and beyond if necessary
TIMING: One idea is to time these around the non-open evening Wednesdays, so every other week or so, potentially starting next week, Wednesday 8th October at 7pm. It could also be a time to consider whether something like this is worth doing regularly, and how.
FIRST MEAL MENU: If approved, Sam and I were thinking of a warming vegan lentil+veg Thai green curry with rice, with a heads up about the intention for coriander to be heavily involved. There could be snacks from 7pm, with dinner served around 7.30pm, and the possibility of a dessert could be entertained.
SOME CONSIDERATIONS:
We’d need to be quite heavily using the tops, cooker and oven from around 5pm
We’d try to clean as we go to keep the kitchen somewhat acceptable and accessible
An extra pair of hands for chopping and cleaning would be welcome, and to help make sure rodents don’t feel invited
The current proposal means taking over the clean room table from 7pm, so please let us know if you imagine this to be a particular issue
All feedback welcome, we’ll leave it a few days to marinate. Best wishes to all,
Lovely idea! I use to cook large meals a lot and now down to none. Currently Im exploring making diabetic friendly food which needs to be low carb for myself and my mother - I made my first batch of low carb Pakora/Onion bhaji using flax seeds as my flour/bulk this week, lasted seconds
I mostly cook asian fusion (Thia/Chinese blend), Mediteranian and Indian with a focus on low carbs as we cant handle them anymore so no rice, pasta, spuds, or bread
Glad to say it looks like Wednesday evening is going ahead. There’s been plenty of interest, and of course everyone is welcome in the space, although as things stand we were planning to commit to only 16 meals. So first come, first served, by replying ‘FEED ME’ to this thread to indicate you’ll be around on Wednesday from 7pm, with a donation of choice.
If anyone wants to help with the preparation, an extra pairs of hands or two would be very welcome, so please could you let us know of your solemn commitment (with a pinch of salt) to being involved by replying ‘I DO’. We’ll be getting going from around 5pm. As they say, you can’t have too many chefs.
One thing is that we are missing kitchen items that would be really helpful, verging on essential, and we’re wondering if anyone could bring these down between now and then:
A big pot that can be used on the induction hob for the 16 thai green curries to be cooked in
Another oven tray for a lot of veg to be cooked in. The oven shelves are 44cm wide, 34cm deep
Hi all, for those that enjoyed or were interested in part 1, there’s the sequel tonight, followed by a special screening of the appetisingly titled The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man…
so no rice, pasta, spuds, or bread 
