This month, support Minnesotans living with HIV/AIDS. The Aliveness Project serves one out of four Minnesotans living with HIV/AIDS, with a daily meal program, food shelf program, case management, and alternative health services. Its mission is to encourage self-empowerment and provide direct services for people living with HIV/AIDS. The Aliveness Project started in 1985 as […]
Last month you helped raise money to keep the E4E train a-rollin’ along. This month we’re back out in the community raising money for another critical community-building nonprofit, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL). This is one of those organizations that just might bring acronyms back into style! CTUL represents and empowers the most […]
This month, eat and drink for Eat for Equity. Yeah, you read that right. An E4E 4 E4E. Why does Eat for Equity need your support? We’ve been putting on volunteer-run monthly benefit dinners for almost four years, and raised more than $30,000 for organizations around the world and in our community. We’re growing like crazy, thanks to […]
Filling Ingredients 1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups whipping cream 1 1/2 cups whole milk 3 large egg yolks 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise 2 Tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions Whisk sugar, cornstarch, and salt in heavy medium saucepan to blend. Gradually whisk in […]
These peas make quick friends. Guaranteed, every time we serve these black-eyed peas, we get recipe requests. Tangy, smoky, and sweet, they even made a seven-year-old boy a fan – he promised to make them for his parents. Ingredients 1 1/2 c. dried black eyed peas, sorted, soaked overnight, drained, and rinsed [or use Anson […]
Once you try these espresso brownies, you’ll go back for seconds or thirds, and you’ll never go back to just plain brownies. This recipe comes from the fantastic Birchwood Cafe in Minneapolis. Brownie Batter 6 oz. chocolate chips 1/4 c. butter 3 eggs 1 c. sugar 1 T. vanilla 3/4 c. flour 1/4 T. baking […]
This May, come on trail. Your supper money will go to the Emily Sandall Foundation, and its camper scholarship to help a deserving young person experience a wilderness trip. While she lived, our friend Emily’s passion was working with youth, whether with street kids in Mexico and Nepal, or American teens in the wilderness. Emily died […]
In April, over 100 of you raised over $1500 for Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. You voted to send money to Oxfam’s work in El Salvador. Thanks so much to our hosts Omega House and to Dogwood Coffee for donated Salvadoran coffee. See pics and find out more […]
In January, about 180 of you crammed into “the castle” to raise just over $1500 for Gardening Matters‘ support of new Local Food Resource Hubs, including tool lending libraries in St. Paul, and South and North Minneapolis. This month, come play! Your supper money will go to the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT), a Minneapolis-based […]
This month, come to Uganda. In November, we somehow squeezed 180 beautiful people into a duplex, and raised just about $1800 for the projects of Just Health Network. One of those projects provided mobile fetal heart rate monitors for a public women’s hospital in Nicaragua, meaning that your supper money supported the health of the poorest women […]