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 […]
Join us Saturday, May 7th, 2011 for a Latin American feast to support the Student Alliance Project (and in honor of International Workers Rights Day and Cinco de Mayo!) This month your money will go to Portland’s own Student Alliance Project. The organization got started by filming the documentary “Papers,” a story of some of […]
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 […]
Happy 2011 to you all! We’re starting the new year off right, with 3 (count ’em: THREE) Eat for Equity dinners scheduled over the next few months. As you may or may not know, 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, celebrated March 8 all over the world to recognize the economic, political and social achievements […]
Portland E4E community: a note about Olombelo Ricky, who’s heading a music camp for street children outside of ‘Tana’, Madagascar’s capital. With your supper money for Torina Fund’s music project–almost $350!–he purchased a solar power inverter for the camp, and couldn’t be more thrilled. See photo below (note drums in the background). For future updates […]
Join us at Zoe’s southeast Portland home this Saturday to benefit Torina Fund, an organization founded by a Portland-based photographer and humanitarian Joni Kabana. This month we turn our attention to the unique and vibrant island nation of Madagascar. After Macalester grads-turned-Portlanders Kate and Zoe traveled there in 2006 and 2008 to study ecology, they […]
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 […]
