Update and Recipes!

Hello everyone! We hope that many of you had the chance to try some Haitian food last Sunday after church. We (Leonie, Vonita, and Steph) had a great time cooking and sharing with you, and it seemed like the food was well-received! You have helped our Spirited Worship collection grow SO much....we collected $165 for the lunches. WOW!!! We hope that we can have another lunch after the first of the year.

Our collection currently sits at $362. This is fabulous! Please think of us whenever you have an extra few dollars to donate. The Rescue Center in Haiti has been massively busy treating cholera patients. Thankfully, the stream of patients has slowed somewhat. They have saved MANY Lives...as they do every day!

On the Unitarian Universalist Service Commitee's front, they are urging people to fill this form out on their website to contact their congresspeople to help pass the:

Haiti Empowerment, Assistance, and Rebuilding Act

• Establish a coordinator position at the State Department, to increase oversight and accountability
• Develop recovery plans that are “in line with the needs and aspirations of local populations”
• Ensure that communities are at the center of the process to build permanent and sustainable housing for those displaced by the earthquake
• Support sustainable livelihoods and local food production
• Address security needs, including protection of women and children
• Increase opportunities for all children in Haiti to access education
• Authorize multiyear recovery funds

Please go there as soon as you can and fill this out...time is of the essence!

Now for the recipes.....

We would like to offer you the recipes from the Haitian lunch! I will start with the Sos Pwa Nwa (Black Bean Sauce) and the Mais Moulin (Haitian Polenta).

 These recipes all came from the wonderful Haitian cookbook called "A Taste of Haiti."

The Sos Pwa Nwa recipe is NOT vegetarian, it contains a slice of bacon (really adds to the flavor) but the bacon can easily be left out and then it will be VEGAN.

The Mais Moulin is vegetarian. It contains butter but if one uses a non-dairy butter substitute it would then be VEGAN.

If you are more of an internet person, you can make these two dishes as I made them from my friend's blog. Here is the Sos Pwa recipe, and here is the Mais Moulin recipe. She has some other Haitian recipes on her blog as well, find them here.

Hope you enjoy! I will get the other recipes posted for you in my next blog post. 

Blessings!