The Dinner Belle is getting ready to ring again! Come join us for fun and food on June 10th for Vegetarian Delights from 5:00 to 8:00pm. If you don’t want to assemble it, I will do it for YOU. You may pick up one or more of the meals. Pick up is available on June 11th from 10:00 am to 1:00pm at In The Kitchen. Here’s the yummy menu:

· Ratatouille—Just like from the movie Ratatouille. Be Remy and assemble zucchini, summer squash and eggplant on a special sauce from Thomas Keller’s Ratatouille recipe.
· Ya Ya Gumbo—Get your Cajun Ya-Ya’s out!
· Lemon Ricotta Gouda Zucchini Raviolis with a garlic, basil sauce. A delicate and refreshing summer treat.
· Calzones—Pesto, artichoke, sun dried tomatoes and cheese. A favorite from the first class.

Each meal serves 4 and is $23 per meal. That’s $5.75 for a healthy meal that you cook in the comfort of your own home.

Also, you may pick up a dessert that has been specifically paired to these dinners from Nana’s Kitchen: a moist, 2 Layer Carrot Cake loaded with carrots and pineapple, spiced just right with cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger and frosted with cream cheese frosting.

1/2 Cake: Serves 6 for $9.00 Full Cake: Serves 12 for $16.00

Go to www.dinnerbellenc.com or email dinner.belle@yahoo.comfor up coming meals and events. Make sure and sign up for our email list to hear what’s ringing in at the Dinner Belle. If you can’t make the pick up times listed, just let me know and we will figure it out.

Thanks so much!
Laura van den Berg (aka Dinner Belle)

Here’s a lovely yummy side dish recipe from last class that everyone loved!

Coconut Rice
The texture of this rice is moist and sticky, so do not expect fluffy individual grains.

¾ cup of well-stirred canned unsweetened coconut milk (or light coconut milk)
¼ cup water
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup long-grain white rice

Garnish sweetened flaked coconut, toasted

In a small saucepan, bring coconut milk, water and salt to a boil and stir in rice. Reduce heat to moderately low and simmer rice, covered, until most of the liquid is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Remove pan from heat and let rice stand, covered, about 5 minutes.

Serve rice sprinkled with coconut. Serves 2.

Upcoming Menus

Pick up ONLY: June 25th from 10:00am to 1:00pm

· Cooked Asian Chicken Burgers with a peanut Satay Sauce
· Pasta with Asparagus, Peas and Saffron Cream Sauce

Each Meal serves 4 and is $20 per meal. That’s $5 per meal for healthy, home cooked food!

Desserts from Nana’s Kitchen: A snow white cake filled with fresh raspberry filling, frosted with chocolate ganache
1/2 Cake: Serves 4 $9.00 Full Cake: Serves 8 $16.00

Lovin the Summer Assembly Class: July 8th from 5:00-8:00pm. Pick up on July 9th from 10:00am to 1:00pm.

· Chicken and Shrimp Kabobs
· Blue Cheese Stuffed Hamburgers
· Blackened Fish or Tofu Tacos
· Pasta Alfresco with Summer’s Bounty of Vegetables in a light marsala cream sauce

Dessert from Nana’s Kitchen: Individual Tarts filled with made from scratch Lemon Curd topped with Fresh Raspberries
4 Individual Tarts $10.00, each additional tart please add $2.00

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