Grassroots Ganosh

At Ganosh, “Grassroots” means positive social change, interaction at the person to person level, improving things from the bottom up and community involvement at its best. This page is where you can see some examples, share ideas and read some calls to action. Contact us if your organization needs our assistance. At Ganosh Gourmet we roll up our sleeves and get involved with our food, and we do the same with our customers and our community. We invite you to get involved. It isn't always the easier way, but it's more fun, feels good and tastes better when its done.

FEBRUARY MENU

 

Entrees:

Lemon Chicken

Perfect Roast Chicken (Thomas Keller)

Tamarind Beef

Beef Bourguignon

Shrimp Varna with Cheesy Grits

Northwest Glazed Salmon

Pasta Primavera (Gluten Free)

Lettuce Wraps (Chicken or Paneer)

Baked Potato with Chili and Fixings

 

Sides:

Brown Rice with Toasted Almond

Roasted Vegetables

Cauliflower with Shallots

Bok Choy with Ginger

Stuffing Muffin

Quinoa Salad

Vegetable Posole

Broccoli with Cashews

Glazed Carrots

and more . . .

 

Dessert or fruit included with every meal. This month includes bread pudding

 

 

Some photos from the December trip to Bangladesh include the most entertaining menu from the airport cafe, a photo of the long lost family in Bangladesh, and a wonderful roadside oven where they let me watch them bake thr roti (like a pita bread).

 

JANUARY MEAL PLAN MENU
Entrees
Chicken Vino Bianco
   Chicken Frazer (Mild Curry)

Salmon with Pomegranate Glaze

Turkey Pot Pie

Southern Shrimp with Grits

Alaska Crab Cakes with Citrus Aoli

Tamarind Beef

Crepes with Assorted Fillings

Polenta Lasagna

Sides

Twice Baked Potatoes

Brown Rice with Onions

Roasted Vegetables

Succotash

String Beans with Shallots

Tangle of Greens

Quinoa Casserole

Pasta and Pesto Pagodas (gluten free)

Carrot Ginger Soup

Chili

and more . . .

 

Dessert or fruit included with every meal. This

month includes cheesecake

Thanks to Kris Grant for our feature in the December 2011 issue of Coronado Lifestyles magazine, Women Who Mean Business, http://digital.publicationprinters.com/publication/?i=89980. I received a lot of positive comments from the community, and it was nice to be together with such a great group of people.

DECEMBER MEAL PLAN MENU

Entrees

Chicken Breasts with Grapes
Beef Bourguignon
Chicken Frazer (Mild Curry)
Herb Crusted Pork Roast
Turkey Pot Pie
Creole Shrimp Bake
Salmon Cakes
Polenta Lasagna
Crepes with Assorted Fillings
Holiday Meal for 5 Meal Plan Clients

Sides

Twice Baked Potato
Roasted Vegetable
Broccoli Puree
String Beans with Shallots
Crispy Roasted Endive
Cauliflower Gratin
Zucchini and Tomato Bake
Butternut Squash Soup
Tuscan Vegetable Soup
and more...

November Meal Plan

Sides:

Cherry Tomatoes with Lemon Spinach
Braised Red Cabbage
Confetti Rice
Dilled New Potaotes
Cherry Tomatoes with Parsley
Green Bean Salad
Corn on the Cob
Orzo
Brown Rice Pilaf
Spiced Carrot Salad with Oranges and Red Onions

Tim, Wendy and Shannon at Coronado Mainstreet
with Pea Pesto and Apple, Walnut, Parmesan Salad

Mainstreet at the Baby Del
Ganosh Gourmet will be serving delicious appetizers at the annual fundraiser for Coronado Mainstreet, the organization that supports the median gardens in our beautiful town. Event is September 10 at 1144 Isabella. Contact 619-437-0254 for tickets or info.

More Boxes to GIs from Ganosh Customers and Local Soroptimists
Honoring Our Troops is a local organization established by a fellow Army officer Wendy served with for many years. This summer she took boxes she donated along with those filled with items donated by local Ganosh customers and Coronado Soroptimists (about 26 total) over to Balboa Park to the Veterans Memorial Museum and added them to the over 400 boxes being sent to soldiers in Afghanistan. She is happy to report that her boxes were the only ones marked "For a Female Soldier" and were filled with lots of items that she knows were impossible to find for females serving in that theater of operations.

Thanks Coronado for supporting the Troops!

LOCAL NONPROFITS SUPPORTED IN 2011
VFW
Coronado Hospital Foundation
Ignation Volunteer Corps
Soroptimists
Sacred Heart School
Coronado Rotary Senior Expo
Islander Sports Foundation
Coronado Mainstreet
Coronado Enterprise Group of Employment and Community Options

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-heb-food-depression-20110126,0,6661695.story

CHH and cooking class was rained out, but will reconvene January 22 in the Winn Room for a potluck. "Cooking From Your Garden" Class will be rescheduled at a later date, and I will make all recipes available, including the one for the delicious Heirloom Tomato Tart pictured below.

January 22 at the Winn Room, Coronado Public Library is Coronado's free Fruit, Vegetable and Flower exchange. There will be a potluck as well as the exchange. All are welcome.  More information is at www.coronadohomeharvest.org

GANOSH GIVES TO G.I.S FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Throughout the holiday season, leave your Ganosh bag of beef jerky, snack food, powdered drink straws, new white tube socks, towels and pillow cases, toiletries for males and females, coffee, ethnic or healthy foods, books and magazines (used OK), gift cards, holiday decorative items (non-breakable) and any other nice things you think soldiers living in harsh conditions would like. We will package and pay to mail them to Afghanistan where they will be given to soldiers throughout the country. Homemade food is also appreciated but must contain ingredient list and be packed well in tupperware-like containers. Of course you know-Absolutely no alcohol or pornography is allowed. Call 619-823-4701 for pick up or leave out when we deliver your food. These are photos of the first batch of thrity boxes that were shipped in early December. Thanks to Soroptimists, Ganosh customers, friends and family for all the help, money, good stuff, and support.

MainStreet Inc Fundraiser

We will be serving our salads at the Garden Party fundraiser for MainStreet Ltd on Saturday, September 11. The party is a celebration of the 110th celebration of Coronado's Tent City, and will be held at the historic Sherman Mansion at 708 A Ave from 5-8pm.  MainStreet is responsible for the lovely Median Gardens on Orange Avenue, and this is their only fundraiser.  For more information and tickets, please email Rita at RSarich@CoronadoMainStreet.com.

SEPAC Resource Fair

One of our beautiful thermal bags and a $25 gift certificate will be part of the drawing at the SEPAC (Special Education Parent Advisory Committee) Community Resource Fair September 14 from 5:30-7:00pm at the Early Childhood Development Center Multi Purpose Room, 199 6th Ave.  For more information see coronadosepac.blogspot.com

Ganosh Recipe Contest Update: We are flattered that people like our cooking so much that no one submitted a recipe that fit the guidelines. Instead, we've added new food items developed by our cooks, and they got bonuses for the recipes they submitted. We do get lots of suggestions and feedback from clients, and do appreciate all of it.  Please keep it coming!

Gosh Ganosh Recipe Contest

Have you been waiting in the wings to emerge as a Top Chef? Do you have a recipe (yours, Mom's, Grandma's) that you would love to share and see produced on a menu? Do you, like us, just have lots of fun sharing good food with the world? Here is your chance to shine. We are announcing our inaugural Gosh Ganosh recipe contest. For this first contest, enter a recipe for an entree that is made from a majority of fresh ingredients (minimum of processed ingredients), can be made in large quantities but easily portioned for single servings "to go", and can be can be reheated easily. Let us know if it freezes well. It should be something that fits with our philosophy of healthy, homemade food. Most of our recipes are from our families, but please share with us if yours is from a copyrighted source so we can give proper credit. Preference given to original recipes.

If you win, you will receive recognition in the Coronado Eagle, eCoronado.com, the Ganosh Gourmet newsletter and this website. Your recipe will be featured on the menu for a season, and you will receive $100 in food credit from Ganosh Gourmet.

Send your recipe and a photo (if possible) of the entree to wendy@ganoshgourmet.com. Deadline to enter is 20 August.  Winner will be announced 31 August. 

Naval Special Warfare Command Lunch Big Success
Lunch hosted by Ganosh Gourmet in July at Naval Special Warfare Command at the Amphib Base was a chance to assist with raising funds for the Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Fund. The focus of the lunch was "healthy food on a budget", and featured Boar's Head Pepper Turkey, picante provolone and spinach wraps, Black Forest ham, mozzerella, lettuce and tomato on fresh bolillos, and fresh organic egg salad on wheat bread (with no high fructose corn syrup, of course!). The sailors also got a wonderful Mexican Village Romaine salad and some of our popular Cranberry Walnut Quinoa Salad. LT Harriet Johnson, who organized the event, said "Thanks for the food, everyone loved it and we raised a ton of money." 

Congratulations to our Mexican Village Trivia Contest winners- ROBERT MATHEWSON AND CANDY TYLER WERE SELECTED FOR THEIR MENU ITEMS...AND A SPECIAL PRIZE WAS GIVEN TO BEN HALLOWELL WHO SENT IN MARVELOUS MEX-PAC MEMORIES.  HERE IS ONE:“Everyone has a MexPac salad dressing story. Here's mine... Joe Perkins, a fellow naval aviator and Notre Dame alum, was stationed in Washington DC in 1965. He loved MexPac salad dressing so we made a friendly perpetual wager on the Navy- Notre Dame football game - a large jar of MexPac salad dressing if he won, Johnnie Walker scotch if I won. Had to be delivered by the loser. Well, maybe you know, but that started the longest losing streak in major college football history - Navy eventually lost 43 straight years to Notre Dame. Every year Jim (Forsyth) would tell Pepe to give me a large jar of salad dressing which I would then fly across country on a training flight (times have indeed changed) and deliver to Joe and Bobby Perkins. After 20 straight losses, Joe finally granted me dispensation. Another aspect to that story which tells a lot about the Forsyth’s - Jim and Bert so loved the fact that the salad dressing was being delivered around the country  to another naval aviator that they would never allow me to pay for it. Many of those years as I recall, it was not available on the market so it was indeed a special gift.”MexPac Memory from Ben Hallowell

“Taste of Our Community” event in Coronado
Ganosh Gourmet helped Employment and Community Options celebrate their 25th Anniversary at the "Taste of Our Community" at the Coronado Community Center on February 25, 2010. We joined over 20 local restaurants, wineries and breweries in benefiting this admirable cause! Employment and Community Options is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of low-income adults with developmental disabilities through employment opportunities, life-skills training and independent living services.

Ganosh Gourmet served a sampling of our popular salads including Thai Chicken Noodle Salad, Farmer's Market Salad, Channa Masala, and Quinoa, Cranberry, Walnut and Green Bean Salad. We also served our warm Old World Kraut - a delicious kraut made with wine, apples, new red potatoes, cranberries, bacon, and bay leaves.

Community Options has unique ties to Coronado, not only because of the location of the event, but because many of their employment program participants work in and around Coronado. Ganosh Gourmet employs members of the Community Options “Coronado Micro-Enterprise Group” to do our food deliveries and hopes to add another team as they grow.

Meredith Minerich, Community Options Coronado job coach, joins Wendy,
Jill and Andres. Jill and Andres are part of the Coronado Micro-Enterprise
Group and deliver some of Ganosh Gourmet’s food.