Cooking for Halloween

Hi Friends,

Yes, that's Jacki serving the ghosts in the graveyard cake at a youth conference.

Throughout the year, our cooks find ways of celebrating the seasons. This blog will feature Halloween and yes, the two cakes will be in our new Cooks' Book.



At our fall work weekend last year, Tom Rothschild created faces on the ghosts for the cake.


The "litter box" cake was so popular with the youth, that we tried it in Pitt Hall with a few monthly meeting retreats. It wasn't nearly so popular!

Plan on attending our next fall work/contra dance/story telling weekend and try these cakes.

Our cooks

Hi Friends,

What's your favorite food at Powell House? As you can imagine, each cook is known for their recipes. Here are our current cooks at PoHo. We also have wonderful volunteers who help out as assistants and butlers. You know that if you are a butler in the ACC with Jacki during a youth conference, you'll work a lot harder than if you're helping in Pitt Hall.


Jacki Gray is our Food Service Manager and she keeps the other cooks in line ....


Chris Koster making cupcakes at a WinterSong


Edie Kramer is at the end of the table working away while the cookie bowl gets cleaned out!


Amy White, currently on Sabbatical from cooking here, is known for her granola.


Martha Gurvich took time off from the EarthSong kitchen to see her daughter, Sky, graduate.

Anita Thacker who now lives on Cape Cod manages to come over and cook a few times a year. I'll have a photo of her here, soon. Remember Anita's coffeecake?

Our newest cook, Soleh Nagbe-Greene, will be cooking her 1st conference later in May.

Powell House Cooks' Book coming soon

Hi Friends,

Jacki Gray has been feverishly checking 200 pages of recipes from our Powell House cooks. You'll be delighted with our "standard" fare (depends which Cook's standard). The Youth attenders have created wonderful drawings and sketches to illustrate the recipes e.g. zucchini bars (just imagine).

Here are a few photos to wet your appetite.



Martha's summer salad



Chris's gazpacho soup

Stay tuned for future photos and maybe even some recipes.
Ann