We’re planning a couple of Sunday brunches this summer at School Woods. Come and enjoy brunch menus planned around the summer’s finest ingredients, featuring your favorites – eggs, potatoes, delicious bakery, fresh fruits and vegetables.

Dates: July 14Cancelled due to low enrollment and August 18 – cancelled so we can all go to Ride the Drive!

Served buffet style, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

If you would like to come to brunch, please sign up using this form – also found under the Members-only tab above. You will receive a confirmation email with all the details you’ll need to know to get to the brunch, within 24 hours of signing up. The deadline to sign up is noon on the Saturday before the brunch you wish to attend. If you miss that deadline, or have any questions, please contact your host, Deb, by phone or email, 608-712-6368, ds83473@gmail.com.

Thanks and see you at the table!

July 14

• Breakfast Burritos – filled with your choice of eggs and sausage or eggs and vegetables, served with salsa and sour cream
  

  Breakfast Burritos for a crowd

• Southwest hashbrowns – potatoes, peppers, olives, corn tortillas, lime juice, a little tomato
• Fruit salad
• Plum or nectarine or apricot or peach – whatever fruits are the best that day – cornmeal coffee cake

Friday, June 21
Drinks, appetizers, socializing – 6:00PM
Main meal on the buffet around 7:00PM

Come enjoy a sumptuous summer dinner, featuring the foods of early summer, served indoor picnic style.

To start: Have a drink, munch and mingle.
An enticing spread of appetizers: crackers & cheese, nuts & olives; dips & crudités.
We’ll provide the mixers, ice and glasses – please bring your own alcohol.

Mains: Served on the buffet when everyone has arrived.
A bevy of summer-y salads:

• Leafy greens
• Roasted potato & asparagus salad with hard-boiled egg.
• Shrimp salad to eat plain or on a roll

Sliders! Shredded BBQ chicken or BBQ tempeh fingers, with coleslaw

Dessert: Stand up, stretch, and help yourself to sweets, coffee, maybe an after dinner drink.
Shortcake with summer berries – sweet cake with berries & whipped cream

Beverages: Served with pitchers of cool water, and iced tea & fruit juice blends. If you would like something stronger to drink with your meal, please bring it.

You can sign up using this form – also under the Members-only tab above. The deadline to sign up for the dinner is Wednesday June 19th – if you miss the deadline, or have any questions at all, please contact your host, Deb by phone or email: 608-712-6368 | ds83473@gmail.com

Thanks – looking forward to seeing you, to celebrate summer!

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-1886 Oil on canvas (153.67 x 173.99 cm) Tate Gallery, London

Join us on Mother’s Day for a very special brunch

Sunday May 12, 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

• Shirred Eggs – baked in a cup with a splash of cream and sprinkle of Parmesan cheese, on a bed of spinach and ham (and some without ham those who don’t eat meat)
• Hash brown potatoes
• Big green salad – fresh greens, maybe asparagus, tangy vinaigrette
• Baskets overflowing with breadstuffs – Rolls, bread for toast, muffins & scones
• Eton mess – strawberries & cream with crumbled meringues thrown in – we’ll be using the UK National Gallery’s recipe – rated in the top 3!
• Coffee, tea and juice

Brunch will be served buffet style beginning at 11:00 a.m. Please sign up using this form – also under the Members-only tab. On the form you’ll be asked for your preferred time – we’ll use this information to decide if we need more than one seating. You’ll get all the details in your confirmation email. The deadline to sign up is Friday May 10th – if you miss the deadline or have any questions, please contact you host, Deb, by phone or email: 608-712-6368 or ds83473@gmail.com.

Friday April 19th, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Join us for an evening appetizer party at School Woods.

You bring the alcohol – we’ll supply the mixers – and the food!

We’re planning a menu that includes lots of fun nibbles and treats:

• Pickled shrimp
• Ginger-peanut chicken wraps
• Sushi rice salad
• Dried-tomato & goat cheese crostini
• Something with asparagus, if it’s in – pizza, or dip
• Fruit, some dunked in chocolate
• Some nice cheese
• Assorted small sweets – ginger bars, rhubarb bars, we’ll think of more

Sign up using this form – also under the members only tab, above. The deadline to sign up online is Wednesday April 17th. If you miss the deadline or have any questions at all, please contact your host, Deb, at 608-712-6368 or ds83473@gmail.com.

Sunday March 24th, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Treat yourself to a relaxing afternoon of nibbles and pleasant conversation. We’ll borrow a page from our friends in England, and serve some teatime favorites, along with familiar American choices.

Here’s the menu, but expect some happy surprises!

• Tea sandwiches – cucumber, olive-walnut, egg or curried chicken salad
• Salads that make the best of winter produce – Wild rice, roasted vegetables and leafy parsley, and more …
• Cheese board, with condiments – olives, relishes, pickled things; breads & crackers
• Olives and Nuts and Crunchy things to munch
• Fruit
• Desserts – Nigella’s polenta almond cake (gluten-free); baby cheesecakes, cookies
• Tea, sparkling & still water, and nonalcoholic beverages provided – feel free to bring your own “adult” beverages

Please sign up using this form – also under the Members-only tab above. The deadline to sign up online is Friday March 22. If you miss the deadline, or have any questions, please contact your host, Deb, to check availability at 608-712-6368, or by email at ds83473@gmail.com

Come for Brunch, Sunday March 10, 11:00 – 1:00
cancelled due to low enrollment

Join us Sunday March 24th for desserts & snacks!

• Omelets to order – ham, broccoli, Swiss or cheddar cheese
• Hell’s Kitchen style rösti – grated potatoes fried in butter with bacon bits, scallions, garlic, onions and fresh parsley [a bacon-less version for vegetarians will be available]
• Fresh baked bread for toast, with jam and butter
• Blueberry muffins
• Winter fruit salad, apple sauce
• Coffee, tea and orange juice

Sign up using this form – also under the members-only tab above. The deadline to sign up online is Friday, March 8. If you miss the deadline or have any questions, please contact your host, Deb, either by email – ds83473@gmail.com – or phone – 608-712-6368.

Brunch will be served buffet-style, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Guests should plan to arrive by 12:30 p.m. at the latest to ensure the tastiest choices of foods!

Thanks

 

School Woods announces the Sunday Supper series for winter 2013. Let Deb do the cooking – she’ll be preparing cozy, family style meals, that will be a bit more intricate, or at least more time-consuming, than what you might prepare for yourself!

Dates for the next dinners: February 10 and February 24. Cancelled due to low enrollment. You can still Click a date to see its menu.

Brunches will return on Sundays in March.

Sunday January 13th

• Array of light appetizers – olives, nuts, vegetables
• Hearty Italian greens and white bean soup, served with whole wheat baguettes and roasted garlic and olive oil for dipping
• Broiled polenta with winter tomato sauce
• Roasted broccoli
• Winter vegetable slaw with toasted walnuts, raisins, and a citrus dressing
• Assorted small sweets (That are incidentally relatively low-processed-sugar, and some gluten free – not to detract from their deliciousness!) dark chocolate dried fruit bark; chocolate-dipped apricots and crystallized ginger; Fruit – poached pears, clementines; small cookies

Menu for February 10

• Appetizer: Filo samosas – traditional samosas have a pastry dough and are deep-fried; this version uses flaky filo leaves to wrap the filling of curried potatoes and peas, and are then brushed with butter and baked, served with yogurt & chutney
• Main course: Braised chicken with garbanzo beans and curry spices
• Cauliflower [or other vegetable] Curry
• Dal – lentils and other beans cooked with Indian spices
• Coconut rice
• Naan – flat bread – topped with onion & sesame seeds
• Dessert: Panna cotta – originally an Italian dessert – cooked and jelled cream – but here flavored with honey, rose water and pistachios

Guests should plan to arrive between 6:00 and 6:30 – there’ll be a few light appetizers and time for socializing. The main meal will be served family style (platters and serving bowls passed at each table) when everyone is present.

Sign up using this form (also found under the Members-only tab). The deadline to sign up online is the Friday before any dinner you’d like to attend. If you miss the deadline, or have any questions, please contact your host, Deb, by email or phone – ds83473@gmail.com or 608-712-6368.

Menu for February 24 Cancelled due to low enrollment.

The plan is grazing – munch your way through various small plates! This dinner will be served buffet style.

• Sliders (meat & vegetarian) – BBQ pork and BBQ tofu, with slaw, on a small bun
• Oven French fries
• Sonia’s Phyllo and Feta Torte with Dill and Nutmeg
• A large and impressive salad – with hearty greens – kale, mustard, escarole
• Baby cheesecakes & apple pie bars

Sign up using this form (also found under the Members-only tab). The deadline to sign up online is the Friday before any dinner you’d like to attend. If you miss the deadline, or have any questions, please contact your host, Deb, by email or phone – ds83473@gmail.com or 608-712-6368.