Savor the Flavor cooking

With only 19 days left until we board a plane to Manila we are all getting very excited. We are all very busy studying for the end of our Neuro course and getting prepared to take our neuro shelf exam. On top of that our leader, Mike, is taking care of last minute details such as medical supply donations and the final itinerary. We will have that up in a few days time so that you will be able to know where we are each hour of each day!

In order to raise money for our CURA group as well as the other CURA groups going to different countries than us, Creighton University hosted a "Savor the Flavor" event. Each group made food from where they will be headed and there was a silent auction as well. We Southeast Asia people decided to make a large batch of curry flavored dumplings. This involved cooking a mix of potatoes, chicken, curry, onion, and an assortment of other spices and individually fill each pie crust circle. Fortunately we were able to receive a donation from WalMart to buy the supplies for this and we were very grateful for that.


(Large pots of boiling potatoes)


(Working hard to cut up a dozen chicken breasts and half a dozen onions)


(Kati and Missy dicing up those chickens)


(Joe and Adam sauteing a LOT of onions)


(Mike, Kati, and Joe filling up our dumplings)

Also in case anyone has noticed Anu is not around, that is because she was in the living room making a sign to display to those in attendance. Here she is in all her artistic glory:



(All the men cleaning up while the women lazily sat around)


(Mike and Joe taking a well earned rest while Kati and Anu clean up)

We got together a few days later to finish stuffing the dumplings and we needed three extra large size foil trays in order to carry them. We made over 300 individual dumplings! It was an extremely laborious process but in the end it was worth it because they were a hit at the silent auction. We received compliments all night about how great they were. In the end we were all pretty tired of the taste of curry since we had been snacking on them for a week.

Also we were left with a broken counter top for all our hard work since we put so much effort into the kitchen! In the end it was fixed but here is a photo after the granite people came by to glue the corner back on: