New Facebook Group

Thank goodness I have a teenage daughter! She helped me start on Facebook when I wanted a presence there for YamDaisy. I began a YamDaisy Group but couldn't see how I would use it, so I changed to a YamDaisy Cafe Page, as well the Comfort Food '09 Page. I have been trotting along with them, and especially the Comfort Food Page is going well. But now I am hoping for more intereaction, I have resurrected the YamDaisy Group. There are all sorts of things that might happen there, but I have begun with the Menu Planning invitation, and I have put Comfort Food there too, where people can not only post their comfort food, but also add the recipe!
Check it out http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=8644&uid=199765375108#/group.php?gid=199765375108

Menu Planning

I came up with my idea of a simple menu that would make it easy for the chef to know what she/he was doing, and easy for the customers to work out when they would choose to visit the YamDaisy cafe.
Not having any experience in this sort of thing I might have it completely wrong! But if I start with my idea, hopefully I will get feedback
Also, I am hoping that people who delight in making menus will give it a try - both novices and experienced chefs.
By writing a weekly menu for a specific month, all the ingredients of the YamDaisy Cafe are addressed: Seasonal ingredients, delicious every day meals, suitable for the local community, practical for the chef to cook in a small kitchen.
Vegetarians could provide a meatfree menu, gluten intolerant people could compose one that they could eat. Peolpe could write one that suits their cultural heritage. It could be great fun and I could add some of the menus to my website.
Maybe I could find someone to judge them from a chefs point of view?
Check out my sample menu at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~yamdaisy/menu.htm

MonteRosso

MonteRosso is a lovely Italian focused Restaurant in Doncaster, and proprietors Rosie and Tony invited me to talk to them on Tuesday about YamDaisy so they could consider if there was a way for their restaurant to particpate, particularly by providing delicious affordable meals to those who are struggling.
There are so many possibilities! They are pondering now, what they might do.
We discussed the Comfort Food Project, and MonteRosso are interested in participating in a local school based project! The next step is up to me to get the lesson plans and outline complete! And then see if I can find a local school to take part.