Yellow Door Pumpkin Bash is this Sunday!

It's finally here! A delicious, divine event featuring pumpkins galore. The Yellow Door Pumpkin Bash is this Sunday, November 14, at Free Methodist Church on Werkner Road in Lyndon Township from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

There's still a chance to RSVP. Send us an email to let us know you're coming. Then, on Sunday, bring a pumpkin dish -- traditional or totally unique -- to share and serve 10 to 14 people. Be sure to use as many local ingredients as possible, especially the pumpkin! Also bring a serving utensil, your recipe to share and a $10-15 donation to benefit the Chelsea Community Kitchen.

Arrive at 4:30 p.m. to nibble on pumpkin pizza pies and sip pumpkin juice. At 5:00 p.m., we'll dig in to an assortment of pumpkin appetizers, soups, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Taste, sample, and devour the yummy dishes. Vote for your favorites!

The Yellow Door Pumpkin Bash is a super way to savor the season!

Pumpkin pizza & more at November 14 Pumpkin Bash

	The scoop: What? Yellow Door Pumpkin Bash... come get squashed! Bring a favorite or first-time-ever-made-this pumpkin dish. Must use Michigan pumpkins. (Easy to do with a zillion pumpkin farms a pumpkin throw away!) When? Sunday, November 14 What time? 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Where? Free Methodist Church on Werkner Road in Lyndon Township

At 4:30 p.m. on November 14, come nibble on pumpkin pizza pies and sip some pumpkin juice.

Then, dig in at 5:00 p.m. on an assortment of pumpkin appetizers, soups, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Taste, sample, and devour the yummy recipes featuring local pumpkins and other fresh ingredients. Vote for your favorite dishes in fun categories (see below).

Coffee, tea, and cider will be provided with beautifully set tables as the accent. All you need to do is bring your dish to serve (for 10-14 people), a serving utensil, your recipe to share and a $10-15 donation. (Net proceeds benefit Chelsea Community Kitchen.)

Bring your dish, taste a bounty of pumpkin dishes and vote for your favorites! Potential dish categories include*:

• Best ingredient combo that we wouldn't have thought of in a million years
• Most dramatic presentation
  
• Reminds us most of Grandma's dishes
  
• Takes the meaning of squash to a whole new level
  
• * Submit your own category!

Get Squashed at Yellow Door Pumpkin Bash: November 14

Tis the season for pumpkins! So come get squashed at Yellow Door's Pumpkin Bash on November 14. Bring a pumpkin dish to pass and a recipe to share. Bake your favorite tried-and-true, or get nutty with a new dish. Everyone is welcome!

When? November 14
Time? 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Where? CCK's kitchen location @ Free Methodist Church on Werkner Road in Lyndon Township, just a wee bit north of downtown Chelsea

A donation is suggested to support Chelsea Community Kitchen. All proceeds benefit the CCK! More details to come.

Yellow Door is closed -- for now

Thursday breakfast at Yellow Door is on hiatus. So, dear friends, please visit other favorite downtown Chelsea breakfast destinations like Zou Zous, Pierce's Pastries and Gourmet Chocolate Cafe on Thursday mornings. Do not walk into Yellow Door... for Yellow Door is closed for now...

So, no dangling, artsy fork and spoon will be hanging outside Yellow Door... no fork, no spoon, means no breakfast is being served.

We know; it's all a bit sad. Cheer up, though, buckeroos, we are kicking around some new ideas for Yellow Door and hope to share these thoughts soon. If you have a superb location and a yearning desire to host Yellow Door, a farm-to-table initiative ignited by passionate Chelsea-area folks, let us know! Send us an email and we'd love to chat: meetatyellowdoor@gmail.com.

September 23: Everyone gets a yellow market bag for One Year Celebration

A year ago, a little seed was planted after a visit to SELMA Cafe in Ann Arbor. (Read cool, recent article about SELMA here.) Jane and Janice proposed the same crazy idea for Chelsea: a weekly breakfast fundraiser to (1) cook up local ingredients and share farm resources with Chelsea residents and (2) raise funds for a nonprofit organization to grow agriculturally-minded businesses from the farm up. More than $10,000 was raised in one year. The new Chelsea Community Kitchen was the recipient of the goodwill and net proceeds.

A little group of volunteers who repeatedly expressed, "We think we can, we think we can..." bonded together to keep Yellow Door truckin' for a year. A garden was planted by 7 Dirty Virgins and, along with dedicated promoters, shoppers, cooks, servers, greeters, Flos, silverware organizers and cleaner-uppers, Yellow Door presented Thursday delicious dishes for the Chelsea community.

Now, it's time to celebrate Yellow Door's one year of, "We did it!" Everyone who comes for breakfast gets a yellow market bag, big enough for leftovers, your mutt Millie and a bushel of apples. Dress code: yellow, if you have it. Casual, as always. No RSVPs required.

The BIG Breakfast REVEAL for Thursday's 1st Anniversary Celebration:

Peachs N' Cream Stuffed French toast

• Stuffed with local cream cheese
• Topped with homemade peach preserves
• Michigan maple syrup
• Calder Farms butter
• Homemade crème fraiche
• Bacon
  

Pork Shoulder and Sweet Potato Hash with Fried Egg

• Spicy roasted red pepper sauce
• Brown butter thyme cornbread
• Apple slice garnishes
  

Pumpkin Bread and Yogurt Smoothie

Beverages: Local apple cider and grape juice; coffee & tea

Ingredients from:

• Greystone Creamery
• Calder Dairy
• Ernst Farm
• Tantre Farm
• Kapnick Orchard