"eat it for charity!"

Last night the mister and I took a drive over to Oakland to dine at a restaurant called Penrose, since they were hosting the first summer "Sunday Supper" to benefit my favorite bay area organization Hack the Hood. Essentially, a number of East Bay restaurants host dinners to raise money for local orgs and give 100% of the proceeds, after costs, to the nonprofit. It's an extremely generous and no-brainer way to bring attention to folks working to better our communities. One of the founders spoke last night to express his passion behind this cause, and I loved what he said about the power in sitting down together as fellow human beings to break bread. 

And, it just so happens that the Sunday Supper website was built by a Hack the Hood youth! I personally think it looks awesome.

So. Kinda funny thing. The food was very fresh and tasty overall (donated ingredients by local farmers!), but we did unintentionally make a bit of a game out of one particular dish. We ordered a salad that had cilantro (not listed in the ingredients, and a nemesis of B's) and beets (listed in the ingredients but something I had planned to avoid) as one of our tapas style bites, and ended up challenging each other to choke down a heaping forkful of each to see who could successfully fight through the taste-pain. "Eat it for charity!!" we fake shouted at one another. I'm not even sure why it's so difficult for me to eat a beet. It isn't so much that I think they taste badly, but there is certainly something about the texture/chunkiness/flavor I can't wrap my head around. B, on the other hand, has one thing to say about wicked cilantro: SOAP.

The candid results:

Pretty silly :) For the record, I did not immediately reach for my beer like B is doing in the last frame....so like...I feel as though that means I win. Right?

If you live in the Bay area I'd love for you to check out both Sunday Suppers AND my friends at Hack the Hood. And if you do not live out this way, still consider getting acquainted with the work they do. There's some potential freelance event planning work for me in HTH, which I am SO excited about and will definitely keep you posted on. 

love and light,

Trish