Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton Presents 2018 UUCP Fellowship Auction Auction Catalog 02-10-2018 • 5 pm - 7:30 pm 50 Cherry Hill Rd. • Princeton, NJ 08540-7626 Phone: 609-924-1604 Email: [email protected] Dinners and Meals 500 Beans ‘n’ Board Games Quantity: 10 Bring the whole family for a chili dinner with all the fixin’s, followed by fun & games for all. May include our latest favorite, Things, or Taboo, Scattergories or another from our wide selection. Who knows, we could even decide to play charades. Donor: Beth Behrend & Robert Eaton Date: 2/23/2018 Time: 6:30 Minimum Bid: $25.00 Guaranteed Price: $50.00 Sign-up Price: $50.00 501 Dinner with a Dane Quantity: 6 Did you know Carl's heritage is Danish? Come enjoy this predominantly Danish Scandinavian dinner that will include fish, probably herring, and chicken, maybe red cabbage and rutabaga and a special dessert (not danishes). Donor: Carl & Carol Haag Date: 3/31/2018 Time: 6 pm Minimum Bid: $40.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 502 Tea for Who? (Whom?) Quantity: 8 No Foolin'. Enjoy four courses of tasty treats at this high tea, which is a full meal steeped in British tradition. Wash it down with liberal amounts of tea and a sherry or two (or more for the high part). Come in your regular slovenly fashion or dress all fancy-like but you’ll be eating off fancy china. Scrummy. Donor: Dunbar Birnie & Louise Senior Date: 4/1/2018 Time: 1 pm Minimum Bid: $30.00 Guaranteed Price: $75.00 Sign-up Price: $75.00 503 1040 Good Buddy Quantity: 6 Come for this taxing dinner to celebrate or groan. After all, we have until 4/17 to file this year. The food, drink and conversation will all have taxing themes. Donor: Dave Hoffman & Sharon Copeland Date: 4/14/2018 Time: Minimum Bid: $25.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 504 BBQ Down on the Riverside Farm Quantity: 12 Bring the whole fam-damily for a BBQ dinner and hay-wagon ride with an antique 1944 John Deere Model A tractor (the one that made John Deere famous) around the Sturm’s neighborhood in Princeton. Kids go on a hay ride, adults can take a turn in the farmer’s seat, and those with strong backs can try hand-cranking to start the tractor. Will be scheduled on a mutually agreeable late afternoon/early evening Saturday or Sunday in spring/early summer. (kids free) Donor: Chris & Jim Sturm Minimum Bid: $20.00 Guaranteed Price: $50.00 Sign-up Price: $50.00 505 The Moth Radio Hour Dinner Quantity: 6 The power of storytelling can transport us, heal us, and bind us to one another. Join a small group for our own UU version of the “The Moth Radio Hour” and fill your belly and your heart. Enjoy a farm fresh feast created from the bounty of Cherry Valley Cooperative Farm along with seasonal summer drinks. The theme will be Defining Moments. Come prepared to share a personal story describing a defining moment in your life. In true "Moth” style, we will keep stories to a maximum of eight minutes each, so all can share. No scripts, no props, no stress. Maybe a few tears, hopefully lots of laughter. Listen to episodes at https://themoth.org/stories Donor: Francesca Vollaro, Linda Joy Miller Date: 7/21/2018 Time: 5:30 pm Minimum Bid: $25.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 Friday, February 9th, 2018 Page 2 of 24 506 Marrakesh Express Quantity: 8 A special Moroccan dinner that includes delicacies like a phyllo pastry appetizer called Bisteeya, chicken with preserved lemons and olives, a tagine of fresh vegetables, special Moroccan bread, and for dessert, "the snake," an almond confection not to be missed. Donor: Jane & Ted Fetter Date: 6/16/2018 Time: 6 pm Minimum Bid: $40.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 507 When Idli met Dosa Quantity: 10 Idlis (steamed rice and lentil cakes) and Dosas (savory crepes) are usually eaten for breakfast or "tiffin". But we will have them for dinner with all kinds of vegetarian accompaniments. Treat your senses - even your sense of touch as all are encouraged to eat with their fingers (eating with cutlery is like taking a shower with your clothes on). On a mutually agreed upon date and time. Donor: Aparna & Farooq Zama Minimum Bid: $25.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 508 An Evening of Turkish Delights Quantity: 7 Menu will include Red Lentil Soup, Lahmacun (Turkish pizza), borek (cheese and spinach rolled phyllo), Shepard's salad, grilled eggplant, roasted lamb, pilaf, baklava, Turkish delight. Includes wine. Afiyet olsun! Donor: Kathy Lehmann Date: 9/29/2018 Time: 6 pm Minimum Bid: $50.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 509 Pass Da Pasta Quantity: 5 One host loves to cook yummy Italian cuisine and the other’s grandfather came from Italy as a teenager looking for a fresh start. Enjoy their family traditions, sip some wine, and enjoy fabulous food and exceptional company on a crisp Autumn night. Tutti a tavola. Donor: Lauren Foss Date: 10/6/2018 Time: 6 pm Minimum Bid: $40.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 510 Tonight We’re Gonna’ Party Like Its 1529 Quantity: 4 A unique Renaissance dinner that takes over 8 hours to prepare. Taste the original chicken pot pie (a Cornish hen baked inside an unleavened bread “pot”) and other delectable goods, while enjoying honey mead and wine. Don’t worry, you can use utensils and we won’t judge you like the Spanish Inquisition. Donor: Pauline Nijander Date: 11/10/2018 Time: 6 pm Minimum Bid: $45.00 Guaranteed Price: $150.00 Sign-up Price: $150.00 511 Ferragosto Con Gusto Quantity: 8 Ferragosto is a brief Italian holiday, around mid-August, dedicated to a) religion; b) libation; the end of agricultural field work; or d) a good time for a party. Our Ferragosto will focus on b) and d) and include antipasti, primo and secondo piatti, and drink from Sicily and southern Italy. One of your hosts’ grandparents emigrated from small towns in the province of Messina, Sicily; the other host loves to eat and drink. Come early if you want to participate in preparation. Donor: Betsy Marshall & George DiFerdinando Date: 9/15/2018 Time: 6 pm Minimum Bid: $50.00 Guaranteed Price: $150.00 Sign-up Price: $150.00 Friday, February 9th, 2018 Page 3 of 24 512 Here's the Beef Quantity: 6 Grass-fed beef raised by Stephanie's father's in upstate NY, is cooked precisely using Sous-vide (French for “under vacuum”); seasoned and sealed, then cooked in a temperature controlled circulating water bath at 131°F for 48+ hours. This results in tender, juicy and pink all the way through steaks which are finished by browning in a hot cast-iron skillet. Served with sides and wine. A unique gastronomic experience. Bon appétit! Donor: Kevin Yeh & Stephanie Saunders Date: 4/28/2018 Time: 6 pm Minimum Bid: $40.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 513 Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express Quantity: 8 The year is 1931, on the express train from Vladivistok to Moscow. Eight traveling guests are heading to a major peace summit. All will become murder suspects following the sudden death of the body guard for the Japanese ambassador. Come for an evening of fun, good food and mystery sleuthing. We’ll provide your character’s info and costume suggestions in advance. There are 4 male and 4 female character roles, but we're UUs...you choose your gender. Donor: Amanda & Bill Gillum Date: 3/17/2018 Time: 6-10 pm Minimum Bid: $35.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 514 Authentic South Indian Vegetarian Dinner Quantity: 10 All vegetarian, made from scratch dishes. Will there be upma, sambar, idli, rasam, biryani, korma or chutney? Come and see. Treat your senses - even your sense of touch, as all are encouraged to eat with their fingers (eating with cutlery is like taking a shower with your clothes on). On a mutually agreed upon date and time. Donor: Aparna & Farooq Zama Minimum Bid: $25.00 Guaranteed Price: $125.00 Sign-up Price: $125.00 Friday, February 9th, 2018 Page 4 of 24 Junkets 700 Something to Tweet About Quantity: 10 A walking tour of the bird murals painted throughout John James Audubon's old Harlem based neighborhood in New York City. The project is inspired by the great American artist- ornithologist’s legacy, and energized by the Audubon Society’s groundbreaking Birds and Climate Change Report, which reveals at least half of all North American bird species are threatened by a warming climate. We’ll train into NYC, then take the subway to far north Broadway to walk the Washington & Hamilton Heights neighborhoods. Stop in at the Trinity Church cemetery and visit Audubon’s grave, and check out the Beaux-Arts buildings of Audubon Terrace. Dutch-treat lunch at Oso, owned by Matthew Trebek (Alex’s son, but no jeopardy answers required). Then, head to Hamilton Grange and visit Alexander Hamilton's National Park Service-managed home. Raindate: June 10, 2018. Donor: Dunbar Birnie & Louise Senior Date: 4/29/2018 Time: All day Minimum Bid: $25.00 Guaranteed Price: $100.00 701 Wissahickon Hikin’ Quantity: 12 Hike in the Wissahickon Gorge, in Northern Philadelphia, one of the 600 National Landmarks of the US.