Dinner by Design

For all you right-wing neo-cons who like your women trapped at home in the kitchen like June Cleaver, you don't have to read any further. For the rest of the free world, there's Dinner by Design. Full disclosure, they've hired me for a series of 'Cooking with Lips' nights at their area stores, but this blog is not part of that contract. I just found this to be the coolest experience.

This is the Brookfield, WI storefront, where 16 of my listeners gathered for a Tuesday night of meal preparation.
We didn't know what we were in for, but found a really organized space with workstations for each different entree that we had signed up and paid for. As I made my way around the room, each person had a different story about how their job made meal preparation really difficult, and how much of a hero this would make them at home.

This rag-tag bunch of overworked women (and one brave man,) with the help of a little host-provided wine, (boy did their eyes light up when I walked in with the hootch,) were seeking a stress-free way to provide reasonably priced home-cooked meals for their families (self included.)
The Dinner by Design concept is great: They shop, cut, portion, and provide the recipes. We walk in, assemble the meals, have a glass of wine or two, help each other, make new friends, and leave an hour or two later, armed with food for the family. They even do the dishes!

Here's just one of the finished products, stuffed flounder roll-ups. To make things complete for the kitchen-impaired, they even have stick on cooking directions for the packages. Our next DBD outing is June 5 in Racine. Keep an eye on the events page at wkti.com for details.