Folklore Meeting Golden Wheat AHSGR

Yesterday was our Folklore Meeting of the Golden Wheat Chapter AHSGR. Typically at this meeting the members bring ethnic German/Russian foods (but some bring other items). My mother is not German/Russian so I didn't grow up with the ethnic foods, so this has been an important learning experience for me over the years. While my son and I were setting up the big screen I asked my 7 year old grandson if he'd like to take some pictures for me. Later he said that he had taken pictures of the food...

That was his view on it. Seems he only found the desert table. (I have been informed that the bowl full of goodies are Christmas cookies.) Below is a popular desert, Plumamoos. It's a fruit "soup" and can be made with fresh or dried fruit. I've also had Cherry Moos.
The "dogs in a blanket" aren't ethnic but the Sweet & Sour Red Cabbage is. Not sure what is to the left. Between the two green bowls is my Gurkensalat (see Cucumber & Onion mix). The crock pot in the center holds Vereniki, it will be completely gone before anyone can get seconds. My bierocks (see KSHIPPYCHICS version) are to the top right. To the left is sausage cooked in a cabbage leaf and below it is sausage that may have been made locally.
A wider shot with more sausage and cabbage some in the form of meatballs and sauerkraut.
After the meal we held our annual Memorial Service to honor members and family that have passed on in the past year. This year we viewed the DVD slide show that was shown at Carol Riffel's Memorial Service and listened to a beautiful rendition of Amazing Grace.
We seemed to run short of time, we had planned on having a couple of readings but will do them another time. Our last part of the program was to watch the video "Schmeckfest," a wonderfully informative and warmly humorous view of how ethnic foods enrich our lives.
As much as we were all enjoying the show...

...we had to cut it short, maybe we can schedule "Schmeckfest" for another meeting.

Edit 01/28/2008: Received an email in response for request for more information on the foods that were brought. Here's what it said...

"I brought the verenike, German sausage, zwiebach, and a Poppy Seed roll (cut into slices) - it was on dessert table. Poppy Seed roll is a Swiss Volhynian delicacy. The New Year's cookies are sometimes called "Portzilke" or "Portzeln" - both in our cookbook. There was a kuchen of Streussel Kuchen and/or Streusel Coffee Cake.

Among the meat dishes, were Cabbage Rolls (called Haluptsie in one recipe and Kalushka in another, in our cookbook), or sometimes called Pigs in a Blanket. Of course, there were Sauerkraut dishes, including the red cabbage which is a German cabbage dish. (Russian cabbage is green, German cabbage is red). Our cookbook has a red cabbage dish, called "German-style"."