International Potluck Ladies Group. Egyptian Day.
I been with this group for over 3 years now. This group was founded by Kak Hasnah. She used to only have 25 ladies coming to her house, bringing food that typical of country of member's origin. Hence the name of International Potluck coming from. Kak Hasnah used to run the same group when she lived in Saudi.
Today ... I spoke to her on the meeting. International Potluck Ladies Group have grown to 380 members from 65 countries.
The meeting is held once a month in Al Jazi compound club house. The theme of the meeting change every month. Hosting by different countries. This month the Egyptian Ladies hosting the meeting ... hence we called it 'Egyptian Day'.
We always have a local airline sponsored the group ... this month Egypt Air giving away a free ticket Doha - Cairo - Doha for the main raffles prize. Unfortunately I did not win that one.
Normally the members required to bring a dish to be share by 10 to 15 people, but this month meeting ... Egyptian Embassy donated the food for the brunch for the International Potluck. The food was yummy ... it is said by one of the hosting members Totta Thomas as a pure egyptian food.
The most interesting part for me from the meet was the demonstration how to make egyptian pies by Bahri Restaurant. Here is the videos ... I call it acrobatic dough lol. I took some videos :
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At the moment the membership is closed ... as Kak Hasnah said, she will open it again after the summer holiday when some people leaving the country.
If any of you ladies interested to come to the International potluck ladies group after the summer, here is the e-mail of the group :
he he..dont worry, why dont u use stilts ( egrang in bahasa)? lol . sorry just joking,keep smile..
Da ... prepare it from now on okay?lol.
aries02 ... do u think me and Da will make a good couple on QL Lol ... he already going to pull my leg to make me taller Lol.
Da stop teasing me OK?
Nice article Novita and thank you for for writing it
Très loin de gratin dauphinoise et nasi lemak..uhuhuhuhu
thank you very much i think i need to pull nov legs to make her tall :D
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gud article, novita. i read your comment and article, darude and u should be MR n MRS QL.... i'll vote u both..
I want to break free...I feell like a well paid slave here...
I want to break free...I feell like a well paid slave here...
Well at the moment we're fostering rather than adopting permanently, cos to take her back to the UK when we leave would mean 6 months quarantine which we're not prepared to put her through.
We picked her up last Thursday. She's fine in the apartment but a bit wary of all the cars and construction noise around West Bay when we go out, so we take her to the large bit of land next to the InterCon to run her, which she loves.
You're more than welcome to come and visit us next time you're here!
so u did adopted 1 ??? i might pop in to see camry next time i visited a friend in your place. lol
and yes she looks so lovely ....
That's what we thought, but Xena and Desert_Queen persuaded us otherwise so we have fostered Camy;
Look how fierce she is! She'll protect me from these insults!
u cant have a dog in where you live tallg ...
Novi - I'm gonna train my new dog to attack the anyone who calls me skinny!
Vegas - lol @ 'that wont get you any honey'!!!
I want to break free...I feell like a well paid slave here...
I am not biting ... i dont want to upset anymore people ...
Oooops ... i hv upset two QL gents now ... . Maybe not, maybe only you , Tallg already said he can take it.
I want to break free...I feell like a well paid slave here...
"my Dad regularly calls me a lanky streak of p*ss"
----> I can tell how affectionate he is towards u .
I want to break free...I feell like a well paid slave here...
So what you call Darude?
Don't worry I can take it - my Dad regularly calls me a lanky streak of p*ss (in a loving, affectionate way of course)!
lol tallg ... u skinny when you stand next to Vegas Sorry about that ...
Tallg today she is calling you skinny just wondering what will she call you tomorrow so quick join me :D
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Hey, I'm not THAT skinny!!!
Yes, and your reporting is much more interesting to read! The newspaper reports never sound like they were actually there, and if they were they were just reporting, not joining in the fun.
and also tallg .... you need to work more to put some more weight lol.
very interesting group... i watched the video of the dough/pie making, it was indeed fun... lol..
thank you for sharing novita..
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tALLG .... i think i beat Gulf Times and Peninsula in doing reporting lol.
so far i hv the privellege only the few person who have met tallg
Haha - nothing personal Da, honest!
I used to be a bit skinnier novi - I've put on over a stone in the last year!
btw, the potluck meeting made it into the papers;
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=March2008&file=Local_News2008032735549.xml
he doesnt want to appear in any event that i organize why tallg :/
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yeah tallg ... you are really tall ... and skinny. I think you and Vegas about 2 of the tallest QL'er i have met lol.
Been there, done that. I didn't look very convincing. Something to do with being this tall I think.
tallg, put a skirt, a wig, shave your leg and get your wife make up on lol.
CB ... yeah i love that group ... you can meet people from different part of the globe. Never thought that Doha is really cosmopolitan city ...
Very good and a great iniative from the ladies looks like a fun time for all.
Great article Novita! Wish I was a lady so I could attend :-(
Well you can give it a try, but I'm not responsible for the consequences, or the heads that will go with it..:))
Albahri bakery, down the Nasr street, does a very good job. I love the Egyptian pies they bake. Especially the sweet ones.
Happy Happy ... one of the Egyptian lady already warned me not to try it at home lol.
Mom visits our local bakery back in Cairo and keeps watching (she's bee doing this for years). She gets back home to try to make it the same way, and the dough travels all the way into our faces!!
She’s pure Egyptian, but it takes a master to shape and bake that way. The trick is not to have any holes in the dough circle while spreading and tossing it in the air..:)
ops sorry novita its just force of habit
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hijack all you want Da ...
no no am thinking b4 dhow trip will take all your money and go :D
:( sorry novi this tcom is hijacking not me swear you can see.
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he cant go ... after dhow trip would be inland sea trip ... Da !!! U cant go anywhere lol.
darude u need a vacation go for it but after the dhow trip
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eeeh man am getting old cant see anything i thought above the condition is cross. so where are the legs?
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lol darude u only saw the chick photo in all that n missed the sexy legs lol
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it is sponsored posters DaRuDe ... today as far as i remember the meeting sponsored by Faces, Royal Plaza, Sheraton, Ritz Carlton and some others that i cant remember.
thanks tcom for saying it is a good thread.
@darude its in Al Jazi compound club house
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lol novita ita a good thread
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OMG the amount of background noise lol
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is this church??
whats the chick poster doing behind on the wall :D
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lol tcom ... i am bored ... so i thought i wrote something for QL ...
its an article not a story
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Very Inspiring story
Live and let live...