LTH Holiday Party 2012, December 1, 6PM

LTH Holiday Party 2012, December 1, 6PM


Courtesy ronnie_suburban

There are a few Chicago dining zones that have won almost unqualified praise from the LTH community. Birrieria Zaragoza is one of those places.

“Unbelievably delicious”, ReneG

My first Zaragoza trip and...I couldn't do much more than hug myself and meditate on how lucky I am , boudreaulicious

”Great stuff”, JeffB.

“Wow”, germuska.

“There is nothing about Zaragoza I didn’t love”, ronnie suburban

We’d wanted to have our holiday party at Birrieria Zaragoza for years, but their original location on Pulaski was just too tight for our numbers of LTH partyers.

This year, Birrieria Zaragoza has a new and bigger location, and we’re pleased to announced that the LTH Holiday Party 2012 will be at Birrieria Zaragoza at 2211 W. Lake, Melrose Park on Saturday, December 1, starting at 6PM.

Order tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/291733

Norma and John Zaragoza have put together a Mexican holiday menu that features their signature birria and a few other choice items, to wit:

1st Course
• Guacamole/Chips
• Salsa de Molcajete w/Cheese Quesadilla

2nd Course
• Pozole/Pork Hominy Soup
• Tamales (Red Chile, Green Chile, Cheese with Rajas)

Main Entrée
• Birria w/trimmings and Hand-Made Tortillas
• Chicken Birria

Dessert
• Citrus Flan
• Sweet Tamales

This is a meat-o-centric event, but we'll nonetheless be able to accomodate vegetarians to some extent: hand-made tortillas, quacamole, consomme (killer), quesadillas and salsa, some of the tamales (cheese and rajas as well as sweet; none of tamales contain lard), and citrus flan. And rum. Norma also said she will plan to prepare a squash dish specifically for vegetarians. If you want to go with this option, please indicate your vegetarianess on this thread.

Tickets. Tickets are set at $37.50, and that includes dinner, tax, tip and Cuba Libres (we'll provide rum; Mexican soft drinks can be purchased a la carte). You can bring your own alcohol or wine (no corkage fee). As in years past, all ticket sales will go through Brown Paper Tickets (small transaction fee required). Just go to the site and enter your information. Ticket sales close at noon, November 30, 2012. Once you’ve paid, we’ll get updates from Brown Paper Tickets and we’ll enter your name on the guest list. Seating is limited to 80; lots of street parking.

Attendees:
1. David Hammond
2. Carolyn Berg
3. Catherine Lambrecht
4. Laura Lambrecht
5. TheWindyCity #1
6. TheWindyCity #2
7. stevez
8. Chow Poodle
9. Zoid
10. Rene G
11. Toria
12. Guest of Toria
13. laikom
14. Theresa
15. Santander
16. ronnie_suburban
17. Guest of ronnie_suburban
18. Sharone Kaplan
19. Lee Katman
20. Leekman
21. Irisarbor
22. Mr. Irisarbor
23. mhl
24. Hellodali
25. Guest of Hellodali
26. Giovanna
27. NR706
28. Guest of NR706
29. Guest of Easygal09 (but where is Easygal09?)
30. milz50
31. Mrs. milz50
32. justjoan
33. tarte tatin
34. Boudreaulicious
35. e. christmas
36. e. christmas
37. lemoneater
38. Mr. Lemoneater
39. LazyGal
40. EvA
41. Cabbage Head
42. Chouxfly
43. Mamagotcha
44. Pie Lady
45. Cookie Monster
46. Cynthia
47. turkob
48. snap203
49. GAF
50. Pigmon
51. Trixie-Pea
52. Josephine
53. Raymond
54. Soft Boiled
55. Hard Boiled
56. mbh
57. boborigmy
58. boborigmy guest
59. jilly y
60. jilly y's guest
61. JimtheBeerGuy
62. SaintPizza
63. Ms. Ingie
64. Ellen F
65. JimInLoganSquare
66. Mrs. JimInLoganSquare
67. Amata
68. edc
69. Sue, edc's guest
70. Eating While Walking
71. Amy B.
72. Glennpan
73. Helen
74. Josanna Berg-Hammond

Tickets are non-refundable though they are transferrable, so if you buy a ticket and your plans change, you can sell your ticket to another member of the LTH community. If you do sell your ticket, please let us know who you sold it to so we can update the list of attendees.

Gift Exchange. If you want, please bring a food-related raffle item. For the raffle/gift exchange, all gifts go into a pool and names are drawn. Please bring gifts that others would be happy to receive. If you do bring a gift, you get a ticket and are guaranteed one gift in exchange. We’ve set the price for each gift around $15. Please don't wrap the gift -- we like to see what people are winning before they win it -- but please do put your name (real name or screen name or both) on the gift so that lucky winners know who to thank.

Yeah! I'm really looking forward to this year's party. The Chow Poodle and I have signed up at BPT.

Just bought my tickets.
Please put me down for 2 (zoid + 1 guest).

zoid wrote:Just bought my tickets.
Please put me down for 2 (zoid + 1 guest).

Glad you can make it, zoid. We'll post names as soon as we get notification from BPT, but if you bought tickets, you're definitely in.

I have signed up for 2 tickets. Toria T. plus Frank T.

By the way one non vegetarian and one "kind of" veg meaning I do not know if I will eat the goat but I will eat anything vegetarian or chicken.

One other question will there be diet coke for diabetics and others not wanting sugar?

toria wrote:I have signed up for 2 tickets. Toria T. plus Frank T.

By the way one non vegetarian and one "kind of" veg meaning I do not know if I will eat the goat but I will eat anything vegetarian or chicken.

You really should try the goat.

David Hammond wrote:

toria wrote:I have signed up for 2 tickets. Toria T. plus Frank T.

By the way one non vegetarian and one "kind of" veg meaning I do not know if I will eat the goat but I will eat anything vegetarian or chicken.

You really should try the goat.

Agreed. If I ate animals I would definitely eat the goat there.

In for 2, please. Sounds great. Will buy my tix asap.

Thanks,

=R=

i just purchased 2 tickets (laikom+teresa).

laikom wrote:i just purchased 2 tickets (laikom+teresa).

Hmm, you're not showing up on the Brown Paper Tickets list yet. Not sure why not.

I would love to go but I already have tickets for Next that night

So excited, we've been planning our grab gifts all year
(tix purchased)

And I just purchased two tickets. Very much looking forward to this!

Haiku of Janus of LTH--

I have two mouths for
Hot picnic and Kool party,
Yearly "happy meals."

Like an LTH-style version of the Roman god, I'm mostly either looking fondly back at the Picnic & eagerly forward to the Party, or vice-versa. (...And at them, I often eat like I have two faces'-worth of mouths, as well. )

Brown Paper Ticket has been purchased.

--Matt

While we may be slightly uncertain of the birria
We are very very certain of the company!

It looks like there is chicken and cheese quesadillas and a few other things for the goat challenged.

Goat is tasty. I like it better than lamb. And Birria is just super yummy!

toria wrote:It looks like there is chicken and cheese quesadillas and a few other things for the goat challenged.

Just so you know, there will be just a few chickens prepared for sampling purposes. Everyone will get a taste of the chicken, but this place is really all about the goat.

It would appear that I may be forced to attend. Ow, stop twisting my arm, ow! I'm coming, I'm coming! (For one)

Booked for Moetchandon & me.

nr706 wrote:Booked for Moetchandon & me.

Already done, bra.

Sounds fantastic. Just to check - the consomme was not made from an animal? And the tamale masa does not contain animal fat?

lemoneater wrote:Sounds fantastic. Just to check - the consomme was not made from an animal? And the tamale masa does not contain animal fat?

Hi,

Consomme is not made from an animal, though it is seasoned as if there were goat juices in the soup.

I will double-check on the tamale masa with them. I believe it doesn't, though not willing to bet the farm on this.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:

lemoneater wrote:Sounds fantastic. Just to check - the consomme was not made from an animal? And the tamale masa does not contain animal fat?

Hi,

Consomme is not made from an animal, though it is seasoned as if there were goat juices in the soup.

I will double-check on the tamale masa with them. I believe it doesn't, though not willing to bet the farm on this.

Regards,

Really? I would be very suprised to find that the consumme is vegetarian.
I've been wrong many, many, many times before in my life so...could be.

Hi.

I am 100% sure on Zaragoza's consomme. this was something I had a hard time believing myself. A sample was brought over to taste. If I was not assured there were no goat or other meat products in there, I would not have believed it.

Regards,

Good to know.

FYI - I didn't mean to doubt you personally, it just seemes very strange.
No hard feeling I hope.

zoid wrote:Good to know.

FYI - I didn't mean to doubt you personally, it just seemes very strange.
No hard feeling I hope.

No, gosh I had doubts on this myself.

Hi,

Tamale masa does have animal fat. They will experiment using something else for the non-meat eaters. One way or another, we will make this work!

Regards,

I'm guessing #28 is me - two tickets purchased for me and a guest. See you all then. -Liz!