My cooking club met at Shiloh today.  It was my turn to teach them something.  Since I'm no cook, I choose a fruit salad.  Thought everyone knew how.  But turned out they learned a few new tricks.

Started with a watermelon. Cut a small slice off the bottom so it would not roll.  Then cut saw teeth points all the way around and removed the top half.  Using the fruit baler, we made a mound of watermelon balls.  This time around we used papaya, apples, bananas, grapes, and pineapple.  To this we added raisins that had been soaked in filtered water, ground peanuts, cinnamon, and sugar.  When this was well tossed, it went into the watermelon rind bowl and was set on a platter.  Then I put some whipped cream (with sugar and vanilla in it) in a bowl.

Then came the fun part.  We talked about setting tables and making things fancy.  I showed them how a square of material can hang over the edge of the table and become a place mat.  We fell into this idea once when our table cloth was dirty and there was no time to wash it.  You can cover a multitude of sins that way!  I opened up all the hutches and let them pick their table settings.  We have multiple sets of silverware to choose from, too.  And we did a small napkin folding demonstration as well.  

Everyone went home with napkins to dress up their tables with.  It was a successful event.