On a balmy Tuesday evening, 23 guests dined at Shomrei’s MESH Cafe. Chef Lynne Kurzweil served a well-balanced, tasty meal consisting of tomato and red pepper soup with elbow macaroni and pizza crackers on the side. (The pizza crackers were repurposed from pizza leftover from the Purim carnival); a mixed green salad courtesy of kiddish prep; multigrain bread; baked tilapia with a panko parmesan crust; and brown rice pilaf with broccoli and red peppers, cooked to perfection in our electric rice cooker. Dessert was a giant chocolate chip cookie accompanied by fresh strawberries. 

Each guest went home with a shalach manot bag. Captain Aileen Grossberg explained the reason for the take-away bag by telling a condensed version of the Purim story.