Name: Recipe Box, Memory Box: Homecoming Edition
Start: 2022-01-31T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2022-01-31T17:00:00-06:00

You and yours are invited to celebrate Sheboygan’s unique culinary climate at a DIY Recipe Box, Memory Box: Homecoming Edition event using the Memory Box Menu featured below.

The menu and accompanying video and audio moments are the culmination of The Hinterlands’ JMKAC residency exploring our community’s rich food culture. Originally planned as a live performance at the Art Preserve, Recipe Box, Memory Box: Homecoming Edition was moved online due to COVID-19 realities.

The Hinterlands three-part residency began in March 2021 with Recipe Box, Memory Box: Home Edition, a community recipe swap conducted via postcards and telephone. Those recipes are compiled in the Recipe Box, Memory Box Cookbook, available for purchase at the JMKAC SHOP. The second phase, Recipe Box, Memory Box: Sports Edition, celebrated Sheboygan’s everyday moments with tailgate events and a friendly contest between local restaurants in the art of take-out orders.

Now, it’s time to get cooking and share good food and good stories in our own kitchens, at our own tables, with family and friends.

Share your Recipe Box, Memory Box cooking adventures with us. Send your pics to aramey@jmkac.org or post on social using the hashtags #DressUpYourBrat and #HinterlandsHomecoming

This is the ghost of a performance we were meant to share in person on October 14, 2021, transformed into a special menu for you and yours to share with each other. You may wish to do all of it at once, or spread it out over time, savoring each course like a full meal. You can use our suggested recipes, most shared with us by people in Sheboygan in the Recipe Box, Memory Box Cookbook, or you can substitute for your own favorite equivalent. Recipes are located within each course, or you can download a pdf for all recipes used here.

Our instructions will guide you through each part of the meal, so click on the linked videos and sound files as you go. We are not the only ghosts in the performance. Cooking is conjuring, and breaking bread is a kind of ritual, so you might find you awaken other memories or spirits along the way. In fall, we open the door to those presences, give them a bit of candy or let them warm up from the autumn chill.

Appetizers

Suggested Recipe: Wisconsin Old Fashioned vs. Prohibition Old Fashioned

(We also suggest that you pair your old-fashioned with a relish tray of fresh vegetables, pickles, olives, and breads.)

Salad Course

Our suggested salad recipe was something contributor Chelsea Waite said she created out of things she found in the fridge one day. Go ahead and try Chelsea’s recipe or make your own what’s-in-the-fridge salad. Sit down to eat the salad before you mix all the ingredients together.

Suggested recipe: Blackberry and Jicama Salad

When you’re seated with your unmixed salad ingredients in front of you, please join us for:

a salad meditation

Soup Course

Suggested recipe: Max Becker’s Sweet Potato Bisque

An inedible soup garnish: Before you eat, we ask you to link together the spoons of everyone sitting at the table with string. If there are two of you, sit across from one another and tie your spoons together. If there are three or more of you, tie them so they make a circle. Fill your bowls with soup and eat together. How do you eat your soup? Can you all eat at once? Do you take turns? Do you get no soup at all?

Please enjoy your soup course and, as you navigate eating together in this new way, ask your dining companion(s) one or all of our conversation prompts:

What is the coziest meal you’ve ever been fed?
What is the strangest thing you’ve ever baked?
What is the oldest thing in your refrigerator?

Brat Course

Put some googly eyes on a brat, sit next to it on the couch, and watch this video. Or just watch this video with a sausage you love.

Main Course

Suggested recipe: Tommy Newman’s New Mexico Red Chile Enchiladas

These enchiladas are a special pancake-style enchilada. Richard was never given the recipe for them, but figured it out through years of watching his dad cook. They feel like home. Since Richard can’t be with you in person to show you how they’re made, we’ve included a recording of him making the enchiladas in real time, so you can cook along with him.