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from Bret Jennings:
(Also check out the Eat Local Events page to read about the Local Dinner coming up at Elaine’s on Monday June 25th)
Local produce now featured on the menu includes: english peas, squash, strawberries, radishes, garlic, rapini, beets, sugar snap peas, red potatoes, romaine, arugula, baby carrots, spinach, and collards. Local meats currently on the menu include pork, N.C. fluke, jumbo lump crab, tuna, shrimp, Georgia quail and local chicken. Lately we’ve been able to get live softshell crabs each Thursday from the N.C. coast. They will stay alive for about three days after delivery, so we can serve them through the weekend (pleas call for availability). We’re also using lots of heirloom grains from Anson Mills in South Carolina: white corn hominy, buckwheat polenta, and grits. Also, many of you know and love our signature ‘foie gras blt’ made with local baby mache, pickled tomatoes and candied bacon on brioche toast. If you’ve yet to sample this delicious morsel, make a point to stop in before the end of June.
Here’s some local food thoughts from Tes in Pittsboro.
Keep up, she posts often!
http://truefood.wordpress.com/
Definitely worth checking out this article and more from the same author (also a farmer in Western NC)
Grist’s Victual Reality columns by Tom Philpott:
http://www.grist.org/topic/Victual_Reality
and the details on another event from Jen Noble-Kelly….
WATTS GROCERY PREVIEW DINNER
ELODIE FARM
JUNE 16, 2007
Join Chef Amy Tornquist at Elodie Farm on Saturday, June 16th for a special
preview dinner of Watts Grocery, her new restaurant opening in Durham this
August. Chef Amy Tornquist will present her distinctive North Carolina
cooking, featuring Elodie Farm’s goat’s milk cheeses throughout her 5-course
menu. Elodie Farm invites guests to arrive at 6:30 for a tour of the farm;
dinner begins promptly at 7:15. The $55.00 per person dinner includes a
glass of wine; guests are welcome to bring wine as well. Seating is limited.
For more information or to make reservations, contact Elodie Farm at
919-479-4606 or dinners@elodiefarms.com.
Watts Grocery Preview Dinner Menu
Chilled Creamy Cucumber Soup
with NC Crab, Chilies and Queso Fresco
Peregrine Farms’ Summer Crisp Lettuce with roasted Chioggia Beets, Little
Tomatoes, House Stilton,
Honeyed Walnuts and Green Goddess Dressing
Grilled Mahi Mahi paired with a Chevre Grit Soufflé,
Sauté of Market Greens and Sungold Tomato Vinaigrette
NC Blueberry Cobbler with Ricotta Ice Cream
Sandi at ECO passed this along from the local Sierra Club Chapter.
Thanks!
SIERRA CLUB JUNE MEETING - “EAT LOCAL TRIANGLE” PICNIC
Sunday June 10th: 1:00 to 4:00p.m.
Cane Creek Reservoir (Hwy 54 west of Carrboro/Chapel Hill).
Canoes will be available for a small fee.
Bring a dish to share with others, using local products.
Beverages, plates and utensils provided.