Last night we went to a dinner that featured food from some local CSA farms, including mine, Tipi Produce, paired with beer from a local microbrewery – One Barrel – oh, I guess they call themselves a “nanobrewery”.
Anyways, the dinner was the first in a series, called Plough & Barrel, that benefit the local CSA coalition, FairShare CSA.
The best: pretty room, Beth from my CSA, Tipi Produce, stopped by to chat; the green garlic butter on baguette with shaved red & black radishes – a riff on the traditional French way to eat radishes with butter, with and without bread.
The good: The main course, shredded rabbit on spinach & egg fettucine, with a beer cream sauce, and deep-fried, yes, deep-fried! morels; the dessert, meringues with rhubarb & strawberry puree and lime curd; the way the beers went with the food, especially the American ale.
The not so good: the rabbit meat was really salty; the pickled vegetable salad was too intense to finish, vinegar-y and clove-y, although the pickled morels and asparagus were good on their own – the pickled radishes were really hot; the beer pours were too much – a full pint with each course – too filling and just too much.
The truly painful: the room was insanely noisy, all hard surfaces.
