{"id":7246,"date":"2013-06-04T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2013-06-04T20:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T01:50:44","slug":"beer-csa-farm-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/beer-csa-farm-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer & CSA Farm Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night we went to a dinner that featured food from some local CSA farms, including mine, Tipi Produce<\/a>, paired with beer from a local microbrewery – One Barrel<\/a> – oh, I guess they call themselves a “nanobrewery”.<\/p>\n

Anyways, the dinner was the first in a series, called Plough & Barrel<\/a>, that benefit the local CSA coalition, FairShare CSA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The good: The main course, shredded rabbit on spinach & egg fettucine, with a beer cream sauce, and deep-fried, <\/em>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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The truly painful: the room was insanely noisy, all hard surfaces.<\/p>\n