Esperanza’s Rabbits! A Post about my outstanding in the field event on July 5th at Donkey and goat winery
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Pluck and feather rabbits
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Outstanding in the field/Parking lot
Friday, July 9th, 2010
July 5th Donkey and goat winery
Squash blossom and flower bud fritters new garlic aioli
Devils gulch pork, radish, pickled cherry, buckwheat crisp bread
Grilled tiny cabbages crème, bacon, chervil
Little city gardens salad with cucumbers, favas, flowers and fresh pine haven farm goat cheese
Grilled fig leaf sardines, lime, orange blossom water, harissa, herbs and leaves
Duck egg, grilled porcini, nasturtium custard
Roots and shoots
Grilled rabbit confit with plum and preserved Meyer lemon, everyone’s greens
Apricot strawberry galette with grilled figs and berries novellas green coriander Chantilly
Johnny’s honeycomb
Kevin Bayuk -duck eggs
Amy belorka- favas, potato, flowers,
Novella-honey, fennel, squash, rabbits, green coriander, flowers, fig leaves, mulberries, potatoes, turnips
Monterey fish-sardines
Knoll farms figs and apricots
Frog hollow-nectarines
Blossom bluff-plums + foraged
Esperanza pallana-rabbits
Bohemian farms-flowers, greens, baby vegetables, squash blossoms
Star route- baby carrots and agretti
Anders -squash blossoms, herbs, garlic, flowers
Abeni-tomatoes + padrones
Pine haven farms-goat milk
Little city farms – salad greens, herbs
Edible school yard- flowers and herbs
Urban sprouts- favas beans
Johnny- honeycomb
Devils gulch-pork shoulder
Firebrand- breads
Dirty girl-cabbages , strawberries
Porcini- twain heart
A curious cafe’
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Lovely images from our curious cafe’
i am having a blast with the littles….Foraged Plum gallette today
A lil farm dinner at Pie ranch
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Liminal Feast to Summer
Monday, June 14th, 2010A nice little write up about Liminal Feast in in the SF weekly food blog
Liminal Society Seeks to Capture the Moment Between Seasons
By Andrew Simmons,
Liminal Society
What, exactly, will June 19 taste like? The Liminal Society aims to find out.
In The BFG, our second-favorite Roald Dahl book, the plucky little protagonist Sophie, unable to sleep during the predawn “witching hour,” spies a stooped bald giant blowing dreams through the windows of houses along her street. This “special moment of the night” when buildings look “bent and crooked, like houses in a fairy tale” and everything is “pale and ghostly and milky-white” is a time of transition, just before moonlit darkness gives way to the first flickers of dawn. It is a space between two movements, in a sense, liminal in that it exists between two defined states. The witching hour is neither here nor there, and when you’re awake then (and not falling down the stairs at some stupid party), the silence and absence of human motion and voices encourages the sensing of invisible spirits.
We thought of this when we read about the young Liminal Society’s June 19 dinner party. Plenty of special serial dinners celebrate the seasons; most restaurants self-consciously do the same, kind of to the point where half the menus in town look strikingly similar at any given time of year, changing practically in unison each month. Chef Nicole LoBue’s Liminal Society feasts focus tighter in on the spaces between the seasons we think we know ― we like to think of them as joints linking one section of the year to the next. LoBue and her comrades came up with the concept last year as summer turned to fall. In searching out a way to express the shifts in seasons, they’ve found a satisfying conceit around which to construct thoughtful, layered food parties.
LoBue shared her thoughts on the upcoming event with us: “For the feast into summer, we’re feeling like it’s all about the fruiting and flowering and lushness; a general lack of restraint, leaving behind the tartness of the last season.”
She does have a menu in mind (a whole-lamb plate, sardines with gypsy pepper harissa, and a rosewater pine nut brioche cake, for starters), but she also asked that she not be held to it. We think we understand why. A dinner like this must evolve constantly. Most market-driven meals require a certain flexibility, but the seasonal shift LoBue intends to articulate isn’t a static phase. It’s more like a wave, sometimes slow and casacading, and then, suddenly, crashing surf. A chef trying to ride it has to be prepared to improvise. You just have to buy tickets.
A Liminal Feast to Summer
When: Sat., June 19, 7-11 p.m.
Where: Somewhere in San Francisco (find out precisely where after buying your ticket)
Cost: $75 for five courses; BYO drinks
Purchase: Via Brown Paper Tickets
Little City Gardens~
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
With one week left to go Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway are gearing up to begin production on a new space here in the city.
I admire this project so much and am so in love with what they are producing.
Little City salad is simply the best available.
Congratulations !
The new site is ready.
I am so very excited for them and the implications for our city!
Little city Gardens
It is a small urban farm in San Francisco, and it is an experiment in the economic viability of small-scale urban market-gardening. We have been working steadily for a year towards our aims: to craft a way for urban food production to sustain us economically, to build community through innovative, collaborative local food systems, and thus to help establish the path of ‘urban farmer’ as a career. We are motivated by the belief that urban farming should be a common livelihood in the United States as it has been, and still is, in some other countries. Through this project we are actively wondering: what does it take to make this happen?
Brooke discovered the first garden site in 2007 while scanning the neighborhood from the vantage point of her roof. She contacted the landlord who agreed to let her begin gardening. With the help of friends and neighbors, she began transforming the lot from an unused field of weeds and brambles to an abundant garden. In early 2008, Brooke and Caitlyn met and began working together, sharing ideas and time in the garden. Together they developed vision, community involvement, a name, and a business plan.
We are young farmers in a nation with a food system gravely out of balance. We know that the economics and politics of food are skewed in favor of large corporate agriculture. This not only creates harsh economic realities for small-scale farms, both urban and rural, but also is fueled by the use of petrochemicals and gasoline, and is based on manipulative global trade policies. We are inspired to get creative. We are working toward an urban farming model that makes up for its small scale by recycling urban resources (neighborhood composting), eliminating transporation costs (deliveries by foot and by bicycle), creating active, face-to-face relationships with neighbors and customers, and enlivening new forms of community support. The more community we can build around the growing of our food, the more power we can have to change our food systems
That big farm called San Francisco
Sunday, April 25th, 2010Great article here in the New York times about our cities fascination with all things farm fun , with a mention of my class series at the Studio for Urban Projects.
Cheese class
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
My soon
Sunday, April 11th, 2010I will be part of a few exciting events this coming spring and early Summer.
Oh Spring! Here is a little seasonal discussion I had with friend and journalist Heather Smith for Mission Local. About some of our newly sprung treasures.
April
Plant identification walk April 25th
I will also be leading a plant walk on Montara mountain with class mate and friend Joolie Geldner.
Come and stroll through the blooms with Joolie Geldner and Nicole LoBue, Second Year students at the Ohlone Herbal Center, while feeling the wind of the ocean on your face at Montara Mt. We will be heading on a short walk, visiting plants that can help us with many things from digestive issues to insomnia. The walk is moderate with slight inclines but we will be moving very slowly to insure time to spend with the plants and the fantastic ocean view. Please bring anything you need for a hike: sunscreen, snacks, water, camera, notepad and pen, any plant ID books and your natural curiousity. All levels are welcome and all stories and plant experiences are encouraged!
RSVP to gurlshare@gmail.com
We will meet at 2621 Bryant St, San Francisco @ 10am to carpool and caravan.
May
I am looking forward to cooking,learning, playing a bit and being outdoors for the entire month of May.
This May 1-9th I will be heading up the kitchen for a Primitive skills event the first year in the making .
Buckeye. It is going to be beautiful with so much to learn.
A bit of a break visiting friends homesteads .
Then I will be back at the Woman’s Herbal Symposium ! I am looking forward to the ladies and the shared love of plants~ May 20~24th Session one and session 2 May 27-31st I hope to see you there
June
Join us for the third Liminal feast June 19th . Jennifer Lynch and I collaborate for this dinner club project. This time we will be capturing the transition of spring to summer
Here are some more pictures from our last feast by Robin Jolin
July
I will be guest teaching for a bit with Bryan Welch a wonderful educator and an inspiration.I will be cooking with the kiddos for the curious cafe and my son will join in for some of the other fun as well.I highly recommend taking a look at the program.
A Curious Summer is a series of one-of-a-kind workshops driven by the curiosity of your child. We aim to induce wonder and spark enthusiasm for the everyday world around us. We consider play, the mysterious work of the child, to be an advanced and sophisticated endeavor, profoundly central to a child’s individual development and theories about the world. A Curious Summer workshops encourage discovery through free play, tinkering, and imagination.
This camp will be based out of the Studio for Urban projects. Where I also have a class series happening right now. I can not speak highly enough of the events and collaborations happening there . Have a look and pass along.
Cheese April 10th~
Fermentation June 5th
Sourdough bread baking July 24th
Canning August 28th
Come gleam some gourmet granny skills.
THEN!
I am so thrilled to be chef for an Outstanding In The Field dinner on July 5th at Donkey and Goat Winery in Berkeley. A celebration of Urban Agriculture.
Here is the
description and link to purchase tickets
We like urban agriculture and a lot of other people do too. This year it’s been in the news; people are growing things, raising animals, making wine right in the city. We are going to explore this trend, this interest with a good look at who’s doing what and where it’s happening. Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City, will open her garden gates for a look at what it means to mix farm and city. For dinner we’ll move on to Donkey & Goat Winery where Tracey and Jared make wine some distance from the vineyard. Don’t look for a garden here, this will be gritty city dining and there certainly isn’t enough room for a long table at Novella’s place. We’ll be joined by other urban agriculture champions and our chef of the evening will be Nicole LoBue, who is usually busy with secret supperclubs and is an avid forager and supporter of urban ag. Her food is killer and she only sources sustainable high end product.
