Sep 18
2010

For our Harvest Festival and Dancing we are celebrating the harvest season in the Monterey Bay, focusing on the fruits, vegetables, and cooking styles that have influenced this region for 500 years.   This menu honors the flavors and cooking styles of Italy, Spain, and Latin America as we like to do it here in the West.  After all, the Monterey region is cowfolk country as well as sardine factories.  (Menu is vegan unless noted.)

Appetizer

Just picked grapes – regional and Fairy-Tale Farm

Mystery Golden Delicious apples and Fresh walnuts - local harvest
Homemade compagnon bread – w/ Scarborough Fair herb butter or olive oil

Soup

Cioppino – hearty Italian stew with local harvest vegetables (please RSVP if you’d like with fish or without)
Homemade compagnon bread

Salad

Micro greens and heirloom lettuces – w/ heirloom tomatoes, flowers, and surprises, in a creamy basil vinaigrette
Multi-color potato salad – w/ fresh roasted peppers and Fairy-Tale Farm green bean pickles in an herb vinaigrette

Main

Molti Strati alla Griglia – Italian-style casserole w/ pan grilled eggplant, zucchini,  onions, and cheese in a mild tomato-chili sauce (vegetarian, vegan option: please specify when RSVP’ing)
Cowfolk Beans – sprouted pinto beans w/ mild Monterey chili spices (vegan)
Monterey Romance rice – light Spantalian heavily fused with the New World (vegan)

Dessert

Pie selection: apple pie, pear pie, Arana Gulch blackberry pie, rhubarb apple pie, the neighbor’s peaches pie, gluten-free pie (please request on RSVP)
Coffee
Tea

The food sourced for this menu is, as always, as local as we can make it.  We start in our own garden, then the gardens and farms of our friends, then we go to farmer’s markets, and the final ingredients at a local store, with a clear bias toward regionally sourced.

In particular, the food is supplied by our friends at City Blooms (micro greens), at least three other farms we’ll name at the dinner, Azalyne Skye Olson, Ellen Baker, and a few others we’ll discover this week.

Come dine with us and share in the Santa Cruz urban bounty!

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Sep 15
2010

We’re building a dance floor for our Harvest Festival this 26 September.  I had a discussion with a musician during one of our Summertime Salons about a simple idea, and so far I like it better than anything I’ve read.  Refer to the diagram when reviewing these steps:

  1. Lay a full sized half-inch plywood sheet so the side you want to dance on is facing down.
  2. Use a table saw to rip a single 10-foot 2×4 along the length in to half-inch shims.  Each board should yield six half-inch by 10 foot shims, since you’ll lose a half-inch in saw kerf across all the rips.
  3. Use a chop saw to cross cut the stack of shims so that you get one stack of 7 foot and one stack of 3 foot shims. Click to read more …

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Sep 12
2010

Sunday, September 26th at 5 PM we will have our next formal dinner event.  Come dine on freshly picked organic produce…among the produce!  Tables will be set up all over the garden.  “Monterey  Spantalian” menu now available.  Please bring your own wine.

Come through the roses and have some appetizers.

Dinner is from 5-7 PM followed by a community dance!

Dance Around Molly a live Irish band, will be playing from 7-9 PM and we will have Linda Preston, our caller teaching us all how to line up and swirl to the music!  No experience necessary, just come prepared to dance the night away.

Dinner and dancing: $40 suggested donation.  If you’d like to just come for the dance and desert, only $10 suggested donation.  Come at 7 PM for dancing and desert.

As always, one free slot for dishwasher, but you will work for your supper!  If you’d like free dancing and desert, we could use two dishwashers, so contact us.

Children are welcome for the dancing and desert.  Well behaved children are welcome for the dinner.  We will have intimate tables for 4 as well as larger community tables for 8 +.  Seating is first come first served, so arrive on time and grab a seat in your favorite part of the garden.

Reservations are required and must be made by September 24th.  Let me know how many people are coming:

reservations@fairy-talefarm.com

Come join your host for some magic.



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