Green Feast 2009, South Coast Farms, San Juan Capistrano

September 12, 2009

Menu

Grilled Pizzas
burrata cheese, cob oven roasted south coast farms veggies,
heirloom cherry tomato jam

Cob Oven Roasted Carlsbad Aquafarm Mussels
panko, herb butter

South Coast Farms Melon and MM Livestock Ham
fresh mint, extra virgin olive oil

Santa Barbara Spot Prawns and Local White Sea Bass
herb polenta, tomato verbena broth, extra virgin olive oil

Herb Grilled MM Livestock Chicken
south coast farms cob oven roast zucchini, squash,
bell peppers and weiser farms pee wee potatoes, poulet jus

Grilled J & J Grassfed Beef Sirloin
grilled corn, caramelized sweet bermuda onions, mcgrath farms
fresh Mexican red beans, padron peppers, beef jus, grilled tomatillo
sauce, mixed greens, fresh corn tortillas florales

White Cheddar Goat Cheese
and Winchester Farms Jalapeño Gouda Cheese
wild arugula, toasted walnuts, fig port reduction

Grilled Tenerelli Orchards Peach Cobbler
burnt honey sauce, vanilla crème fraiche

WINE AND BEER
Each course is paired with the appropriate wine
provided by the following organic vintners and brewers:
Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards
Bonterra Winery
Stone Brewing Company
Ventura Limoncello
Menu subject to change due to availability

32701 Alipaz Street San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675

Debbie Wong has Outrageous Mangos

Brian Wolf of Luques and AOC called them the single best thing at the farmer's market, but when I first had them a while back they were expensive and the one I got wasn't ripe yet. Then I decided to try another one a few weeks ago and it was an epiphany, a mango epiphany. It was sweet, smooth almost creamy, it was an almost perfeect mango.I couldn't wait to use them, in dessert a panna cotta using hardly any sugar, a lobster salad with avocado and green papaya and by itself. I gave one to my friend Abe and he couldn't believe the flavor and texture.
Of course what would you expect from Wong Farms. They grow in the desert out toward the Salton Sea and we get their tomatoes in late winter and early spring.The tomatoes warrant tomato salads when no one eventhinks of these things. So cudos to Debbie and Wong Farms for their outrageous Mangos.