It’s Italian night at The Shack!
Dinner:
Linguini w/ Fresh Clams
Fresh Grilled Cod
Layered Veggie “Lasagna”
Ceasar Salad
Herb Foccacia
Dessert:
Apple Tart
Opens at 6:00, dinner at 7-ish
The Shack
5201 Folsom Blvd
916-457-5997
Midweek Morsels
Soil Born Farm Fifth-Annual Autumn Equinox Celebration
Saturday, Sept. 22 from 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Soil Born Farm, an urban agricultural oasis nestled in the heart of the city, is inviting the public to join them for an evening of great music, seasonal and organic food prepared by prominent local chefs, and sample exceptional wines from a variety of local wineries.
Fine Food:
The Waterboy
SpataroEsquire Grill
Mulvaney’s Building & Loan
Magpie Caterers
Kasbah Lounge
Tapa the World
A Healthy Kitchen
Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op
Piatti Locali
Slocum House
Regionale Produce
Basil’s by the Lake
Paragary’s Bar & Oven
Eileen’s Kitchen
Quarry Ponds Market Hall
Hawks
Spirit of Sacramento
Wine Tasting:
Bogle
Hey Mambo
Boeger
Lolonis
White Knight
Davis Wine
Plungerhead
Jewel
Music:
Mind X Quartet
Spillit Quikkers
Silent Auction:
Bid on an abundance of items including art, gardening supplies and gift certificates.
Location:
Soil Born Farm
3000 Hurley Way, Sacramento
(916) 486-9686
Tickets:
Tickets are $50 per person and available in advance at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, 1900 Alhambra Blvd., or from Soil Born Farm (916) 486-9686. Tickets will not be available at the door and space is limited. Sponsored by the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op — all proceeds benefit the Soil Born Farm Urban Agricultural Project 501(c)(3).
East Bay Culinary Center Cooking Class
Saturday, Sept. 22nd, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Fun With Fall Vegetables!
Chef, cookbook author, sacatomato.com co-founder and culinary educator Ann Martin Rolke will be signing her books and demonstrating how to make yummy dishes using seasonal ingredients, including:
*Pork Chili With Sweet Potatoes
*Nutty Pumpkin Lasagna With Almonds And Sage
*Butternut Squash & Black Bean Enchiladas
Samples will be provided, but space is limited to 40 participants — the fee is $40.00
East Bay Restaurant Supply Inc.
522 North 12th Streett, Sacramento
MON – FRI: 8am – 5pm
SAT: 9:30am – 5pm
(916) 440-0620 – Main
Weekend Round-up
Suzanne Peabody Ashworth and Jim Mills
What a great gastronomic weekend! We started early on Saturday and visited the grand opening of the East Bay Culinary Center. We were greeted by fellow Slow Food member Jim Mills who was there with Suzanne Peabody Ashworth of Del Rio Farms. Jim offered us samples of beautiful, perfectly ripe peaches, figs, plums and blackberries.
We grazed through dozens of food stations and enjoyed:
All before 9:00 a.m.! My husband said, ‘this is the best breakfast I’ve had in a long time!’ Clearly, we both have iron stomachs.
We watched a portion of pastry chef Ginger Power’s demonstration in the new kitchen, which by the way, is WAY cool! As mentioned in a previous entry, chef and culinary instructor Carolyn Kumpe will be leading the new culinary center and classes and demonstrations will begin next month (we’ll make sure to post activities on sacfoodies.) We would have liked to have stayed all day and watch all the demonstrations, but Michael Buble and a trip to San Francisco awaited us….
I’ve heard great things about the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco, so I was excited when fellow Sac Foodie, Melinda McRae, myself and our foodie hubbies found ourselves with a few extra hours to spend in the City on Saturday on the way to a concert.
The colorful produce won me over. From rainbow chard to red, orange, and yellow peppers and radishes, it was a gorgeous spectrum. Since I work with the United States Potato Board, I was excited to see Russian Banana and Rose Fir specialty potato varieties too. We took home heirloom tomatoes for a colorful Caprese salad, and blackberries for snacking by the handful.
The farmers market snakes around the Ferry Plaza Building, which is a recently renovated foodie landmark of its own. After winding through the marketplace, we found a spot outside at Ferry Plaza Seafood for fresh oysters and San Francisco’s own Anchor Steam Beer. With clear skies, a Bay Bridge view, and lots of people-watching, it was a lovely way to spend an afternoon in the “city by the bay,” to quote one of my favorite 80’s bands.
Midweek Morsels 08.15.07
The downtown plaza has a great farmers’ market on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We usually head over at lunch time, but last week we had a staff meeting so ended up going close to 2:00, which ended up being very fortuitous for us as you can get incredible bargains! The farmers bagged up their produce and some of our bounty included a huge bag of peaches, pluots and nectarines for $3; huge bag of seedless red grapes $3; cantaloupe $2; bag of green grapes $1.50; bag of pears $1.50; three gorgeous heirloom tomatoes for $1, and flowers for $3 a bunch.
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Thursday is Cajun night at the Shack, 5201 Folsom Blvd.
Midweek Morsels
By Melinda McRae
Check out Kira O’Donnell and the Real Pie Company in today’s Sacramento Bee food page:http://www.sacbee.com/107/story/313154.html
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Today on “Good Day Sacramento” Chef David Katz and David Mirassou shared wine and food pairing tips with Julissa Ortiz. Chef Katz demonstrated his Cabernet Marinated Flank Steak with Italian Salsa Verde along with Marinated Shrimp and Citrus Salad while David discussed cooking with wine.
David Mirassou and Chef Katz prep for Good Day segment with Julissa Ortiz
David Mirassou with Good Day Spanish translator Flavio Soria
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We saw Shack owner and chef Gary Seppy last night at a “National Night Out” block party in East Sac and he shared that he’s going to build a pit, bury the food and slow cook it. Here’s the menu for this Thursday’s theme ~
It’s ‘Kiwi’ Night at The Shack – New Zealand Pit BBQ (yes, Gary is building a pit!)
“Buried” Chicken, Pork, Red Potato, Cabbage Meat Pies
Shrimp & Mango Salad
Mixed Fruit Pavlova
Section R will be playing on the patio.
The Shack – 5201 Folsom Blvd
Open at 6:00, dinner at 7:00