Appetizers: Fresh chips of many colors - purple, red, blue, yellow, white Beet hummus - roasted red and golden Cucumber, yogurt, dill dip - house cultured & tangy Farmstead crudités - the best of our local farms, fresh picked Bread Peddler baguettes Southwestern spicy shredded beef tongue
Soup: Vern's Cold Tomato Soup - Chef Treacy's original family recipe: fine brunoise (really small cubes) of vegetables with tomatoes, herbs, and spice
Salad: Charred Steak bites with HumbleStump Farm's fresh-harvested greens, house-pickled variety of onions, Chioggia beets, cucumbers, carrots
Mains: Homemade pappardelle ragu alla Bolognese - fresh pasta, summer squash ribbons, and thick tomato, beef, pork, and vegetable sauce with braised leeks and fennel bulbs
Slow-cooked, wine-braised beef, root vegetables and mushrooms over polenta, paired with honey and fennel-seed carrots
Dessert: Bread Peddler puff pastry seasonal fruit tart fruit, crafted specially for our event, servedwith Tunawerth cream
Events help us fund local efforts to improve food availability for all, sponsor delegates to Slow Food Nation and to Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, a biannual international conference in Turin, Italy dedicated to food and gastronomy.
If you are interested in being a delegate, contact a Slow Food board member to get involved with fundraising!
Olympia Farmers Market Food Demonstrations Join the crew on selected market days. Each demonstration is led by a chef from our Slow Food membership with help from a Slow Food Board member. Please be a helping hand to hand out food tastes, recipes, event information and gather additional produce for the chef's use if needed. Come at 11 am and stay until 2 pm or as long as you can. Sign up here for summer and fall dates.
Summer/Fall date will be: Sunday August 13 - What to do with CSA abundance (cooking from a typical CSA box) Sat Sept 23 Harvest Celebration – Preserving the Harvest Sat October 28 Halloween - Eat your pumpkins! Sun Nov 19 – Storing winter veggies Sat Dec 23 - Winter vegetable soups
