Music, Dinner and Friends

Whoo wee! Saturday night was awesome!

We had a wonderful turnout for Eric Socha, Ben Matthews and their fiddler, Lee (who apparently does not have a last name?). The music started at 7pm, after we scrounged up some proper chairs, and our little cafe filled to the brim with local folk who came to support the talented trio. Half way through their set, Ned Houston joined them for a handful of songs, my favorite being the hymnals sung in harmony and from the gut.

At one point, i stepped outside to take a breather and looked back into the cafe from the garden. The dining room was lit up with twinkling lights, oil lamps and candles, and the windows were filled with the faces of friends, neighbors and strangers who were smiling, clapping and singing along with the boys. Beautiful stuff.

Our trio has agreed to return for another night sometime soon and Cheyanne and I decided we need to do this more often!

On the menu:
-Homemade Carmelized Onion Dip with fresh vegetables and root chips
-Warm Brie en Croute served with fresh fruit and bread
-Sweet Potato Coconut Lime Soup

-Eggplant Stacks-Pete's Greens eggplant with goat cheese, Maplebrook mozzarella, fennel, roasted peppers and garlicky tomato sauce
-Butternut Squash Ravioli with brown butter sage sauce and toasted pecans
-Cauliflower Cheddar Cheese Pie in a crusty grated potato crust
-Faux Chicken Salad with grapes, walnuts, celery and red onions on a bed of Pete's Greens mesclun
-Root Vegetable Latkes made with apples, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, Bonnieview Coomersdale Cheese and served with spiced maple syrup or roasted garlic cream
-Crusty Marinated Portabella Baguette served warm with melted Maplebrook Mozzarella, roasted bell peppers and garlic-basil mayonnaise
-Homemade Flatbread topped with Bonnieview Mossend Blue Cheese and sherry soaked mushrooms, drizzled with a balsamic reduction
-Seitan Cheesesteak with sauteed local peppers and onions, cheddar cheese and served on an Elmore Mt Baguette

-Pumpkin Pie drizzled with homemade caramel sauce
-Warm Apple Pie a la mode
-Cream Puffs with chocolate drizzles
-Old Fashioned Sundaes with homemade hot fudge, caramel or maple syrup
-Lemon Raspberry Napoleans
-Root Beer Floats

-Hot Chai Tea, Hot Spiced Chocolate, Mulled Cider
-Fair Trade Organic Coffee and tea
-House Made Sodas-Raspberry, Peach, Mango, Vanilla, Maple Cream or Citrus
-Assorted Juices

Thanks to the following local producers:
Robert Linck of Bub's Best, Neil & Kristen Urie of Bonnieview Farm, Pete Johnson of Pete's Greens and Fielda Calderwood of Echo Hill Farm, Elmore Mt Bread and the Buffalo Mountain Coop