June 21, 2014 Thyme to Eat Local Field to Food to Event at Center for Ageless Living

June 21, 2014 Thyme to Eat Local Field to Food to Event at Center for Ageless Living

If it is Midsummer’s Night it is time for the Center’s Filed to Food event.  Once a year SC, Inc. puts on a local ingredient and beverage meal to raise money of its programs.  For the last few years it has been raising money to build a hoop house so it can raise vegetables and herbs year round to provide fredh vegetables to house bound seniors in Valencia County through Meals on Wheels.

This year the four course meal included:

 Appetizers of homemade crackers spread with beef pate and thyme crackers spread with fresh goat cheese and a bit of apricot butter.

Salad of fresh garden greens with a Thyme vinaigrette with buffalo berries.  I have never had buffalo berries but they were foraged from a native tree located within a mile of the Center.  Very cool.

Entrees featured Roasted Chicken with an orange thyme glaze, Poached Rainbow trout served in a thyme cream sauce, and Gratin Risotto with Thyme and seasonal vegetables.

Dessert – last but not least were Marie Paul’s famous Belgium Waffles garnished with local fresh whipped cream and strawberries plus a thyme infused panna cotta topped with a sweet Thyme Tuille.

Beverages included white and red wines from Milagro from Corrales, Camino Real from Los Lunas, Gruet from Albuquerque  and Vivac in Dixon and beer from Sierra Blanco Brewery in Moriarty.

   

The evening was cool and filled with laughter and conversation and everyone seemed to enjoy their food and wine and beer.  I know I did.

Bon Appétizer