Saturday – April 23 at Laughing Frog Estates with Forager Alan Muskat

Saturday, April 23 I will be cooking the first of a series of dinners that will pair local foragers with local chefs.  Alan and I have been sharing wild foods for years, as he was my  principle forager at The Market Place for many years.  This dinner is a very exciting one for me as over the past year or so, I have come to recognize that “local” really begins with what is just outside my backdoor and often is completely ignored.  As I have been working on this menu with Alan and preparing the basic foodstuffs for the dinner, my appreciation deepens.  Am really looking for to this weekend.  Hope some of you can make it to the dinner.

Please visit the No Taste Like Home web site to reserve for the dinner and to get more information.

-Mark Rosenstein

a tasting

dandelion, chickweed, and violet karpas

Cumberland Island seaweed-salted water

fresh-ground toothwort root

mock chopped liver
with honey mushrooms and black walnuts

huevos haminados
Turkish blackberry-batiked eggs

wild local carp gefilte fish

Jerusalem artichoke kugel

the dinner

chickweed salad
with persimmon vinaigrette

sochane matzagna
with stinging nettle pesto

morel and ramp ragout
with chestnut corn-pone and sweet cicely

wild turkey galantine
with milkweed, daylily, and bamboo shoots

Sephardic charosetz
with angelica-quince cream and candied violets

chaga and persimmon seed coffee