Paper Crane Farm/Smoke Signals Bread farm dinner at Laurey’s Catering Thursday

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From the Laurey’s Catering newsletter: Farm dinner Thursday night. $45 for just the dinner, $57 for dinner and beer. Tara of Smoke Signals is a former baker for Farm & Sparrow; Joe masterminded a successful $4500 Kickstarter campaign for a new market van for his farm produce.

Dinner with Tara and Joe – June 28th

Please plan to join us on Thursday, June 28th for a really wonderful evening.  Joe, the farming genius of Paper Crane Farm and Tara, the baking wizard from Smoke Signals Bread, will be our guests.

Brendan, our chef, has a really interesting meal planned.

“Bagna Cauda” is an Italian starter. A “hot bath” of olive oil and butter and, well who really CARES what else it has (right?) is served along with fresh vegetables for dipping.

In our dinner with Paper Crane Farm, the fresh dipping vegetables will be things like their baby sweet turnips, cauliflower, and tri-colored carrots.

Brendan is going to grill Paper Crane Romaine and will serve it with  roasted beets (THESE beauties), a green garlic vinaigrette and Meadow Creek cow’s milk cheese.
Are you still breathing?

Brendan is planning to make a Provencal-inspired “Bariguole.”  Traditionally this is a braised artichoke dish. In our version the feature will be Roasted North Carolina fish, probably a Black Grouper or Fresh Snapper.

Tara’s bread will be grilled and served with the stew – why lose all those rich white wine saucy bits, right?  Oh gosh – are you hungry?

We’ll end this meal with a Red Velvet Cake served with Meadow Cove Farms’ Black Raspberry Sauce.  The cake is a chocolaty bliss cake and with these berries you’ll sail out of here on a wonderful sweet cloud.

Joe, by the way, got his training from some of my favorite local farms.  He adheres to bio-dynamic principals, planting with intention, taking care of the land in a deeply deliberate way.  Rudolf Steiner, the German educator, provided the ideals which became The Waldorf Schools and also the philosophy behind bio-dynamic farming in which everything matters and how everything is done matters.  Steiner studied bees too and his thoughts inform my beekeeping intentions.  This makes me feel close to Joe and his produce.

And Tara, as I mentioned last week, came here from Vermont where she baked at Red Hen Baking, a fabulous little bakery in an out of the way spot.  Who could think that they could support themselves, being where they were? Turns out they are wildly successful.  Tara brings her baking gifts to us now.  She was our sweets baker for some time before stepping out, baking first for Farm and Sparrow and now on her own.

These two sharpsters are two that you will be pleased to meet.  Trust me on this one, my friends.

Tara and Joe are really very special and I hope you make it a point to be here with me, them, and Brendan.  828-252-1500.  Call to make sure we have your seats saved.  45 is the cost of the dinner.  12 more will get you wine and beer.  Nice.