Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Slow Food Dinner


Last night I went to a Slow Food dinner on campus. This is a dinner put on by a nonprofit organization, using local and organic food to cook meals from scratch. They do this every Monday night during the school year for $5. You can hardly get a fast food meal for that, never mind a delicious multi-course dinner made from real food. This is the second one I’ve been to, and I’ll describe the meal to give you some idea:

Salad – this was heirloom tomatoes, ground cherries, and cashews with cilantro and shredded raw beets on top of it. It looked beautiful and tasted amazing... and I usually hate raw tomatoes!

Main course – noodle bowl with either crispy pork or tofu. You put it together yourself, choosing how many noodles and what toppings you wanted on it.

Dessert – seaberry ice cream, or several other choices (vanilla custard, cookies and cream ice cream, or frozen coconut milk). It was a pale orange color with a delicate flavor somewhat like passionfruit. The coconut milk was flavored with lemongrass and green chili and was also delicious. I split dessert with a coworker so we could try two.

Let me know if you have any interest in attending a Slow Food dinner in the future.

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1 comment:

Hardingfele said...

Yummy food but no beer :-)