Spring into Green Dinner

Sunday - May 1st, 2011 - 2:30PM
Beechwood Farms Nature Preserve

A multi-course plated dinner supporting local agriculture and conservation

Tickets are $90 per person and include:

- 5 course plated meal featuring locally foraged wild edibles and locally sourced sustainable vegetables, meats, and cheeses

- Pennsylvania Cheese Board

- Complimentary Beverages from Local Breweries, Wineries, and Boyd & Blair potato vodka

Schedule and Menu (menu subject to change based on what we are able to forage)

2:30PM Reception

- Cocktails from local Distilleries, Wineries, and Breweries

- Pennsylvania Cheese Board and Hors d'œuvres

4:00PM Dinner

1st Course: Tourchon of Duck, Chicken, and Quail paired with wild Morels and wild Watercress and Watermelon Radish salad

2nd Course: Chilled Pea Soup with Carrots, wild Ramps, and Pea Shoots, and wild Mint garnish

3rd Course: Three way Pork - pork prepared three ways with pickled wild Ramps, Arugula, and braised wild Fiddleheads and wild Ramps

Intermezzo: Goldenrod Honey Sherbet

4th Course: Grass fed Ribeye on a Sunchoke puree with wild Horseradish, with wild Morels and wild Nettles and Mustard Greens

Dessert: Rhubarb and wild Strawberry tort

as prepared by
Executive Chef Brian Hammond and Chef De Cuisine Chris O'Brien
of Restaurant Echo

...additionally, for this dinner we have partnered with the Western PA chapter of Buy Fresh Buy Local and PASA

For this dinner we are benefiting the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania and...

Featuring:
a seasonal spring menu of exceptional foraged Pennsylvania ingredients

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