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Slow Food Meeting Tomorrow Followed by SLOWednesday

Sep 11, 2007 events, farmers' markets, farming, general food, restaurants, slow food

Don’t forget the St. Louis convivium of Slow Food ’s monthly meeting is tomorrow. You don’t have to be a member to attend. Though, if you really loved food, you would be!

Each month there’s also a special menu made with foods from whatever producer is speaking at SlowWednesday. Last month there was a spectacular goat cheese ravioli with sage brown butter sauce made with Goatsbeard Farm’s fantastically addictive cheese!

Tomorrow they say they’ll have these, and I’ll definitely be having one of each if the menu holds true.

Soup: roasted butternut squash bisque with candied northern Missouri pecans
Entree: grilled rosemary rack of lamb (from Prairie Grass Farms) with Kennebec and sweet potato au gratin with roasted brown sugar spaghetti squash

I’m thinking it might taste mighty fine with a Schlafly Pumpkin Ale at it’s side.

More about Bellews Creek Farm can be found at localharvest.org

…and a bio lifted from Schlafly where you can also find more info about SLOWednesday and the wonderful Maplewood Farmer’s Marke t… Forty-seven year old Paul Krautmann is the son of a veterinarian father and botanist mother, and grew up on a farm in Chillicothe, MO. Following a career in woodworking after college, Paul and his wife Nancy started Bellews Creek Farm in 1992, growing and marketing organic vegetables. Today, they grow sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, onions, garlic, tomatoes, sweet peppers, chipotle peppers, and popcorn. In addition, they are the only growers of local organic Midnight black turtle beans and Redhawk kidney beans. They also raise a limited number eggs, and this year will offer a few free range turkeys and pigs.