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WINE AMNESTY THIS WEDNESDAY!
That’s Bastille Day!
Free Corkage For You
When You Bring Your Own Wine To Toast Jean Marc and his French Heritage On Bastille Day!
Wednesday, July 14, when you wish Jean Marc Happy Bastille Day, you will be granted WINE AMNESTY at 42nd Street Cafe. Guests are invited to bring their own favorite bottle of wine, (French perhaps) to enjoy with dinner. One bottle per couple please!!!
It is such a pleasure to work with local growers who grow specifically for us. Here is a “flic” of Jake picking up produce he’s serving on our new Summer Menu. He is at Green Angel Organic Gardens and it’s produce stand on Sandridge Rd., owned by Larkin Stentz, just a couple miles from the cafe.
Spring and Summer always seem to come late to the Northwest. This year things are later than normal. Vineyards have been waiting for a good bloom so that their grapes will mature before October begins to cool things down. Our local green gardeners and farmers are planting for us, but watching things take longer to grow. At least they haven’t had to worry about crops “bolting” to seed because of the extraordinary warm weather. Still, we are now seeing some sweet greens and it sure is nice to have things grown specifically for our menu.
Jake works with Stockhouse Farm on Puget Island, WA, who delivers to us every Wednesday and Larkin Stentz of Green Angel Organic Gardens here on the peninsula (the video). Fresh Rainbow Chard is doing well and on the menu as a Wilted Chard and Romaine Salad with Hard Boiled Egg and Pancetta Sherry Vinaigrette.
Imagine a Sunday supper with your favorite neighbor who happens to be a fabulous farmer. This is the feast he has planned:
Social Hour
Hors d’0euvres
(Served 5:00 to 6:00 pm)
Roasted Garlic & Sweet Pea Hummus
served with fresh garden vegetables &
crispy flat bread
Farm fresh deviled eggs with mustard, house made mayo, minced shallots, chives and sprinkled with paprika and black tobikko caviar.
Roasted polenta topped with parsley-caper mayo, morel mushroom & olive muffaletta
and fried soppresata salami.
Willapa Bay oyster “shooters”: fresh petite oysters with cantaloupe and lemon compote and horseradish tomato sauce.
Dinner
Starts @ 6:00pm
With
Salads:
Arugula and grilled peaches with shaved fennel, sweet onions, a
raspberry vinegar reduction and a black pepper and goat cheese cream.
Aspiration Slaw:
Broccolini tossed with Golden raisins, carrots, shallots and sun-dried tomatoes
in a sweet cider dressing.
Green Angel Farms Rainbow Chard warmed with a pancetta and sherry vinaigrette, grape tomatoes, caramelized shallots, scrambled farm fresh eggs and smoked provolone cheese.
Sides:
Cauliflower, sweet corn and Guapier cheese gratin
Lavender honey baked carrots
Sugar snap & snow peas sautéed with Oregon hazelnuts and Balsamic vinegar.
Fingerling potatoes sautéed in truffle butter, garlic & pink pepper.
Cabarnet scented mash potatoes
Cannellini beans sautéed with lamb stock & dwarf kale.
&
Lamb Platters:
Roasted smoked lamb shoulder with a huckleberry and madiera demi-glace.
Lamb chops seared in hazelnut oil and served with a spiced peach chutney
and chiffonade of lemon balm.
Meatloaf of 28 day dry aged beef and lamb topped with a morel mushroom gravy.
DESSERT
Home made ice cream.
And, it’s strawberry season!
It all happens Sunday, June 27th at 5:00 pm.
The price is $48 per person. Seating is limited. Reservations are necessary. Make plans and call as soon as possible.
Ph (360) 642-2323
Farmer’s Table Dinner
Imagine a Sunday supper with your favorite neighbor who happens to be a fabulous farmer. His chores are done and he has invited you to his table to enjoy the fruits of his labors. We are inviting you to that kind of evening. Loren and Caroline Jennings of Greyfields Farm on Puget Island will provide fresh produce from their neighbor’s farm, as well as their own natural lamb and beef, and discuss the qualities of their farm which make produce and the animals of Puget Island such a special treat to eat. It all happens Sunday, June 27th at 5:00 pm.
There will be hors d’oeuvres including farm fresh deviled eggs from free range pastured chickens. Then you will sit down to a giant family style dinner and enjoy the mildest spring lamb you will have ever tasted served three different ways by Chef Jake. During the meal will talk about the uniqueness of the island’s agricultural qualities and what it brings to your plate and palate.
Loren raises cattle, pigs, ducks, chickens and lamb, naturally, on Puget Island, just a rocks throw from Cathlamet, WA. The animals run free and feed off the mildest of grasses and their meats taste like the pork and chicken beef we enjoyed as kid in the fifties (damn I wish that weren’t so long ago!). You can buy his products at the Friday Farmers Market which opens the first Friday of May on your way down to visit the coast, but you will only be able to sit down to dinner with him at this event. The price is $48 per person. Seating is limited. Reservations are necessary. Make plans and call as soon as possible. Ph (360) 642-2323. – 
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42nd Street Cafe
Razor Clam Derby!
This Video Gave Us The Idea:
The Largest Clam Wins $100.00 in Dining Certificates.
Second place: a $50 Certificate. Third Place: a $25 Certificate.
Plus, The Best Photo or Video Of Razor Clam Digging Wins a $50.00 Dining Certificate.
The Contest Begins Tomorrow, Wed., April 28th
And Ends Sunday, May 2nd At Noon.
All entries will receive $10.00 Dining Certificate at the end of the contest.
The Rules for the Largest Razor Clam Prize:
1. Weight will be the determining size measurement.
2. The razor clam must be presented to a Server before noon each day for weighing on our official contest scales.
3. The clam must be alive at the time of the “weigh-in” (in the shell and it must flinch to the touch).
4. The Winner will be notified by mail.
The Rules for the Razor Clam Digging Photo/Video Contest:
4. All entrants agree to allow us to share the pictures with our guests and fans.
Maybe the weather will be like this:
Can You Spend It With Us?
We Have Got Free Desserts For Moms
All Day Long On Mother’s Day!
For All mother’s dining with their family will receive a free mini-dessert with our compliments at Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner.
Plus…
A Special Bonus Gift,
Worth up $10, 15 or $20 On Their Next Visit.
Plus…
(her last scheduled performance until October!)
Reservations Accepted and Recommended
At Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
Take Some Time To Love And Relax.
Cheri will play her harp Easter Sunday Evening.
She doesn’t know this one, but can’t wait to work it out
Easter is about things new starts, eternal truths and miracles. Celebrate. We will be serving Crab and Shrimp Omelets at Breakfast, and, if you have time to enjoy an Easter Dinner with family and or friends, remember Cheri will play her harp from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Reservations Accepted.
P.S. Cheers, to harpsticker, for sharing himself on YouTube!
In March North Head Lighthouse offers spectacular chances to see whales moving north to Alaskan waters for the summer. Especially when the weather is like this. Wednesday morning the skies were clear and the temperature approaching sixty degrees. I knew it was a little early to expect to spot the whales in migration, but it was worth the walk just to check out the view.
Hope you like it. Again, I apologize for the shaking camera. Next time I remember to not wear the MBTs Cheri insists will strengthen my hips and legs and speed my recovery from my hip surgery. They really make me bounce. – b
What if…
Have you read Three Cups Of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliven Relin? If not we can’t recommend a more interesting and enlighting read. If you have read it, you might understand and be interested in this crazy idea we can’t shake, despite all that is happening in the world.
What if President Obama received one thousand copies of the book “Three Cups of Tea”? What if he gave a copy to every person on his staff and the foreign service to read?
It is a simple idea: promote peace by building schools and increasing the promise of opportunity through education. The book demonstrates what can be done.
We want fans of the book “Three Cups of Tea” to send a new or used copy of the book to the President with the inscription:
“Dear Mr. President, I found this book enlightening and inspirational and think you will, too. If you have read it, please share it with a member of your staff or the Foreign Service”.
Already required reading at the Pentagon, the book “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin is the account of how Mortenson worked to build schools for girls in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in the process promote peace through education in the region.
If you want to participate, mail your used or new copy of the book with the above inscription, or something similar, with your signature to:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Note: Please include your e-mail address
Then invite a friend to do so, too… and join our group on Facebook: ”Three Cups Of Tea For The President”. We are promoting what we call The Big Mail In event with a deadline of February 22nd, 2010.
FYI: On January 15th, 2010, Bill Moyers did a excellent program on Greg. This is the link to the page where you can watch the video.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01152010/profile2.html
