How Queer is your Food?

A tribute to James Beard, Richard Onley, and Craig Claiborne

The Homestead
101 East Water Street
Edenton, NC

Saturday Feb. 11, 2017

6 pm

$50 suggested donation per person
RSVP by emailing porchlightraleigh@gmail.com

Read about how these three gay men became the architects of America's modern food culture in Lucky Peach.

Tea Sandwiches

             Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, Radish & Compound Butter w/ parsley

                          (because no gay passes one up) (a la James Beard)

House made Gravad Lox on Egg salad, Pumpernickel & pickled Onion

First

Orange Flambéed Shrimp (tableside), Avocado Mousse, frizzled Leeks, Toasts

(because we all love a good flambé!)

Second

Barbie Bitter Greens, Bleu Cheese, Pomegranate, Date, Walnut, Creamy Dressing

(Well…that about says it all for queers, no??)

Main

Tournedo of Beef, Spicy Cabbage stuffed Seckle, Vegetable Galette, Jus

(Steak is very manly but Tournedos…well that dresses it up)

Finish

Baked Alaska

***Menu items subject to market availability***

                                                              

Guy Fawkes Dinner

Nov. 5, 2016

Edenton, NC

english cheese toasts + spicy plum chutney

butternut samosa + yogurt sauce

chicken vindaloo + rice

kale paneer

glazed beets + black mustard seeds

butter smothered cabbage

carrot pudding + cardamom + pistachio

coconut curried hot chocolate + homemade marshmallows

An English take on Indian food in celebration of Guy Fawkes day. Featuring organic produce from Somerset Farm and chicken from White Oak Hill Farm in Gates County, NC.

homemade curried marshmallows for the coconut hot chocolate

At Somerset Farm, Edenton NC

featuring their USDA certified organic produce and humanely raised lamb

Oct. 1, 2016 

lamb pate
blood orange marmalade + rosemary crisp

chioggia beets
feta + berbere chickpeas

couscous
roasted butternut + golden raisins

eggplant
za’atar + pomegranate molasses

wood grilled lamb ribs

pear + date croustade
vanilla cream

lemon balm mojitos

Bonfire to follow.

 Tables set up ready for guests

Salad prep in the 1910 farmhouse kitchen

roasting eggplant with za'atar

Ollie grilling lamb ribs over a wood fire. The lamb was raised on her family farm.

Ollie and Kelly

Happy

A rainbow over a 1910 farmhouse on Somerset Farm added to the magic of the evening.

Additional write-up here at the Edible Coast.

http://theediblecoast.com/a-farm-to-fork-dinner/