Last Saturday, Jordan and I hosted a dinner party. And, forgive my lack of modesty, I think we hit it out of the park. The food was wonderful, the company was fantastic, and not a single kitchen crisis befell us.
The Menu
Winter salad with shaved fennel, apple, radish, foraged* miner’s lettuce and foraged wild radish
Pork belly** with pomegranate molasses
Paella, from our recipe posted in Paella Per Se
Green beans
And for dessert …
Passionfruit*** mousse
*A note on foraging: Jordan and I are clearly interested in local foods and we’ve been talking about foraging our own wild foods for quite a while. While it sort of began as a distant possibility and kind of a joke, last week we went to a free lecture about the SF food scene at the library and one of the panelists Iso Rabins of ForageSF is a San Fran forager. Iso inspired us to get out and forage. And so, last Saturday, we did!
**Our pork belly was purchased from the Fatted Calf, a specialty meats and charcuterie shop near our place. The best part: we saw the butchering of the pig where our pork belly came from! More about the Fatted Calf to follow.
*** I am obsessed with passionfruit. Every since I went to Argentina and first tasted the maracuya helado, I was hooked. Sadly, passionfruit isn’t the easiest to track down here in the US. BUT! I have an awesome boyfriend who sympathizes with my obsession and somehow finds secret suppliers of frozen passionfruit puree in the Mission! Yay!
Now a few recipes …
Pork Belly with Pomegranante Molasses, click here
Passionfruit Mousse or Mousse de Maracuya, click here
5 replies on “a dinner party with foraged foods”
Grr… I can’t believe I missed this meal. It looks beautiful and from what I heard from Pete, tasted amazing too. I mean, hello, it’s pork belly. The answer is ALWAYS pork.
We missed you!
But, lucky for you, Jordan is already talking about doing it again!
mmm looks delish!!! wish i could go to your dinner parties…
I wish you could to! Maybe one day … when you move to San Francisco! Or when our Jordan’s magically go to grad school in the same place.
Also, bad grammar Emily. “I wish you could too!” Hahaha, my Grandma is going to get me on that one.