And pumpkin butter. Those last three items are upcoming for my next set of plans. I’ve been buying a lot of nuts along with my other ingredients from the downtown farmer’s market from Burnt Ridge Nursery&Orchards. I additionally also now have 1 of each of the Evergreen Organic Farm’s pumpkins, the winter delight, liberty and kubota, so I believe I should be able to make a well rounded pumpkin butter. And harvest the seeds to make pepitas to make mole. I also found some late season corn which I’ve recently ordered some food grade lime for nixtamalizing. Also, I’m going to try making some malt vinegar. … … and am making a sourdough starter currently, don’t tell anyone
The future aside, I ended up going to brunch at The Mouse Trap, downtown, which has been holding limited space reservation only dinners and brunches ever since they changed owners, earlier this year. I’ll just brazenly copy and paste the details from their newsletter, along with their next planned meal on the 16th:
Sunday Brunch 11/4!
3 courses for $20 does not include tax or gratuity
9am & 11am reservations!
Please call 360-489-0678 to reserve your seat today!Course 1: Steel cut oatmeal, brazilian wild flower honey, roasted pumpkin and apples
Course 2: Dungeness crab benedict, sous vide duck egg, duck fat hollandaise
Course 3: Poached pear, pecan syrup, Lost Peacock yogurt
Lost Peacock Mac N Chz Tasting 11/16We are teaming up with Lost Peacock once again, but this time, we are highlighting their cheese with 4 different Mac N Cheese dishes and 6 wines.
$20 in advance and $25 at the door. Call ahead or stop in the shop and get your ticket today! 360-489-0678.
Another upcoming event I’m game for is the Cascadia Grain Festival. Even though these are early bird prices, it’s still a bit expensive at 95$ per entry ticket. I’ll check to see if I can’t volunteer again, this year, it will be especially easy for those of you in the Olympia area to get to, as it’s being held at SPSCC, again.
Also, I made some more butter, used some buttermilk to make some soda bread and some other things, but that’s another post altogether.