Grower’s Dinner acknowledges Eat Local Month & the Food Bank
Last night, I was invited to the N.H. Grower’s Dinner at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord by Edible White Mountains Magazine. The dinner, which started with a cash bar and appetizers at 6 p.m., was a four course dinner of seasonally and locally produced foods prepared and served by the students of N.H. Food Bank’s Recipe for Success Culinary Program. Each ticket was $50, and went straight to benefiting the N.H. Food Bank. The sit-down dinner, which was also part of N.H. Eat Local Month, started promptly at 7, with a few speeches by prominent folks at the Food Bank, as well as Governor John Lynch and his wife, Susan Lynch. The dinner itself was a masterpiece, with ingredients for the four courses provided by local farms such as Apple Hill Farm in Concord and Sherman Farm in Conway. The soup, which started the four course meal, was a puree of beets with a swirl of spicy horseradish cream, followed by a salad of spring greens, summer squash, zucchini and caramelized onions. For the entree, the culinary students served the moistest braised pork shoulder I’ve ever had in my life, that came with a hint of coffee and spiced rum flavor. On the side was a spicy corn salad with peppers, as well as mashed potato marbled with pureed winter squash. For dessert, we had a homemade blueberry cornbread with lemon custard and whipped cream. Despite the fact that some of my table mates’ blueberry cornbread muffins were missing their tops, the taste was spot on, and the dish acted as the perfect ending to a seasonal, fresh-picked meal.
Tags: Concord, Eat Local Month, food bank, locally-grown
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