Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Farm to Table.. Butler's Farms Harvest Dinner

This weekend my mom and I took a quick semi-spontaneous trip up to Wisconsin.  We were literally in the state of Wisconsin for 12 hours.  All the travel for the little amount of time there was worth it because we attended the Butler's Farm Dinner at the Harvest Restaurant in Madison.  Every year the Butler's Farm has a feature dinner at the Harvest Restaurant, highlighting all their delicious hand crafted sheep milk cheese and organic free range meat products straight from the farm.  This years dinner was so special that I just had to share these unique, innovative, and delicious courses. 
There were six courses and each was paired with the perfect wine from Robert Sinskey Vineyards from NapaValley, California.
 Butler's Cheese
Templemore, Tomme, Brebis
Rack & Riddle, Brut, North Coast, California NV
 Butler's Mascarpone
Savory Cheescake, Beet Chips, Cranberry Couli
Sinskey Abraxas, Nappa Valley, California 2012
 Butler's Pork & Feta Trio
Pork Head Cheese, Pumpkin-Jalapeno Jam 
Pickled Pork, Macerated Cranberries, Apple Crisp
Medjool Dates, Feta, House Smoked Bacon
Sinskey, Pinot Noir, Los Caneros, Napa Valley, California 2010 
 Butler's Pork & Clonboo
Pork Schnitzel, Cider Beurre Blanc
Clonboo Rosti, Pickled Hyslop Crab Apples
Sinskey, Pinot Noir "Aires", Napa Valley, California 2010
 Butler's Lamb & Ricotta
Lamb Ragu, Ricotta Gnocchi,
Wisconsin WIld Harvested Hen of the Woods Mushrooms
Sinskey, POV, Napa Valley, California 2010
Butler's Camebert
Poached Seckel Pear & Camembert Tart, Candied Wisconsin Hickory Nuts
Sinskey, Pinot Blanc, Napa Valley, California 2012

The pictures don't do these courses justice but hopefully you got the essence of the creativity and unique spin on traditional dishes.  If your ever in Madison, check out the Harvest Restaurant for a delicious farm to table dinner experience.

peace&love
Rebecca

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