A few chefs decided to help out Tracey Vowell, former chef of Rick Bayless's restaurants. Tracey and Kathe Roybal own Three Sisters Garden, a very small, sustainably-minded farm just south of Chicago. Now she sells at Green City Market and she delivers me her corn, dried black beans, white corn meal, peppers, tomatoes; her main crop is pea shoot tendrils. She likes to sell her pea shoots to me alive, in a flat of earth, where they continue to grow in my kitchen. But she can't because she doesn't have room in her truck. Don't get me wrong they are delicious cut too. But it's the point, of harvesting them myself for you to eat. So a few of my friends that also buy from her were standing around before the Chicago Gourmet press conference with Mayor Daley and had this discussion that she was really in a jam with no space to make her deliveries. One thing lead to another and we decided to hold a party to help her raise the money. We want to do it before the season is over too.
August 23 at 12 o'clock we are going to "throw a party" in front of Red Light Restaurant on Randolph Street. After a few phone calls, and a lot of excitement and planning, we now have 15 chefs participating in the event. Here is a list of the chefs that are participating and some of the menu items.
Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris - Prairie Grass Cafe
George and I are making crispy Mint Creek Farm
lamb rolls with yogurt dipping sauce and
fresh bloody Mary's made from Three Sisters Garden tomatoes.
Jackie Shen -Red Light
Steve Dolinsky - ABC TV's Hungry Hound
They
are roasting a pig together. Steve and Jackie have done this before
together for a cooking class. They have perfected the technique and
I'm sure it will be delicious.
Tracey Vowell - Three Sisters Garden
Tracey is roasting sweet corn with herbed sour cream, aged cheese, and red chili.
Brian Enyart - Frontera Grill
Richard James - Topolobampo
They are making the best ricotta and braised greens Tamales!!!!
Paul Fehribach - Big Jones
Summer
Succotash including Three Sisters Garden sweet corn and zucchini,
Nichol's Farm scallions, Genesis Growers purple hull crowder peas,
River Valley Ranch shiitakes, and house tasso (made with Gunthorp Farm
Pork). He is also making flaming fury peach cobbler with toasted benne
ice cream.
(If you haven't eaten at Big Jones yet you really must put it on the top of the list for a great place to go!)
Jolene Worthington - Eli's
Jolene
is an amazing baker. She is making a Capriole Farm goat cheese
cheesecake with a fruit compote. I asked her to make this because it
is so wonderful!
There is more that will be there by Giuseppi
Tentori from Boka, Mark Mendez from Carnivale, Roger Herring from
Socca, Ina Pinkney from Ina's, Bill Kim from Urban Belly, and Rick
Gresh from David Burke's Primehouse.
If you want to come and
help Tracey then call me, Dan or George at Prairie Grass Cafe 847 205
4433. It's $50 dollar a person. Hope to see you there. Oh if it rains
we are going inside of Red Light and have the party there.
Filed under: events, Green City Market
Tags: benefit, chef Sarah Stegner, green, small family farm
