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Farm-to-table dinner -- with the farmers! -- this Thursday

Just a quick reminder that the AOA-organized farm-to-table dinner at Creo is this Thursday. The five-course dinner will feature ingredients from local farms -- and the farmers will be there to give short talks about their farms and how the ingredients were grown.

It should be an interesting -- and delicious -- time. It starts at 6:30 pm.

Tickets for the five-course meal are $50, (drinks and tips not included). There's an optional wine pairing for $25. There are a handful of tickets remaining -- and you can buy them online.

The menu and the list of farms are after the jump.

The menu

The exact meal will depend on what is available at the farms this week, but here's the outline of what's being planned:

+ Poached farm egg, creamy polenta, Goats and Gourmets chevre, carrot puree, cracklins

+ Heirloom tomato, ricotta-mascarpone mousse, basil puree, fire-roasted heirloom tomato vinaigrette, Destination Euphoria Greenhouses micro arugula

+ Savory roasted butternut squash and cauliflower panna cotta, Maplebrook Farms burrata, Meadowbrook brown butter, toasted pumpkin seeds

+ White Clover Farm "Sous Vide" beef, roasted garlic-sage "chimichurri", roasted corn pudding, braised chard empanada

+ Pan-roasted apple gelee, puff pastry, brown sugar powder, apple chip

Farms

Farms represented at the dinner will include:

+ Destination Euphoria Greenhouses - Cambridge
+ Purple Gunder Farm -Berne
+ Wild Thyme Farm - Helderbergs
+ White Clover Farm - Argyle
+ Goats and Gourmets - Westerlo

Wine Pairing

There's also an optional wine pairing. The wine list includes:

+ Riesling, dry, Dr. Konstantin Frank (Finger Lakes, NY)
+ Pinot Blanc, Lieb Cellars Reserve (North Fork, NY) Merlot, Charles Krug (Napa, CA)
+ Pinot Noir, Millbrook (Hudson, NY)
+ Ravines Cellars, Cab Franc (Fingerlakes, NY)
+ Spiced Apple Cider for Dessert

Yep, Creo advertises on AOA.