I had a great time at the Tour De Farm Dinner on the grounds of the Walker Art Center early in August. I took tons of great pictures of the food, the chefs, Asher Miller, Mike Phillips, Scott Pampuch, Zoe Francois, Michelle Gayer and the chef from the Modern Cafe Jim Grell. Shortly after the event I got a virus on my computer so I was not able to put a complete recap of the event together. I did notice one thing when I finally got the pictures downloaded - I have an abnorminally large number of pictures of my chef crush, Alex Roberts - I swear I heart him in a way that is completly acceptable for a foodie:)

Here is Stephanie (mugging with our table mate)

 Homemade potato chips with creme fresh

 

 

 

Zuchinni boats with corn and pesto inside (these were great and a super summer passed appetizer)

Scott introduces the event

Bring on the chefs

Stephanie March and Sue and Al Zelickson - we heart her.

Group shot

Al Zelickson and RT Rybak

Plating up the food

 Course 1

Michael Phillips from the Craftsman Chacuterie and pickled vegtables

RT took this picture for me - it makes it look like this is my party!

Course #2 Asher Millers fish and noodles 

Course #3

Potato salad from the Modern Cafe

This wine is a keeper and was served with the next beef course

 

This course was Alex Roberts (insert dreamy sigh here) It was briased Thousand Hills Cattle Farm Beef on greens with raisins and mushrooms. YUMMY

 

More delcious wine - I plan to look for this in Surdyks. I do that sometimes - I take pictures of wines I like and show them to the staff at Surdyks so they can help me find wines I like.

This dessert was Michelle Gayer from the Salty Tart and it was a shortbread with rasberrys and a ricotta creme. It was light and airy and perfect.

The chefs get a round of applause.

Our table mates were super fun! Thanks for making the event great and I am sorry I lost the piece of paper with  your names on it:)