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Hen of the Woods
Polly's Paladar
Nevada City, CA
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Hen of the Woods
Hen of the Woods Invitation
A YWI/Fungus Foray Collaboration
Chef Aaron Thompson
Music with Mariee Sioux
Paintings with Jennifer Rain Crosby
Saturday, December 10th, 2016

As the rains spill and nature tucks itself in, hushed forests become rich with breath and overflow with underground umami.  Baskets beg for stretching spores which have woken with the wetness of the season. After all, we are stewards of the soil. It's our duty to discover it.  I like to imagine myself barefoot, stepping through moss peppered boulders and fallen oak bark. I can feel the pressure of dirt underneath my fingernails and hear the voice of the rain falling.  The flurry floods my eyelashes and I squint to see to gather the telluric wealth.  I am one who saves the flowers of spring and the berries of autumn.  My kitchen holds caldrons of honey soaked elder and baskets of winnowed hawthorn.  I spend hours clawing open chestnuts to find the tawny treasure.  My summers are graced with tiptoeing through foxtail laden meadows and rose thorn scratches, to collect the golden flower of sacred hypericum.  August blackberry outings are a major event.  My complete obsession with the wild figs and California Bay trees of the Yuba Canyon drives my family crazy.  I travel with a basket and clippers in my car, often pulling over to grab the elderflowers I pass.  I KNOW the delight and pride of the forage and it is because of this, that I am overjoyed to announce our 50th Paladar entitled, Hen of the Woods in collaboration with the Yuba Watershed Institutes 19th annual Fungus Foray.

Yes, it is our 50th.  That holds substance for me.  I never thought we would make it this far.  It hasnt been easy, but it has been hella fun.  Thank you for bringing us here.  I invite all of you who will participate in the Fungus Foray to join us. However, you dont HAVE to go to the mushroom hunt to enjoy the Paladar!  We will be applying many of the mushrooms found by the foragers that very weekend in the dinner so this is a phenomenal way to experience the flavors of the forest. Please visit (YWI site) for more info on how you can partake in this winter traditions of the foothill community.

CHEF AARON THOMPSON
When I met Aaron Thompson 15 years ago, we were both in a far off land, rich in its own way.  We both managed somehow to make sure ending up in Nevada County was part of the equation.  Aaron and his beautiful family have built a home and shaped a life around sustainability.  They have devoted themselves to reach only as far as their arms can muster, to get the things they need.  He spent years cooking gourmet-multi-course meals for himself and anyone who would show up, in his tiny trailer kitchen.  Perfecting the art of curing the meats they raised themselves was an obsession.  The sanctity of vine ripening, home canning, and teaching their children the joys of spice is not lost on them.  Aaron Thompson is a true chef.  I do not use that term lightly, either.  Ive met a lot of them.  Aaron doesnt make a living off of cooking food, he just cooks it.  All. The. Time.  Ive hired Aaron so many times at the Paladar, Ive lost track.  In fact, when I started the supper club in 2012, I asked him to be a chef for me and it wasnt until October 2014, that I finally persuaded him to take the helm for the first time at the San Juan Ridge Taxpayers Association fundraising dinner event at the Stonehouse in Nevada City.  He killed it.  Aaron has been a huge supporter of the Paladar.  He has spent hundreds of hours creating elements of courses for OTHER chefs.  Simply put, ANYONE who has worked a Paladar with Aaron demands to have him by their side from then on in any kitchen work they do ever after.  He does not take short cuts, he delights in subtlety of flavor, and he makes unquestionably exquisite food.  He is a true gem and I am so proud to see him shine this December on his own.  

"Aaron Thompson is a deeply passionate, skilled, and heart centered chef. Working with him over the years has both been inspirational and deeply educational for me. He embodies truly sourcing from what nature provides and utilizing his tried and true commitment to bring astounding flavor to his creations." ~ Shanan Manuel, Feast & Gather Catering


MARIEE SIOUX
Mariee Sioux writes music that is a rare concoction of beautiful simplicity and haunting intricacies.  The sound is absolutely captivating and timeless.  Her delicate arrangements mix elements of bluegrass and Native American music. On first blush, the shorthand for most listeners will be to connect the sound of Mariee Sioux with that of fellow neo-folk songstress Joanna Newsom. They both come from the same part of the world -- Nevada City, California. Each writes songs tying together the magickal and natural world with the trials of human experience. Sioux's work has a spacious quality to it too.  It has plenty of open air blowing through delicate arrangements that have been filled out with light touches of electric guitar, percussion, flute, and synthesizers. Sioux keeps her songs on path with her fluttering voice and lyrics that compare music to medicine, or rattles off a stream of bucolic imagery that paints vivid, stirring pictures in the mind's eye. She has shared the stage with kindred spirit, Alela Diane, made an album with fellow folk hero Bonnie Prince Billy, and has led countless travelers through the soaring journeys her vocals inspire. Having her perform for the guests at Pollys Paladar has been a dream in the making.  I can hardly believe that she said yes!  Come for the food, stay for the music.


JENNIFER RAIN CROSBY
Jen was one of the first people I met when I moved to Nevada County in February 2002.  I have modeled for her drawing class pregnant and then not pregnant.  Her capacity to capture the essence of a face in pen is simply astounding.  Jen has danced under the pines with me at parties and sung songs with me in various ceremonies over the years, under moonlit nights.  All the while, she has been pumping out some of the most beautiful paintings I have ever seen.  I have highlighted her work before at Paladars and she so graciously hangs them.  The process of creating art is Jens method of communing with an unseen force that resides in her and in the world around her. It makes no difference if she is painting plein air, fantasy, or abstract, the source is the same. The connection comes from within. She lives surrounded by the incredible beauty of the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern California. The land and the people there would inspire any artist to create. Jen sees things every day to paint: the lattice of oak branches against the pale sky, the curving pattern of lichen and moss on granite, wet ponderosa pine bark, dancing manzanita limbs, the creamy and blushing flesh of exposed jurassic soils in the diggins, the enchanting emerald pools of the middle and south Yuba rivers - the list is endless.  She particularly loves plein aire painting as it is a direct connection to each moment. It is time and place encapsulated. Each painting becomes a door to the magic of the world we live in. She races the suns light in its relentless motion, digs into her strength of intuition to choose color and form without thought. There is no time to doubt. There is no time to agonize over a choice. There is only the present moment, the canvas, the paint, the brushes, the sun, and the wide world. -JRC

"Jennifer Rain combines a fine and painterly discipline with a playful sense of people and landscape. She gets the air, the light, its plants, the eyes and ears. By turns magical, precise, global, and local, her ongoing work is a constant and exciting surprise."
Gary Snyder, poet

YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE
The Yuba Watershed Institute is a group of citizens who are concerned with the sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of long-term biological diversity within the Yuba River watershed. The study, maintenance, use and preservation of the watershed is undertaken in partnership with public land management agencies, professional associations, private landowners, other non-profit organizations, and community organizations. The Institute also serves as an educational resource, providing an ongoing series of talks, seminars, publications and walks on all aspects of the watershed.
At the core of the YWI is a cooperative management agreement with the US Bureau of Land Management and the Timber Framers Guild of North America for the joint management of nearly 2,000 acres of forestland on ten parcels in Nevada County, California. This area has been named the Inimim Forest after the Nisenan word for ponderosa pine. The goal of this stewardship program is to foster ancient forest ecosystems and riparian habitats while developing a timber management plan for the selective and sustainable harvest of high quality forest products. The broad intent of this agreement is to demonstrate that local citizens can become active partners in managing public lands for their intrinsic biological and landscape values as well as for the economic and cultural sustenance of the community.
The Yuba Watershed Institutes focus on forest management, biological diversity, and sustainable resource use is based on a perspective which suggests that the health of the watershed  our waters, forests, wildlife, and the economic viability of our rural way of life  are not contained within regional political boundaries. Activities within the watershed may affect a particular species, habitat or place elsewhere, and forces and activities outside the watershed may cause impacts within it. The Yuba River watershed is intimately connected with the Sacramento Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.

FUNGUS FORAY
19th Annual Fungus Foray and Wild Mushroom Exposition will be held on December 10-11th, 2016
Shady Creek Outdoor School and Event Center.  The traditional Saturday morning wild mushroom hunt and identification will wrap up with an afternoon of displayed discoveries and identification workshops. Sunday, they host the 6th annual Wild Mushroom Exposition. The Exposition will be filled with presentations, interactive displays, and workshops based on the seasonal Sierra mushrooms.  Presentations will include Mike Wood from the Mycological Society of San Francisco, who will present on his new book, California Mushrooms: A Comprehensive Identification Guide. Mycologist Alan Rockefeller will present his discoveries from temperate Mexican highlands and Brian Perry from East Bay University will talk on the beautiful Mycenae of California.

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(Subject to change based on availability of ingredients)
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BREAD: Bay nut cracker, rosemary compound butter, honey

APPETIZER: Porcini Pierogi, Daikon & dandelion, Creme Fraische, Candied blood orange

SOUP: Madrone Consumme, Pine nuts, Scallion, Quail egg

SALAD: Oyster mushroom, Frisee with wild greens, beets, fir tip and elderberry vinaigrette

MAIN: Venison 2 ways: Braised beef with balsamic fig glaze and madrone berry chutney; Ham with blackberry mustard. Wild rice risotto croquette, morel cream. Yerba Santa seasonal veg.

DESSERT: Acorn crepe, pickled persimmon, farm chèvre, candy cap mushroom, manzanita butterscotch, spice cookie, rose hip gastrique.


Allowable Dietary Preferences: GLUTEN FREE ONLY


No Refunds
Gratuity Not Included

Location

Polly's Paladar (View)
107 Mill St
Nevada City, CA 95959
United States

Categories

Food > Beer, Wine, Spirits
Food > Markets & Farms
Food > Sweets

Minimum Age: 21
Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: Polly's paladar
On BPT Since: Aug 14, 2012
 
Megan McCollam
www.pollyspaladar.com

Attendees

Matthew B.
nevada city, CA United States
Dec 09, 2016 8:47 PM
Name Withheld
Dec 09, 2016 4:09 PM
Name Withheld
Dec 09, 2016 4:09 PM
Loraine W.
Nevada City, CA United States
Nov 21, 2016 10:34 AM
Name Withheld
Grass Valley, CA United States
Nov 18, 2016 8:48 AM

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