{"id":570,"date":"2012-03-14T00:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T04:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:27:59","slug":"organic-happy-girl-kitchen-co-hosts-pop-up-dinner-in-pacific-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Organic Happy Girl Kitchen Co. hosts pop-up dinner in Pacific Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy Girl Kitchen Co. co-founder Jordan Champagne with a few pickled goodies<\/p><\/div>\n

Happy Girl Kitchen Co. has started doing pop-up dinners to simultaneously develop community and spotlight Central Coast farms, and this month\u2019s event \u2013 on March 16 \u2013 highlights Mariquita Farm. Also, you can choose to buy a special fundraising ticket for the dinner where $20 of the cost benefits Big Sur Land Trust (BSLT<\/a>). Tickets<\/a>are $55 for a regular ticket, or $75 for a BSLT benefit ticket. More details are below. There are actually two dinners, one on March 16 and another on March 17, but the March 17 one has sold out.<\/p>\n

Happy Girl Kitchen’s husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Jordan Champagne, have created quite a wonderful and successful business. They lead workshops in topics like cheesemaking and tomato-preserving, and sell delicious jars of organic goodies like pickled vegetables, jams, and heirloom tomatoes online<\/a> and at a kiosk in the San Francisco Ferry Building. Workshops are held at locations including Live Earth Farm in Watsonville.<\/p>\n

Happy Girl also runs a Pacific Grove caf\u00e9 and shop<\/a> and sells products at select stores (including Food Bin in Santa Cruz) and Farmers\u2019 Markets (Saturday at Ferry Building, Sunday in Palo Alto).<\/p>\n

More dinner details: the chef is John Madriaga, current sous chef at renowned SF restaurant Spruce. Madriaga\u2019s illustrious career includes stints at world-famous noma in Copenhagen and local award-winning Manresa<\/a> in Los Gatos (two Michelin stars for five consecutive years). Wine pairings from Carmel Valley\u2019s Heller Estates will be available for an additional $18 (payable at dinner, not ahead of time with the ticket). Dinner starts at 6pm at the Happy Girl Kitchen Co. caf\u00e9 and shop (173 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove).<\/p>\n

Purchase your ticket here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interested in the beneficiary organization? According to its web site, the Big Sur Land Trust is \u201c\u2026committed to pursuing land and water conservation work that strengthens our communities and inspires a stewardship ethic so that Monterey County can maintain its unique and special place in the world. The goal\u2026is to pursue resource conservation that supports the well-being of land and people and sustains our region\u2019s unique quality of life for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the dinner menu from February to get a sense of what type of dinner Happy Girl is cooking up for its pop-up events:<\/p>\n

Sample menu<\/em><\/strong>
\n – pickles, local cheeses, olives and fresh bread<\/em>
\n – pan-fried brussels sprouts with cider and big sur honey<\/em>
\n – salt roasted beets with seaweed<\/em>
\n – kale chips<\/em><\/p>\n

the middle:<\/em><\/strong>
\n – yellow finn potato gnocchi with foraged chanterelles and greens<\/em>
\n – turnips, stewed pippin, fuji and gala apples with shaved cabbage and seeds<\/em>
\n – pan-seared brussels sprouts and fennel over an apple+meyer lemon puree<\/em>
\n – romanesco and broccolini with olive oil and meyer lemon<\/em>
\n – good mother stollard heirloom beans with preserved tomato and pea tendrils<\/em>
\n – fresh heirloom lettuces with herbs<\/em><\/p>\n

the end:<\/em><\/strong>
\n – blue bottle coffee<\/em>
\n – local cheeses<\/em>
\n – blood orange marmalade tart with star anise and chocolate<\/em><\/p>\n

Follow me on Twitter @santacruzfoodie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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