Specialties Calendar from Harvest Sensations

EARLY WINTER ~ JANUARY list

Vegetables... Chestnuts Baby Root Vegetables Blue Lake Green Beans Brussels Sprouts Chanterelle Mushrooms Cipollini Onions Endive ~ red & white Fennel Leeks Truffles Watermelon Radish Fruits... Strawberries Citrus, Blood Orange Citrus Minneola Tangelo Key Lime Papaya

EARLY WINTER ~ JANUARY: Gwen’s Menu Ideas

Appetizers... Chanterelle Risotto Crab cakes with Mandarins & Avocado Salad & Soup... Blue Lake Green Bean Salad with Endive & Caramelized Tomatoes Baby Spinach Salad with Baked Goat Cheese & Smokey Bacon Creamy Asparagus Soup with Tangerine Oil Leek & Acorn Squash Soup with Fresh Dill Side Vegetables... Chestnut & Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding Garlicky Blue Lake Green Beans Roasted Root Vegetable Mélange Creamy Brussels Sprouts with Fresh Tarragon Shaved Brussels Sprouts with Apples & Bacon Caramelized Cipollini Onions Braised Fennel with Fresh Thyme Dessert... Pear Tatin with Persimmon Ice Cream Meyer Lemon Tart with Blood Orange Sorbet

MID WINTER ~ FEBRUARY list

Vegetables... Beans, Chinese long Haricot Vert Ultra Mini Baby Bok Choy Carrots, Nantes (Farmer’s Market) Endive ~ Red & White Fava Beans Spring Garlic (Farmer’s Market) Heirloom Potatoes Radicchio Red Endive Sugar Snap Peas Sunchokes White Endive Fruits... Blood Oranges Mandarin Oranges Meyer Lemon Rhubarb

MID WINTER ~ FEBRUARY: Gwen’s Menu Ideas

Appetizers... Grilled Shrimp with Spring Garlic Butter Seared Jumbo Scallop with Fava Bean Puree & Meyer Lemon Duck Leg Confit with Rhubarb Chutney Salad & Soup... Red & White Endive Salad with Blue Cheese, Grapes & Candied Walnuts Radicchio Salad with Blood Orange, Goat Cheese & Fresh Herb Vinaigrette Side Vegetables... Garlicky Long Beans or Haricot Vert Spicy Sautéed Ultra Mini Baby Bok Choy Melting Nantes Carrots Roasted Heirloom Potatoes with Spring Garlic Butter Sugar Snap Peas Fresh Mint Cream Orange Braised Endive Sunchoke & Fava Bean Gratin Dessert... Citrus Sorbet Sampler Rhubarb Galatte ala Mode

LATE WINTER ~ MARCH list

Vegetables... Baby Beets Carrots Rainbow Baby Celery Root Cipollini Onions Dandelion Fava Beans Pea Shoots Peas Potatoes, Fingerling Radicchio Radish Spinach Spring Garlic (Farmer’s Market) Sunchokes Turnips, Baby Fruits... Cape Gooseberries (limited) Citrus, Oro Blanco Citrus, Meyer Lemon Citrus, Minneola Citrus, Blood Orange Rhubarb

LATE WINTER ~ MARCH: Gwen’s Menu Ideas

Appetizers... Oysters Rockefeller with Baby Spinach Wild Mushroom & Goat Cheese Tartlet Salad & Soup... Radicchio & Spinach with Roasted Baby Beets Wild Mushroom Soup with Crispy Red Onions Cream of Carrot Soup with Chervil & Cumin Side Vegetables... Caponata Five Onion Risotto Butternut Squash Bread Pudding Potato Gratin with Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes with Sunchokes Celery Root Gratin Garlic Sautéed Dandelion Greens Caramelized Baby Turnips Dessert... Oro Blanco Sorbet Old Fashioned Rhubarb Custard Pie

EARLY SPRING ~ APRIL list

Vegetables... White Asparagus Baby Beets Fava Beans Fennel Green Garlic Pea Shoots Pea Sprouts English Peas Wild Mushrooms Variety Radishes Spring Onions Baby Turnips Tuscan Kale Watercress Fruits... Strawberries Citrus, Blood Orange Citrus Minneola Tangelo Key Lime Papaya

EARLY ~ SPRING: Gwen’s Menu Ideas

Appetizers... Grilled White Asparagus with Prosciutto & Spring Garlic Vinaigrette Morel Risotto with Fresh Fava Beans Salad & Soup... Lobster & Papaya Salad with Mizuna Herb Salad with Spring Radishes Fresh Oyster Stew with Pea Shoots Creamy Vidalia Onion Soup with Rock Shrimp Side Vegetables... Poached White Asparagus with Blood Orange Hollandaise Roasted Baby Beets with Goat Cheese Minted Peas Garlicky Tuscan Kale Wild Mushroom Sauté Caramelized Baby Turnip Dessert... Classic Strawberry Shortcake Key Lime Pie

MID SPRING ~ MAY list

Vegetables... Artichokes Arugula Asparagus Baby Beets Broccolini Chard Fava Beans Green Garlic Morel Mushrooms Spring Onions Pea Shoots Pea Sprouts English Peas Heirloom Potatoes (variety) Variety Radishes Baby Turnip Watercress Fruits... Strawberry Blackberry Cherries Lychee Nectarine

MID SPRING ~ MAY: Gwen’s Menu Ideas

Appetizers... Grilled Artichoke with Green Garlic Dipping Sauce Duck Cakes with Fresh Cherry Chutney Salad & Soup... Borsch with Fennel & Crème Fraiche Arugula Salad with Grilled Asparagus & Sautéed Morels Watercress Salad with Nectarines, Goat Cheese & Caramelized Walnuts Side Vegetables... Roasted Baby Beets with Fresh Mint Butter Garlicky Sautéed Broccolini Slow Braised Chard Morel Mushrooms & Fava Beans with Spring Garlic Caramelized Spring Onions Fresh Spring Peas with Herb Butter Roasted Heirloom Potatoes & Garlic Dessert... Berry Cherry Trifle Nectarine Cobbler

LATE SPRING ~ JUNE list

Vegetables... Artichokes Purple Wax Bean Yellow Wax Bean Baby Beets Celery Root Cipollini Onions Sweet Corn Pickling Cucumber Dandelion Variety Eggplant Fennel Kohlrabi Wild Mushrooms Parsley Root Baby Squash Fruits... Baby Apples California Apricot Variety Berries Cherries Figs Gold Kiwi Champagne Grapes Lychee Variety Melon California Nectarines California Peaches

LATE SPRING ~ JUNE: Gwen’s Menu Ideas

Appetizers... Melon & Prosciutto Grilled Peach with Stilton Blue Cheese & Toasted Almonds Salad & Soup... Hot & Sour Baby Beets with Baby Lettuces Creamy Green Garlic Soup with Crispy Spring Onions Side Vegetables... Tri Color Sautéed Beans Celery Root & Heirloom Potato Gratin Roasted Cipollini Onions with Goat Cheese Garlicky Dandelion Greens Broiled Eggplant with Garlic Butter Assorted Baby Squashes with Fresh Herbs Wild Mushroom Sautee Creamy Sweet Corn Dessert... Fresh Peach Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream Cherry Berry Cobbler