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Minam River Lodge Presents: Sept 23rd Dinner Menu Change:

This evening to celebrate a great hunt and the first day of fall, I am changing the menu tonight to be focused on fresh wild Elk, foraged Chanterelles, and house grown vegetables to our table this evening.  This dinner to is dedicated to all of the mountainous back country hunters, farmers, and foragers of Eastern Oregon. Thank you for all of your gifts to our table. 

First Course:

Chanterelle Conserve toast w/ pickled garlic flowers.

Second Course:

Warm Cabbage and lightly roasted apple slaw w/charred jalapeno vinaigrette

Third Course:

Char Roasted Anasazi Squash w/hazelnut and kale pistou

Main Course:

13 year old Braised Bull Elk Brisket w/red wine and apple reduction

Dessert:

Chocolate Zucchini Cake w/hand whipped butter cream

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Minam River Lodge: Post season projects

Now that it is construction season up here at the lodge, all of our guests have gone for the season, it is time to start preserving our bounty from the garden, and doing some heavy R&D work in the kitchen too. These are some of the projects that I will be working on this fall, starting this week. I will have plenty of pictures and updates as our days continue to get shorter. 

Post Season Projetcs/Prep List list for the week-

Rye Bread

Sourdough Bread

Beet and Apple Kraut

Roasted Squash Chutney

Piri Piri,

Garlic Jam

Walla Walla Sweet Onion Mustard

Red Pepper Paste

Pigs Head Scrapple

bay Leaf Ice cream

Foraged Chanterelle Conserve

Roasted Tomato Butter

Pastrami

Kim chi Vinaigrette

basil Vinegar

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Minam river lodge presents:  family Style dinner- Sept 23rd

To all those hunters out there, looking for dinner in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.

Whole Fire Roasted Chicken w/charred squash, marcona almonds,           burnt sherry gastrique

House smoked cheddar biscuits

Red chili paste braised collards

Dessert: Black Bottom Oatmeal pie w/buttermilk ice cream and hazelnut praline

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Minam River Lodge:        July 1st Sold Out

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MINAM RIVER LODGE: SATURDAY JUNE 27TH, 2015 -SOLD OUT-

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Minam River Lodge Presents: Friday June 26th  -SOLD OUT-