Chef Cosmo Meens - Chefs in the Garden Grand Finale

We closed our Chefs in the Garden Summer Series today with Chef Cosmo Meens cooking up a "ridiculously" (young speak for fantastically) delectable array of visual and taste sensation beauty.   My swiftly flicked photos don't do it  justice...here was the 7 course menu:

1. Kombucha Raspberry Lavendar Spritzer

2. Purslane Salad with Venture-Schulze Balsamic and Strawberries

3. Heirloom Tomato draped with Sauteed Crookneck & Pattipan Summer Squash dressed in Basil and Crispy Lavendar Brown Butter Sage (I snapped too soon and missed the sage topping which was beautiful and delicious)

4. Almond, Pumpkin Curried Carrot Pate with Collard Green Wrap and Nasturtium 

5. Butter lettuce, Spiralina Hemp, Grape Tomato & Queen Charlotte Seaweed Salad

or Russian Blue & Fingerling Potato Salad with Cilantro and Moonstruck Beddis Blue Cheese (shown here adorned with Calendula flowers of exquisite color)

6. Garlic Smoked Spot Prawns on New Zealand Spinach with Curried Coconut Cream

7. Triple Berry Cup with Raspberry Cashew Cream and Johnny Jump Ups

I can't remember a meal more delicious, imaginative and sensitive.  It was a delight beyond words and a perfect note upon which to end our July 2009 Summer Series.  

We will be featuring one Chef in the Garden each month beginning October 2009.  Check our calendar for details.  Next week we start our Healthy Summer Fun Camps for Kids where we'll serve up a trilogy of gardening, cooking, and ecology complete with healthy lunches and lots of fun.