UPDATE 1-22-2012: Just got word that these Lamb Roast dinners have been cancelled. Too bad, because we’d bought tickets and were looking forward to meeting this dynamic duo and eating local lamb.
Former Phoenician Tamara Reynolds sings for fun (she studied to be an opera singer at ASU) but she cooks for a living (and fun, too) in New York City.
Reynolds’ underground supper club, The Sunday Night Dinner in Astoria, started innocently enough 10 years ago. She and friends started cooking dinner at home and inviting other friends who brought even more friends. Word spread and soon the table of friends of friends grew and she realized she had a business.
The supper club spawned a cookbook, Forking Fantastic: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party, as well as appearances in Jamie Oliver’s documentary Jamie’s American Road Trip, Unique Eats and Food(ography) on the Cooking Channel. Now she’s working on bringing her own show to the Cooking Channel, tentatively titled Married with Dishes. She blames all of this culinary windfall on inviting strangers into her home for dinner.
Reynolds is coming home to Phoenix, bringing a little bit of her supper club with her. For three nights only starting January 29, Reynolds and her friend Chef Millicent Souris of Resto in NYC and author of the upcoming Let Them Eat Pie: How To Build A Better Pie will host pop up lamb roast dinners at the downtown Phoenix Public Market.
The duo is sourcing local Arizona lamb and gathering vegetables from Crooked Sky Farms, as well as seeking out other locally made products to incorporate in the dinners. The menu is mouthwatering:
Golden & Chiogga Beet Pickle Slices with Honey Whipped Goat Cheese & Biscuits
Greens with Fennel, Radish & Grapefruit
Spit-Roasted Lamb with Pomegranate Glaze
Lebanese Slow-Cooked Beans & Chickpeas with Cumin & Smoked Paprika
Grilled Endive, Chicory & Oranges with Miso Butter
Caramelized Date Upside-Down Cake
If you go, ask Reynolds to serenade you. We hear her voice is angelic.
Details:
Pop Up Lamb Roast with Tamara Reynolds and Millicent Souris
Phoenix Public Market, January 29 at 5 p.m. and January 30 and 31 at 6 p.m.
$55 per person, wine is included
Purchase tickets: http://popuplambroastinphx.eventbrite.com/
photo courtesy of Tamara Reynolds
Victoria Corrigan | JANUARY 18, 2012
Holy cats, Gwen…. what fun! …and does this menu sound dee-lish or what? Many thanks for sharing; especially from those of us seldom inclined to pick up a newspaper… (or who are not reading their Public Market weekly emails!!)
Gwen Ashley Walters | JANUARY 19, 2012
Thanks, Victoria! How sweet of you to say.
Troy Mangano | JANUARY 26, 2012
I want to thank you on your presentation and knowledge on cheeses it was very enlightening , and I know your book will help me in my successes in the culinary field thank you again, Troy from Community Kitchen.
Gwen Ashley Walters | JANUARY 26, 2012
Troy… thank you for your participation in yesterday’s class. You demonstrated that you have passion for the culinary field. It was a pleasure to meet you, and I wish you much success as you continue your education at Community Kitchen. Thank you for commenting!