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Berkshire Tidbits: Preparing for Passover
By Judith Lerner, Special to iBerkshires
08:57PM / Wednesday, April 13, 2016
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Matzoh ball soup by Aura Weiss, chef and owner of Naturally. Photo by Judith Lerner.

The menu for the Haven Supper Club for the week of April 11 to 15 will be:

  • Roast chicken with asparagus, roasted potatoes and sherry mushroom sauce
  • Lemon roasted rainbow trout with sautéed kale and basmati rice
  • Roast pork loin with sautéed spinach, polenta and pineapple chutney
  • Mushroom risotto with butternut squash and asparagus

Entrées come with soup or salad and cost $22 for one to three dinners ordered, $75 for four dinners ordered, $110 for six dinners, $200 for 12 dinners. They can be any of the dinners.

Order by Wednesday, pick up at the bakery in Lenox on Friday. The staff suggests people can order for different meals and can choose among that week's options. Contact: 413-637-8948 or havencafebakery@gmail.com to order and get on their list to received upcoming menus.

 

Baker-owner Sharon Sutter of A-Frame Bakery, 1194 Cold Spring Road/Route 7 in Williamstown, 413-458-3600, is preparing a host of Passover goodies for pre-order to be picked up during Passover between Friday, April 22 — before noon when they close for the holiday — through Saturday, April 30.

She's making parve cakes, macaroons and cookies you can eat with any meal, meat or dairy. She has fruit pies, a chocolate torte and chocolate truffle cookies to be specified parve or dairy. She'll have cheesecakes, a dairy hazelnut torte and dairy matzoh treats. She has sauces, jams, conserves and flavored nuts, that are Passover treats.

Some of her sweets are gluten-free. Ask her about these.

Order soon as, she said, quantities are limited.

 


You can preorder Passover food from Aura Weiss, such as this duck breast stuffed with fresh and dried fruits.

Aura Weiss, chef and owner of Naturally, her catering/prepared foods at Berkshire Organics, 813 Dalton Division Road in Dalton on the Pittsfield line, 413-442-0888, is preparing Passover foods for preorder.

She has already started making and having available matzoh ball soup and it is yummy!

She'll be making chicken dishes, a duck breast stuffed with fruit, brisket and other goodies. Call and ask her what else she will have or make for your Passover seder.

 

For those who want to create their own seder but do not want to cook it, on Friday, April 22, the first night of Passover, the Red Lion Inn will include typical Jewish Passover seder foods as specials on their dinner menu: matzoh ball soup, chicken confit and root vegetables, braised brisket with red quinoa, roasted herbed carrots, Equinox Farm spinach and mushroom conserva, and flourless Taza chocolate tart with macerated berries and candied orange.

 

There will be the monthly knife sharpening at The Chef's Shop, 31 Railroad St. in Great Barrington, this Saturday, April 16, between 10 and noon, when expert sharpener Bob Sheets will again bring ProSharp Mobile Knife Sharpening Service, his belt grinder filled truck, to sharpen your kitchen knives, scissors, garden tools and every type of blade for $1 per blade inch while you wait.

Blades may also be dropped off at the shop any time before to be picked up after noon on Saturday.

 

Rubiner's Cheesemongers & Grocers will have a special raw milk cheese and natural wine pairing seminar this Saturday, April 16, from 3 to 5, complete with an extra special rant from cheesemonger/grocer Matt Rubiner himself, in observance of Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day.

Matt characterizes this particular tasting as "the marriage of cheese and wines in their purest, most natural states." He said he will be pairing "cheeses made from milk unsullied by pasteurization and organic wines, unfiltered and unfined, made without the use of sulfites or chemicals."

The raw milk cheese and natural wine tasting costs $75 per person.

He plans to "spend the day whining to all who will listen about the many unfounded concerns about the alleged dangers of eating raw-milk cheese and also about the misguided policies of our overzealous hygienic regulatory authorities and the spurious science and 'Big Dairy' that support them."

Call the shop, 413-528-0488 to register for all classes or seminars or register at www.rubiners.com.

On that day, customers who mention Matt's rant about how Americans cannot import, create or sell raw milk cheese less than 60 days aged, will get a 10 percent discount on any raw milk cheeses they buy. He names wonderful European cheeses on one hand and raw eggs, milk, fish and meats that are allowed here and the smoking of cigarettes and getting drunk on liquor on the other ...  Just mention his rant.

 

Again, this Saturday evening, April 16, about 7, The Meat Market, 389 Stockbridge Road/Route 7 in Great Barrington, 413 528-2022, will host guest chef Erhard Wendt, formerly of the Williamsville Inn in West Stockbridge who will prepare an understated seasonal, local menu which he has been doing this month and will continue through the rest of the month.

This week, Erhard will start with a salad of local watercress he will have foraged and garnished with Meat Market smoked ham juliennes. He will, in some mysterious way known only to him, stuff oxtail with chicken and serve it in a mushroom sauce accompanied by roasted crumbles of cauliflower Polanaise. Dessert will be a vanilla crème brulée.

These dinners cost $50 plus tax and gratuity. There will be a cash bar. Call for reservations.

 

On Sunday, April 17, from 1 to 5, Hotel on North, 297 North St. in Pittsfield, 413 358-4741 will kick off spring, their style, with "a standard American barbecue in our backyard/parking lot, said dining room staff.

"It'll be your hamburgs and hot dogs, chicken and, also, grilled sausages and peppers. And, of course, ice cream for dessert!"

There will be a dance party with a DJ, face painting for the kids and samples of Berkshire Mountain Distillers and local brewers for adults to taste. Additional beverages may be purchased.

No reservations are necessary. "Just show up," they urged

Adults will be $25, children 12 and under will be $12.

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