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Events: Wild Food Lab pop-up, A-Frame’s AYCE pancakes, soba yoga

Wild foods such as foraged lambsquarters are featured in a pop-up tasting menu dinner at the Zane Grey Estate on June 7.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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On June 7, Mariposa Creamery at the Zane Grey Estate will host a Wild Food Lab pop-up. Wild Food Lab is a collaboration between Mia Wasilevich of Transitional Gastronomy and Pascal Baudar of Urban Outdoor Skills. The two have foraged for restaurants such as Ink, Melisse, Alma, Girasol and Trois Mec. Wild Food Lab’s nine-course menu will be a wild food tasting paired with special wines. On the menu: green lambsquarters seed canederli with wild greens; goat milk and roasted garlic pudding with fried Yucca whipplei blossoms; quail confit with elderflower beurre blanc; roasted cactus flower buds with speck and charred corn; local trout cooked in clay and infused with sweet clover and rabbit tobacco; young goat braised in forest floor; cactus pad paletas, lime and habanero salt; elderberry entremet with California buckwheat flower crust and wild currants; and a selection of drinks including wild sodas (rosehip, elderberry, muggleberry), white sage cider, mugwort beer, elderberry cordial and local black walnut nocino aged in oak barrels (2011). The cost is $225 per person including gratuity. Make reservations at www.wildfoodlab.com.

Common Grains presents summer soba-making workshops. Make the Japanese buckwheat noodles by hand with instructor Sonoko Sakai. The first hands-on two-hour session takes place this weekend in Highland Park and features gluten-free soba. (Buckwheat isn’t wheat; it’s related to rhubarb.) Make mushroom and leek soba using artisanal stone-milled buckwheat flour, served with chive tamago (omelet), dipping sauce, spring vegetables and herbs, with a Japanese dessert. Sakai calls the process soba yoga: “Noodling making, particularly soba, is a mental and physical exercise. It helps to clear your mind by focusing on one simple activity, using your hands and flour. My yoga teacher said that if I am making soba, I am doing yoga. And it’s really true.” 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. Fee is $125; call (310) 600-4263 or email sonokosakai@gmail.com for reservations. Summer two-hour soba workshops also are available on the following Saturdays: June 14, July 26 and Aug. 16. For more information, go to commongrains.com.

Starting Saturday, A-Frame is offering all-you-can-eat pancakes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays and during dinner on Mondays from 5 p.m. until 11 p.m. for $14. Short the AYCE pancake menu includes short stacks of five silver dollar pancakes from the AYCE menu, including buttermilk, condensed milk and honey mango, fried chicken and pancake combo and chocolate chip. Additional a la carte menu options will be available. Plus bottomless Bloody Marys, mimosas and micheladas. 12565 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, (310) 398-7700, www.aframela.com.

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