On the Road ...

Mark your calendar for pizza al fresco.

Wednesday, July 20 - Oak Bay Night Market
In the heart of the village on Oak Bay Avenue - pick up vegetables from local farms, grab a pie from your favorite pizzeria, listen to a bit of music. Market runs from 4-8 pm every third Wednesday through September. Rain or shine.

Sunday, July 24 Tour of Farms at Sea Cider
Where does my food come from? Who grows it? What's it like to be a farmer? Visit Saanich farms and find the answers to these questions. Join us at Sea Cider - tour the orchard & cider house, eat pizza and sip cider.

Sunday, September 18 - Feast of Fields at Marley Farm
Taste the very best of BC from chefs, vintners, brewers, fishers, ranchers and food artisans from across the province - some think of it as a 40 course meal paired with wine & beer! Feast of Fields is a gastronomic journey towards a sustainable, local food system. For more information & tickets, visit http://www.feastoffields.com/

Thursday - Sunday, September 22-25 - Rifflandia Festival
A music festival & more: 4 days, 10 stages & 110 artists. It is inspired. Visit http://2011rifflandia.com for lineups, tickets and more.

Notes from Jon - Feast of Fields, first chanterelles of the season ...

Feast of Fields. Our first foray into the wilds with our mobile oven was a success! All of our careful planning to have our dough in top condition payed off and we were able to put out pizza we all were proud of! I think for sure we wowed a few people with our "hotrod" oven, even rendering a few speechless! I remember one guy stammering, "is that a..a......a movable oven?" I hope we also planted the seeds of an idea in a few peoples heads of the parties they could throw with us serving up the food!

The first Chanterelles of the season are in house! We will start to feature them sporadically for the next couple of months. We have white as well as yellow ones this year!

The pizza? A Funghi Supremo: Porcino cream, Pecorino, Mozzarella di bufala, Roasted Chanterelles with fresh thyme, roasted onions and finished with a drop of truffle oil. $17

Also going to try to pickle some this year!

JP

Feast of Fields - a delicious day!

Feast of Fields - a gourmet wandering harvest festival - is FarmFolk/CityFolk's annual fundraising event. With a wine glass and linen napkin in hand, you can taste the very best of BC from chefs, vintners, brewers, farmers and food artisans from across the province. PPS was a proud participant - serving up pizzas and sampling the Feast too! Forgot to get a few pics from the start of the day but here's the very last! Morgan made her very own pie - with the last bits of wild mushrooms and goat yogurt shared by another FoF chef. Notice Ceri and Sean looking on - waiting for a taste! Delicious! Beauty of a pie Morg! Feast of Fields is a gastronomic journey towards a sustainable, local food system. Mangia! - Cristen