Meadowood’s 12 Days of Christmas, Day Five: Ashley Christensen of Poole's Diner
The Restaurant at Meadowood’s annual 12 Days of Christmas guest chef series is well underway. Here at Inside Scoop, we’re reviving our own tradition of individually tracking each night’s charity dinner — and the exploration of cuisine from the chefs from around the world, through their words and their food. You can check out past years here: 2012, 2011 and 2010.
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To this point, the 12 Days guest chef series at Meadowood has taken us to Thailand, Chile, Japan and New York; now, we go to the American South.
Ashley Christensen was the visiting chef on the fifth night. She is a chef and restaurateur who has built herself quite the empire in Raleigh, North Carolain, with a collection of restaurants like Poole’s Diner, Beasley’s Chicken and Honey, Chuck’s, Fox Liquor Bar and even more to come. Accordingly, at last night’s dinner, Christopher Kostow and his crew at the Restaurant at Meadowood — who are challenging themselves to create new dishes at every dinner, which no small feat — took on a Southern bent as well, embracing many of the regional benchmarks: grits, green tomatoes, biscuits and even pecan pie. The full menu:
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Day Five of the Twelve Days of Christmas
December 12, 2013
Coal roasted beets and pickled pumpkin with buttermilk ricotta and charred kumquat marmalade vinaigrette
Ashley Christensen
Cauliflower velouté with lobster gelée and lobster mushroom oil
Ashley Christensen
Sturgeon grits potlicker green tomato
The Restaurant
Rabbit and truffled dumplings with braised greens
Ashley Christensen
Lamb cassoulet with white acre peas and covington sweet potatoes
Ashley Christensen
“Biscuit & Butter” honeycomb chicories
The Restaurant
Pecan pie
The Restaurant
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Constant
Diamond Mountain Vineyard
Chardonnay 2009
“MF” Claret 2009
“Queen of Diamonds” Syrah 2002
Cabernet Sauvignon 2006
Cabernet Sauvignon 2001
Previously
· Day One: Andy Ricker, Pok Pok (Portland)
· Day Two: Rodolfo Guzman, Boragó (Santiago)
· Day Three: Carlo Mirarchi, Roberta’s (Brooklyn)
· Day Four: Tim Cushman, O Ya (Boston)