A TABLE!

French & Cooking Event

Cook and speak French, all in one evening!

Come and join us at the Outing Lodge in Stillwater, where you will be the guest of the owners, Lee & Carlota Gohlike and Pat Choffrut*, French teacher and cook.

Tel: 651-439-9747

new date TBD

Included in our cooking afternoon will be some “foodie-French,” so you will leave with a taste of French food and a few French phrases on your tongue as well.

*Pat Choffrut lived for 16 years in Provence, France, where she taught at a French culinary school and studied French cuisine. She enjoyed cooking with Michelin starred chefs there and also created and managed her own cooking tour company, Pleasure in Provence.

Special #1– Registered students obtain 30% discount on any Fireplace or Jacuzzi suite for the night of the class.

Special #2-To your suite reservation for the night of your class you may also add : Wine and Chase Lomgere Champagne by the bottle ($20.-special rate) and/or French cheese & fruit platter with warm from the oven baguette ($20. - serves 2)

Please, bring your apron to the class. Outing Lodge's aprons available ( $9.00 )

" Chocolat" &

The Inns of the Valley Chocolate March

March, 2009

date TBD

An excursion into Joanne Harris' inspiring recipes for life. And the other films that made history in the series of chocolate films.

Bread & Chocolate, Strawberry & chocolate, Like Water to chocolate"... and " Chocolat"

Beverages & Infusions

Hot Local Apple Cider, European Roasterie Velvet Hammer & Colombian Decaf Coffees, Selection of loose leaf & bagged Import (regular & decaf) Teas, Cold cranberry juice,

Dark & White chocolate Fondues

Fresh fruit fantasy, blackberries, oranges, grapes, strawberries, apples, pineapple bites served with Chantilly dip, Pretzels & homemade cookies, Dried fruits & nuts, apricots, figs, dates, hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, Lemon or orange sorbet in sugared cups and

St .Croix Vineyards Wine tasting

S’mores by the fireplace

Please

visit www.innsofthevalley.com for tickets and information regarding this annual event

Paris in the 20s: "A moveable feast "

April 18, 2009

L'avant garde, Hemingway, Stein, Ray, Gershwin and many took up residence in Paris to find life.

--What was the allure?

Food & Wine, Culture or something in the air?

Preceding the dinner, a talk about Hemingway's book "A Moveable Feast" by Professor Risa Cohen

Based on Menu by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Apéritif : Hors d'œuvres

Relève : Le Plat des pâtés du Printemps

Entrée : Poulet au poêle a l’estragon, Pommes de terre provençal au Gratin et Petits pois frais a la française

Plateau des fromages

Salade du Printemps avec les figues

Dessert: Île flottante ~ langues du chat

A portion of the proceedings for will be donated to MPR.

Argentine Grill

Saturday May 10

Friday July 11

As in the Estancia, the meal will be prepared & served "en el patio"

Try Yerba Mate to share, the Argentine way. You may also bring your horse.

Empanadas ( traditional meat turn over)

Salad Buffet table ( Caprese, Waldorf, Mixta and others)

Variety of grilled meats ( Beef, Pork & Poultry) with Chimi-Churri

Don Pedro

Argentine Malbecs from Mendoza

Coca con Fernet Branca

Cash Bar

Taste of Italy

September 5,

2008

Let Italy come to you for one night: be surrounded by Italy's flavors without leaving the Twin Cities.

No tie required. Opera singers or other performers invited as our house's guests.

Bellinis

Wild Mushroom and Eggplant Bruschetta

Primi: linguine with eggplant & sundried tomato olive oil sauce

Secondi: Pollo Arrosto

Ensalata: Mix salad and Warm grilled seasonal vegetables served family style

Dolci: Gelatto, Macerateed fruit and Traditional Italian Pastry Fritters

House Italian Wines with dinner

Cash Bar

"Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe"

( inspired in Monet's Lunch party on the grass )

Friday, August 29

A "croquet" game will be set in the front garden lawn.

Artists: Bring a sketch book, charcoal pencils, pastels, oils or camera. The gardens will be so beautiful that you will want to come in the morning and leave only with the light.

Traditional English Scones with homemade local Jams, butter and clotted cream

Collection of petit Summer sandwiches

Assortment of fresh and dried fruits and local cheeses buffet

Fresh fruit tart

House selection of loose leaf and other special Teas

South American Yerba Mate infusion, cold or hot

Homemade Lemonade

Mercedes Dinner

Saturday, October 18

Lee Gohlike, world expert in early Mercedes' racing history and The Outing Lodge's founder, will give a presentation on Ralph Di Palma's gallant loss in the 1912 Indianapolis 500.

A Gentlemen's night. Girls can be invited at their own risk.

Herring & Salmon

Stuttgarter Salad

Wiener Schnitzel, Mashed Potato & Sauerkraut

Schwartzwalder Kirsch Tort

Selection of German Beers & Wines.

Cash Bar

Babette's feast

Saturday,

October 25

Featured as "the most authentic" recreation of the Oscar winning film's dinner.

Mercy and Truth have met together. Righteousness and Bliss shall kiss one another.

Turtle soup with quenelle

Blinis Demidoff with caviar

Quail Perigourdine

Mixed greens

Assorted French Cheeses and tropical fruits

Rum Baba

Sherry, Champagne, Burgundy & Cognac

Cash Bar

English Christmas

Saturday,

December 13

We deck the halls for this celebration lit by fireplaces and candles.

The feeling of an Edwardian country house.

Sleigh Rides at 6:00 pm.

Consomme celestine

Lobster & Mushroom Salad

Prime Rib with Horseradish cream Brussels Sprouts & Parsnips with roast potato

English Cheese Plate

English Trifle

Wines with dinner & cash bar

New Year's Eve

December 31,2008

Live Music and dancing, endless culinary delicacies, grazing and dancing till 2009

You will forget and remember and get totally lost in the moment.

Prosciutto and figs, artichoke ramekin, caviar on crostini, spanakopita, smoked salmon, Russian salad, Vitel Tone, grilled vegetables, stuffed mushrooms and many more hors d'oeuvres.

Croque en bouche, pavlovas and other exquisite desserts at midnight

Hosted champagne toast at midnight

Full cash bar

Russian New Year

January 10 , 2009

The height of pre-revolutionary opulence. The end of an era.

As in "Russian Arc" (a reenactment of Nicholas' last party at the winter palace).

Sleigh Rides and Siberian Vodka at 6:00 pm.* subject to weather and number of reservations

Caviar on blinis

Herring with Salad Russe

Ukrainian Borsch

Caucasian Pheasant with brown rice, roasted nuts & haricots vertes in white wine tarragon sauce

Charlotte Russe

Hosted Vodka, Champagne & Wine

Cash Bar

Valentines

February 13 & 14, 2009

"Food for lovers". We will set the mood. Come with someone special.

If there were only time and world enough, to let this pass would be no crime

Oysters on the half shell

Heart of Palm salad with coconut vinaigrette

Sauteed shrimp dressed with caviar

Beef wellington in sherry sauce served with potato duchess and broil tomatoes with clams

Chocolate truffles and mints

Champagne, Cabernet Sauvignon & Porto

Cash bar

Tango demo-lesson.