If you’ve been hoping to join us on the river for one of our Sunday sails book soon before this season comes to a close. The last few dates with seats available for our beautiful long lunches aboard the Yukon for The River’s Table: March 29th - April 12th - April 19th email jacinta@pantreeproduce.com or call 0405487929 to book in, hope to see you in the Huon Valley for a feast of this season’s local produce! (at Franklin, Tasmania, Australia)
Autumn! Season of abundance and moody skies dancing with the last if summer’s warm sun. Dates with tickets available for The River’s Table include: March 29th - April 12th - April 19th 2015 this will be the last tickets available this round of our event until next summer’s sailing resumes in December. Get on board before winter sets in, the river puts on quite a show this time of year
Tasting today for an autumn wedding. This is their chocolate & hazelnut cake filled with fig jam and bitter cocoa cream, covered in a dark choc ganache, topped in toasted hazelnuts, fresh figs, edible flowers and drizzled in Mielery honey. Went down a treat!
Cygnet oyster mushroom open ravioli with truffle oil and toasted almonds, and jilly’s peppery mustard flowers #theriverstable #yukontours #pantreeproduce #thehuonriver #duckeggpasta #discovertasmania (at Huon Valley)
Menu for today’s summer sail on the Yukon, along the Huon River. It’s been switching from rain to sun all morning, we have a gorgeous galley under the deck for the more sprinkley moments. This pic is of the little pot belly woodfire for when it gets to the winter sailing months! (at Franklin Marina)
Beautiful #regram of photo by Michelle, @hugoandelsa - who came on last night’s twilight sail for #theriverstable on #theyukon with @jillymiddleton ’s sourdough featured in the pic. We had a beautiful long summer evening of food, wine, sailing, music and gorgeous people. To book in for a Sunday sailing lunch in January email jacinta@pantreeproduce.com (at Franklin, Tasmania, Australia)
Just printed the menus for #theriverstable #twilghtsail #today #pantreeproduce #theyukon #yukontours #gettingready #1700hrs
Last week’s menu by chef Asher Gilding, summer solstice sailing on Sunday the 21st December. We only have a couple of spots left for this coming weekend’s special twilight sail on Sunday the 28th December, check out our events page for more details and booking info.
Hoisting the main sail! Today we went a sailin #yukontours #theyukon #franklin #sundaysailing #TheRiversTable #pantreeproducecatering
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Sneak peek of @jonathanwherrett ’s beautiful photos from #theriverstable last Sunday! More to come online soon
The River’s Table Spring Event at Twelve Trees Farm, blew us away. Photography by Michelle Crawford, lamentations by Jacinta Carmichael-Parissi.
It is hard to describe how it went without referring constantly to the weather - so understand that though we had a couple of moments where the sun came out, it was mainly very cold and rainy with icy winds and hardy but (mainly) happy guests making the most of what we had intended to be a sun dappled day of long and easy eating and drinking. Asher bravely battled the rain with fire, cooking up our feast in difficult conditions - we even had a calamity with the wind blowing away trays of canapés and 5kg of freshly smoked mussels! Luckily there was generally good cheer and even dancing among the gumbooted guests, who were lucky enough to huddle with the musicians in the one marquee that didn't blow away! Voicestrings, a beautiful duo with Montz on the Banjo and Ross on the Violin played beautifully, we also had a rollicking five piece string band who go by the name Lawson’s Heart. Between the wine, wind, dancing and (eventually - against all odds) eating, we managed to have one very memorable country Tasmanian experience!
Our intention for this event was to give to the world an honest and beautiful experience in the Huon Valley, set by the stunning Huon River. To showcase the amazing local produce available in Spring, and to enjoy the company of producers, musicians and visiting guests. We were lucky enough to source all of the food from local producers and friends, including Twelve Trees Farm, Tongola Goats Products, Provenance Growers, Nichols Rivulet Organic Food Farm, Dover Bay Mussels (almost!), Kindred Organics, Elgaar, Eatem’ Organics, Golden Valley Organic Farm, Lenny, Celia, Alexandra, Marg & Rory, Robert, Willie Smiths, Wombat Springs, Ashbolt, Home Hill and us! PanTree Produce.
Jilly & Kris of Twelve Trees Farm put on such a beautiful display with readying the property and giving a farm tour before sweets, when we had our final flash of sunlight before everyone jumped back on the cart and head home to warm their feet in front of a fire.
We will be putting on another smaller event in the near future for those who opted to postpone due to the terrible forecast, and look forward to making it happen according to plan this time! I would have loved to be on the ground meeting, greeting, seating, announcing, elaborating, helping and enjoying - but when there is a storm, you have to man the ship and make sure it sails to safety. There will be time to enjoy all of your beautiful company next time, in the sunshine.
Thank you to those people who made this event happen, and to the guests who braved it with cheer and understanding. And also thanks to those who came anyway, even if they wished they were at home under a warm blanket with a cuppa and a good book - and also to those who were clever enough to postpone and do just that.
I love all of the photographs that Michelle took of the day, it looks just so beautiful out on the banks of the Huon River. What a spectacular part of the world we were lucky enough to be in, rain hail or shine. You can see all of the photos here.
Menu is up! We have sold out, 100 seats at the long table, including musicians, producers & guests. This is going to be a beautiful event, can’t wait!
We also would love to announce our musical line up
Voicebox 12 noon
Lawson’s Heart 1:30 pm
Ooh! Snippet of our new little poster for #theriverstable at #twelvetreesfarm for more info go to www.pantreeproduce.com/events (at Petcheys Bay Tas)
The Rivers Table - presented by PanTree Produce and Michelle Crawford with photography by Jonathan Wherrett.
In an excited moment of dreamy ideas being made into reality we set sail aboard the Yukon, a beautiful 1930’s Danish wooden boat, with the Huon Valley’s finest food, cider & wine producers.
We popped open some sparkling wine by Wombat Springs Vineyard just as we passed the hill in Franklin where they grow their grapes. We were having a party with our friends to launch our up coming series of events based around producers along the Huon River - the series is called ‘The Rivers Table’.
Hans & Esther, award winning producers of Tongola Goat Products in Wattle Grove, shared some beautiful hand made ‘winter’ goats curd made by the only three goats that they milk out of season.
Paulette and Matt of Provenance Growers together grew, picked and made a stunning salad of edible flowers, herbs, weeds and unusual but very tasty salad leaves. Paulette’s baby winter radishes, with their bright colours and sweet peppery flavour were eaten with our homemade cultured butter and organic sourdough baguettes.
We made a lovely picnic style ‘food to share’ spread, full menu will be up on our events page soon. We made river inspired dishes such as smoked duck and poached pear, potato and rosemary smoked salmon with picked samphire, and a duck egg pasta with duck ragù.
For sweets Matthew Evans of Fat Pig Farm brought along some bay leaf custard made from his house cow’s fresh milk to go with Michelle’s ginger cake and home grown stewed rhubarb. They also collaborated to make a lovely polpette (little Italian meatball) using Matthew’s beef and Michelle’s tasty recipe.
Willie Smiths Organic Cider provided a beautiful addition to the table with their Huon Valley apple cider and along with up and coming wine makers from Sailor Seeks Horse with their delicious Pinot Noir we were well on our merry way!
Jilly and Kris from Twelve Trees Farm provided the finishing touch to an amazing evening adventure, with a beautiful 15 year old organic blueberry port to warm us just as the sun started to disappear and the wind turned icy. We arrived in Cygnet and bid farewell to Captain David and sailor Ewan and wish them well as they continued on to a three-month journey up the East Coast of Australia on the East Coast Odyssey.
We will be holding a Sunday lunch this Spring, the first of our 'The Rivers Table’ series on Twelve Trees Farm amongst the blueberry blossoms, details will be up on our events page soon. To get on the mailing list for early bird tickets email jacinta@pantreeproduce.com
#pantreeproducecatering #gettingready #arkoftastedinner #exciting #slowfoodhobart #drysdale
