Love Mexican Food? Love Local Food? This Farm Dinner Has Both

Do you love authentic Mexican cuisine prepared by a Oaxaca-born chef? Would you love it even more if it's made with hyperlocal ingredients produced on an urban farm by a couple who also were born in Mexico?

Then do I have a farm dinner for you. Join me on Sunday, May 31, beginning at 5 p.m., for "Mole en el Huerto" (Mole in the Garden) at Cedillo's Fresh Produce, located at 325 W. 70th Place in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

The dinner will be prepared by my friend Ernesto Rodriguez, whose Evanston-based El Molcajete Sauces company makes a variety of traditional moles from his home region in Mexico, along with other items.

The hosts at Cedillo's are its farming co-founders, Dulce Margarita Morales and her partner Juan Carlos Cedillo.

All of their talents will be utilized in preparing the following menu:

Appetizers: (aperitivos)

• Fresh salsa and chips - Salsa fresca de temporada y totopos

• Memelitas: small tortilla with black beans, queso fresco and hibiscus salsa.

Memelitas con frijoles negros molidos, con queso y salsa de jamaica

• Ceviche shots: white fish cooked in lime juice, tomatoes, cilantro, chiles and white truffle oil.

Ceviche de pescado blanco, cilantro, limón y aceite de trufa

• Potato cakes with mole blanco and chili oil

Tortitas de papa fritas en aceite de coco, con mole blanco y salsa macha

Menu

• Baby zucchini soup: zucchini, cream, butter and chili oil

Sopa de calabacitas, crema, mantequilla y salsa macha.

• Salad: Fresh salad greens, herbs, red onions, citrus vinaigrette.

Ensalada: lechugas, cebollas rojas, adereso de naranja, limón y  lima.

• Main course: Beef cheek in mole sauce

Plato fuerte: Cachete de res  con mole

• Vegetarianos: Mole con nopales

• Grilled vegetables with chimichurri sauce

Vegetales a la parrilla, chimichurri salsa

• Cilantro rice

Arroz de cilantro

Beverages

• Mezcal Margaritas: Mezcal, fresh squeezed juice, garnish (up to two per guest)

• Agua fresca by Viva La Horchata

• BYOB

  
  

Dessert (Postre)

• Mole ice cream

  Helado de mole

Sounds like a culinary tour of Mexico, right in the midst of Chicago's South Side. At $60 a ticket, it sounds like an amazing value too.

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