Who knew you could do that with a deep-fryer?

This afternoon Beardsley played host to a handful of local farmers and chefs as they rubbed elbows and had a free-for-all cookout with farm fresh local produce. Every once and awhile this kind of workplace benefit crops up, and I'm just lucky to have been present. Ryan and Jessica from Organacism Farms put the whole thing together, and even though Mother Nature didn't cooperate, there was a great turnout of representatives from farms and restaurants around Knoxville.

Imagine (you have to imagine since I didn't get any pictures) a throng of salivating foodies huddled under pop-up tents, waiting to get a bite of deep-fried cornish game hen, doused in fiery Aji Dulce hotsauce. Or sauteed sweet potato greens picked minuted earlier from one of Beardsley's raised beds. Or roasted fig leaf wrapped lamb belly, beer-battered white eggplant, oyster mushroom powder-coated deep-fried hard-boiled quail eggs...

Basically these guys were just going crazy with an array of meat, produce, and a deep-fryer. Lucky me.

In other news, here are some tunes I've been frequenting lately: