Summer is here - I think - Time to cram in all the activities! Scroll Down for some of our goings on's and some great recipes! Don't forget to frequent restaurants that support the event - listed below and join the PWA for free wine tastings! Check out the recipes.... from AquaRiva and some dining suggestions! New!!!! Win Tickets to the festival by being our monthly "Casual Mixologist!" Scroll Down for details... Check out The Northwest Food and Wine Festival on Be a friend!
	Thank you to our wonderful sponsors!
Thank you to our fantastic sponsors and partners! Benefitting featuring For the second year we are pleased to announce the cocktail competition - called The Bartenders Fedora! Competitors will compete for a cash prize (that's always good) and the Bartenders Fedora! Way cool! Professional Bartenders Only .... Stay tuned for details! Visit with Judith or her staff to find that perfect piece for that special person in your life! Design a piece of your own! You absolutely need to stop by and browse the wonderful pieces from Rebecca too! It's Hot and Exclusive at Judith Arnell Jewelrs! We look forward to seeing you at The Northwest Food and Wine Festival on November 5th, 2011. Now in it's 6th year The Northwest Food and Wine Festival continues to be the number one! Hundreds of wines and a floor of enteratinment and gourmet foods - *New this year you'll be able to purchase some wines on the floor by the bottle or case and take them with you to enjoy at home...plan now to enjoy the best festival of the year for the industry and trade and for food and wine enthusiasts! New this year... Pate' in Portland... Get your tickets now for The Northwest Food and Wine Festival! Come on and join us! It's going to be fun!	Chef Andy Arndt's Zucchini Tapanade from AquaRiva Zucchini tapenade Recipe serves four as a light appetizer course Quantity and Ingredients 1 pound Zucchini squash diced into 1/8” brunoise 4 each Large garlic cloves, peeled 5 branches Fresh Thyme 1/2 cup Extra virgin olive oil ½ cup Green olives, pitted and chopped 1 each Lemon, zest removed with a rasp, juiced 1 each Filet of salted anchovy or 1 teaspoon anchovy paste 1 each Country style baguette cut into rounds ¼ inch thick To taste Coarse sea salt and freshly ground pepper Method In a 12 to 14 inch sauté pan heat 3 Tablespoons of the olive oil until it begins to smoke. Carefully place zucchini, garlic cloves and thyme branches into the pan. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cook on a high flame stirring constantly until the squash is colored. Remove from the heat and pick out and discard thyme branches. Place half of the squash, the garlic cloves, anchovy, lemon zest and olives into a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Process until coarsely pureed. Remove from the bowl and fold in the rest of the squash. Adjust seasoning and chill. May we suggest a dinner out at Wildwood Restaurant Sunday - No Corkage Fee! Chef Dustin putting some Passion on the Plate. Phone now to reserve a table (503) 248-9663 and Chef Beau Carr - The Ringside Steakhouse Check out the newly opened and remodeled Ringside Steakhouse on Burnside! Make a reservation at 503-223-1513 - we have!!! Sean Concannon - West Cafe Enjoy West Cafe's Bailout Dinners or A Cocktail at the Bar ! Simple ingredients, fantastic flavors at Bail Our Pricing! 1 -503- 227- 8189 Announcing ...... Who will win The Golden Goose Award? Taste Award Winning Pate's from Fantastic Chefs! The 6th Annual NW Food and Wine Festival - Click Here for details. Find Out What's Happening at your favorite Brew Pub!	A Special Offer for New Mileage Plan™ Members in Oregon and Southern Washington Join Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan™ and you'll receive a 500 mile bonus just for signing up. Then fly one round trip on Alaska Airlines to, from, or connecting in Portland between May 25, 2011, an December 31, 2011 and in addition to your flight miles, you’ll receive 12,500 Bonus Miles. Terms and Conditions apply. ENROLL TODAY. Win a weekend getaway from Seattle to the festival! Stay tuned for details at KPLU.org Includes Amtrak Cascade tickets, hotel, festival tickets & champagne brunch! Summer Music at Allium Become a Djangophiliac ~ Djangophiles August 20,23,30th Live gypsy jazz of the Djangophiles to heat up the early summer evenings at Allium. Sit back and relax over a cool Proletariat Red, or a gorgeous Willakenzie Pinot Gris and let the music take you away.... Find out more about the Djangophiles here Pascal Chureau - Chef & Proprietor Don't Miss the Regional Dinners at Allium Bistro Click here and see why! Not to be missed and totally worth marking the date on your calendar way in advance! It's not too late - make a date now! New at The Pines! Cool! Looking to get away from the daily grind? Or perhaps you have family in town for the weekend, but no place to put them. Whatever the reason, it's always a good time to relax at The Pines Cottage. Stay on The Pines Estate in our 3 bedroom/1 bathroom guest cottage. Rates: Queen $100/nt Double $100/nt Double $80/nt Or rent the whole house for 2 nights for $500. Please inquire about rates for extended stays.For reservations please call Sierra Wright at 541-993-8300.Please visit The Pines Cottage for more information Are you already thinking about next season??? Stay tuned for season passes. Make plans to visit with all the distillers listed below and request their spirits at your favorite bar... Your next favorite cocktail courtesy of The Bees Knees 2 oz ORGANIC NATION gin ¾ oz organic honey Syrup ½ oz organic Lemon Juice Combine all ingredients and shake with vigorously with ice, strain into a chilled Martini glass. Optional: Rim glass with lemon and sugar. Not too sweet, not too tart. * Honey Syrup: Combine honey and water 1:1. heat until honey is dissolved , taste to make sure it is not too sweet. Cool. Can refrigerate up to a month or more. Dine at any of these qualifying restaurants:Allium, AquaRiva, A Cena, Bluehour, Bo Restobar, Chez Joly, Davis Street Tavern, H5O Bistro & Bar, Ingallina's Box Lunch, Jo Foody's, Laurelwood Brewing Company, Rogue Breweries,Plainfields Place, Ringside Steakhouse, Simpatica, The Original Dinerant, Urban Farmer, West Cafe, or Wildwood and enjoy free wine tastings and the odd spirit too!. New restaurant.... Alfresco Catering by Sheraton! Don't have a receipt? You may still attend these gatherings for a fee of $20 at the door. Receipts may not be used more than one time for entry. Send us an email at register@pacificwineryassociation.com Don't feel like cooking? Specials Abound at Jo Foody's - visit them at the Vancouver Saturday Market too! Click Here for Details.
Courtesy of Portland Craft Cocktails Win a pair of tickets to The Northwest Food & Wine Festival! Be the "Casual Mixologist!" Non-professionals Only! Click Here to Find Out More!

Summer is here - I think - Time to cram in all the activities!
Scroll Down for some of our goings on's and some great recipes!
Don't forget to frequent restaurants that support the event
- listed below and join the PWA for free wine tastings!
Check out the recipes.... from AquaRiva and some dining suggestions!
New!!!! Win Tickets to the festival
by being our monthly "Casual Mixologist!" Scroll Down for details...
Check out The Northwest Food and Wine Festival on

Be a friend!

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors!

Thank you to our fantastic sponsors and partners!

Benefitting

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featuring

eggiton

OBG
For the second year we are pleased
to announce the cocktail competition -
called
The Bartenders Fedora!
Competitors will compete for a
cash prize (that's always good) and the Bartenders Fedora! Way cool!
Professional Bartenders Only ....

Stay tuned for details!

bartenders fedora

Visit with Judith or her staff to find that perfect piece for that special person in your life!
Design a piece of your own! You absolutely need to stop by and browse the wonderful pieces from Rebecca too! It's Hot and Exclusive at Judith Arnell Jewelrs!
rebecca

We look forward to seeing you at The Northwest Food and Wine Festival on November 5th, 2011. Now in it's 6th year The Northwest Food and Wine Festival continues to be the number one!
Hundreds of wines and a floor of enteratinment and gourmet foods - *New this year you'll be able to purchase some wines on the floor by the bottle or case and take them with you to enjoy at home...plan now to enjoy the best festival of the year for the industry and trade and for food and wine enthusiasts!
New this year... Pate' in Portland...

Get your tickets now for
The Northwest Food and Wine Festival!
Come on and join us!
It's going to be fun!

Chef Andy Arndt's Zucchini Tapanade
from
AquaRiva

Zucchini tapenade

Recipe serves four as a light appetizer course
Quantity and Ingredients
1 pound Zucchini squash diced into 1/8” brunoise
4 each Large garlic cloves, peeled
5 branches Fresh Thyme
1/2 cup Extra virgin olive oil
½ cup Green olives, pitted and chopped
1 each Lemon, zest removed with a rasp, juiced
1 each Filet of salted anchovy or 1 teaspoon anchovy paste
1 each Country style baguette cut into rounds ¼ inch thick
To taste Coarse sea salt and freshly ground pepper

Method
In a 12 to 14 inch sauté pan heat 3 Tablespoons of the olive oil until it begins to smoke. Carefully place zucchini, garlic cloves and thyme branches into the pan. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cook on a high flame stirring constantly until the squash is colored. Remove from the heat and pick out and discard thyme branches. Place half of the squash, the garlic cloves, anchovy, lemon zest and olives into a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Process until coarsely pureed. Remove from the bowl and fold in the rest of the squash. Adjust seasoning and chill.

May we suggest a dinner out at
Wildwood Restaurant
Sunday - No Corkage Fee!
Chef Dustin putting some Passion on the Plate.
Phone now to reserve a table (503) 248-9663

and
Chef Beau Carr - The Ringside Steakhouse
Check out the newly opened and remodeled Ringside Steakhouse on Burnside!

Make a reservation at 503-223-1513 - we have!!!

Sean Concannon -
West Cafe
Enjoy West Cafe's Bailout Dinners or
A Cocktail at the Bar !
Simple ingredients, fantastic flavors at Bail Our Pricing!
1 -503- 227- 8189

Announcing ......
pate
Who will win The Golden Goose Award?
Taste Award Winning Pate's from
Fantastic Chefs!
The 6th Annual NW Food and Wine Festival -
Click Here for details.

Find Out What's Happening at
your favorite Brew Pub!

A Special Offer for New Mileage Plan™ Members in Oregon
and Southern Washington

Join Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan™ and you'll receive a 500 mile bonus just for signing up. Then fly one round trip on Alaska Airlines to, from, or connecting in Portland between May 25, 2011, an December 31, 2011 and in addition to your flight miles, you’ll receive 12,500 Bonus Miles. Terms and Conditions apply.

ENROLL TODAY.

Win a weekend getaway from Seattle
to the festival! Stay tuned for details
at KPLU.org Includes Amtrak Cascade tickets, hotel, festival tickets & champagne brunch!

redwineglass
Summer Music at Allium
Become a Djangophiliac ~ Djangophiles August 20,23,30th
Live gypsy jazz of the Djangophiles to heat up the early summer evenings at Allium. Sit back and relax over a cool Proletariat Red, or a gorgeous Willakenzie Pinot Gris and let the music take you away....
Find out more about the Djangophiles here
Pascal Chureau - Chef & Proprietor
pascal
Don't Miss the Regional Dinners at Allium Bistro
Click here and see why!
Not to be missed and totally worth marking the date on your calendar way in advance!

It's not too late - make a date now!

New at The Pines! Cool!
Looking to get away from the daily grind? Or perhaps you have family in town for the weekend, but no place to put them. Whatever the reason, it's always a good time to relax at The Pines Cottage. Stay on The Pines Estate in our 3 bedroom/1 bathroom guest cottage.
Rates:
Queen $100/nt
Double $100/nt
Double $80/nt
Or rent the whole house for 2 nights for $500. Please inquire about rates for extended stays.For reservations please call Sierra Wright at 541-993-8300.Please visit The Pines Cottage for more information

Are you already thinking about next season???
Stay tuned for season passes.

Make plans to visit with all the distillers listed below and request their spirits at your favorite bar...
Your next favorite cocktail courtesy of

bee
The Bees Knees
2 oz ORGANIC NATION gin
¾ oz organic honey Syrup
½ oz organic Lemon Juice
Combine all ingredients and shake with vigorously with ice, strain into a chilled Martini glass. Optional: Rim glass with lemon and sugar.
Not too sweet, not too tart. * Honey Syrup: Combine honey and water 1:1. heat until honey is dissolved , taste to make sure it is not too sweet. Cool. Can refrigerate up to a month or more.

Dine at any of these qualifying restaurants:Allium, AquaRiva, A Cena, Bluehour, Bo Restobar, Chez Joly, Davis Street Tavern, H5O Bistro & Bar, Ingallina's Box Lunch, Jo Foody's, Laurelwood Brewing Company, Rogue Breweries,Plainfields Place, Ringside Steakhouse, Simpatica, The Original Dinerant, Urban Farmer, West Cafe, or Wildwood and enjoy free wine tastings
and the odd spirit too!.
New restaurant.... Alfresco Catering by Sheraton!
Don't have a receipt? You may still attend these
gatherings for a fee of $20 at the door. Receipts may not be used more than one time for entry. Send us an email at register@pacificwineryassociation.com
cocktail glass

Don't feel like cooking? Specials Abound at Jo Foody's - visit them at the Vancouver Saturday Market too!
Click Here for Details.

Courtesy of Portland Craft Cocktails
Win a pair of tickets to The Northwest Food & Wine Festival!
Be the "Casual Mixologist!"
Non-professionals Only!
Click Here to Find Out More!