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Aquidneck Honey Adds Line of Chocolates

by David Dadekian January 5, 2011
written by David Dadekian
Aquidneck Honey Chocolate 1

Aquidneck Honey Chocolate 1

Local honey maker Jeff Mello, owner of Aquidneck Honey, has branched into chocolate making, now offering several different chocolate treats all filled with his flavorful honey. Starting with a base of Belgian chocolate, Mello makes both dark and milk chocolates with and without nuts, and soon will be adding caramel and coconut chocolates. The nuts used are all-natural walnuts, pecans and cashews. Natural sea salt and cinnamon are sprinkled of top of each cup and all variations are wheat and gluten free.

I had a chance to buy some of the dark chocolates, both nut and nut-free flavors, before they quickly sold out one Saturday morning at the Pawtucket / Wintertime Farmers Market. Both were very well made structurally and were clearly made with good chocolate. Aquidneck Honey is sweet, but not so much so that it made the overall candy cloying. I was concerned the chocolate with three different kinds of nuts in it would be too nutty, overpowering the honey, but my concerns were unfounded. I liked both kinds very much, with a slight preference for the chocolate with nuts, though neither kind lasted very long. You can buy the chocolates in bags of six from Mello at the market on Saturdays from 10 am – 1 pm. Aquidneck Honey.

Aquidneck Honey Chocolate 2

Aquidneck Honey Chocolate 2

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Farm Fresh RI Local Food Fest 2010 at Castle Hill Inn and Resort in Newport

by David Dadekian August 5, 2010
written by David Dadekian
Schartner Farms's blueberries and blackberries

Schartner Farms's blueberries and blackberries

The fourth annual Farm Fresh Rhode Island Local Food Fest was held this past Tuesday evening and by all accounts it was a huge success in showcasing the amazing bounty of local food, culinary talent and delicious products that Rhode Island has to offer. Even the weather happily participated and it was a gorgeous night at Castle Hill Inn & Resort in Newport. There were over 20 farms, 10 food producers and 12 chefs offering food and wine under the tent and across the lawn at Castle Hill. Several hundred people attended the event, but because of the layout and aforementioned pleasant weather, the evening never seemed too crowded.

The clear crowd-favorite of the evening was Tallulah on Thames‘s Chef Jake Rojas serving Blackbird Farm Mini Beef Burgers with red wine onion jam, arugula, and Great Hill Blue cheese aioli on brioche. There was a constant long line of people at Tallulah’s table until they ran out of burgers (Rojas told me he prepared about 480 of them). Anyone who knows me knows I’m partial to Blackbird Farm’s beef and Rojas did them and himself proud.

I have to give high praise to Chef Champe Speidel’s Warm Soup of Four Town Farm Sweet Corn. When I walked over to Persimmon’s table I wasn’t enthused to see a warm soup on a 80+ degree day in Newport, but it quickly became my favorite dish. Yes, it was warm, but it was so light, almost airy. When I asked how it was done, Speidel told me to get a Vita-Prep, as if I didn’t covet one already. The wood smoked chanterelle mushrooms and zucchini just added so much flavor without overpowering the corn’s sweetness.

Special mention goes to Blackstone Caterers’ Fried Green Tomato with Braised Pork Rillette. Having learned to eat—and make—fried green tomatoes in the South, I’m always a little leery to see them in RI, but these were delicious. My only wish was that Chef Derek Jolie could have made them to order as I bet crisp, right out of the frying oil, they would have been even better.

Other food highlights for me were Chef Matt Jennings of Farmstead‘s Lamb Sausage with Red Planet Potatoes & Arugula and Chef Derek Wagner of Nick’s on Broadway‘s Bomster Scallops with a Cucumber-Tomato Salad. Dessert was covered by several people, but you had to get in line early for Chef Bruce Tillinghast of New Rivers‘ Blueberry Ice Cream with Barden Family Orchard’s White & Yellow Peaches. Chef Tillinghast hand cranks his ice cream! Unfortunately for me, The Cupcakerie was cleaned out before I had a cupcake, but Chef Jonathan Cambra of Castle Hill Inn & Resort had a “surprise” item of mini blueberry cream pies.

To find out more about Farm Fresh Rhode Island and their mission to grow the local food system please take a look here. Visit your local farmers markets this summer and buy some amazingly fresh and delicious food or, if this heat is too much for you, head to a local restaurant that gets product from Farm Fresh’s Market Mobile and see what the great chefs of RI are doing with it.

Persimmon's Warm Soup of Four Town Farm Sweet Corn

Persimmon's Warm Soup of Four Town Farm Sweet Corn

Four Town Farm's peppers

Four Town Farm's peppers

Chef Jake Rojas of Tallulah on Thames with his hugely popular Blackbird Farm's Mini Beef Burgers

Chef Jake Rojas of Tallulah on Thames with his hugely popular Blackbird Farm's Mini Beef Burgers

Local 121's Arcadian Fields' Bharta Smoked Eggplant with Fresh Spices & Cilantro

Local 121's Arcadian Fields' Bharta Smoked Eggplant with Fresh Spices & Cilantro

Nick's on Broadway's Chef Derek Wagner preparing Bomster Scallops with a Cucumber-Tomato Salad

Nick's on Broadway's Chef Derek Wagner preparing Bomster Scallops with a Cucumber-Tomato Salad

Schartner Farms's Rye Seed & Rye Flour

Schartner Farms's Rye Seed & Rye Flour

Four Town Farm's pole beans

Four Town Farm's pole beans

Narragansett Creamery Ricotta with honey

Narragansett Creamery Ricotta with honey

Bally Machree's beets

Bally Machree's beets

Bally Machree's squash

Bally Machree's squash

Blackstone Caterers' Fried Green Tomato with Braised Pork Rillette

Blackstone Caterers' Fried Green Tomato with Braised Pork Rillette

Bomster Scallop shells

Bomster Scallop shells

Castle Hill Inn & Resort's mini blueberry cream pies

Castle Hill Inn & Resort's mini blueberry cream pies

Sunnyside Daytime Dining's Wishing Stone Farm Poached Egg Crostini

Sunnyside Daytime Dining's Wishing Stone Farm Poached Egg Crostini

The Cupcakerie

The Cupcakerie

frying Lamb Sausage for La Laiterie's Lamb Sausage with Red Planet Potatoes & Arugula

frying Lamb Sausage for La Laiterie's Lamb Sausage with Red Planet Potatoes & Arugula

Schartner Farms's blackberries

Schartner Farms's blackberries

Portions of this story appeared in edited form on GoLocalProv.
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