Sensational Flavours of Homecoming

Looking for great summer weekend trips? Would you enjoy a fantastic feast, in a huge white tent, with music, at the lake?  Add a horse-drawn covered wagon ride from Wasagaming to the site and you have Parkland Tourism’s annual Supper-in-the-Field in Riding Mountain National Park, Saturday, August 14.

Created in 2004 by Parkland Tourism, the regional tourism association, Supper-in-the-Field honours regional and Manitoba chefs and food growers, and the tradition of fall suppers. To celebrate the spirit of Manitoba Homecoming 2010, the menu this year reflects many of the expected down-home tastes but with the chefs’ interpretations of the originals.

Five chefs, a Chocolatier, local catering ladies and many volunteers are creating an array of taste temptations that are irresistible – just some of these are homemade buns, bannock, roasted vegetable terrine, bison salami, elk sausage, all blue and sweet potatoe salad, buckwheat cabbage rolls with raisin sauce, kohlrabi sauté, root vegetable bake, bison meatballs with wild mushroom cream gravy, tourtiere, grilled chicken, wild rice pudding with strawberry compote, strawberry and rhubarb pies, ending with chocolates and a variety of coffee choices. Included, of course, are a variety of cheeses, kielbasa, devilled eggs, pepperonis and tomato aspic to emphasize the ‘homecoming’ food experience.  Presentations of canola oil tasting and Banrock Station Wines are also part of the total dining experience.

For even more Homecoming memories, add the experience of a horse-drawn covered wagon ride for a return trip along the shoreline from Wasagaming to the dinner site on the lawn of the old Superintendent’s house near the Golf Club. 

A new young talent, Christopher Pinette of Ste Rose, will entertain.

Tours of the house and the gardens with RMNP personnel will be available.   

Two new features this year are a cookbook with chefs’ recipes for some of the feasts of previous years of Supper-in-the-Field along with ‘trademark’ recipes from various communities in the region, and a small market tent on site featuring the products of local food producers and artisans.

More information is available by calling 1-888-528-6484.  Dinner begins at 5:30 pm and remains at $59.  The wagon ride is $30.  Tickets are available by calling 1-888-528-6484.