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Succulent Gardening with the Ecology Center
12.30.14
Learn how to grow a beautiful and drought friendly succulent garden at the Center for Living Peace in Irvine on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m., The Ecology Center will be offering a special workshop for all ages about the different ways to grow, propagate and induce color change to succulents.
Materials will be included so that you can start your succulent collection and take it home with you! You can register here. The cost is $12 per person.
The Center for Living Peace is at 4139 Campus Drive in Irvine.
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NYE at Babette’s
12.29.14
Come join Babette’s at Newport Coast, the East Coast-born New American eatery with a fresh vibe and ambiance, and ring in the New Year on Wednesday with a delicious three- course prix fixe dinner and a glass of Veuve Clicquot for $95 per person. There’s also an option for a crafted cocktail pairing with each course for an additional $25 per person.
Babette’s dinner starts with an amuse bouche of potato-sunchoke puree, crispy fingerling, crème fraiche, caviar chive oil and micro chervil. The first course options include a Pan Roasted Maine Diver Sea Scallop with bay scallops, baby bok choy, wild mushrooms, black truffles and truffled soy emulsion; or Steelhead Salmon with fennel-pink peppercorn flan, smoked salmon, potato leek pancake, citrus caper vinaigrette, arugula and bulls blood; or Black Truffle and Manchego Creamy Polenta with poached organic egg, micro celery and manchego crisp.
The second course options include Sake-Soy Marinated Ribeye of Beef (organic grass-fed) broccoli rab, shishito pepper, charred scallion-bone marrow puree, fall spiced and pomegranate glace; or Salt Cured Muscovy Duck Breast with sweet potato blini, garam masala roasted baby carrots, star anise Mandarin and orange glace; or Wild Mushroom and Gypsy Pepper Stuffed Japanese Eggplant with quinoa, cippolini onion and acorn squash veloute.
Dessert options include wild blueberry-Bourbon sauce and vanilla bean ice cream, or carrot cake with curried carrot gel, golden raisin puree and walnut powder.
Reservations are a must.
7962 E Coast Highway at Newport Coast. 949.715.9915
Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.
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