Lauren Murphy at Moss House, August 24, 2014

Chef Jeff presents Lauren Murphy
2014-08-24
Moss House
134 Moss Ave, Oakland, CA
3:30 PM, Sunday, August 24, 2014

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• Chilled green gazpacho “shooters” with poached prawns in a cucumber cup;
• Moss House garden tomatoes with baked Farmer’s cheese, basil, Castelvetrano olives, grilled bread, evoo;
• Summer baby lettuces with maple roasted apricots, spiced pecans, Point Reyes bleu, breakfast radish and chive Meyer lemon dressing;
• Corn spoon pudding;
• Whole roasted backyard zucchini “pierogi” with bulgur, brown rice, hazelnuts, white corn, blistered cherry tomatoes and tahini;
• Da Chef's cheddar scallion biscuits;
• Fisherman Dave's North Coast King salmon with sautéed spinach, lemon, toasted garlic and chile flakes;
• Sierra Foothill white peach Brown Betty with Moss House bourbon brown sugar swirl ice cream.

[4:40 PM thanks ann announcements from Chef Jeff]

1. [4:42 PM] Time Across
2. [4:51 PM] Snow on the Dogwoods
3. [4:59 PM] For the Love of Texas Ellen
4. [5:06 PM] Magnolia Heart
5. [5:14 PM] Lorraine's Song
6. [5:23 PM] Booker and Honey
7. [5:30 PM] Love Again
8. [5:38 PM] Side Show Love
9. [5:47 PM] Muddy Marydale
   [set ends 5:52 PM]

[6:43 PM announcements by James]

1. [6:46 PM] Manha de Carnival
2. [6:56 PM] Little Wing
3. [7:05 PM] El Dorado
4. [7:13 PM] Sweet Louisa
5. [7:18 PM] Hallie Lonnigan
6. [7:23 PM] Delta and the Devil
7. [7:31 PM] Trapeze
8. [7:36 PM] Oh the Dreadful Wind and Rain
9. [7:43 PM] Renegade Rose
10. [7:49 PM] Isn't That So
11. [8:00 PM] True
12. [8:05 PM] Family Asylum
    [show ends 8:12 PM, no encore]

• Doug Harman: cello, keyboard;
• James Harman: guitar;
• Lauren Murphy: acoustic guitar, vox.

Another fine Sunday with Chef Jeff and the merry crew of Moss House. I was surprised to note that the crowd today was considerably different from that at the other recent Moss House events – maybe a quarter of the regular crowd, but then lots of other new folks. Must be competition for attention this weekend!

As usual, dinner was off the charts delicious, and it was only with the greatest exertion of self control that I stopped myself from gobbling seconds of anything besides wine. Yum! Keep thinking thin thoughts – look all you want, but measure carefully when loading your plate and all that razzmatazz.

The music seemed to start a little later today – I'm guessing that Doug and James arrived a little later than we expected – but given the fine weather and pleasant company, it was easy filling the extra spare time (though tough to ignore the siren call to the table for more salmon and other treats!).

Once they got around to playing, the set raveled along quite nicely, with Lauren telling stories about most of the original tunes (and some of the covers too). Very loose and homey, just like we expect for a Moss House gig!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2014 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2014 event list! ☸ On to the next event!