Feast Fab Collab – and way to win tickets to Feast!

I have been attending Feast Portland for many years now, and am an enthusiastic supporter of the amazing 4 day food festival event that helps brings awareness and raise money for charitable partners fighting against hunger. Feast Portland also celebrates the delicious local bounty of the Pacific Northwest, ranging from producers of food products to those who transform ingredients into dishes on a plate or in a glass – restaurants and chefs and mixologists and more. Most of the events at Feast bring together various makers of food to collaborate to create a limited time offering for Feast. Of the 40+ events during Feast Portland, many are sold out, but there are still a tickets to some events, and there are ways to participate in Feast without a ticket, thanks to the Feast Fab Collab.

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Now in it’s third year, the Feast Fab Collab is a collaboration of products you can purchase outside Feast – in this case you can find them exclusively at New Seasons Market. The food items are limited edition just for Feast, and created in partnership with famed chefs and food producers also participating in Feast. And, you’ll still be doing good – a portion of gross sales from all Feast Fab Collab items are donated to Feast Portland’s charitable partners to be part of the fight against hunger too. This year the partners are Hunger-Free Oregon and Urban Gleaners.

For 2018, the Feast Fab Collab items include

• Feast Mode Lager Beer (sold in cans) with 10 Barrel Brewing Co., a lager featuring pilsner malt, flaked rice and a subtle hopping for an ultra light and refreshing beer. $7.99 for a four pack of 16 ounce cans (so four pints).
  
• Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches with Maya Lovelace (of famous Southern Appalachian pop-up Mae PDX and coming restaurant Yonder) and Ruby Jewel. The two flavors of mini ice cream sandwiches (it says mini, but they are still palm sized – it is only mini in terms of the ice cream sandwiches at Ruby Jewel are usually even bigger!) include Maya’s Southern Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwich with chewy cornmeal cookies from Bob’s Red Mill and strawberry buttermilk ice cream using strawberries from Oregon Fruit Products. The second ice cream sandwich is Grandma Mae’s Sweet Molasses Ice Cream Sandwich inspired from Maya’s grandmother molasses and apple butter sandwich cookies. If I had to choose between them, I prefer the strawberry one with cornmeal but really it’s just personal preference because I like strawberry and cream more then molasses flavors. Each sandwich is $2.99.
  
• Olympia Provisions Chef Sausage Series with Salumist Elias Cairo + Ava Gene’s Owner Chef Joshua McFadden, a specialty Italian pork sausage spiced with garlic, fennel, chili flake, and stuffed with kale and provolone cheese. I’m serving it below exactly as they recommended it, very simply just grilled the sausage and sliced it up with fresh pasta, olive oil and some garden cherry tomatoes – sounds simple but it lets the freshness of the summer tomatoes and all the flavor of the sausage really stand out! Maybe in retrospect I should have wilted some spinach, but at this point the sausage was oozing cheese and I wasn’t going to wait any longer to eat it. A package of 12 ounces of sausage runs $8.99.
  

The beer and mini ice cream sandwiches are available now at New Seasons Markets in Oregon and Southwest Washington states, and the Olympia Provisions sausage will be available this Monday September 3, just in time for Labor Day bbqs.

All of these products will also be featured at the Friday and Saturday Grand Tasting Presented By New Seasons Market, who is the main sponsor of the two Grand Tasting events. Thanks to their generosity, I am raffling off TWO tickets to the Friday Grand Tasting event!

So here’s how you can win tickets –

All you have to do is post on social media about one or any of the items from the #feastfabcollab

1. 1. You must include my handle on Twitter or Instagram (@pechluck) or Pechluck’s Food Adventures on Facebook so I can find your entry
   2. using the hashtag #feastfabcollab
   3. If you’d like, also tag Feast Portland (@feastportland on Instagram, @feastpdx on Twitter or Feast Portland on Facebook)
   4. If you’d like, also tag New Seasons Market handle (@newseasonsmarket on Instagram @newseasons on Twitter or New Seasons Market on Facebook)
   5. If you use your own photo or video of you with a product your social media post will count as two entries!

Post (or a few other options in the Rafflecopter widget below) and I will enter you into a random drawing to get (2) FREE TICKETS TO THE FRIDAY GRAND TASTING! That’s a $150 value since tickets are $75 each, and keep in mind the Saturday Grand Tasting is already sold out and the Friday Grand Tasting may soon follow suit!

This raffle giveaway starts from today to September 9. I will pick the winner after midnight on September 9. You can enter via each social media platform once a day, and remember if you include a photo or video of you enjoying any of these Feast Fab Collab items, you get two entries! But, you can also just share this post (such as re-sharing what I already have posted on my 3 accounts).

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So go ahead – go enjoy one of these delicious limited offerings of this year’s Feast Fab Collab, you’ll be doing good in helping to fight hunger, AND you could win an all inclusive ticket to enjoy grazing and drinking from 1-5 PM in Pioneer Courthouse Square for you and a friend – that’s 4 hours of all you can sample in food and drink from more than 80 vendors. Note that you must be over 21 to enter the Grand Tasting event.

Which of these items do you want to try the most!??

Disclosure: I received a free sample of each of these items, and also was provided the 2 complimentary tickets to Grand Tasting. If you’ve read my blog you already know I’m a fan of 10 Barrel, Maya Lovelace, Olympia Provisions, and Joshua McFadden of Ava Gene’s, and I enjoyed each of these items when I tried them. I was not compensated in any way for this post or specifically asked to do this giveaway- I just wanted to give you some motivation to seek out these goodies sooner rather then later, and give you a chance to go to a Feast event! I will always provide my honest opinion and assessment of all products and experiences I may be given. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are entirely my own.