Spend your Sunday as Irish

<p>We're All Irish on Sunday: There are too many events to count on St. Patrick's Day, this Sunday in case you've been living under a rock, but a few have caught our attention.</p><p>First, there's Medlock Ames Winery's Alexander Valley Bar (3487 Alexander Valley Road, Healdsburg), where you'll be entertained with music by John Brandau and Brandon Hassur of Crazy Famous. You can enjoy Irish whiskey specials and tuck into complimentary corned-beef sliders. It begins at 7 p.m., there's no cover charge and you don't need reservations.</p><p>From 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, the Mad Maggies play at the Lagunitas Beer Sanctuary at 1280N. McDowell Blvd. in Petaluma. This venue is for all ages, including kids, and it is dog-friendly, so dip your pooch in a green bath and have some fun.</p><p>If you don't need your evening to be strictly traditional, you'll find a good time at Barley and Hops Tavern (3688 Bohemian Highway, Occidental), where Elephant will be performing. You can check out the selection of excellent draft and bottled beers, along with an appealing pub menu, at barleyandhops.happytables.com.</p><p>And always check your favorite local hangout; many bars and restaurants offer a traditional Irish meal on St. Patrick's Day.</p><p>Passover Seder: On March 27, Congregation Shomrei Torah is hosting its first Community Passover Seder. People of all faiths and communities, including the LBGT community, are invited to join in this Freedom Feast, which will be a re-telling of the story of Exodus and the ongoing struggle everywhere for freedom, justice and equality.</p><p>Dinner will be catered by Out To Lunch. The menu includes matzo ball soup; gefilte fish with horseradish; fresh garden greens with balsamic vinaigrette; roast chicken with crispy skin, herbs and garlic; roasted baby red potatoes and other roasted root vegetables; matzo and charoset; flourless chocolate torte and nut torte. There's also a vegetarian option, stuffed portobello mushrooms.</p><p>Some of these dishes represent one or another of the seven symbolic foods that may be placed on the Seder plate. Charoset, for example, is often made of apples, nuts, wine and spices and represents the mortar used by the Israelites under labor forced by their Egyptian taskmasters.</p><p>Both Rabbi George Gittleman and Rabbi Stephanie Kramer will attend the community dinner.</p><p>Seating is limited, so if you'd like to join in call 578-5519 soon for reservations. Cost is $18 for adults and $10 for children 10 and under.</p><p>Congregation Shomrei Torah is at 2600 Bennett Valley Road in Santa Rosa.</p><p>Third-Thursday nights at Worth Our Weight: The second in a monthly series of guest-chef dinners at Worth Our Weight Culinary Apprenticeship Program (1021 Hahman Drive, Santa Rosa) is coming up Thursday evening and features John Franchetti and Craig Ramini of Rosso. Dinners take place on the third Thursday evening of each month.</p><p>The dinner begins at 6p.m. and features a special prix fixe menu, prepared by the guest chefs and WOW's apprentices. </p><p>Cost is $55 per person. Guests are invited to bring their own beverages.</p><p>The dinners are hosted by Clark Wolf and Marcy Smothers. For reservations, call 544-1200.</p><p>All proceeds benefit Worth Our Weight.</p><p>Farmhouse Inn guest chef dinner: The second in a series of three guest chef dinners at Forestville's spectacular Farmhouse Inn (7871 River Road) is set for Thursday. </p><p>The evening features chef Matthew Accarrino of SPQR, located on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, and his signature Italian cuisine. </p><p>Dinner begins with a squid-ink cracker with Calabrian chili, wasabi and salmon roe. Next comes a torta of prosciutto cotto, Bellavitano cheese, asparagus and egg, which will be followed by lasagna of rabbit, spring peas, smoked leeks and mushrooms. Stuffed quail, rhubarb, spring onion, black truffle and Castelluccio lentils concludes the savory courses.</p><p>Sweets include passion fruit panna cotta, whipped coconut, chocolate caramel and macaroon, followed by verbena marshmallows and Brachetto vanilla gelatina.</p><p>Cost is $150 per person, which includes special Italian wines selected by Geoff Kruth, the Inn's brilliant wine director; tax and gratuity are not included.</p><p>For reservations, call 887-3300.</p><p>Finely attired ladies and well-dressed gentlemen: If you find yourself going through withdrawal in the wake of Downton Abbey's all-too-short third season, we can help, so shake out your favorite frock, dust off your top hat and get ready.</p><p>On March 30, The Diavolo Supper Club transforms Odd Fellows Hall (21021 Geyserville Ave.) in Geyserville and fills it with charming gentlemen and well-mannered ladies, dining, dancing and admiring each other and, if we're lucky, conspiring behind each other's backs just enough to keep things interesting. </p><p>Chef Dino Bugico's family-style dinner will feature salad, braised beef tongue and tomato soup, chorizo and bean soup, porchetta and braised brisket, seasonal side dishes and desserts, which have not yet been announced.</p><p>There will be a cash bar with fine wines and premium beers.</p><p>Jack Sonni and Los Perros de Amor with The Leisure Class Horns, along with special guests, will provide the evening's music.</p><p>Supper-club attire is required and those not dressed to kill, so to speak, will be turned away.</p><p>Tickets, by advance purchase only, are $75 each and are available at diavolasupperclub.bpt.me.</p><p>See you there!</p><p>And there's more. On May 5, Madrona Manor hosts a Great Gatsby Garden Party. Stay tuned for details.</p><p>Michele Anna Jordan hosts “Mouthful” each Sunday at 7 p.m. on KRCB 90.9 & 91.1 FM. </p><p>E-mail Jordan at michele@micheleannajordan.com. </p><p>You'll find her blog, “Eat This Now,” at pantry.blogs.pressdemocrat.com.</p>