Strawberrys

George's Berries

These are the nicest berries we have seen, they are large, and sweet, brightly colored throughout, thanks to our good friend George Orser and his very fertile Orcas Farm.  So good that you do not even ask the price.  On the menu in many forms until they are gone.

We have swiftly turned the corner from, when is going to warm up? and where is all the produce? to what are we going to do with it all.  Feast or famine for the farmers.  We have been lucky here at the Inn, we have a warm site and have been able to provide most of our own greens and all of our herbs.  

 

A Forest of Favas

Our fava Beans are almost ready and we have many green tomatoes now, it will not be long before they ripen,  it is just so hard to wait.

Very Fresh

Stevo came by with some beautiful Sea Urchins, seaweed is delicious as well.

Fresh Troll caught King Salmon from Westport, Washington, super nice.

Coppa

Mangalitsa Coppa ready to role, fantastic rich flavor.  Great marbling, cured and flavored with fennel seed.

Kartoffel the Mangalitsa

Much larger now and still cute?

Link goes to Lopez

After a ferry ride and short drive, here is Link as we were introducing her to Horsedrawn Farm on Lopez Island.    Her new home is all clean straw, and she has a group of 8 or 9 young hogs to mingle with next to her.  She has really filled out and looks like a Swallow Belly Mangalitsa, she probably is about 350#, live weight.  After settling in for a day or two, she will meet Angus, who is all Berkshire, he is young, but still around 500 # or so and growing.

So with any luck, they will do what pigs do and we will be expecting piglets in the fall sometime.  It will be interesting to see first hand what the F 1 hybrids will look like, as we have raised pigs of various color, body type, all with various degrees of Mangalitsa.  All of the pork was excellent, well marbled, very fatty and consistently better than any pork we have tasted.  The big dark Mangalitsas that were most recently slaughtered were truely fantastic, very dark, rich, flavorful meat (see below) with excellent marbling, just a shade or two lighter than beef.  We also did a good job finishing them with a no corn, high protein feed.  No lard shortage here.