Flatbreads

Fired up the wood oven for some appetizers, before a wedding dinner. Various pizza and flatbread with the sourdough crust.  Tomatoes from the garden of course, Arugula Pesto, Soppresata, Reggiano, Roasted sweet onion, etc...      Tasty, no leftovers.

Another happy couple ties the knot at Ship Bay on Orcas Island.

First Few Tomatoes

Another Saturday wedding.  Perfect weather, everything worked out very well, happy guests, newly weds off to Kaui for a week or so.  Annie made a very nice cake.  It tasted as good as it looked.

Picked a few tomatoes today.  maybe enough to find a small place on the menu tonight.  Lots of arugula from the garden and the basil is on.  We will be pulling fava beans this week and we have started to harvest and dry fennel pollen.

First Day at The Farmers Market

Pizza and Flatbread making with the Wood Fired Oven at the Orcas Island Farmers Market.  We were well received,  and all went well.  With a few production adjustments we will increase our speed and efficiency.

Organic Cauliflower

Here is the first batch of cauliflower this year from Horsedrawn Produce on Lopez Island.  Ken and Catherine have a way with cauliflower (all produce) that we rarely see anywhere else.  We source most of our produce from Maple Rock Farm, a bit from Morning Star Farm and we love the duck eggs from Black Dog Farm, but we rarely turn away anyone with great fresh produce or mushrooms.


We are getting ready for our first day at the Farmers Market with the wood fired oven.  Just a flatbread or two and Tomato, Fresh Mozz and Basil pizza.

Final Coat

So here is the final coat on the oven.  It went from looking like a beaver dam to an igloo.  A lot cleaner and this should help with insulation and thermal mass.  Of course it started raining last night, so it should cure well.  The last layer is about two inches thick, 8 parts sand, three clay and 1/2 part Portland cement.

We will begin fires tomorrow, Fenders will go on and we should be up and running soon.

June Progress Report

Tomato plants are all trellised and set in the green house. It is finally warm and dry, everything is in super growth mode from all of the rain. We should see fast growth once they settle in.  It is not too cool in the Pacific Northwest or Orcas Island, to grow heirloom Tomatoes









The plum grafts are really taking off.
We have removed much of the original tree to allow all of the energy go directly to the graft. This graft is in range of our many deer, who would love to eat all of the leaves, so we had to add the cage. Look at the growth since the picture from May 9 th post

This pear tree looks like Frankenpeartree, but soon the new growth will fill in.  This has the old heirloom varieties, with any luck, pears next year.

First Flatbread

Here is the first flat bread produced in the oven. The oven is still drying out so it is hard to get the heat up to where we would like it, about 700 degrees Fahrenheit or more. Tasty, but took over five minutes to cook, which is too slow, we are looking for two minute pizzas. We hope to take it on the road soon.

Nice Lupines this year, they made it past a bad aphid infestation and lots of powdery mildew to produce these showy blooms.

Lots of figs in the tree outside our kitchen back door.