Mobile Chicken House

I have had the pleasure of helping my buddy Chris Burger ( Century Seed Farm) on his farm. The latest project is this mobile chicken house. When it is finished it will have two runs one on each side and will be pulled daily for the chickens to have a rotational grazing cycle with the cows

Romesco Research

Working on a new product in the larder a "Tennessee Romesco" these are just a few of the peppers coming out of the garden with a lot more to come. I fell so lucky being able to pick jeff and john's brain about a million different veggies.

Pickled Okra before and After

Getting closer to the end of pickled okra

Elderberry Capers

This is a great way to preserve locally forged elderberries

Whole Barley Feed Pigs completly Cured

So these Pictures have been collected over the past few Months But we started with 6 amazing Barley Feed Pigs and used every piece for charcuterie.

Bladders and Stomaches For Stuffing!!!!

A whole bunch of Pepperoni snap sticks and Culletello in the stomaches

Stuffed Coppasatta and Some regular Coppa

All the Coppas and some Lomo in the Background getting ready for stuffing

Suckling Pig and Crispy Blue Prawn Heads

So I am Still Working on my Suckling Pig dish it is slowley coming. Marc-Jean Was helping me get there the other night and also our Crazy Butcher Sully Came in to Eat so I had To throw some things together he has Yet To see.

Blue Prawns with Benton's Ham, Local Aspargus Pickled Garlic Mingonette, Red Bud Flowers and the Wonderful Crispy Prawn Heads

So We Recieved this 35 lb suckling Pig From Sylvia in PA and naturally you have to use the whole thing. So I decided to Make Porchetta using the Loin, and the Belly, then Individual "Pot Roast" Using the Shoulders then every other part of the Pig was then Skined and all meat and Organs Ground. Braised the Skins ( using stock from the bones Naturally) and Sulley Deboned all Four leggs and We had to Make Cottechino and Stuff them right back into the Trotters and Braise them in the Hoof. So Far we have Finished the Dish With simple Spring Potatoes, Our Gardens First Spring Onions, Arugula Puree From Last Years Arugula and the Flowers of the Arugula Plants. Still Coming Together but I really do like the Direction it is Going.

Spring is Finallllyy Here

Spring is here and sorry I haven't been keeping up on the blog butttt....

This is a Spring " Gazpacho" made up of a bunch of fresh Vegetable juice, Sauteed spring onions, Ramps and Fennel. We then mix it with an Arugula and fresh Herb coulis to make it nice and spring green and to add the nice pepper flavor that you have to have in a well seasoned Gazpacho. We put the soup under a silver cloche using magic naturally and fill the bowl with every vegetable I can play with. It really is a fun dish and welcomes Spring and guest are usually surprised to see soup fall out of the cloche. I must apologize for the bad picture it came off my phone.