Oh good Lord you guys... Farmer's Market day today & I am in the climax of a total mouthgasm
This morning I had an egg from the ladies & then went to the farmers market to pick up meat & oh boy! One of my favourite farms (Sea Breeze Farms) had smoked the most amazing porchetta. Despite it being roasted over wood the porchetta has little smoke flavor. It's pure, sweet pork marbled with sage and fennel that imbeds itself into the fat. The fat on this pork is outrageous - it tastes like sweet cream and whey... incredible.
This is on the top 5 foods I would have on my deathbed. I hope they have it again next week, but if not - I will always remember it. God bless them all, good pigs and good farmers alike.
I bought two huge slabs of porchetta, wine & raw milk + raw milk cheese (yeah, yeah). I also scored a roasting hen at a great price, the most gorgeous rib-eyes I've ever seen and a new cut we're going to try - a huge Mangalitsa ham hock for the bbq. I don't know what is going on, but the farmers are cutting prices like crazy this year! Usually I stick with cheaper cuts, so this will be quite a treat! It's amazing!
I also had a most horrible thing happen though. I set my bag of foraged wild vine blackberries and red huckleberries down as I was packing my cooler & LEFT THEM at the market. I didn't realized until I was on my way home & almost cried. At least we have a million raspberries outside. I probably shouldn't have bought them in the first place, but it's hard to resist this window of native berries.
SO! Lunch was porccetta, a most spectacular cucumber and lettuces from our garden with salt (a spoonful of raw milk bleu cheese may have been involved with that cucumber action).
Tonight is a whole salmon, right from the boat this a.m., grilled with... you guessed it! CHARD AND RADISHES - I'm going to sautee them alongside that amazing pork fat that I'll cracklin' up before I add the vegetables.
This next week is going to be a most delicious one... I can't wait to try this new pork. We'd only bought cuts from his cross-breeds before, which are more economical, but sometimes you just have to go for it, right? It's a huge cut & will hopefully keep us in meat for a couple days. My favourite snack!