New Late Spring Menu

Last week we started our new menu. It is full of local grown vegetables. Jeff Isbell's farmstead salad with radish, sweet onions and heirloom yellow pear tomatoes finished with honey comb vinaigrette. We added a blackened tuna on flat bread with basil goat cheese pesto, shaved red onions and micro greens. Cornmeal fried gulf oysters, lemon tarter sauce, slaw, and pickled okra. The dish I'm really happy about is the grilled flat iron steak, vidalia onion gratin, asparagus, and chimichurri butter. I will post pictures soon of the new dishes.

Heirloom Romaine Lettuce

Today I planted two  kinds of heirloom  romaine lettuce in the kitchen garden. Paris Island and Freckles.

Soby's Kitchen Garden Shots

Easter Egg Radish, Micro Greens, Heirloom Tomatoes , Garlic Chives

Heirloom Tomato's

If all goes well we should have over a 100 heirloom tomato plants. I have Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Abe Lincoln, Boxcar Willie, Amish Paste, Black Prince, Watermelon Beefsteak, Lemon Boy, Mr Stripy, Mortgage Lifter, and Hillbilly just to name a few. It has been a hard backbreaking job to break up new garden beds without a tiller. Cross your fingers.

Back from Holiday.

I started back to work yesterday after being on holiday .  I hope to have a few new tidbits on this week.  I have some local heirloom peaches come in from a friend's family farm.  I'm doing a special 4th of July part in the loft as well. I will post the pictures soon.

Anson Mills Grits

Anson Mills Grits are the only grits that we use at Soby's . If you have never had them you have missed out. They are the creamiest and most full bodied grits I have ever tasted. Gleen Roberts sold all his possessions and started up Anson Mills in a old warehouse in Columbia in 1998. A few years earlier he had found the old Carolina mill corn in a bootleggers field near Dillion South Carolina. It was a corn used for milling dating back to the late 1600's. Check them out under Soby's links.