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Lodging and Dining-Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA. Harrison House Suites and Tucker House Inn
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Archive for May, 2009
San Juan Island Deals, Washington
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Vacation Getaways in Friday Harbor San Juan Island
Thursday, May 14th, 2009One of our romantic guests, surprised his sweetie with this beautiful cheese plate that Shay prepared. It featured Quail Croft Farms Goat Cheese (made here on the Island), Spanish Manchego and Seastack, a Pacific Northwest soft-ripened Cheese from Mt. Townsend Creamery, in Port Townsend, WA (on the Olympic Peninsula). We served it with a bottle of Coho’s house wine, Mona Vino.
If you would like us to whip up something special, just let us know. It would be our pleasure.
Lodging and Dining-Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA. Harrison House Suites and Tucker House Inn
Coho Restaurant
San Juan Island Washington Recipes
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Dave’s Barbecue Sauce and Sticky Baby Back Ribs
Rib Rub:
Fresh sage, ground with mortar and pestle
Salt and pepper to taste
Basting Sauce:
2/3 cup water
1/3 cup cider vinegar
Barbecue Sauce:
1 cup catsup
1 cup water
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
¾ cup french’s yellow mustard
½ cup brown sugar
1 cup honey
1-3 tsp Louisiana hot sauce
Combine all ingredients for barbecue sauce. Heat and simmer for 1 hour. Cool and then chill and refrigerate.
Dry rub ribs and marinate over night
Depending on the configuration of your grill or smoker – keep a large bowl of beer in the steamer to keep the ribs moist. Baste periodically with basting sauce.
When the ribs are fully cooked or smoked – smother in barbecue sauce and wrap tightly in aluminum foil and let sit for 2-3 hours in an oven set to low.
Prior to serving – just touch off on the grill.
Lodging and Dining-Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA. Harrison House Suites and Tucker House Inn
Coho Restaurant
Coho Restaurant
Friday Harbor Lodging – Washington
Saturday, May 9th, 2009The Harrison House & Tucker House will host pilots for the 1st annual Mooney fly-in to Friday Harbor Airport (FHR) this August. Pictured below is the airport and the two runways.
Lodging and Dining-Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA. Harrison House Suites and Tucker House Inn
Coho Restaurant
San Juan Island Hotels – Friday Harbor WA
Saturday, May 9th, 2009The Harrison House acquired two fabulous cooking appliances last month. The blue tiled object is a kamado – a Japanese clay oven. Dave is quite expert at cooking up meats, poultry and fish for catering and for dinner at Coho Restaurant.
As you can see it nicely adorns our garden path. The Kamado is not only functional but a beautiful addition to our gardens as well. Shay is posing next to the beast to give you a better idea of its enormity. Check out our recipe for smoked baby back ribs!
Our second new acquisition is not quite as glamorous (except for our innkeeper model – Shay and my fuzzy picture), but equally as functional. Shay is holding the flat beater from our small 6 quart Kitchen Aid next to the 20 quart Hobart. We can make up multiple batches of cookies and bagels in a jiffy. The cookie fairy is so delighted and has been waiting years for this.
Lodging and Dining-Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA. Harrison House Suites and Tucker House Inn
Coho Restaurant
Coho Restaurant
San Juan Island Lodging, Washington – Harrison House
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Spring came a bit late, but we are enjoying some beautiful weather. The flower gardens at the Harrison House are at their peak. Shaylynn, one of our innkeepers whom you will meet when you visit has taken these beautiful pictures. Here is a picture perfect Camilia that graces the Garden Path between the two houses.
The Flower arbor and gardens on C Street in front of the Inn.
This is the Garden Path leading the our Cafe where we serve breakfast. Notice the new addition. The blue tiled object is a Kamado. It is a clay cooker that we use for catering and smoking meat and fish for the restaurant.
The flower arbor that welcomes you to the Inn.
Lodging and Dining-Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA. Harrison House Suites and Tucker House Inn
Coho Restaurant