Northwest Meat Seasoning

Coming up with a Northwest Meat Seasoning that would stand out in line with all the other Meat Seasoning on the market, needless to say was a challenge; but we did it. We named our Meat Seasoning, Cornet Bay “Best Steak and Seafood Seasoning”; you can find it on the seasoning shelves in over 75 QFC grocery stores. One of the things I’ve always strived for in our Cornet Bay food business is to come out with a product that not only works wonders on meat but also works on Seafood as well; our Meat Seasoning does just that. 

I’ve got two good pals I always run a new product by. They’re good judges, but not for one who wears’ their heart on their sleeve, their testing can be unmerciful; if you don’t want the answer, don’t ask them the question. One will try anything, the other, if it’s got any kind of heat to it he pretty much backs off, but he loves our Meat Seasoning, even with the pepper in the ingredients, says it has a permanent home on his kitchen table. He uses it on all his meats, fish, poultry, even on vegetables! That, my friends’, coming from him is one great testimony.

Our Meat Seasoning is a chunky full flavored seasoning that takes all meats, seafood poultry, you name it, to another level, its’ wonderful on roasted vegetables, give it a try,  here’s the recipe:

1-cup sliced Cauliflower

1-cup sliced Broccoli

½ cup sliced Mushrooms

½ cup largely sliced Sweet Onion

3 cloves finely diced fresh Garlic

Kolymvari Olive oil

Joanne’s Special Seasoning

Best Steak and Seafood seasoning

Parmesan Cheese

In a large bowl include together Cauliflower, Broccoli, Mushrooms, Onions, Garlic. Drizzle on a good amount of the Kolymvari Olive Oil, gently toss. Sprinkle with Joanne’s Special Seasoning, Best Steak and Seafood Seasoning, gently toss. Place tinfoil over a shallow cooking pan; rub with olive oil, spread out all ingredients. Place in oven at 350 degrees; roast until broccoli ends begin to turn brown. Remove from oven, sprinkle with Parmesan Cheese and serve. There you have it, roasted vegetables with our Meat Seasoning. Try this: After it’s served, splash with our White Lightnin’ Pepper Sauce, MMMmmmm!

                                                                                                                                                                     Every year my pals and I pack up the horses for the annual fishing trip to around 5000 feet into the Cascade Mountains. No cell phones, no computers; fly fishing the high lakes is a blast. Eating freshly cooked trout over an open fire smothered with olive oil, Joanne’s Special Seasoning ... our Meat Seasoning is what gives it the finishing flavor, what can I say, it is wonderful!

                                                                          
For some great recipes and a fun read about how our Cornet Bay Company came to be, Click the on the title and order my book today.

“The Singin’ Salmon Man from Cornet Bay”

                                                                                

Or send a $16.00 check (includes S&H) to:

Cornet Bay Company

251 Cornet Bay RD

Oak Harbor, WA 98277 

To order you can also email: 
joanne@cornetbay.com

                                                                                                                  

 

 

Chapter 17 - The Accident: A Huge Life Lesson

Back in 1958, when I was seventeen, I had this 1957 Chevy Bel Air sport coupe. It was turquoise-colored, two-door hardtop, and it was just beautiful. It could also flat-out fly.  

We were flying down the road, and we got to a turn that the car just didn't make. They say the car went end over end three times or so and rolled over as well.

Washington Seafood Seasoning

When Joanne and I moved home to Whidbey Island from Nashville TN she had no idea that she would one day be able to say she has created a Washington Seafood Seasoning; this seasoning now sits on shelves in over 75 QFC stores. Born and raised in Nashville TN with a career in human resources, moving to Cornet Bay on Whidbey Island was quite a change, one she’s never regretted, Cornet Bay is beautiful. In the food business one never stops creating, it’s part of life. This Seafood Seasoning made our Kroger labeled Artichoke Shrimp dip taste phenomenal.

Folks from all around would say “why don’t you put that Seasoning on the market? It’s wonderful.” Easier said then done. The idea sounded great but our products have always had to prove themselves before adding them to our line. The Seafood Seasoning worked great in the seafood dip, but, could it stand on its own on tables along side the salt and pepper? So the test began. Sample after sample of the new Seafood Seasoning along with suggested recipes was given away to friends, grocery store buyers, people who we met during our Cornet Bay food demos, asking them to give it a try.

All reports came back positive; Joanne’s Seafood Seasoning was added to our Cornet Bay product line. Over the years this wonderful Seafood Seasoning has proven itself again and again to be not only fantastic on, fish, crab, shrimp and clams; actually, it’s great on all kinds of seafood, soups included, but, as an addition to salads, hot or cold sandwiches, beef, pork and poultry, well, it’s a treat. I use it all the time as a rub; it’s in our pork Shoulder recipe.

It’s a good feeling to know that Joanne’s Seafood Seasoning is one of those seasonings that folks simply fall in love with.

When you’re shopping in a QFC store go to the seasoning aisle, look for Cornet Bay Seasonings, the one that Joanne created has the green label titled Joanne’s Special Seasoning, credit goes where credits due; you can’t miss it. Buy a bottle for your table, I promise you your foods will love her Seafood Seasoning, you will too. From Nashville’s human resources to Whidbey Island’s Cornet Bay food business then to the development of a Seafood Seasoning, amazing, yep, I’m proud.

On tables across the country a new Washington Seafood Seasoning wearing the name of Joanne’s Special Seasoning, is holding its own.

You can read more about our Cornet Bay seasonings in my book titled:

“The Singin’ Salmon Man from Cornet Bay”

To order my book email joanne@cornetbay.com or send a check of $16.00 (includes tax, S&H) made out to: Cornet Bay Company

Send to:

251 Cornet Bay Road, Oak Harbor, WA 98277

Thank you for reading my blog, folks, I’ve enjoyed our visit.

Arnie





Northwest Canned Smoked Salmon

Northwest Canned Smoke Salmon

Being raised in a commercial fishing family in Cornet Bay, Northwest Canned Smoked Salmon seemed only natural to add to our Cornet Bay product line. My dad, Oliver Deckwa, was laying nets out on the west side of Whidbey Island, just around the corner from Deception Pass Bridge before I was born. In those days he pulled the nets in on the boats he built, by hand. It was a very strenuous physical job, but one he loved. My mother, Rena, cooked Salmon every way imaginable. Salmon was a regular staple at our dinner table. When the day came for both my parents to smoke salmon, that’s when folks would come  from all around.

The Deckwa pantry shelves were always filled with Canned Smoked Salmon along with regular Salmon. Coming from a family that has been in the seafood industry for over seventy years Canned Smoked Salmon is simply a part of life, as it was in my grandparent’s home that was across the field, a short distance away. Behind their house is where dad built his commercial smoker, a building that measured around twelve by fourteen feet. It was set up to hot smoke salmon over an alder wood fire along with cold smoked salmon, a process he had down to perfection; it was mouth watering.

I was a young boy then, but I can still remember that wonderful smell of salmon smoking away in that old wooden smoker. It was always exciting to see mom’s face light up with happiness when visitors would ask if she’d open a jar of her wonderful Canned Smoked Salmon. It’s taken a long time to place three different flavors of our Cornet Bay wild Coho Canned Smoked Salmon onto the QFC store shelves, but we’ve finally accomplished it.
 

Our Canned Smoked Salmon is no longer smoked in that old wooden building that dad once had, it’s long gone, but I know that my parents would be very proud of the three flavors we’ve created and now sit on the QFC shelves; they are delicious.

Cornet Bay Jalapeno Canned Smoked Salmon, Red Pepper Canned Smoked Salmon, Classic Canned Smoked Salmon, has been a Puget Sound favorite of folks here and across the country. So stop in to your local QFC store and pick up a can, you'll be glad you did. If you would like to read more stories about Salmon fishing around Cornet Bay, look for them along with many of our great recipes in my book titled:

“The Singin’ Salmon Man from Cornet Bay”

To order my book email joanne@corntbay.com or send a check of $16.00 (includes tax, S&H) made out to: 

Cornet Bay Company

251 Cornet Bay Road

Oak Harbor, WA 98277

Thank you for reading my blog, I’ve enjoyed our visit.

Arnie



Chapter 16 - Another Attitude Adjustment

My mother's father Henry Sterkel was in his seventies, and I guess I wasn't taking him seriously. I figured I could handle this old Russian man.

Book review by Peggy V

Only one problem with the book . . . . I couldn't put it down once I started reading it!

--Peggy V., Johnsonburg, PA

Book review by Peggy V

Only one problem with the book . . . . I couldn't put it down once I started reading it!

--Peggy V., Johnsonburg, PA

Northwest Pork Shoulder Recipe

This year I used my favorite North West Pork Shoulder Recipe to feed one hundred folks who came to our home in Cornet Bay to help us celebrate our 3^rd annual 4^th of July celebration and along with the help of Cornet Bay imports, no one left hungry.

My Pork Shoulder recipe was used for grilling 66 pounds of pork shoulders marinated for 18 hours and grilled on our Cherry Wooden Cooking Planks over charcoal and a cherry wood fire.

Pork Shoulder recipe is as follows and it’s simple.

After trimming off some excess fat and piercing the meat with a fork, rub the shoulders with two of our Cornet Bay Seasonings: Joanne’s Special Seasoning and Garlic Pepper, (a 50 - 50 mix) along with a little added sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper.

Pour and rub onto the pork our famous All Purpose Louisiana Marinade along with some Kolymvari Olive Oil that is brought in from the island of Crete.

Place each shoulder in a plastic freezer bag, add a little more All Purpose Marinade, seal and refrigerate for a minimum of 12 hours.

I created the Pork shoulder recipe for grilling however it works very well in the kitchen oven, on planks in a shallow cooking pan with a temperature of not more 350 degrees. 

Note: Soak Cooking Planks for a minimum of three hours.

For this Pork Shoulder recipe I soaked the Planks in water for six hours. They can also be soaked over night, in apple juice is wonderful, wine is good; be creative. 

Remove the shoulders from freezer bags and tie with butcher string (compared to a rolled roast) and place onto the soaked cooking Planks.

Place planks and shoulders on grill over a charcoal and cherry wood fire with indirect heat at 225 to 250 degrees, alternating the shoulders from the ones closest to the heat. Bring shoulders to 155 to 160 degrees and base several times one hour before removing from grill with our great selling Sweet Bourbon Glaze.

My Pork Shoulder recipe cooking time for 66 pounds was 8 ½ hours.

Helping to make our day a huge and wonderful success with this Pork shoulder recipe was 50 pounds of oysters being grilled on a second grill and served with our Cornet Bay Louisiana gourmet Pepper Sauce and as usual, they were a hit along with the Dungeness crab served with our Cocktail Sauce.

Look for our Cornet Bay Seasonings, All Purpose Marinade, Sweet Bourbon Glaze, Louisiana gourmet Pepper Sauce, Cocktail Sauce and Kolymvari Olive Oil on the condiment, seasonings and olive oil shelves in QFC. This Pork shoulder recipe is new but many more wonderful recipes can be found in my recently released book:

“The Singin’ Salmon Man from Cornet Bay”

To order my book email Joanne@cornetbay.com or send check of $16.00 (includes S&H) Made out to: Cornet Bay

Send to:
Cornet Bay                                          

251 Cornet Bay

Oak Harbor, WA 98277