Goodies list.

When you arrive there will be:-

Fair-trade tea, ground coffee (on request- instant), sugar, scones, raspberry jam, milk and butter for tea, home-made marmalade, salt and black pepper and for weekly stays a bottle of wine and organic bread.

              To order a week before arrival

                         (with additions during the week).

A box of vegetables (end of May - October) from the croft all grown using organic principles from £5 - £15 containing whatever is in season - lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, beetroot, onions, garlic, shallots, cucumbers, tomatoes, red Russian kale, green and yellow courgettes, potatoes, green and black climbing beans, carrots, parsnips etc. all in season. Outside of these months we may have something please ask.

Lettuce £1 - £1.50 or bag of mixed leaves including rocket, mizuna, sorrel, various salad leaves £2 - you can order these fresh every day

Raspberries – Summer and Autumn fruiting £5 for 500g (indoors or Autumn fruiting) May/June/Sept/Oct/early Nov, £4 for 500g (outdoors) in July/Aug

Other fruits and berries as available - tayberries, blackberries, blueberries £5 - 500g rhubarb £2 kilo

½ dozen free-range chicken eggs £1.50

½ dozen free-range duck eggs £2  Goose eggs £1 each

A side of home-smoked salmon weighing approx. 1- 1.3 kg  £18.50 a kilo we believe it is the best smoked salmon you will ever eat.

Sliced home-smoked salmon a plate of 250g £7  500g £14 Drier than normal as it is sliced to order and not vacuum packed so the oil stays in the fish and is not sucked out.

Home-smoked mature cheddar cheese £10 a kilo   

Home-made Mayonnaise large £2.50 small £1.50

Salad dressing 300ml £3 (fab)

Raspberry or mixed berry jam 1lb jar £3

Redcurrant jelly £2-£3

Bill’s marmalade (for men!) £2.50

Various Chutneys £2.50

Home-made Wholegrain mustard perfect with the ham £3 for 250g or £2 for 125g

Home-made organic bread £2 - £3.

Home-made cakes chocolate large £12.50, small(ish!) £8.50, very fruity loaf £8.50.

Sweet 'jumbo oat' biscuits £3 for a dozen (like Anzac biscuits but no coconut)

Home-made raspberry, lemon or elderflower ice-cream £7.50 a litre or vanilla ice-cream £9 a litre.

Home-produced free-range pork - sausages made for us by our local butcher £6.50 (all per kilo), chops £10, roasting joint £ 8.50, piece of a boned leg £10, loin £10, streaky bacon £10.50, home-smoked ham weighing 1 - 2kg (cooked for you if you like) £12 per kilo (raw weight).

Our own free-range Chicken to order - weighing between 2 - 3 1/2 kilos, £6 a kilo.

You can order part of a kilo (of most things).

And to order from local suppliers             

Mull cheeses – very strong cheddar style Truckle £8 for 400g or £15 for a chunk of the whole cheese, Brie-style £15 a kilo

Blue Cheese by Humphrey Errington Dunsyre Blue £15 a kilo

MacLeans Oatcakes from Benbecula ordinary  £1    organic £1.20

Sirloin Steaks – Aberdeen Angus Quality Assured £24 kg

Squat Lobsters and Whole Langoustine Prawns weather dependant and on application but about £10 kilo live (or I can cook them for you)

Local Black Face Lamb £8.50  kilo about £25 a leg

Haunch Venison (bone-in) £7.50 a kilo

Vension or Beef Burgers £5 a kilo (hand-made)

Stornaway Black Pudding £6 a kilo

Mussels a net of localy farmed weighing up to 5kg £15

We have our own smoke-house so do all the smoking is done here of our own and bought in product. Please give us plenty of notice for smoked things as it often takes more about a week to prepare them for you e.g. home-smoked bacon, ham and salmon.

Don't forget that even though you are self-catering you don't have to cook every night - with 15 years experience of running their own multi-award winning 'Restaurant with Rooms' Bill and Sukie former 'Rural Chef of the Year' can provide Suppers/Dinners - from a venison casserole in the Aga or oven on arrival at £7.50 a head to suppers from £8 – £15 for 2-3 courses and dinner from £20 for two courses to £40 for 5.

Suppers - usually brought to you in a bowl or casserole for you to cook/heat in the Aga or oven. Friday night (for arrival) all we have time for is a casserole. Please keep in mind that we are not a restaurant and while more than happy to cook for you, we can not offer a choice on any one night and idealy like to cook what is fresh and available. Suppers or dinner are available on Monday or Thursday. Everything is made to order so do please give us time to order/buy ingredients.

Minimum 2 adult portions, prices are per portion.

Home-smoked Fish Pie (with a mix of our own line-caught (in season) smoked and fresh fish with hard-boiled eggs and leeks in the potato topping) yummy - £8.50

Plate of Home-smoked Salmon, Salad, Dressing and Bread £8.50

Lasagne or Shepherds Pie made with Quality Assured Aberdeen Angus (and from late Autumn 2008 our own) Beef £7.50

Bolognese Sauce using beef as above (provide your own pasta) £4.50

Pizza - Bill's infamous with or without smoked venison sausage £4.50

Tomato and Red Onion Soup £2.50

Parsnip and Celeriac Soup £2.50

Fennel and Leek Soup £2.50

Venison Casserole £7.70 (veg. sold seperately)

Lamb or Beef Casserole £7.50

A Home-cooked Home-smoked Ham from our own pigs £12 a kilo (raw weight 1-2kg)

Seasonal Fruit Crumble i.e. blackberry and apple, gooseberry, mixed berries, rhubarb £3.50 all per person

Chocolate Mousse £2 per ramekin

Lemon and Raspberry Posset (Sukie Special - fab.) £3.50

Meringue with cream and fruit from the Croft that has (sometimes) been frozen - rasps, blueberries, currants £3.50

Home-made ice-cream Raspberry, Lemon or Elderflower £7.50 litre

Vanilla Ice-cream £9 a litre

Sample Seasonal Dinner Menus please ask.

Good Food

Our passion for good honest food continues. Since first taking Scottish food to Slow Foods ‘Salon del Gusto’ in Turin in 2000, we have remained active in Slow Food. We helped out at a Slow Food weekend in November 2004 at Ardtornish that was featured on Radio 4’s Food Program. Sukie led the team that cooked dinner on Saturday night at Britain’s first ever National Slow Food Congress on Skye in August 2005. The first of it is hoped many Slow Food Fayre's was held at Ardtornish Estate organised by Jane Stuart Smith, Hugh Raven, Sukie and Bill on Easter Saturday 15th April 2006 where about 24 local producers showed of their tasty food which was enjoyed by more than 500 locals.

Our goal for 2007 is to help set up a local West Highland’s and Islands Convivium. This we have just acheived (June 2007) by joining together with Skye and Lochalsh. For more details on Slow Food visit www.slowfood.co.uk

Our enthusiasm for using fresh, local, seasonal food was one of the reasons Sukie was made ‘Rural Chef of the Year’ by the Scottish Chefs Association and given the ‘Flavour of Scotland’ award from VisitScotland – along with Sukie’s skills at turning wonderful ingredients into memorable meals.

Now living on the croft we eat much more of our own fresh food and last year sold a surplus of vegetables and salads to local restaurants. We are now eating our own pork, bacon and fat chicken and cockerels with beef on the menu from late Autumn 2007 as well as eggs, dairy products from the Jersey cow and even more fresh fruit and vegetables. We were still picking Autumn raspberries in November.

Sukie’s cooking skills have remained in great demand since leaving Old Pines. In 2004 and early '05 she helped out at the Whitehouse Restaurant when they had a kitchen crisis and in 2006 was running local night classes, filled in for a few weeks in a small Primary School- a very interesting experience, together with dinners in peoples' own homes and the occassional wedding and lots of birthday parties. Smoking Courses, now twice a year and Aga Cookery Demonstrations have also been run in our new kitchen here and at Logie House, Forres www.logie.co.uk

We also occasionally undertake outside catering ranging from dinner for twenty in your own home to weddings and parties for up to 200.

Bluebell Croft, 15 Anaheilt, Strontian, Ardnamurchan, Scotland UK PH36 4JA   Tel 01967 402226