Archive for the ‘Food & Beverage’ Category

Got Milk?

Please update your bookmarks and feeds to point to the new site: http://www.mwvlocal.com/ Flipping through the October, 2009 issue of Bon Appétit magazine, this little item about home milk delivery caught my eye. Curious if there were any dairies which provide home delivery in Oregon, I hit up Google. I found one and I have [...]

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Egg nutrition – source please, AFP!

Yesterday I read this article from AFP entitled “Americans turn to backyard chickens for food security“. It was a good article, talking about how the sale of chicks is up in Idaho and Washington states, as well as Oregon. It touched on the misconception that raising chickens for the eggs is going to be a [...]

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Dried Tomatoes

please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds — find us at mwvlocal.com In the last couple of weeks, I started writing some posts for The Portlander, an online news and blogging site for the Portland area. One of my posts was about drying tomatoes, and this weekend I did just that. This is a wonderful [...]

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Recipe page updated – basic pesto

Because I am obsessed with pesto right now, I put some basics up on the recipe page. Don’t forget, all the past recipes I’ve highlighted are still linked on that page as well! All posts and changes are being duplicated at the new URL — please update your bookmarks and feeds.

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Weekend Events – August 28-30

(I also put this post up at the new URL – I’ll probably duplicate for a while until that site completely fixed up.) Here are a couple of things going on this weekend… Of course, the Oregon State Fair starts this weekend in Salem. Mmm… fair food. August 28-30: 2009 Wah Chang Northwest Art and [...]

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Congratulations Rogue Creamery!

Rogue Creamery’s Rogue River Blue cheese bested 1,326 other entries at the largest cheese competition in North America to become American Cheese Society’s Best of Show for 2009. Nom.

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Rhubarb Crisp

I am not well-versed in the rhubarb world, but I thought I’d share this rhubarb crisp recipe from Foodwishes, the video recipe blog. Enjoy! (follow the link to get all the recipe details) Updated: Included this on the recipes page.

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Quarter Cow

Well, this will be an adventure… picked up a quarter of a cow today from Bald Hill Farm in Corvallis. There is a LOT of ground beef here. We hardly ever buy ground beef, so we’ll have to come up with some ways to use that. It’ll make some good pots of chili this winter!

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Seasonal recipes for May

Okay, so May is almost over… but that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy some of the ideas posted in the comments section of this blog entry over at Mother Earth News!

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Upcoming Events: May 2-3

Saturday, May 2nd Wine & Cheese Tasting Midway Farms, 6980 NW Hwy 20, Albany, OR 97321 1pm to 6pm “Come spend a relaxing day at Midway Farms sampling fabulous cheeses made by Willamette Valley Cheese paired with decadent wines of Eola Hills Winery. Walk through our gardens & gaze into the sky while listening to [...]

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