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Sunday, September 25, 2011

RED PEPPERS IN SEPTEMBER…...

I was just ECSTATIC when I got to FOODMAXX the other day….there was a big display of beautiful red peppers, and the price was right…..four peppers for a dollar!! Since I’ve been paying anything from 50 cents to a dollar each for red peppers recently, I chose four of the largest and freshest I could find, even though I already had a red pepper in the refrigerator at home:
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Posted by Earl on 09/25 at 09:32 PM
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

ROSEMARY ROASTED POTATOES, SAGE-ORANGE YAMS, and PUMPKIN BREAD PUDDING

Oh, I had SUCH a good time today—and all three recipes came out GREAT! Here’s a (terrible) photo of the Rosemary Roasted Potatoes:
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Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 01:09 AM
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

RICE PUDDING IN THE SLOW-COOKER!

No photos (yet), but Gail helped me modify a recipe I found online (added eggs is the biggest thing - we both love custard) and for a first try, it was delicious! We’re planning to increase the amount of custard, because we used brown rice and it ended up a bit dry. It might be fine as is if you use white rice. Laura wants us to double the raisins, so we’ll probably do that - the extra liquid will be helpful there, too.

Here’s what I made today…...
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Posted by Earl on 01/27 at 11:46 PM
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BEEF WELLINGTON (Individual)

Great new recipe that I just tried this afternoon! Found it ON THE WEB!
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This was the result…..

Posted by Earl on 01/27 at 07:19 PM
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

THANKSGIVING IN BEND, 2010 - UPDATED

This year was the first time that I’ve ever roasted a turkey! It turned out pretty well, too….
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FRED MEYER, where I do a lot of shopping, had a promotion where they gave me a turkey for FREE, if I bought $150.00 worth of other merchandise. Since we had just got back from Maui and needed to stock up on perishables, it was pretty easy….and I ended up with a 21-pound turkey….
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Posted by Earl on 11/25 at 11:26 PM
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

APPLESAUCE IN BEND

Applesauce is a big deal in our family….we had a small orchard of our own at PUC, where I taught the Home Fruit-Growing class. Every year, we cut up apples together and had a big day in which we made anywhere from 60-100 quarts of sauce, which we gradually ate up through the following year.

When we moved to Tennessee, we had enough applesauce (no kids around to eat it) to last us through the first year, and then I actually had to BUY apples the second autumn we were there. Our kitchen was small, so I used the camp stove on the back porch, and it was pretty unhandy, but we made enough (delicious) sauce for the next year. In 2006, I heard about the county-supplied cannery just up the road in Cleveland, TN, and that made life a LOT easier - I used it two more times, and we brought boxes of 2007 and 2008 applesauce out to Oregon with us.

Of course, Laura and her family were here, and we wanted to share, so I needed MORE applesauce. Leave it to my resourceful daughter, who had already scouted out local neglected apple trees with fruit all over the ground. I asked permission of the homeowners, and Sophia and I picked up buckets of apples from at least four different locations around town—here are some identified to us as Romes
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They were beautiful apples - the tree was inside the yard and was watered regularly along with the lawn. What amazed me was that they were 70-80% clean - no worms….and I’m confident that NO ONE was spraying that enormous old tree. We also had some lovely apples of unknown variety
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I’d guess that fewer than half of them were clean, but that’s pretty good for a tree that hasn’t been cared for. The sauce they gave was kind of grey-green and not very sweet - I doubt they were terribly ripe, although they were falling. Then I found a crab-apple tree, and picked a lot of them to add an interesting flavor and tartness to the sauce - they were present in amazing numbers, and I picked all I could reach from the ground…..but most stayed on for the birds
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Finally, our prize apples!! Two badly neglected trees in someone’s front yard - whenever he watered the lawn they got irrigated, but they didn’t get a lot. The picture was taken after most of the apples were gone - both from the ground and the branches.
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We were a bit late for this fruit - most of the apples were on the ground, and many had begun to rot. Almost all of them had at least one worm, but we got a lot of apple flesh from them, and the clean ones were quite beautiful
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So was the sauce!! A lovely pink color, and as flavorful and sweet as one might wish.
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Posted by Earl on 09/23 at 08:32 PM
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Monday, August 16, 2010

PEACHES FOR THE FREEZER

For most of the spring, every peach I bought (and I kept buying - hope springs eternal) turned out to be a CLINGSTONE PEACH, a variety I’ve been familiar with (and highly unimpressed by) mainly as commercially canned peaches - halves or slices.

Then, out by Home Depot a couple of weeks ago, I stopped at the stand by the exit of the shopping center, where a family from THE DALLES has been selling fruit this spring. I’ve bought cherries (two kinds and wonderful) and apricots (not so wonderful, though better and cheaper than the markets) from them, and this time they had peaches that looked familiar - I asked if they were cling or freestone. They were RED HAVEN PEACHES, a freestone variety I’m not all that familiar with, as the Central Valley was pretty well solid with FAYE ELBERTA peaches, which must really be suited for that area. Anyhow, I bought a couple of pounds of his Red Havens for $1.50/pound, and they were wonderful
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Posted by Earl on 08/16 at 06:14 PM
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