My oldest apple tree -a Liberty- is big enough now that we have enough apples from it each year that we must come up with creative ways to use those apples, or they just go bad. That means that I’m always looking for new ideas of how to use apples in our everyday cooking [...]
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Invented Any Dishes Lately?
Posted in Food, Fruit, Garden, Oregon, Our Favorite Dishes, tagged apples, cooking squash, Delicata, Kabocha, Liberty apples, onions, Sauteed Winter Squash with Apples and Onions, thyme, winter squash on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Another Long, Slow Oregon Spring … Again?
Posted in Fruit, Oregon, tagged buds, fruit trees, Oregon, spring on March 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
As spring begins to unfold in our Oregon neck of the woods, I feel a little like I’m Charlie Brown playing baseball with Lucy again. Every year – whether I recall my habitual error or not – I make the same misjudgment about the Oregon spring! I’m doing it right now – I’m [...]
The Strange but Wonderful Odyssey of the Blackberry
Posted in Fruit, tagged Add new tag, Blackberry, Crossbow, Himalayan Blackberry, Roundup on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow I’m making Blackberry/Apple jelly. Why? Mostly because I’ve got a very nice batch of blackberries out back, and an overload of apples, which will just go to rot if not used for something. Initially, I planned on using crab apples in the jelly, but when I walked up the hill to the “community” crab [...]
