I have always wondered what acorns tasted like. It seems that everywhere you look in the Willamette valley you see oaks trees. Which is a remanent of the oak savanna that used to exist across the valley years ago. The most common one in the area is the Oregon white oak. During my daily lunch …
Month: September 2013
pressure canning some Chili con Carne
Time for another use for tomatoes. First was pizza sauce, then spaghetti sauce, then diced tomatoes, and now time to make some chili. There are several recipes out there for how to make chili for canning. Some take a layered approach and put in each ingredient in one by one per jar. Which seems like …
Silver creek south falls and lower south falls
Silver creek has a total of 10 falls inside the state park. The trail of 10 falls is a mild 8.7 mile loop with only 600 ft elevation change. Next time I go I would like to do the entire loop. For this trip we only hiked the first two falls. It would have been …
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Sage marbled Monteray Jack
After I made the jack with layered sage leaves I was told I needed to add more sage to it. So this time I am using the sage method for making sage derby cheese and applying it to this batch of jack. Hopefully it will have a nice marbled green look to it after it …
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