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Our Home Works

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Our Home Works is about our quest to eat locally and live sustainably in Eugene, OR.

Added on: Dec 11th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Our Home Works
Listed in: Local Cooking Home and Garden
Tags: recipes eat local eugene seasonal eating local ingredients local sources

Recent Posts

Monday Night Dilly Beans

Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 01:12

A short mountain of green beans were transformed tonight - with the aid of fresh dill, garlic and salt - into a friend-favorite known as Dilly Beans. Beans were sourced from Thistledown Farm. The stack netted 7 widemouth pints worth. SHARETHIS....
Pickled Red Onions and Jalapeno Pepper Jelly

Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 01:13 in preserves, pickling, pepper jelly

It was another canning extravaganza in the OHW kitchen this weekend. Leading the way were pickled red onions. Amy loves them on the salads served at McMenamins, so this is primarily an attempt to mimic those. The ingredient list is simple - thinl...
Pickles and Tomatoes Get Canned

Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 00:52 in garden, winter garden, pickles, canning, roma tomato

“I’m DONE with pickles.” These were my co-author’s first words after she spent two near-full days of a splendid weekend cleaning, cutting, boiling, mixing, sealing, etc – in other words, canning - what is intended to be a two-year supply of...
Pineapple Ground Cherry salsa

Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 02:51 in recipes, garden, specialty stores, appetizer - dips, eugene southern willamette valley

Buying a plant start of an unknown vegetable variety can be risky business. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is a story about a winner. Coming off a successful tomatillo experience in 2008, we decided to expand our horizons this year. ...
10 years, 2 movies, 4 chickens and one camaro

Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 02:42

My co-author and I reached a major milestone in our partnership over the weekend. 10 years ago, we went on what we consider our first date. I am a nostalgia and tradition guy, so I proposed we repeat elements from that initial connection - the ba...
Cherry madness

Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 23:47 in cherries, markets & farms

This week has been cherry madness in our house. We ended up canning 16 half pints of cherry jam, several pints of cherry dessert sauce, drying some, and still yet making two half gallons of cherry sherry and one half gallon of cherry vinegar. A...