Living local in Eugene, OR
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 24th, 2011
Over the weekend and into today, we focused our efforts on these sweet fall treats. The grapes were harvested from vines on the property of a home Amy lived in before we were married and she still owns. Its not a particularly large planting, but it did produce enough fruit to make it worth our [...]
Posted in Eugene/Southern Willamette Valley, Markets & farms, Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2011
Saturday morning, we paid a visit to two of our favorite local orchard farms. First we went to River Bend Farm & Pleasant HIll Orchard, which is a few miles west of Pleasant Hill. They have an attractive market store with their products nicely displayed.
We picked up a few apples to eat and a gallon of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2011
A 6-pack of basil starts supplied us with fresh basil we picked periodically through the summer, and then delivered as the main ingredient in a final batch of pesto we processed tonight. The leaves you see in the two large bowls above packed down to 8 cups, and then were ground down further ultimately netting [...]
Posted in Eugene/Southern Willamette Valley, Recipes, Soups, Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2011
This weekend we made our way to the coast range in search of chanterelle mushrooms, a food finding adventure in nature that we’ve been partaking in for the past few years. In a short span of arriving in the forest - which is all we have these days to keep our almost 2-year-old content on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2011
What you see is a cross section of 4 of our heirloom tomatoes. Starting with the green one and going clockwise we have Green Zebra, Persimmon, Speckled Roman and Brandywine. It’s been raining a lot here this week, and many of our tomatoes have been cracking. Amy harvested a good load of them today and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2010
The OHW team ventured out once again this weekend to the Small Farmers Project, this time to secure a flat of the long-awaited black cap heirloom raspberries. Coincidentally today, Eugene’s Register Guard newspaper ran a full feature on the farm and their special berries.
We also purchased 2 more flats of strawberries, since the last batch [...]
Posted in Eugene/Southern Willamette Valley, Markets & farms, Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2010
Although we’ve had lousy weather for a good month here - a true damper on the area’s strawberries crops - there are still some good ones to be found.
Out of all the food preserving Amy has accomplished the past couple of years, my personal favorite - and there’ve been many great ones - is a [...]
Posted in Ramblings, Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2010
First, a disclosure: this is not a dish out of the OurHomeWorks kitchen.
It is a creation by my two talented sisters during a recent family gathering in Minnesota, and the first paella produced from this pan. My role, beyond taking these pictures, was strictly charcoal production on a standard Weber grill and shuttling heavy and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2010
The place Our Home Works calls home has moved. About 6 months ago we packed up and carted our belongings about one mile across town. We were not looking to move at the particular time, but an opportunity presented itself that we could not resist.
We also added staff. Just 6 weeks after our move, our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2009
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.
