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Get Your Squash On

Acorn, butternut, carnival, delicataโ€ฆwinter squash varieties are abundant and simply delicious

Just the sheer variety of winter squashes is enough to make your head spin. And the names! Along with the familiar acorn, butternut and spaghetti, thereโ€™s sweet dumpling, turban, honeynut, green kabocha, carnival, delicata and, well, the list goes on. These hardy fruits (squashes are considered fruits because they contain seeds and develop from the […]

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From Cheese to Beer: Crux and Rogue Creamery Team Up

It’s like a marriage of two things locals love most: craft beer and award-winning cheese. Bend-based Crux Fermentation Project and Rogue Creamery of Central Point have teamed up to create a limited-edition, lambic-style ale, made using products from Rogue Creamery’s world-champion blue cheese, Rogue River Blue. “Two years ago, Crux Fermentation Project, a craft brewery […]

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Q & A With One Loaf Founder/Baker Jessica Dunaway

Local micro-bakery owner tells the story of how she started baking sourdough bread and why she loves it so much

It’s another story of one thing leading to another. Jessica Dunaway’s husband John challenged her to bake some sourdough bread. She did her research and started baking. Before you know it, she had baked enough bread to share with friends and family. Everyone was impressed, and One Loaf, a domestic micro-bakery, was born. As Jessica […]

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Itโ€™s High Time For Pie

Homemade pie tips just in time for Thanksgiving

There have been proclamations and the giving of thanks since the early days of our Republic. Historians tell us that in November of 1621, the pilgrims in the Plymouth Colony celebrated surviving their first year in the New World with a feast. While the Wampanoags who celebrated with them might have brought pumpkins along with […]

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Recipe: Thanksgiving Magma

An eruption of flavor, and a new sauce for the turkey-time table

A year has come and gone since I happened upon a flame-orange paste from roasted squash and red peppers. I call it Magma, because it’s red and earthy, but I could also call it autumn mayonnaise, because it improves everything it touches. Whatever we name it, I am still grasping the implications. It’s a dip, a […]

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Cabbage Is The Star Of Comforting Haluski

A humble dish to serve on the side or front and center

Haluski or haluลกky, simply put, is a comforting pile of cabbage and noodles fried in butter. Itโ€™s a humble dish with Eastern European origins carried to the U.S. by immigrants, many of whom settled in industrial cities to work in steel mills, factories and foundries. Pittsburgh is a great example of such a place, and […]

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