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How to Make Hazelnut Tassies
I'm always on the lookout for something a little different for the Holidays, and I found it with Elizabeth Beekley and Anna Phelps of Two Tarts Bakery in Portland, Oregon. One of Elizabeth's favorite recipe's is a twist on the popular...
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How to Make Microbrew-Braised Rutabagas
Venerable cookbook author, culinary instructor, and restaurant consultant, Diane Morgan demonstrates a recipe for making Microbrew-Braised Rutabagas from her new cookbook Roots: The Definitive Compendium with more than 225 Recipes.
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How to Make Holiday Soda Bread
In this episode of Food.Farmer.Earth, veteran pastry chef and owner of The Waffle Window, Mary O'Rourke, demonstrates a favorite holiday recipe.
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How to Make Sour Cream Mashed Rutabagas with Fresh Dill
Award-winning cookbook author Diane Morgan stirs up the world of mashers with this creamy rendition of mashed potatoes using a combination of russet potatoes and rutabagas.
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How to Make a Ham and Cheese Croute
Chef David Padberg of the new Raven and Rose restaurant in Portland, Oregon demonstrates how to make his variation of the classic ham and cheese sandwich. Using fresh onions braised with beer ale, and handmade pickled pears this is a...
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Home Made School Lunch Ideas For Young Children
It's almost Labor Day, and that means a new school year is about to begin for many school children. Perhaps as a parent of a young child you are wondering what new ideas to help encourage your kids to eat a nutritious lunch, and also...
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Cooking with Fresh Wasabi
David Padberg, Executive chef at Park Kitchen in Portland, Oregon, demonstrates how to make real Wasabi, and shows some of the excellent foods that it can be used on as a garnish. alad or mayonnaise or whatever you want to use with them.
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Cherry Orchards and Ice Creme:: Preview
Next week we visit a large cherry farm to see trees in full blossom, and find out more about the importance of bees as pollinators; learn how to make a very unusual ice cream flavor: bone-marrow, smoked cherry ice cream with bourbon; and...
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Cherry Orchards in Full Bloom
Mike Omeg's family has farmed in The Dalles, Oregon area for five generations. As Omeg explains in the video, at one time the farm was a diversified operation with cattle, wheat, and the big cash crop in the early 1900's: watermelons. In...
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A Few Key Things to Know About Pickles & Cucumbers
In this short video, Paul Fuller of Sweet Creek Foods lays out some of the key requirements to producing quality homemade pickles. For those interested in learning more about making pickles, stay tuned for our Kitchen segment (making...
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Street-Style Enchiladas with Homemade Adobo Sauce
Chef and restaurateur Kelly Myers of Xico in Portland, Oregon shows us how to make a quick form of enchiladas she refers to as street style, they are cooked on a grill or stovetop without any baking. Myers also whips up a tasty adobo...
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Salmon En Papillote with Wild Mushrooms
Chef Kathryn Yeomans of The Farmer's Feast demonstrates how to make a succulent wild and cultivated mushroom dish with fresh salmon to deeply satisfy all earthly pleasures, including that of the olfactory senses.
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What Makes Good Cheese and the Many Different Varieties of Cheese?
There's a seasonality to the taste of cheese that follows in part from what the animals (cows, goats, etc.) are eating in the pasture, and is reflected in the taste of their milk. Rudy Marchesi, and Claudia Lucero talk about the general...
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Supa Fresh Youth Farm: Helping Underserved Teens Learn Life Skills
Mia Bartlett, a career specialist with YouthSource, a program of the Oregon Human Development Corp., was walking her dog one day near Tigard. It wandered off, and she found it in what looked like an overgrown garden full of blackberries...
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Salmon Gravlax with Creme Fraiche
Portland Chef Annie Cuggino of Veritable Quandary, demonstrates how to turn simple ingredients, into well—what you see in this video!
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Wheat Harvest
The day we visited David Brewer of Emerson Dell Farm in late July, he was nearing the end of his wheat harvest on about 1200 acres of dry-land crop. Brewer's soft white winter wheat has low gluten strength, and most of it is shipped to...
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The World of Distilled Spirits
Yeast never sleeps," said Sebastian Degens. Which is a good thing, since Degens and his wife, Erika, depend on it to ferment the fruit and grain mashes they distill at their Stone Barn Brandyworks in Portland, Oregon.
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Sweet & Savory Pies: A Love Story
When Philly native Sarah Curtis-Fawley travelled to Australia for what she just intended to be a year, fate seems to have intervened. Marrying, and eventually opening up a bakery (the Pacific Pie Company) in Portland, Oregon specializing...
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The Beginner's Guide to Making Home Brew
In this episode, veteran beer-making instructor Jeremy Frey, from F. H. Steinbart Company, one of the oldest home beer supply houses in the country, shows us how to make a batch of home-made beer.
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The Beer Engine and True Imperial Pint Measure
Publican Ted Sobel of the Brewers Union Local 180, shows his cask-conditioned beer engine, and how the beer is hand-pulled into a full imperial pint or half pint jar that he serves to his customers.
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The Evangelist of Hash and His Dining Escapades
Clark Haass is bent on world domination, but not in the evil-overlord, bwa-ha-ha sense. He wants to bring the world to the table over a heaping plate of hash.
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Symphony of the Soil: Interview with Deborah Koons Garcia
Deborah Koons Garcia's exceptional, new film, Symphony of the Soil, pays loving homage to the beauty and the wondrous mystery of soil, celebrating not just the incredible soil diversity found on four of the world's continents, it also...
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Symphony of the Soil: The Creative Filmmaking Process
Part 2: Independent Filmmaker, Deborah Koons Garcia talks about her latest film Symphony of the Soil, and some of the ways that she brings together animation, watercolor images, and original music, to provide a better understanding about...
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Vegetable Literacy: Deborah Madison Describes Some Plant Families
In the interview above, Deborah Madison talks about some of the botanical families, and their edible members that are organized by chapter in her book.