Culinaria Eugenius

• northwest food and wine festival recap

  This post is a tad late in the telling, but I’m catching up with all my back stuff this week, and wanted to have these notes on the record.  Retrogrouch and I were happy to have the opportunity to spend the weekend in continuing education at the Northwest Food and [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:35pm EST
  by Eugenia

• dark days challenge #2: post-Thanksgiving corn chowder

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  For the second week of the Dark Days Winter Eat Local Challenge, I was indeed challenged.  The days leading up to Thanksgiving, and after Thanksgiving, I was really focused on the big meal we ate on the day.  With all the leftovers, it was hard to justify going to the [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:07pm EST
  by Eugenia

• thanksgiving 2009

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  We had 21 people over for what could be called an “orchestrated potluck” this year on a rainy, cold evening.  My dear friends brought appetizers, side dishes, and desserts to supplement what I had made, and thus we had a wide range of choices for all the guests. We had several [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:52pm EST
  by Eugenia

• ode on a fresh turkey

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  I always brine.  I know just by admitting this, I’m an anachronism in the food world, so yesterday.  Even Cook’s Illustrated doesn’t brine anymore.  But I like the slightly slick juiciness that brining gives to white meat, and it’s never hurt my dark meat. Plus, it’s one slightly gross, slightly perverse [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:42pm EST
  by Eugenia

• cranberry sauce alternatives

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  And since I’m on a blogging roll, I wanted to brag about my Punchy Cranberry Sauce again this year.  Need a cranberry sauce recipe to wow your friends?  You’ve come to the right place.  Ginger Street and Northwest Orangezest, turn left at the bog.  I’m amending the recipe this time [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:06pm EST
  by Eugenia

• holiday help line

  And just a reminder, since the Register-Guard Thanksgiving food section failed to note that we’ve got a terrific local resource and don’t need to rely on the Butterball corporate hotline… and the local radio DJs reported on people calling 411 for turkey help… HOLD THE PHONE! The OSU Extension-Lane County Master Food Preservers [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  by Eugenia

• gifts in a jar 2009

  Now that I’ve overseen my second annual “Holiday Gifts in a Jar” class for the Master Food Preservers, I’m in jar gift mode, and I thought I’d share the bounty of my research with you.  Once a week, from now until New Year’s Day, I’ll be posting a recipe or [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:05pm EST
  by Eugenia

• dark days challenge: squashed

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  I joined up with the bloggers doing the Dark Days Winter Eat Local Challenge, a once-weekly meal made from SOLE ingredients (sustainable, organic, local and ethical).  Since so much of what we eat here at Raccoon Tree Acres is from the local farms, I thought it wouldn’t be a problem [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:44pm EST
  by Eugenia

• new column in ew: squash whip queen of hungary!

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  I’m failing as a blogger this week: just too busy.  But I have good reason.  Today, I’m teaching 50 students (including some of my own from the Clark Honors College at U of Oregon, yay!) how to make “gifts in a jar” for the Master Food Preservers.  Two full classes, [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:03pm EST
  by Eugenia

• gettin’ lucky in pdx: sichuan!

  After a trying week, we drove in the rain up to Portland for the weekend.  I’m here to learn everything I can about Portland restaurants and food trends at the Northwest Food & Wine Festival, and I’ll be posting about that tomorrow.  But for now, let me just say that [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:59pm EST
  by Eugenia

• dining niblets: what’s for dinner edition

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  Last Saturday to buy your produce and local meat/fish/cheese at the outdoor Farmers Market.  The venue moves indoor at the Fairgrounds, but many of the local farms will be shutting down market operations for the season.  So don’t miss it! If you do have to miss it, however, remember that there [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:23am EST
  by Eugenia

• gearing up for the dark days blogging challenge

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  My entire house smells like the floral, slightly apply, slightly pineapply fruit most of us wouldn’t even recognize: the quince.  It’s a part of the supplies I’m gathering as part of the 3rd annual Dark Days blogging challenge, run by Laura of (not so) Urban Hennery up in the great [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  by Eugenia

• café arirang – best korean in eugene

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  Café Arirang on Franklin, the best kept dining secret in Eugene, now has a list of fall specials, including these spicy soups and noodle dishes to warm your insides: Zzambong, a “very spicy” noodle soup with seafood (9.95); Zzajang Mjun, vegetables, pork, potatoes in a black bean sauce over noodles (8.95); [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:18pm EST
  by Eugenia

• new farmers market on campus

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  Thursday marks the second of four weeks that local farms will be hawking their fall produce on the University of Oregon campus.  More information by clicking here. Check it out and make it worth their while! They’ll only be around until Thanksgiving. I am amazed and proud that U of O [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:02am EST
  by Eugenia

• burgerville sweet potato fries

  On our way home from Seattle, we realized we had failed to time our meals properly.  We weren’t hungry in Portland, so we missed the excellent dining opportunities there.  An hour later, though, we were feeling peckish, and deciding we couldn’t face Eugene restaurants, we decided to stop in Albany [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:31am EST
  by Eugenia

• third annual tasting buffet – nov 8

  You are warmly invited to join us at the OSU Extension-Lane County Master Food Preservers Tasting Buffet and Auction Fundraiser next Sunday, November 8, from 4-7!  This year, we’ll be at the Elks Lodge on W. 11th, a much larger space than the one we rented at Midtown last year.  [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:39am EST
  by Eugenia