Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Welcome to October! As always at the beginning of a month, I'm sharing some dinner menus I will be putting on our calendar from the October Dinner Menu Plans, which you'll find below. But first I wanted to share a little more about the garden. I got quite a few responses from my complaining sharing last week about how poorly my garden produced...
9 days agoΒ β’Β 5 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, It was so encouraging to get so many responses from last week's newsletter with the link to my new physical cookbook, Easy Water Bath Canning: 40 Tried and True Recipes for Tomatoes, Pickles, and More! We've mailed the first 10 copies we had and put in a larger order that should be coming in about a week, so everyone who has or will preorder the...
16 days agoΒ β’Β 4 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, While I'm trying to enjoy these last days of blue skies and warmish weather (it did hit upper 80s on Tuesday for the last time, which was perfect for our last evening paddle and charcuterie picnic on a nearby lakeπ) I've also been working on something behind the scenes that I'm SOOOO excited to have to offer you! It's an actual, physical...
23 days agoΒ β’Β 4 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, We've just returned home after a 9-day road trip that took us through Washington, Idaho, and into Montana where we spent four days exploring Glacier National Park and one day across the border in Canada's Waterton Lakes Park. You know how some people love road trips and plan them regularly? Yeah, not me or Brian - they are a means to an end, but...
about 1 month agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I'm glad you're a part of the Oregon Cottage community - it's a great one that rallied around me after I shared my first burn in more than 30 years of canning from a freak jar break.π (Missed it? You can read about it here.) I received so many well-wishes, as well as commiseration over kitchen burns and disasters. π In fact, I got so many burn...
about 1 month agoΒ β’Β 4 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I hope your week has gone better than mine! Well, just to be clear, the disasters I referred to in the subject line are tiny and not on any big scale (though I'm typing very carefully right now, as you'll see why...). Unless you've been a part of the Oregon Cottage community for a while you may not know that I've canned for many years - teaching...
about 2 months agoΒ β’Β 4 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Well, hot August made it's appearance in Western Oregon! We had three days of 100 degrees last week and my potted plants suffered for sure. Also yellowing bean and blueberry leaves and dead black-eyed susan plants. But surprisingly most things were okay with regular watering - thanks to my brother, since we were at the coast (great timing or...
about 2 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I hope you are doing well! Our weather has been really wonderful here - I keep waiting for the hot weather bomb to drop, lol. The weather people are saying a few days in the 90s next week, but that doesn't sound nearly as bad as the rest of the country these past weeks. There are two things I thought it would be good to talk about this week: No...
2 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, From now through September is the reason I work to grow a garden (and protect it from all our varmints.lol) - to go out daily and bring back a basket like this recent harvest: Berries, beans, peppers, and the first of the tomatoes (plus hidden underneath are a few cucumbers). I need a bigger harvest basket when I'm cutting whole heads of...
2 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read