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    bake your cakes in a frying pan, on the stove

    I have seen recipes for slow cooker cakes, and also some for microwaved cakes. We live in the Pacific Northwest, and even summer is not hot in the evenings (hot streaks here last about one week and then back to moderate weather), so heat is not the issue, it is the cost of electricity. We...
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    NWestern Oregon

    Most of John Day Fossil Beds is off limits to collecting. However, if you like to, you can stop in at Fossil, OR, and behind the high school, along a big hillside, you can collect fossilized leaves, pinecones, etc...They only ask that there be a donation, the suggested amount for a family is...
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    NWestern Oregon

    That is really back there, but I am sure peaceful (watch out for the "things" that go bump in the night). We live in an established rural farming area, just outside of Sandy (basically we live along the portion of the Barlow Trail. Speaking of, there is a place you should see. Head up to...
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    NWestern Oregon

    Yeah, I am a fifth generation Pacific Northwesterner, have spent a lot of time all around (my dad liked to wander every backroad on vacations). The red huckleberries actually make incredible jam and because they are tart, require less pectin, but just a bit more sugar then some berries might...
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    NWestern Oregon

    Since you are "new" to the area, I will let you in on a little secret (that is, if you don't already know about it). Huckleberries, no not the red ones that grow in moderate elevations, the blue ones. These grow in the sub-alpine climate. Around here it is up from Government Camp, up to just...
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    NWestern Oregon

    savingdogs, the weather has been horrible, plus, we never really had much of a summer, so it has felt like one long winter, for about a year or more. I am hoping to convince my tastebuds that they will like fish again. From a large family growing up here, salmon was in heavy abundance (then...
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    NWestern Oregon

    Hi new in from NW Oregon. Hmmm....where to start. Well, mother of three, youthful grandmother of 2 (still raising two teens). Moved out of the "city" and now in the countryside with a couple of acres. We have 26 egg layers, 6 red broilers (pullet sized yet) an two breeding rabbits (yes, for...
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