Pacific Northwest Trips Archives

Crisp™ Zester + Oranges = Perfect Marmalade

What’s NEW in kitchen gadgets that every home cook needs to have in the kitchen? Crisp™ “Tools for Healthy Eating”. I received several of their new hand tools to try and since it was January, one of the best times to make homemade marmalade I opened up the Crisp™ Citrus Tool first. The first thing […]

Honey Pretzel Peanut Butter Buckeyes

Here is another great recipe I made using Oregon made Wild Friends Honey Pretzel Peanut Butter. I used my traditional Peanut Butter Buckeye recipes and gave it a Fresh From Oregon twist. I transformed their Honey Pretzel Peanut Butter into melt in your mouth little bits of heaven. Buckeyes are a peanut butter confection crafted […]

Portland Farmers Market is Open….

You know spring has started the Portland Farmers Market at the Portland State University first day was Saturday. It was a perfect sunny day with the temperature at 70 degrees. I got there about 9:30 one hour after being opened and the crowd was unbelievable. They added another section of booths and moved the location […]

The Hoods are here… Mini Strawberry Pretzel Pie

Fresh strawberries are over flowing everywhere here in Oregon. As I was walking through the farmers market this weekend the question I kept hearing as people were buying strawberries was are they “Hoods”. The strawberry variety everyone looks for here in Oregon are “Hood” Strawberries, so what are Hood Strawberries? They emerged from Oregon’s Hood […]

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