Posts Tagged ‘berries’

The Call of the Fresh Oregon Berry

Berry picking is something I’ve been doing since I moved to Oregon. There is something very special about the berries here. Like the grapes for pinot noir, berries like the weather here during the summer months – once it kicks in! Cool nights and hot days. Generally the strawberries come into their full sweetness in [...]

Getting Berry Creative (video)

Jack Campbell, AKA Chef Jacques, demonstrates how to use fresh berries to make special sauces to enhance a variety of dishes.

Making Small Batch Strawberry Jam (video)

A cooking demonstration to make small batch jam using fresh strawberries, sugar, and other simple ingredients. Marge Braker is a retired home economics teacher.

Freezing Fruit For All Seasons (video)

An inside look at the Willamette Valley Fruit Company plant that freezes fresh, and locally produced fruits, for year-round uses. As many of you might already know, I’m a berry big fan of berries—all berries!! On top of that I love to see how things are done. So, going to visit where they freeze berries [...]

Strawberry Picking at a U-Pick (video)

It’s that time of year to get your buckets ready and go pick your own fruit and/or vegetables.

Zesty Marionberry Sauce

Check out the related video story: Making Berry Delicious Pies Those frozen pies that seem to fill the supermarket frozen display bins, where do they come from, and how are these frozen fruit pies made. We discovered one company, the Willamette Valley Fruit Company, in our own backyard that processes fresh picked berries, and within [...]