Once we finished moving everything into the new place, Terri and Elsie came to visit for the weekend! The weather was kind of crummy, so we decided to make it a cooking weekend! Our cooking included:
Pumpkin/Onion/Feta Pie in Filo
Homemade chicken stock
Blackberry cream pie
Wine-marinated pear muffins
Friday night we relaxed and caught up and chowed down on Papa Murphy's pizza to prepare for the heavy cooking! Saturday we took the dogs to visit the Klamath Falls Farmer's Market to get some fresh veggies and herbs, then to Link River trail to pick blackberries and then to the Ruff House to play!
Picking blackberries! (Alee picked her own too...)
Klamath "Falls" along the Link River
Alee exploring...
Muddy feet!
Alee trying to play with a black Shepard...brave girl!
With fresh berries and tired dogs, we came home to start on the evening's cooking! We started with the chicken - to make the home made chicken stock, we made Terri and Ed some great chicken to go along with the dinner pie. Terri came up with an herb mix of lavender, lemon-balm, rosemary, salt and pepper to stuff in the chicken. It smelled WONDERFUL! After cooking for around 90 minutes, we had some pretty excited dogs! We made the pumpkin/onion/feta pie in filo dough and had a great filling dinner! I tried to get a pic of the chicken, but it was devoured before I could get the camera over there!
After eating, we stripped the remaining meat off the chicken and put the carcass in a crockpot along with some shallots, carrots, celery, garlic and herbs and covered them all with water for about 18 hours. Boy the house smelled wonderfully!
We cleaned our blackberries (and removed the MANY spiders) and mixed them with a sour cream/sugar mix and poured them into one of my home made pie crusts to bake for dessert!
With bellies full, we headed to bed for a good night's sleep!
Sunday morning we made wine-marinated pear muffins! This is a recipe that I've been wanting to try for a while. The recipe calls for cooking pears in a wine/cinnamon/clove mix until soft and then marinating in the fridge for 2-3 days. We cooked them on Friday and pulled them out this morning to make the muffins. They were delicious!
Sadly, Terri and Elsie had to go back home to Portland and we were all sad to say good bye.
Afterwards, we spent some time taking some cute pics of Alee outside...
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