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An Oregon Cottage: Simple Homemade Life

Jami Boys

Hi, I'm Jami and I love to share simple real food recipes, easy gardening tips, and the best, quickest ways to preserve seasonal food. In my emails you'll find behind the scenes news from the farmhouse and doable, delicious recipes for every stage of life straight to your inbox!

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🇲🇽 Tex-Mex favorites -plus what I've planted.

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, Last week I harvested these from the garden: asparagus fall planted carrots, beets, and parsnips baby spinach baby kale from last year's plants gone to seed - I saved all the baby leaves as I pulled the plants and they are great! green onions chard leaves from last year's plants (still!) None of them are huge amounts, but I've added them to...

5 days ago • 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 your week has gone well! We had a super eventful weekend last week - a memorial service for a dear aunt of mine on Friday and burial and memorial for Brian's mom on Saturday (who passed away last February). Talk about emotional, right? But they were both beautiful and actually life affirming - both women touched many people in their long...

12 days ago • 1 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, Look what I get to share with you this week: Lots of apple tree blossoms to go along with the plum blossoms I shared with you a few weeks ago!! This is a four year old apple that has never bloomed, just like the plum, so this is a big deal for me. Fertilizer for the win!! I have two other apples, but they were just planted last year and I don't...

19 days ago • 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, It's that time of year when the garden is waking up and I find I want to (sometimes need to) do something everyday the weather allows in my flower beds and veggie garden. Which is to warn you that the next few months will have more garden content along with recipes. 😀 The big thing this week was the arrival of bare root plants from Food Forest...

26 days ago • 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'm SO excited to share this with you! First, a reminder: last year I complained in this letter about our little orchard (two plums, three apples, and a peach tree) that even though one of the plums was 4 years old and an apple 3 years old, NONE of the trees has ever had even ONE blossom. That's right, not even one flower, let alone any fruit....

about 1 month ago • 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, Oh, the last week has been just glorious weather here - sunny and in the 70s for a few days!! In typical Oregon fashion the weather for Spring Break next week is rainy and cold. 😂 Though if you like to ski on spring break there will be fresh snow in the mountains! I did get all of the flower beds cleaned up last weekend (and finished The Other...

about 1 month ago • 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, Today I’d like to ask - is “healthy dessert” an oxymoron? Can you really have a good tasting dessert that’s actually healthy? I’ve spent the last couple of years experimenting and recipe testing on both cherished family recipes and new treats to see how far you can go to have a truly delicious dessert that is actually lower in sugar and...

about 1 month ago • 1 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, As I write this the sun is shining in all the farmhouse windows and the high today should be in the 60s! It did start out at 33 degrees, but I am itching to get out in the garden and start the clean up I didn't get to last week - yay! (In my defense, in between the rain showers last Saturday I did get some things cut back in the veggie garden,...

about 2 months ago • 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 was looking at the recipes I make again and again and realized that many of them are side dishes. These are the recipes I look to go with anything from shrimp kabobs, to baked/grilled chicken, to baked pasta. It's so great to have a go-to list of these to quickly add to a main dish or protein, so I thought I'd share the sides I've been making...

about 2 months ago • 1 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, even though this week we had a low of 28 degrees, I'm going to pretend spring is springing. 😂 It helps that the daffodils are blooming and the flowering cherries are starting to bud, so it's not just wishful thinking! Which brings us to the point: what is the state of our gardens? Mine is woefully behind schedule. Every time there was...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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