Ann Loves Plants

Tag: Cooking

  • Cloudberries and a Kabocha Squash

    Reproduction of a painting by the Swedish botanist C. A. M. Lindman taken from Bilder ur Nordens Flora (first edition published 1901–1905). Recently a Finnish friend of mine asked me to pickup some Cloudberry Preserves for him from a local import store we have here in the Portland Metro area (Scandia Imports). Since he travels…

  • The Annual Blackberry Pilgrimage (Willamette Valley, Oregon)

    Yesterday I drove south on I-5 to Woodburn to pick blackberries with a friend of mine at another friend’s house. This has become an annual pilgrimage of sorts and is something we look forward to because good clean berries are becoming so hard to find in the city. A beautiful blackberry bloom. We picked for…