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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Local foods, local recipes, local folks
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Becky Conant purchases Hermiston watermelons at the
Bellinger Farms shop on Highway 395 in Hermiston.
Conant is bringing the watermelons to a family reunion in
Florence as a remembrance of growing up in Hermiston.
First Hermiston
watermelons ready
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON
—
Hermiston’s most famous
crop is shaping up nicely
this year.
Bellinger Farms started
selling their fi rst batch of
watermelons this week and
Jack Bellinger said he was
pleased with the sugar con-
tent and weight.
“All indications sug-
gest that it’s going to be a
good year, quality-wise,”
he said.
He said he was sur-
prised with how much the
early melons weighed this
year, making him cau-
tiously optimistic about the
season.
Heavy snow in Febru-
ary had put the crop behind
schedule, Bellinger said,
and he had expected to see
a gap between when his
early fi elds and late fi elds
were ready. Instead, ideal
weather in June helped
speed things up and will
help keep watermelons
rolling into the store.
“I would have guessed
we wouldn’t start until July
15 or so,” he said.
Watermelons
are
already available for pur-
chase, however, and Bell-
inger said their operation
would start shipping them
outside of Hermiston on
Friday.
Walchli Farms water-
melons are not quite ready
yet, but Patrick Walchli
said they are looking good
and will be here “shortly.”
The large family-owned
farm sells its melons out
of a warehouse on Loop
Road.
“Right now they’re not
ripe, but I expect to have
good quality from what
we’ve seen,” he said.
He said in Eastern Ore-
gon you never know what
you’re going to get, weath-
er-wise, during a growing
season.
Editor’s Note: This is
the fi rst of what will be a
monthly column devoted to
local foods, local recipes
and the local people who
make good food happen.
This column is shep-
herded by Lynne Curry and
the Wallowa Slow Foods
organization. We hope you
enjoy it!
Janie Tippett’s
Strawberry Cream Pie
Makes 6 to 8 servings
A beautiful, delicious
pie. This recipe is best when
you use your own home-
grown strawberries or those
purchased from someone
locally.
— Janie Tippett
Ingredients:
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
¼ cup water
1 cup fresh strawberries,
mashed, or unsweetened
frozen strawberries
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 packages (8 ounces
each)
cream
cheese,
softened
1 cup confectioner’s
sugar
1 cup whipping cream
1 fully baked nine-inch
pie shell
2 cups fresh whole
strawberries
Blend together the sugar,
cornstarch and water in a
saucepan and stir in mashed
strawberries. Bring to a boil
over medium heat, then
cook, stirring, until thick-
ened, about 2 minutes.
Remove from the heat, stir
in lemon juice and cool to
room temperature.
Beat the cream cheese
and confectioner’s sugar in
a bowl until smooth. Whip
T HE B OOKLOFT
Ellen Morris Bishop
Janie Tippett’s Strawberry Pie requires no baking--except for the crust. Fresh local strawberriess
are the best, of course.
the cream until it holds
peaks. Fold in the
whipped cream. Spoon
the cream mixture
into the pastry shell
and arrange the whole
Wallowa Slow Foods
strawberries over it.
Spread the cooked
strawberry
mixture
over them, and refrigerate ones I made my jam from
until set, about 3 hours.
I got those from Cove.
Talking pie with Janie They’re so sweet.
Tippett:
I do my own creative
How long have you been stuff and use nectarines and
making this pie recipe?
strawberries. You can do
Oh my gosh. Probably for it with peaches. It’s really
20 years. I do a lot of exper- good with wild blackberries
imenting. This one seemed also. Of course, my all-time
to click, so I keep mak- favorite is the huckleberry
ing this one. I usually just cream pie. You just make it
use my homegrown straw- the same way. Oh my gosh,
berries. That’s the secret! I is it good!
don’t have any homegrown
Is
it
for
special
strawberries right now. The occasions?
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Methodist Church
Summit Church
3rd & Lake St. • Joseph
Pastor Cherie Dearth
Phone: 541-432-3102
Sunday Worship Service
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Gospel Centered Community
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The reason I make
it is because if I get the
fresh fruit in season and
there happens to be an
occasion, that’s when I
do it. (By the way, fro-
zen blueberries work
great in this pie.) I gen-
erally serve it when
I’m having more of a lighter
meal, I serve a pie. But not
always. I have big eaters in
my family.
Do you miss writing
Janie’s Journal for Agri-
Times Northwest?
I still belong to two writ-
ing groups. I do an essay a
week. I have to write and
I have to take pictures.
After 31 years, you gotta
do it. Like this morning, I
just went over to the gar-
den and weeded and came
home with a handful of
Swiss chard. I have my own
chickens, so I just scram-
bled up these eggs and put
the fresh Swiss chard in and
had to take pictures. So, it’s
on Facebook.
That’s what people liked
in my column, too. I love to
take pictures of food. It has
to be fresh. It’s the freshness
of the ingredients that makes
the food good. And the sim-
pler you can make it…I
could put all kinds of spices
in my Swiss chard, but you
can’t beat pullet eggs. And
the pullets are eating alfalfa,
so their yolks are yellow.
Just freshly ground pepper
and salt, Swiss chard and
eggs. You can’t go wrong.
What’s your life look
like these days?
I’m going to be 86 in
September. So, I just pretty
much do what I want to
do. I have the place on the
creek and go down there a
lot and write and entertain.
Always got family. I live
between two sons and this
whole herd of great grand-
children. I haven’t slowed
down a whole lot. I’m pretty
laid back.
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