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crops," Kolling said."Now is a good time to record what you planted Fall is a week old, and while our and where." gardens may continue to grow, the Rowcroft advisesgardeners not first kost of the season has already to leave any grass clippings or spring." struck in many places. leaves in their yards, as snow mold — Pat Kolling, can grow. Put your dead plants, So how do you best prepare OSU master gardener your garden for the winter months grass clippings and leaves in your ahead? Pat Kolling, OSU master compost bin, but be careful to layer "If it's your vegetable garden, you in green and brown waste evenly. gardenerand co-coordinator ofthe Hollinshead Community Garden, want to have something organic Compost decomposition slows in and Denise Rowcroft, sustainability that will break down, with no dye," winter, and a big problem kom Kolling said. By covering your garfall yard cleanup is a thick layer of educator at The Environmental den in a layer of manure or straw, Center in Bend, have some tips woody debris that sits in the comforthe careofyourfallgarden to you'reprotecting therootsofperen- post bin and doesn't break down. ensure better spring planting. nials kom the cold temperatures. You can choose to winterize your Kolling suggests waiting until Both Kolling and Rowcroft outdoor compost bins, but most peothe hard kost before removing suggestedplanting acovercrop or ple don't. Rowcroft doesn't at The "green manure" over your garden anything.'You're going to want Environmental Center gardens. to remove any debris from your As far as pruning certain shrubs beds. A cover crop is something you to keep them safe kom snow breakgarden. You want to clean iitl up for plant in time for it to germinate spring planting," Kolling said. Rein the fall, lie dormant over the age, Kolling said, "it really depends winter and then grow in the spring. if there's is a lot of snow in the winm ove weeds, rocks,diseased plants ter." Some snow you can walk out in and anything that's going to cause "It adds nutrients to your soil and problems. Adding a layer of organic biomass," Rowcroft said. Before you the yard and brush off your plants, before damage occurs. Kolling sugcompost or manure over your flower plant your spring garden, you till beds for the winter gives it lots of the cover crop into the soil. Some gests that now is an excellent time time to break down and be ready for common cover crops in Central Orfor some good garden maintenance, egon are winter rye and maple peas. so if you're worried about certain planting in the spring. Kolling suggested using raked Kolling said one of the most shrubs you might as well prune. important things people should do You can also prune your perennials leaves that are chopped up with a lawn mower, or layering pine straw is write down a record of where they down. Some sources suggest prunkom pine needles as a cover. You ing them to the ground, but Kolling planted things. 'You're not going to want to concan also use a layer of organic bark said she leaves around 4 to 5 inches mulch or compost to keep the weeds tinue planting tomatoes in the same in her garden. "Really, annuals are not going to down. place every year. You need to rotate WesCom News Service
CHICKEN Continued from Page 1B One taste and it's easy to see why lemon, garlic, rosemary and olive oil are such bedrock Italian flavors, and how they can humbly yet completely transform plain-old chicken into something remarkable. The recipe is flexible, too. The cookbook's version instructscooks to "marinate for about an hour," and I prefer that outcome; the lavors are brighter,particularly f when it comes to the garlic. But my schedule doesn't always afford the luxury of two pre-dinner hours, and I'vecome toappreciatetheme llow charms that come from an all-day marinade, one that's pulled together just before I start my morning commute. The original formula calls for a whole chicken, cut into eight
"The moreyou can doin the fall, the easieritis to get ready for the growing season in the
pieces. I'veprepared itthatway, but trial and error have taken me in all kinds of successful directions, usually in response to purchasing whatever's on sale.I've tried drumsticks, a wings fun-pack, boneless and skinless breasts. You name it, and I'venever been disappointed. Still, experience has led me to stick with thighs, preferably those retaining their bones and skin; the dark, juicy meat really holds up under the oven's hot temperature, and itmakes for the tastiestleftovers. And oh, my gosh, the leftovers. This is one roast chicken that is utterly delicious when served cold the next day. Even shopping for this recipe is a snap. Since we are rarely without garlic and olive oil, I can pull dinner together on the fly with a count-tothree supermarket run, buying one ofthose produce-department plastic
packages of kesh rosemary, two lemons and threei-ishl pounds of chicken thighs. Another reason to love: Each time Ipreparethisrecipe — it's afavorite of my husband's, so I've rolled it out probably a dozen times since January — I get better at it. This happy development always reminds meofsome sage advice that Christopher Kimball — the founder of the Cook's Illustrated/ Cook's Country/America's Test Kitchen media juggernaut — once shared with me. And, subsequently, Star Tribune readers. 'The secret is limiting your recipe repertory, "he said."Itdoesn'tneed to be huge; that's why you go out to dinner. No more than 50 recipes, and stick to them. That's how you become a good cook. You can't get good at it unless you do it all the time."
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materials, themes and locations. The committee is chaired by a non-voting Oregon Arts Commission public artjvisual arts Continued ~om Page 1B While researching this column, I started coordinator. with a very outdated, but lovely, self-guided Oregon has more than 2,500 works of art with more than 1,000 artists involved tour brochure from the Chamber of Commerce entitled "Union County Public Art with Percent for Art who have earned more Collecti on."From there Icontacted several than $6 million. This is where Wendy Ross entered the picture for La Grande. county offices to see if they could help me update the list of our collection. Much to iLittle did I know at the time how talentmy surprise they had no idea what I was ed and well known she was as an artist.) talking about. Her name was on the artist registry One office did some research while we maintained by the Arts Commission ithis is definitely no longer for out-of-work were on the phone and we both learned artists) and when the science building exactly what public art is and how it is acquired, but we still didn't know just how was completed on the EOU campus, her many pieces there were in Union County sculpturewas selected. Here is what I have learned in the past few Would you like to guess how many pieces of public art there are in Union County? days: From Aug. 29, 1935, until June 30, 1943, There are 58. the Federal Art Program was in operaThese are located on the EOU campus, tion for the purpose of employing out-ofin the Oregon Department of Transportawork arti ststoprovide artfor non-federal tion building, and at Hilgard Work Study Camp. A complete list may be found at government buildings such as schools, hospitals, and libraries. Supposedly during https//oregondigital.org/digcoVoacj. All that time 200,000 separate works, mostly exceptthose 16 pieces atHilgard are accessible to the public. If you wish to see the posters, murals, and paintings, were creeight at ODOT call 541-963-3177 to make ated. As stated in the Union County brochure: arrangements. "Theseprojects had afargreaterimpact The 34 art pieces on the EOU campus on the public that anyone imagined. The iby artists including the ones mentioned at art provided a diversion from the mundane the beginningofthe article)are scattered and increased public pride." throughout the buildings and grounds. My Two counties in Oregon adopted a public favoriteofthe four ma joroutdoor sculpart program in 1975, and this made us one tures on campus is named "The Gathering." I would invite you to take a fall eveof the first three states to do so. By 1977, the program had spread to allofOregon's ning stroll through campus to find this and 36 counties. ORS 276.080 states that"One the other three — W endy's "Unnamed," the '%eir Sculpture" and the "Storm Sentinel." percentofmonies for construction ofstate buildings be used for acquisition of art Baker County has eight Percent For Art work." pieces located in the Powder River CorrecThis program is managed by the state tional Facility. I would assume these also arts agency which in Oregon is the Oregon are notaccessible to the public. Arts Commission. Its regulations state Pendleton, St John Knits, Appleseed's, that"No less than 1percent ofdirect Castleberry, Bleyle, Eileen Fisher. These arerecognized as the names ofclassicdeconstruction funds for new or remodeled signs of women's clothing. Did you realize state buildings above $100,000 are to be they are currently available at The Royal set aside for acquisition of artwork." This art is to "enhance public environments Clothiers located at 1431 Adams Ave. in La and improve character and quality of state Grande? buildings." The store recently acquired a large inventory oflike-new extraordinarily beautiSo let's say we have a new building that falls into this category. Who decides what fulsuits,jackets,etc thatarebeing offered pieceofartorwhat artistis to beinvolved? at amazingprices.Ifyou have never visited The artist is selected by a committee of this store I highly recommend you do so. people including some of the following: the You will be glad that you did. And men, architect, citizens, building tenants, and there are some items that you too might artists who decide on and evaluate styles, like. Be aware! Look! Buy! Enjoy!
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survive the winter, so once it kosts, remove them and clean up the flower bed," Kolling said. Fall is a good time to plant perennials and native plants because "they have all winter to sort of get comfortable in their place so that in the spring when they grow they're ready to go," Rowcroft said.'You want to plant itheml well before the kost." Another plant that does well when planted in the fall is garlic. 'You plant the cloves and then you walk away," Rowcroft said."The water is ofE we're not tending to it at all and it just comes up in the spring." One clove of garlic will turn into a whole bulb, so, for example, if you have eight cloves, you will get eight bulbs."It's a pretty sustainable, little-effort thing to do," Rowcroft said. So remove those dead or diseased plants, plant some garlic, make a garden map or journal and cover your garden beds with something nutrient-rich, and your spring gardening will go as smoothly as ever. "The more you can do in the fall, the easier it is to get ready for the growing season in the spring," Kolling said. So get out there while the weather is still pleasant and startpreparing forspring.
LEMONYROAST CHICKEN Serves 4. Adapted from chef Evan Kleiman of Angeli Caffe in Los Angeles in "The New ComfortFood: Home Cooking From Around the World" (Chronicle Books,$35),edited by James Oseland. /2cup extra-virgin olive oil /2cup fresh rosemary leaves "/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice 10 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 1 lemon,peel and seeds removed, pith and pulp chopped Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste About 3"/2pounds chicken, cut into 8 or 9 pieces In a large bowl, combine olive oil,
DORY Continued ~om Page 1B Ireservetherightto defend myself and my food in any way I see fit kom all fly attacks. September flies can be vicious, sneaky, and aggravating to say the least. With each opening of a door, they wing inside in absolute glee forwhat they may fi nd in banquet. They sit at a distance and take stock of their prey, then attack with a vengeance. They keep you kom enjoying your own repast in alertness of defending your own property, dutifully earned and ordered. Places of service are defenseless against their equal enemies, for doors must open to allow customers entry and the kagrance of food is irresistible. So, it follows that the battle ofthe food against the flies begins. There is something about fall weather that brings thesedipterous insectsto attack with the viciousness of mosquitoes, and I am particularly vulnerable to both. Even a cup of coffee isn't safe.
CDC: Kids need to cut back on the salt By Susan Selasky Detroit Free Press
It's open season on salt and the shaker is pointed at kids. A recently released study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
iCDCl found that about 90 percentofchildren 6-18 years old eat too much sodium, more than 3,300 milligrams in the form of salt daily, mainly in processed foods. Diets high in sodium, the CDC, says, can lead to high blood pressure, which can lead to other diseases. The study found that more than 40 percent of the sodium kids get comes kom common foods including: • Pizza; bread and rolls • Cold cuts and cured meats • Sandwiches like cheeseburgers • Snacks, such as chips • Chicken patties, nuggets, and tenders. rosemary, lemon juice, garlic, lemon and salt and pepper to taste. Select a ceramic or glass baking dish just large enough to hold chicken in a single layer. Brush about"/4 of marinade across bottom ofbaking dish. Arrange chicken, meaty side up, over marinade, then pour remaining marinade over chicken. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for1 to 12 hours. When ready to cook, preheat oven to 475 degrees. Remove plastic wrap, turn chicken over, spoon any excess marinade over chicken and roast for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, turn chicken over (so chicken is meaty side upj and roast for an additional15 to 25 minutes, until chicken is cooked through and browned. Remove from oven and serve with rice, potatoes or buttered noodles.
Our defense, primarily, is to brush away attacking fly, tryingtogetabite offood and close one's mouth before the fly can take it away from you, laughing as it does so. Hand brushing is temporary at best, for the fly, its mate, children, or relatives will follow up the attack as soon as you think you are safeto resume eating or drinking. Not so as you shall soon see when one surfaces from some unknown hiding place, forcing you to bring both of your hands into frantic waving maneuvers. One dayatthe end ofthe fly season when I was hanging up my flyswatters on nails at home where I would find them again the next year, I had an idea. One of my swatters had taken a bad beating that year and needed to be discarded or recycled. Well, I am a great recycler ,soIdecided on the latter, noting that the swatter still had a solid center. With scissors, I trimmed the core into a 2 V4-inch by 3-inch oblong with the handle still attached. In enthusiastic vengeance, I shortened the long handle to a four-inch length. I now
had a travel-swatter that I named"Dory's Fly Whopper." With 1t on my person, purse, bag, whatever, I set out with a new confidence in fly-fighting as any warrior would go into battle. I may have even played a John Philip Sousa march in my head asIwentforward as a feudalist to conquer. I must admit thatI need more practice in aiming where thefl y and my whopper meet, but I assure you that, though practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, there are several flies who have"bit the dust" under my own attack, and they will nevertry to getm yfood away from me again. Unfortunately, I believe that, before their demise under my Dory's Fly Whopper, they left behind the potential for another million or so offspring. Nonetheless, I'll be ready for them again next year, for my next new whopper will have a six-inch handle so the fly can't see me approaching so readily and it will still fit in my carry-along. It 1s my human r1ght to defend myself with any means I deem reasonable. And I intend to do so.
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