August is a favorite month for picking wild blackberries at Three Feathers. Our French family enjoys this same privilege in Normandy where blackberries are plentiful. We are always on the lookout for good recipes to make with this dark tangy fruit besides jam and jellies and this particular blackberry pie recipe, slightly modified from a Cook’s Illustrated “All-Time Best Fruit … Read More
Clementine Cake, a Winter Delight
Clementine Cake, a Winter Delight | two recipe versions, including gluten and dairy-free Winter is upon us and the markets are full of zesty organic clementines, mandarins, kumquats, juicy oranges and lemons in all sizes. Clementine Cake is unique in that it uses the entire fruit, including peel, pith and pulp. We have experimented with different types of citrus fruit, … Read More
Simply Szechuan | Stir Fry by Oscar
Elise Prudhomme, Three Feathers partner, lives overseas in France with her family of three young adult sons, to whom she transmitted her culinary passion at an early age. In a world where how and what to eat is an increasing concern, not to mention balancing a student budget and eating healthy, Elise is thrilled to share some of her sons’ … Read More
Hay Harvesting on Three Feathers Estate
Three Feathers Estate 2017 Hay Harvest The day the Prudhomme boys landed in Portland from France, Three Feathers hay was ready to harvest. We drove the French contingent right to Wilco to buy double-reinforced leather gloves and it was off to work. In three days, Big Blue and Baby Blue (our two New Holland tractors) cut and raked and win-rowed … Read More