Recipe For Pickled Eggs

     While I was growing up, my family would sometimes make pickled eggs. We would visit the grocery store and ask them to save for us an empty jar of polish sausages, with the brine still in the jar. Oregon-based Reser's marketed gallon size jars of "Big Daddys" and "Hot Mamas." The brine that was left after all of the sausages had sold was usually strong enough to make one good batch of pickled eggs.
     Occasionally, we would add a few sliced beets to the brine to give the pickled eggs a pinkish tinge in color. The longer the eggs soaked in the brine, the father in the egg yolk would turn a reddish color. We presumably got the idea to add beets from my Uncle George and Aunt Ann Taylor, who operated in a bar called The Hide-Out in Riverside, California. The Taylors used beets to make picked eggs, which they sold at the bar,
     It wasn't until earlier this month that I discovered there was actually a Muirhead family recipe for pickled eggs, handed down through the generations. It's a simple recipe, but here it is.

This is the official Muirhead Family Pickled Egg Recipe as per Savilla Muirhead. (mother of Milo Muirhead and Ann Muirhead Taylor, grandmother of Monte Muirhead.) 
Place boiled and peeled eggs in a clean empty jar. Add canned, sliced beets and juice. Caution: Do NOT use canned pickled beets. Just plain canned beets. Add white (clear) vinegar. 4 to 1 ratio to the beet juice. Refrigerate immediately. Not sure how to reduce this recipe.....1 batch = 1 flat of eggs.

     If I were to become a pickled egg expert and make them on a regular basis, I would probably improvise. For one thing, a naturopathic diet (which I like to adhere to as much as possible) would use organic apple cider vinegar and organic eggs. Also, because I like things a little bit spicy, I would probably add a sliced Jalapeno or other pepper spices to the brine. 

Roseburg News-Review Ownership Black-out

The News-Review newspaper is under new ownership, Lotus Media, as of September 1st. 

     Neither the News-Review, nor KPIC/KVAL-TV, nor the Brooke Communications Roseburg radio stations will report WHO owns Lotus Media!
     Pat Markham, the owner of all of Brooke Communications/Roseburg's radio stations, is the owner of Lotus Media! 
     I've never seen such sloppy journalism in all of my life. SHAME on the News-Review, SHAME on KPIC/KVAL-TV, SHAME on Brooke Communications radio stations.
     If Pat Markham is too afraid to publicly announce that he has purchased the local daily newspaper, then the local print and broadcast reporters need to at least prove to their audiences that they tried to report the news. Examples: "Lotus Media declined to say who their owners are, and this reporter was too lazy to look up the information on line" or "Lotus Media owners declined to comment about their management structure", etc.
     I don't mean to sound condescending to other journalists, but is there not a single reporter in the Roseburg area who at least has the initiative to make a few phone calls, instead of regurgitating what is sent to them in a press release?
     I fear that this is the type of journalism Douglas County will have in the future, where one individual can suppress important information from ALL of the local news media.
     Kudos to the Coos Bay World for having the guts and initiative to "break" this story, by going to the Oregon Secretary of State's website to find out who owns Lotus Media! 
     Is looking something up on the internet going to be the new standard/definition of "investigative reporting"? (lol)