Tanuki

11/05/2022

You don’t want to miss this

08/23/2022

Unless you’re a gutter horror fan you’re probably not familiar with Art the Clown.
Bi***es gon learn.
The only genuinely scary slasher clown you need to know.

Art the Clown returns this Halloween and is more deviant than ever. From Cinedigm, Bloody Disgusting, and SCREAMBOX, we are excited to announce today that

08/19/2022

Why must all our relationships be built on LIES

07/28/2022

Hope y’all staying cool…. Don’t forget to put out fresh cold water for critters big and small if you can.

07/22/2022

Healthy vegetable side dish for a prepared meals client. Incidentally vegan, unless you choose to use honey for the glaze.
Gochujang roasted sweet potatoes with walnuts. This is a wonderful side dish for grilled meats and fish if you about that omnivore life. This makes 6 side dish portions.
Glaze: in a small mason jar shake 1TB shoyu, 1TB vinegar (I’m using my homemade pineapple vinegar, you could use cider, white, or rice) 2tsp brown sugar, maple syrup, or honey, 1 serrano chili minced, 2tsp ginger minced, 2 cloves garlic smashed, 2tsp gochujang
Veggies- heat a large sauté pan with oil- I use peanut or coconut here
Add approx 1 1/2 # sweet potato cut into 1/2-3/4inch chunks. Add a pinch of salt and roast stirring occasionally until lightly browned (about 10 minutes on medium flame) tossing in 2C coarse chopped head cabbage, and 1 red onion in large chunks. Stir and cook until sweet potatoes are just tender (about 5-8 more minutes.
Pour glaze over and bring to a boil, stirring just enough to keep pan from scorching. Remove from heat and add a fistful of fresh spinach.
Optional- when spinach is wilted add 1/2C roasted unsalted nuts (walnuts here, but peanuts, cashews, pine nuts, hazelnuts, or even just mixed nuts are also good) or if allergic to nuts you can use seeds for crunch, or even crispy fried shallots or onion strings- reminder here that you’d want to switch oils as well.
For myself I like to serve this with crispy tofu and black rice with coconut and pandan.
A reminder- if you want more tips and recipes, I post mostly on Instagram as Tanukipdx, since I’m in FB jail a lot.

07/20/2022

Only $47 to adopt a lovely new friend through July!
Just LOOK at all these good friends!

In July, the adoption fee for all adult cats and dogs is $47, celebrating our 47th anniversary! They need us (and you) to speak for them and show them love and compassion.

When an animal arrives at our shelter and realizes they will never see their families again because they've been abandoned to fend for themselves like an inanimate object, they often cry for days, hardly eat, and rarely engage. Only following that can we begin the heartbreaking and ever-taxing work of helping them to trust again.

As you probably know, our shelter has been bursting at the seams for about 2 years, especially with dogs. We no longer have the space to take in more dogs until we find homes for those we currently have. Do you have what it takes (love and patience) to open your heart and home?

The average cost for us to care for an animal is $415. If other care such as dental or blood work is needed, that jumps to $615. Our animals are spay/neutered, receive vaccines, de-wormer treatment, microchips, healthy food, a safe place to live, and plenty of TLC from our staff and volunteers

*Dog meet and greets are by appointment only
*You can visit cats without an appointment Thurs-Sat 10A-5P
*To make an appointment, please answer the questions on the dog's bio on our website hbpets.org/adopt

Please do not contact the shelter about adopting; this only slows our process down. Our staff will contact you if your situation is a potential good fit for the dog.

We look forward to a successful July and the new homes we hope it will bring to our animals.
With love, the HBPets Team

p.s. To support our lifesaving work you can donate online linktr.ee/hbpetsmcminnville mail a check to HBPets PO Box 8 McMinnville, OR 97128

07/07/2022

Was inspired to do this when chica wanted a smoked chicken and it seemed kinda wasteful to have the grill going for hours with just a lil 3 # chicken in it. That’s a useful tip in general for time and fuel meal prep efficiency- if you’re heating up a grill or oven anyway get a bunch of veggies cleaned, rubbed in oil, lightly salt and toss those lil monkeys on there too-carrots, tomatoes, onions, garlic, beets, peppers, you name it.
So yeah, I had some smoked beets and onions as a side effect of chicken. If you want to make this but don’t have the wherewithal for grilling and smoking just skip that step (though the smokiness is lovely) and allow for a longer boil time. Also, maybe add some smoked salt because the smoke is je ne sais quois.
Smoked beet baba ghanouj (vegan).
Smoke beets and onions til just softened. It’ll depend on what else you’re grilling and at what temp. You’ll be using 1 1/2 C beets and 1/2 C onion. Use the rest in salads and s**t.
In a small saucepan cover your beets and onion with water, along with 1/3 C soaked cashews. If you don’t have cashews use soaked almonds, macadamia or Brazil nuts, or walnuts or hazelnuts. Allergic to nuts? Leave them out and when we get to the tahini part use an extra 1/3C on top of what’s called for.
Bring to a boil, and keep at a LOW boil for about 20 minutes.
Drain. Put it all in a blender, add 5 or 6 cloves garlic, 1/4 C fresh lemon juice, 1/4tsp toasted ground cumin, 1/8tsp ground white pepper or cayenne. Blend about 30 seconds.
Now add 1/3C tahini (or double if you skipped the nuts) and 1+ 1/4tsp kosher salt and blend on high for 2minutes. At the one minute mark start drizzling in 1/3C of high quality (tastes good on its own) EVOO, or avocado oil.
When it’s so smoooooooooth it must be a Li-Mo-Sine taste for seasoning and adjust salt, cumin, and lemon juice if you want to change the balance. If you add anything at that point blend another 10 seconds.
And there you are, beet baba!
If you got those good greens with your beets you could make some beet leaf dolmades to go with.
But that, my friends, is another recipe for another time.

07/05/2022

Traditions are soothing in difficult times.
The day after July 4th is Mac and cheese day at casa de Nuki, because unless you leave your business unsupervised to be pillaged by dogs, crows, and squirrels, there’s always leftover chips gettin stale.
Just take the whole assortment all together. Here we have Doritos, Flamin Hot Fritos, and potato chips.
Just grind em up in the food processor or smash em up fine in a bag, toss with a couple tablespoons melted butter or garlic oil, and use as crumb topping for your Mac and cheese. If it’s too hot to turn on the oven for baked Mac and cheese, just toast your buttered crumb mixture in a pan til golden brown and crispy.
Goes good with the leftover beer.

07/04/2022

07/04/2022

I try not to let myself be a public killjoy too often, but I always make an exception for this.
Pets are terrified by fireworks and so are wild animals. Depending on weather conditions where you are you may also start a fire that can’t be controlled until it’s damaged some, or many, lives.
The debris from many fireworks is toxic to animals, and many die from ingesting this poison.
I don’t like to tell anyone how to live their lives, I get the world can seem pretty joyless lately and everyone is snatching at any little bright spot they can, for themselves and their kids.
But if you’re on the fence, and if you care about things like animals, damage to the environment, and basic nasty littering…. Maybe you can think of something else this year.
Either way, whether you are celebrating the fourth this year because you see good reason to be patriotic, or you just can’t feel that vibe because of the state of things, I hope you squeeze some joy from your day.