The garden season is winding down as quickly as it started where I’m located in Zone 3b Northeastern Minnesota. We had a very late start to the season. The snow receded just enough from the garden on May 10th that I was finally able to get my onions in. Nearly a full month later than […]
I’m on a mission this year to try as many rhubarb recipes as it takes to find ones that my kids just love. While I enjoy rhubarb in just about every way you can prepare it, getting not one, not two, but all THREE kids to appreciate a rhubarb recipe has been a challenge. I […]
Garlic scape season is kind-of a big deal. It’s fleeting, it’s abundant, and it comes all at once. It doesn’t care that it’s 500 degrees outside. I care. My fair freckled skin cares. But garlic scapes do not care. They wait for no one. And so, I braved the heat to grab a handful of […]
Let’s just put this out there: nobody likes dry, overcooked chicken. Or turkey. Or any other kind of meat for that matter. Unless you are my husband Josh. In which case he will take the most juicy, beautifully pink pork chop and fry it to a leathery death. But we mustn’t be like Josh. Say […]
As I sit here today, winter is beating at our back door. And I’m here all like, “What. Just. Happened.” Like, for real. Spring didn’t even arrive until our last frost mid-June. Then came the worst biting insect season I’ve ever experienced. So bad that much of the time we could hardly stand to be […]
Don’t you just love those foods that you could just wrap yourself up in and wear like a comfy oversized sweater? You know, the ones that are just so darn good they warm you up from the inside out and make you feel okay with the world. Even a world that is as cold and […]
Do you remember those foods from your childhood that you just simply hated? Me too. Canned spinach is the first to come to mind. No matter how many times my mom forced me to eat it, it always left me reeling in dry heaves. I remember it sitting in a rounded pile on my plate, […]
When I first started growing garlic years ago, I did so with little expectation. I’d taken a single bulb of garlic from our local whole foods co-op which consisted of 9 cloves, dug a trench and planted them in the fall. The following spring, it was so exciting to see the little green spears emerging […]
Hands down, the room where I spend the majority of my time in is the kitchen. It’s where we share our meals, visit with friends and family, process hundreds of animals to fill our freezers, can, prep, and preserve our food, and is essentially the heart of our humble home. But as central of a […]
It may sound surprising, but I make most of my jam during the winter months. Primarily due to two reasons: (1) Berries freeze extremely well. And since you have to mash the berries to make jam, the freezing process makes that part significantly easier. (2) From the time the snow melts until it falls once […]
