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It’s FOOTBALL SEASON! Know what that means? Time to pull out the smoker and grill and fire up some GREAT snacks… Oh wait. We already do that 356 days a year. But the start of football means cooler weather and cooler weather means more feel good foods like bacon and beef and cheese… And yeah […]
I hope you are enjoying summer as much as we have been. It’s been a whirlwind of family visits, little getaways and lots of work in the garden. We really get inundated with cucumbers this time of year, and that always has me thinking about pickles. While there are plenty of ways to preserve the […]
The title of this recipe is not a typo. Though I did just typo “typo” 3 times before I got it right. Slow fingers this morning. We are getting ready to enjoy a nice, lengthy end of summer weekend and I am already gone in my mind. But I digress. It is hard to believe […]
Shrimp. You love em or you hate em. I swear I have never met anyone who was on the fence about shrimp. But really I do not think I have met anyone who didn’t like them really. They rock. You can do SO MUCH with them. I love tempura shrimp. Shrimp cocktail. Butterflied and stuffed. […]
One of the best things about the summer and fall are the bonfires and cookouts that we are able to have with our friends and family. A staple food at most of these cookouts are hot dogs. Yeah, I know they are not the best for us, but there is just something about having a […]
Sometimes nothing tastes better then a good ole’ fashion fish fry. Jeff relegates me with stories about how that was a Friday treat while growing up. How they would have fish fries at Churches and VFW halls and anywhere they could. I don’t recall any of this while I was growing up in Chicago. I […]
It might seem odd that we chose meatloaf to make at what is supposed to be the height of summer. We should be eating light pasta and veggie salads and grilled lean chicken and juicy sweet melon. But this has been no ordinary summer up here in NorthEast Indiana. I woke up this morning to […]
This past Mother’s Day was Sarah’s first Mother’s Day as a mom, so I wanted to make it as special as possible. Since we had a two week old baby at home, going out was not exactly feasible. In light of that, I decided to make Sarah a meal that consisted of several of her […]
It’s that time of year again! You know the time I mean – when the spring rains and the summer sun have teamed up to bring us blueberries. Blueberries are abundant over most of the country right now. If you don’t have your own bushes [and if you want to grow your own fruit, blueberries […]
Summer canning season is one of my favorite food times of the year. The amount of fresh produce just makes me a happy camper. It makes it so much easier to eat healthy and feel so much better about the things that we are putting into our body. We like to can as much as […]
