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How to make an Apple Pie
Thanksgiving dinner – an honor and a challenge to host for the gathering of family and friends. Golden, roasted turkey, all of the side dishes and fixings – then the pinnacle, for dessert enthusiasts, the perfect creamy rich pumpkin pie. But what’s this!? My Great Aunt, from afar, who has traveled the world and eaten […]
Read more about How to make an Apple PieTips for Grilling or Roasting Turkeys
At some friends’ cabin one autumn, our host served my husband and me a turkey breast she had cooked on the grill. It’s smoky, crispy deliciousness wowed us and we’ve never gone back to making turkey in the oven for ourselves. Because we love dark meat as well as white, we tried her technique with […]
Read more about Tips for Grilling or Roasting TurkeysHearty Soup Recipes
There is nothing like bundling up on the couch in front of the warm fire with a big bowl of freshly made soup on a crisp day. It’s that time of the year to take out the stock pots and create your favorite homemade soup concoctions to ease those constant soup cravings and stock up […]
Read more about Hearty Soup RecipesNot my Choice, now my Passion!
Gluten free baking always comes with its challenges. Living with Celiac disease for the past twelve years, I have grown to love experimenting in the kitchen with gluten free recipes and overcoming some of these challenges of using different flour combinations, texture issues, and dry, crumbly end products. I will admit that gluten free cooking […]
Read more about Not my Choice, now my Passion!Hello Fall!
September is upon us and summer is officially coming to a close as the last summer barbecues and outdoor gatherings are wrapping up in Minnesota. For many, this is a sad reality as the dreaded weather change is developing and just around the corner. For others, the excitement for Fall is here, which is one […]
Read more about Hello Fall!In Search of Wild Blueberries
Summertime is perhaps the sweetest season of all to those of us who live in “the north”. We endure 6 to 7 months of the year with snow on the ground, temperatures than can reach -25°F with windchills nearing -40°F on the darkest of winter nights. Spring and fall are short in Minnesota. Oh, but […]
Read more about In Search of Wild BlueberriesThe Versatility of Compact Ovenware
I am not sure about everyone else, but here in Minnesota… yes in Minnesota we have had one hot summer. Many people tend to shy away from baking and cooking in doors but sometimes you just have to. When this happens one of the best tools I have found that I have in my kitchen […]
Read more about The Versatility of Compact OvenwareCreative Dishes you can make in the New Cookies & Cream Baking Pan
Ah, the classic chocolate cookie with milk. Combined as a cookies and cream dessert? Even better! Don’t like cookies? (That’s silly) Then try cake! Or Jello! That is what I thought when I saw this pan, but it didn’t stop there. Oh no. The possibilities are nearly endless. I made it a goal, more like […]
Read more about Creative Dishes you can make in the New Cookies & Cream Baking PanFlare Cookware
Introducing Flare Cookware with Fin technology! The latest technology for the kitchen, manufactured in America and the world’s first energy efficient line of high-performance cookware. Flare was the idea of a real-life rocket scientist named Dr. Thomas Povey, a professor of engineering at Oxford University in England. Not surprisingly, many of the principles that he uses when optimizing […]
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