Category: Recipes
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 PanBaking With Mom
With Mother’s Day right around the corner, there is no better time than now to reminice about moments in the kitchen with Mom. Our special guest blogger, Sydney (age 11), loves baking with her Mom and spending time in the kitchen making memories. It is a great way to spend quality time with her family making […]
Read more about Baking With MomPerfecting the “Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie”
Throwing together a batch of chocolate chip cookies is second nature to me. However, whipping up a batch of “healthy” chocolate chip cookies seems to require a bachelor’s degree in culinary science. Unfortunately, that is not what I went to school for. Luckily I do spend majority of my free time in the kitchen baking. […]
Read more about Perfecting the “Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie”Popovers are easier than you think
For some quick drama at the dinner table, you can’t beat popovers. When these puffy, golden, odd-shaped orbs emerge from the oven you look like a genius in the kitchen! And they’re really very easy to make, once you have the right recipe, the right technique and the right pan from Nordic Ware. When I […]
Read more about Popovers are easier than you thinkCranberry Bean Believer
When we moved into our house the first project we invested in that gave me joy was working on the garden. While replacing the water heater was indeed an investment I found it extremely unsatisfying. You don’t invite dinner guests to an unfinished basement with a glass of wine to chat and relax amongst the beauty […]
Read more about Cranberry Bean BelieverSummer Berry Love
We just finished the last of the season’s strawberry crop from the Nordic Ware community garden. Eating a fresh home grown strawberry just picked and still warm from the sun reminds me that’s what a strawberry is meant to taste like. Grocery stores offers gigantic, perfectly shaped strawberries that are beautiful to look at but […]
Read more about Summer Berry LoveNew Scenic Café – Duluth, MN
Many kids have the opportunity to grow up in exotic places around the world. I got to grow up in Duluth, Minnesota. Growing up I thought that I got a bad shake in life having to grow up in this town that seemed so small and so basic. It took me moving away to college […]
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