I created this recipe when I wanted to make a grilled version of calabacitas which is a squash based side dish often found at Mexican restaurants, especially in the Southwest – not as commonly in Minnesota. However, once I added in the fresh from the garden kale I received from a friend, I decided that…
Grilled Pinwheel Flank Steak with Spinach and Sundried Tomatoes
The second time I ever made flank steak using this technique was on a hunting trip to North Dakota. I had made it a few weeks earlier and it was in my head when I was meal planning. And the weather is hot in North Dakota during early Goose season when we were headed up…
Acini de Pepi with Spinach and Sundried Tomatoes
The first time I made this recipe was for North Dakota. I made it ahead of time as a side and figured that we could just heat it up when we were ready to eat. Well as it turns out, I liked it even better when I had it up there than when I tasted…
Blueberry Lemon Sherbet
Well here I am with a freezer full of blueberries and a new ice-cream cookbook Tory gave me for my birthday. It only makes sense that I tried an ice-cream? Or rather a sherbet. The cool thing about Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream (#CommissionsEarned) if you’re a food geek like me is that the…
Mini Blueberry Hand Pies
Last year was a bumper crop for wild Minnesota blueberries. I think we picked about 7 buckets in a weekend, maybe more. We picked almost 4 Saturday and were going to head home Sunday after checking game cameras at the land, when we stopped to check out a tip from my mother-in-law to give to…
Copycat Butcher’s Bistro Fry Sauce
Back when Derek was traveling to Denver two weeks a month, he and the crew he traveled with became regulars every Wednesday night at small restaurant called Butcher’s Bistro. I was lucky enough to join them a few times and absolutely fell in love with their steak frites. The steak was a ‘steak de jour’…
