Vidalia onions are only available in Minnesota for a short period each spring. These onions are super sweet and just cry out to be made into onion rings. We don’t deep fry much but we make an exception each spring when we see the vidalias. The recipe came from 30 Minutes a Day with Rachel…
We were getting ready to head up North for Memorial Weekend this year and my rhubarb plant was going crazy! Growing up my mom had 2 rhubarb plants, one and home and one at their business. And they were both relatively small. We’d make a couple desserts with the rhubarb each year but were never…
I just posted the recipe for my favorite barbecue sauce a couple days ago, so I figured I should show you how I like to make one of my go-to recipes with the sauce. Bone-in chicken thighs – well any form of chicken is really a go-to for us – but I really like these…
My Dad’s family used to have a cabin in the Brainerd Lakes area. Growing up at least one weekend in the summer my grandparents, and all four of my dad’s siblings and my cousins used to try to get together there. We’d swim, waterski, jump off the rope swing, play badminton, enjoy cocktail hour and …
It’s Memorial weekend this coming weekend. In Minnesota, it’s also the first big weekend of the summer to head ‘Up North’ to your cabin. We’re lucky to be able to head up to my parent’s house on a lake near Ely. They almost always have informal gatherings at the lake on summer holidays like this. …
There is this little barbecue joint in Anoka called Q Fanatic that was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives a while ago. We stumbled on it looking for local restaurants that were featured on Food Network. Their barbecue is out of this world – especially their baby back ribs. I need to figure out who…