First things first. Happy Anniversary to our parents! They’ve been married 34 year today!! We love tacos. Any kind of tacos. Although we grew up eating classic tacos, I’ve since come to think of tacos as sort of a blank canvas. You need a tortilla, a protein, a sauce, and some sort of veggie or…
Grilled Rainbow Trout with Cilantro Jalapeno Relish
So far this summer has been full of outdoor adventures with a lot of fishing trips. One weekend Aj and I decided we wanted to try trout fishing so we brought the canoe to one of the trout ponds by our house, no luck. The next day we tried another trout pond on the other…
Creamy Lemon Bucatini with Roasted Asparagus
It’s the middle of grilling season and most nights we have the grill out, but every once and a while there comes a cool or rainy summer day that thwarts our efforts to make the most of using the outdoors as an extension of our kitchen. On days like this try this creamy lemon pasta…
Herby Chicken Skewers with Blueberry Salsa
I may have mentioned before that I have a slight addiction to cookbooks and cooking magazines. I’ll read my cookbooks cover to cover like a novel and love ripping recipe ideas out of the magazines. Most of them end up in a folder for me to pour over when I plan meals for the week,…
Barbecue Chicken Thighs
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…
Campfire Pizza
Dana and I have been going camping in the Boundary Waters since we were literally babies. It was one of the perks of living in Ely and one of the things I am most grateful for today. Our whole lives our parents were teaching us to love camping. At least once every summer, we would…
