Whenever we fire up our smoker – we try to find ways to fill it up. Whether we’re planning to smoke a pork butt overnight and decide to throw on a pan full of garlic cloves in oil, smoke a bunch of onions until they are caramelized while we are cooking brisket or just cooking…
Strawberry Salad with Goat Cheese Croutons and Strawberry Black Pepper and Poppyseed Vinaigrette
Strawberry season in Minnesota might be one of my favorite times for our garden. While we get lettuce and radish and even rhubarb earlier in the spring, strawberries with their succulent sweet flavor and bright red color seem to be the first bountiful thing that we get. While many nights we will pick a bowl…
Dad Bond’s Regular Potato Salad
Derek & I share a love of fishing with our friend Kent and for many years each summer Kent and Derek would take two fishing trips a year – one to each of their hometowns. Over the years Derek shared our favorite way of cooking up a Walleye Fish Fry and Derek got to enjoy…
Buffalo Chicken Salad with Buttermilk Ranch
I’m kind of over buffalo wings. Not chicken wings – still love those! But there are so many diverse sauces and dry rubs on menus today that there seems to be a much higher opportunity cost to choosing the classic buffalo variety. But buffalo flavor. Definitely not over that! Today, I am sharing a recipe…
Asian Marinated Chicken Salad with Lemon Ginger & Garlic Vinaigrette
This may be one of my favorite salads that I created last summer. That disclaimer makes me feel like my Uncle when I would try to get him to admit I was his favorite niece. He would always say “you’re my favorite niece who is working here tonight.” Back to the salad, it uses the…
Steakhouse Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
What do you do when you plan to make Bacon Wrapped Blue Cheese Stuffed Dates for the first time and have absolutely no idea how much blue cheese you’ll need so you buy the double package at Costco and end up with one full container and then some leftover? Well if you’re me, you decide…
