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…
Well it’s that time of the springtime when my rhubarb plant is taller than my good friend’s 5 year old daughter (whoops, almost 5 year old 😊) – we took a look last weekend when they visited! That means it’s time to start thinking of creative ways to use rhubarb again. Derek remembered his Grandma…
I remember as a young kid getting fast food chicken nuggets and honey to dip them in. What a sticky, sweet, finger-licking, delicious mess. I’m sure my parents loved making sure we cleaned the honey off Tory & my fingers, face, and wherever else it ended up. So it seemed only natural that I come…
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’…
I normally don’t post salad dressing recipes independently, usually it’s a part of the flavor profile of whatever salad I am making and I like to keep them together. But this Lemon Ginger & Garlic Vinaigrette quickly became a versatile new favorite of ours. I first made it last summer when I spent a week…
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…