Happy 10 Year Anniversary to Gravel & Dine! Wow, I really cannot believe it’s been 10 years. The blog all started with me remembering the cookbook I made Tory when she moved into her first house that had family favorites as well as some new easy meals for her. I wanted to be able to…
As I was brainstorming topics for our 10 year anniversary post series, I thought about how many of the recipes we post show up at holiday or family gatherings. So I thought it would be fun to take a look at favorite Gravel & Dine recipes through a year of holidays – at least those…
One of my inspirations when starting this blog was a way to save our family recipes and techniques. Saving family recipes sometimes meant that we needed to convert unique ways of measuring (a handful of flour in Grandma’s Pie Crust or what turned out to be a “tea”cup of sugar in Grandpa’s Christmas Fudge) or…
I may have a small cookbook obsession. I enjoy reading cookbooks from cover to cover like they are novels treating them like entertainment as much as a source of recipes. Fortunately for my wallet and my shelf space, I discovered about 5 years ago that you can check out cookbooks from the library – don’t…
The thing that got me started bringing food to hunting camp was bringing a couple pans of bars to the inaugural duck hunt after my Uncle bought his farm in North Dakota. The one that sticks in my mind was a pan of brownies with a mint frosting and a chocolate glaze on top, I…
Whilst browsing our site for my favorite dessert posts, I began to think about all my favorite meals, and that brought me to thinking about what my last meal would be. I’ve always said it would contain Cool Ranch Doritos, and I maintain that, but you don’t need a blog post for that. Here I…