Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you feel like an Almond Joy Cookie. I don’t make basic chocolate chip cookies very often. Don’t get me wrong I like them, but there are so many creative things to try with cookies. And I do like chocolate in cookies. I also really like…
Grilled Fajitas
It’s our Mom’s birthday today. Happy Birthday Mom! One of Mom’s standard contributions to the North Dakota hunting menu is fajitas. She has really figured out how to make good fajitas. But since today’s her birthday, and my dad is the grill master of their house, I wanted to give her a meal that she…
Fajita Seasoning
I LOVE Fajitas. The fragrance when they are cooking. The fact that they are a build your own dinner. The bright fresh flavor. How quick and easy they are. The fact that I can cook them on the stove or on the grill. When I order them in restaurants, I love that they come out…
Cucumber Avocado Salad Pita
So, I’ve been a bad blogger lately, barely posting anything in the recent months. This is mostly because I’ve been pretty lazy, and eating unadventurously at home, or eating out, none of these are good for blogging, and none are good for my waistline. After enough weeks of this, I decided I should maybe try to eat…
How to: Roast Garlic
Roasted garlic is like nature’s savory candy, if there is such a thing as savory candy. Roasting takes garlic and mellows it out into this rich, mellow, garlicky flavor without the heat of raw garlic. It is amazing added to mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese sauce, spread on toasted baguette, mashed into butter, blended into…
Pork Chops with Drunken Apples & Pears
Pork chops and applesauce is a natural combination. But what if I added chunky apples instead of apple sauce? Let’s add some pears to those apples too. And why not flambé those apples and pears in a little bourbon? The result was pretty darn tasty. Seared, perfectly medium pork chops that are still nice and…
Spaghetti Pizza
It’s April and that means here in Minnesota we’re entering spring and the weather is warming up. It’s the perfect time to enjoy one last casserole before grilling and summer meal season is upon us. This recipe is simple but nostalgic for me. I first had spaghetti pizza at my [then future] mother-in-law’s house when…
Strawberry Pretzel Jello
This one comes sort of as a special request, by one of my most favoritest cousins, Taryn. I guess she asked Dana for the recipe the other day, since it wasn’t on the blog yet (gasp!). Dana knew I was hosting Easter brunch at my house this year with our Mom and Dad (Dana abandoned…
Sate Roasted Shrimp & Parmesan Risotto
I was looking for new recipes to try for Lent when I saw this Parmesan Risotto with Roasted Shrimp recipe from The Kitchn pop up on my Pinterest feed. It immediately went on my brainstorming list and when Tory approved it for our Lent recipes, it went on my menu. The risotto is creamy and…
Strawberry Brownie Individual Trifles
Last year we celebrated Easter with my in-laws and one of the things I made was dessert. My husband suggested that I make a trifle which one would think would be an easy suggestion but as I searched for ideas and tried to figure out what kind I wanted to make, I couldn’t make up…
