Beef Tallow
I’m going to show you how to make “Liquid Gold” today otherwise known as beef tallow. If you’re the type of person who has ever saved your leftover bacon grease (or at least remember your mom and grandma doing that) and know how much flavor that adds when you cook with it – you’re going…
Top 10 Meatless Recipes
Last week we shared our Top 10 Fish & Seafood recipes and this week we thought we’d share our Top 10 Meatless recipes. Part of the reason we decided to do two different Top 10 lists is because when we started with the combined Top 10, it was just too hard to leave out recipe…
Top 10 Fish & Seafood Recipes
This year marks the 3rd year that Tory & I have been posting Lent recipes and since we post fish, seafood, vegetarian and meat-free recipes throughout the year as well we have accumulated quite the collection of recipes. We took a look at our overall page view stats and found the Top 10 fish and…
Weeknight Creamy Potato Soup
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. Today and every Friday between now and Easter, Catholics will abstain from meat. I wanted to start things off with a big bowl of soup this time of year, there is nothing better than a hot bowl of soup. Well unless it’s a hot…
Sweet & Spicy Marinated Cucumbers
We’ve been experiencing a rare mid-February heat wave – and for my friends in the Southern parts of the US, I really mean it. This isn’t a 40 degree heat wave, over the past weekend we hit 60 degrees! In February. The golf course by my house even opened up for the weekend. Yes. Golfing….
Pizza Mac ‘n Cheese
Sometimes the best recipes that you create come from the days when you don’t have anything planned and you just rummage around your fridge to see what you can find. That’s what happened when I ‘accidentally’ created this pizza mac ‘n cheese. My husband requested mac and cheese for lunch one day and I had…
Orange Dreamsicle Cookies
One of my favorite summertime treats are orange dreamsicle popsicles. Creamy vanilla ice-cream with an orange popsicle coating. It is such a classic and yet refreshing snack. But it’s still the middle of winter in Minnesota and ice-cream treats aren’t really at the top of anyone’s treat list. So of course when I saw these…
