Japanese BBQ Glazed Duck over Mashed Sweet Potatoes
We recently got back from our annual duck hunting trip to North Dakota. It wasn’t exactly our most successful hunting trip up there, we had multiple days of 80 degree beautiful sunny, cloudless, no wind days – which while gorgeous and somewhat unseasonably warm, isn’t exactly great duck hunting weather. We had not one but…
Rhubarb Orange Compote
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…
Key Lime Mini Cheesecake Shooters
I have been saving this recipe to share as an Easter dessert for some time now, and this evening almost talked myself out of finally writing the post in favor of sitting down to read, working a little later, doing other chores and a number of other excuses because it seemed too late to post…
Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili
One of our favorite things to do with friends is to get together and cook. We pick a theme and then cook way too much food while we hang out and snack for the evening – usually sneaking in a few games along the way. But I also happen to like to get together with…
Orange Chicken
I’ve been meaning to post this recipe for a number of years. It’s been a favorite of ours since I downloaded it from some random website – evidenced by the splashes of sauce over my printed version along with my notes on how I’ve tweaked it. In fact, I’ve tried to take pictures for the…
Instant Pot Beef Stew
This is going to be embarrassing but the reason I wanted to find and make a really good beef stew recipe is because I wanted to replicate Dinty Moore beef stew – or maybe my memories of it anyway. I think it was sort of like spaghetti-Os, I had fond childhood memories of it but…
Quick Pickled Onions
Pickled onions might be one of my favorite secret weapons to add something a little different and surprising to sandwiches, burgers, tacos or even salads. They add a bright, vinegary, fresh pop of flavor, and crunch – without being super oniony. The onion flavor is there but the strong bite of onion is really mellowed…
