I grew tomatoes in containers on my deck for the first time this summer, and boy was I surprised at how many I got. I’ve been trying to come up with different uses for all of them and figured that it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t include fresh tomato soup in my experiments. I…
It was a typical August weekend in Minnesota. The weather was in the mid-eighties, it was sunny, and humid – like stepping out the door felt like stepping into a sauna- humid. And the husband was gone. So what did I decide to do? I made soup. Yes, you heard me right and before you…
It’s blueberry season in Minnesota. The end of July brings many families out to the blueberry patches to pick enough blueberries to last until next season. I remember being forced to do this as a child. My mom would give us Kemp’s ice cream buckets with a round hole cut in the top, we would…
The other day after the sister and I made pizza, we were in the mood for a little dessert and still in the mood to grill. I happened to have some bananas so we decided to grill them and throw them on top of some ice-cream for a simple dessert. To keep things simple (and…
With both of the men in our lives gone for the weekend, the sister and I made plans to spend the afternoon shopping and grab lunch at Punch Pizza, this awesome Napoleon style pizza place. Somewhere along the way we both decided to spend the day cleaning our respective houses (yeah….I don’t understand how it happened…
When I was growing up, whenever we had parties down at the lake we always had a tray of fruit and to go with it this yummy, creamy, sweet, marshmallowy, dip. Now I bring it with me to our hunting camps each fall and both my uncle and sister admit that the fruit merely serves…