• My Favorite Guacamole

    I love guacamole and I mean LOVE IT!  I’ve been known to make a batch of guac for lunch and eat the whole thing. The funny thing is I wouldn’t touch guacamole until I was in my early twenties.  As kid growing up in a small town at the ‘end of the road’, we didn’t…

  • Cold Tuna Salad

    Cold tuna salad makes the perfect light lunch on a hot summer day, take to a barbecue to share, or keep in the fridge to pull out as an easy side whenever you want.  It’s light and refreshing and best of all simple to make.  It can be eaten right away – in fact that’s…

  • Fresh Strawberry Pie

    When I was in elementary school, I spent a week with my grandparents at the old family cabin in the Pequot Lakes area.  During that week, Nana took me to a strawberry farm with her.  We picked buckets full of strawberries (and I may have eaten a few in the field).  We took the strawberries…

  • Walleye Fish Fry

    When we were kids we spend a lot of weekends camping in the BWCA just miles from our hometown.  We’d go out fishing and Dad would troll backwards with his 18 hrs motor and [the way I remember it] we never failed to catch fish.  The best days were when we kept Dad so busy…