My husband’s Grandma Nan wasn’t Italian but boy could she make a mean lasagna. In fact, I can’t order lasagna in a restaurant (well except Sir G’s or Sorrento’s) because nothing even comes close to this. The first time I had this lasagna was when we stopped by for lunch during deer season. Grandma Nan…
Lemon meringue pie is a Forsman family favorite. So it was a no brainer to bring this pie to Thanksgiving dinner last week. One of my uncles even loves this pie so much that growing up he used to request lemon meringue pie as his birthday cake! This is the same recipe that my grandma…
The first time I was going to make pies for Thanksgiving, of course I had to make pumpkin pie. Upon hearing that my husband informs me that “You have to make them with real pumpkin, you know.” Real pumpkin? I thought the canned pumpkin was 100% pumpkin. Oh no, he was talking about me breaking…
My parents own and operate a weekly advertising paper called The Ely Shopper. When I was little the paper would come off the press and need to be folded in half before it was delivered. We didn’t do this mechanically, we had a group of 6 Slovenian ladies, who were all in their 80s, who…