Back when I didn’t have a kitchen, we were really craving a home cooked meal. And not something crazy fancy, just something classic and comforting. So I invaded my in-laws kitchen and made tacos. But when we hang out with this crew we almost always play games and hang out so I wanted to keep…
Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
I love, love, love lemon flavored desserts and I really love poppy seed muffins so when these Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies popped up on my Pinterest feed, I immediately saved them. They also provided a nice option to balance the other cookie flavors, I was planning for hunting season the first time I made these…
Chicken Tacos with Grilled Corn & Avocado Salsa
First things first. Happy Anniversary to our parents! They’ve been married 34 year today!! We love tacos. Any kind of tacos. Although we grew up eating classic tacos, I’ve since come to think of tacos as sort of a blank canvas. You need a tortilla, a protein, a sauce, and some sort of veggie or…
Fresh from the Garden Tomato Soup
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…
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…
