Tory and I grew up on wild blueberries. Late July or early August we’d head out into the woods – to a secret spot that only my mom and her closest friends would share – and pick ice-cream buckets full of blueberries. Well Mom would pick by the ice-cream bucket and Tory and I would…
Roasted Cauliflower Cacao di Pepi Pasta
When I was a kid I went through a LONG phase where I didn’t like spaghetti with sauce, I just liked noodles, butter and Parmesan. My parents will blame this on my cousin Chelsea, who was at the time, living in the Twin Cities. So the story goes, I used to eat spaghetti with sauce…
Smothered Chicken
Today’s recipe is all about comfort food for me. When I think of comfort food, I think back to my childhood and foods like chicken stuffed with Zup’s famous wild rice stuffing, which always led to chicken dumpling soup a couple days later, tuna casserole, pot roast, or what I’m going to show you today…
Ely Pasties
The pasty, a meat pie, is a tradition in Ely, and is not to be confused with pasties (if you don’t know, google it, but don’t do it at work). Pasties (used from here on in reference to the meat pie only) are one of those meals that really feels like home. Pasties were introduced to the…
Sawdust and Macaroni
First and foremost, today I’d like to start by saying THANK YOU to all the veterans out there who have served this country. I am the proud granddaughter of two Marines who fought for us in World War II and several members of my family have followed in their footsteps and served as well. Four…
Baked Walleye Fingers
There is NOTHING better than fresh walleye, fried up right next to the lake the day you catch it. But if you happen to catch more walleye than you can eat in that fish fry, freeze it and make these walleye fingers during the winter – it will help get you through the cold and…
