Carnitas were never top of my list of things to order at Mexican restaurants until a few years ago, when I was traveling to Charlotte to facilitate new hire training. My co-trainer and I took our new class of associates out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant one night. She had been to this particular…
We had a fun year hunting early goose this year up in North Dakota. Over the summer we made our own A-frame blinds where you can sit up on comfy chairs while hunting geese, it was fun anticipating how it would go and customizing the blinds to how we like to hunt and the number…
Slow cookers are great for anyone who works full time because dinner is on the table pretty much when you get home. But they are also great in the summer because you don’t need to heat up an oven or turn on the stove. We have come to love slow cookers when we’re hunting and…
On Christmas morning we wake up, pass out presents, maybe open a couple but then take a break and have big brunch. So that no one has to slave away in the kitchen for too long, over the past couple of years we’ve been experimenting with various overnight French toasts and slow cooker egg bakes. …
My man has been pulling his weight by doing the man thing, going out and gathering meat for winter. By that I mean, he’s been out duck hunting with his buddies, and bringing home fresh wild duck to eat. I love to duck hunt too, but I don’t really love to eat duck. There are…
The North Dakota duck hunting season opens to non-residents this Saturday and I have hunting on the brain. I’d been thinking of some of my early hunting adventures. Before my Uncle Jake bought his farm in North Dakota, which in the fall becomes the Whitten family hunting shack, my Dad and I used to hunt…