Fresh. Cherry. Pie.
This pie is… in one word… AMAZING. I have played with cherry pies for years. No matter how hard I tried though, I could not assemble a cherry pie that I thought...
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Eating Locally
Berries, Berries Everywhere!
It never rains, but it pours. Yesterday as I was literally floating on air from our raspberry success, a phone call came in. The phone call telling me that my blueberry order...
Raspberry Dreams
I absolutely adore seasonal fruit. I especially love putting a little extra money into purchasing it when it is in season, and then preserving it in different ways to enjoy all year...
Quick Strawberry Salad with Vinaigrette
When you live in a Northern climate like I do, you tend to look at magazines and magazine articles with a jaded eye. When a magazine is touting “fresh strawberries now” in...
Roasted Beet and Barley Salad
My August issue of Eating Well magazine arrived on a day where I was thinking about cooking something new for dinner. As we settled into the house last week, it took a...
The Easiest Pasta Sauce!
One of the many challenges with our new schedule is trying to not make the same things over and over. There are several nights a week where I need to make a...
Blueberry Picking!
Cross another one off the bucket list! The kids and I took the plunge today and went to a blueberry farm to pick blueberries. Every year we order blueberries at a local...
The Summer Kitchen
I think we’re finally arriving. As the summer days have suddenly cooled off, the produce is suddenly rolling in. This past Friday, I actually was able to make our first batch of...
Freezing Blueberries
The single easiest act of food preservation you could ever do is freeze your own blueberries. You know how you go to a farmstand or a Farmer’s Market and you see those...
Jamming Season
So for the next little while, I’ll probably be going through old photos I have taken over the last several months and sharing different recipes and such. Hopefully I’ll have some new...
Homemade Sausage: So, So Good!
Well hello there my Internets! I’ve missed you. I’ve missed you terribly. I feel like a bad relative who ran away for a while and is tentatively trying to return things to...
Sauerkraut: Nourishing Traditions Style
Here I was, all excited and proud of myself because I kicked off the month of February with a bang as far as posting frequency goes. And then the Super Bowl was...