I love this time of year!! The days are getting shorter, the nights are cooler and apples are in season!! Sure, pumpkin spice season is happening simultaneously, but why not enjoy both? No need to choose Team Apple or Team Pumpkin Spice - enjoy both while they are so briefly in season. Old Fashioned apple crisp is one of my favorite desserts because it is
I stumbled into this perfectly pickled pasta salad quite by accident. I was Googling for pasta salads and saw a recipe for dill pickle salad. It sounded interesting so I clicked on the link to Delish and found the recipe was behind a paywall. I could see part of the recipe, but not all of it. I saw that it called for eggs, pickles, green
Summer is here and we have a bounty of fruits and berries just ready for the table. While the summer has already been too hot in Minnesota, we had a bit of a chill down this past week and it was the perfect time to bake some cake using some beautiful blueberries that I picked up at Lunds & Byerlys recently. I've been meaning to
Julekake is a traditional Norwegian Christmas cake. We've had one on Christmas morning for as long as I can remember, usually store bought and always delicious. Store bought until I forgot to order one and was forced to make my own - or go without. Oh the horror!! We simply could not have Christmas morning without a julekake, so after consulting with older relatives in
Homemade Tomato Soup - Super easy homemade tomato soup. Can be made with fresh tomatoes or canned. Perfect comfort food for those cold winter nights. - butter, onion, tomatoes, water or broth, salt, , In a large pot melt half a stick of butter and add one chopped onion sauté for about 3 minutes until onions become fragrant. Add the tomatoes and their juice and
This is one of my all time favorite salads. It's perfect on a hot summer day when the last thing you want to do is cook a heavy meal on the stove or in the oven. The recipe can be made with any of the vegetables in your garden including tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini and celery. I use Wishbone Italian dressing because it has
I love carrot cake, and so does everyone in my family. In the past I have made carrot cakes from the box because it seems so much easier, but one of the kids has a nut allergy so anything that has been produced on equipment that processes tree nuts is out - that includes many cake mixes. The ones that are nut free use something
My daughter is all about roll cakes and she made this one. She'd been making roll cakes for years, in fact it was a matcha roll cake that was her first ever scratch cake she made. Talk about jumping into the deep end! This is a relatively easy cake to make, but there are a lot of steps so make sure you have time or
