This simple addition to cut fresh fruit elevates it tremendously.…
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This week I ran out of (gasp!) butter. That has happened one time in my last 4 years of dedicated baking. I always have lard on hand and needed to make some cookies for some…
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This recipe is for my beautiful, sweet and caring friend Tiffany. I promised her a seafood dish today (since it is Friday during Lent, you know) and this is one of my favorites. It…
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I couldn’t call this blog Food & Swine without giving you a fabulous recipe for Perfect Lard Pie Crust and a recipe for my favorite pie. Lard is my second favorite ‘pork product’…
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This is one of my favorite quick cooking beef recipes, a modification of this recipe won a blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair for the “Healthy Beef Appetizers” division, sponsored by…
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We made a quick trip to the barn to see the little pigs tonight. I can’t believe how big they are getting. Cinnamon’s little red pigs are really big and thick with…
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If you’ve attended one of my pie classes you’ll know my affinity for a nice crumb topped pie. This very topping minus the pastry bottom is exactly what I go for when…
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I think my Dad is quite the cattleman. Now, he’s not the horseback, roping, wrangling type of cowboy you may expect he’d be since I dubbed him with the ‘cattleman’ distinction. Plain and…
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When I traveled to NYC this past October with my husband for being a winner in the Kenmore Honored Harvest Time Recipe Competition for their 100th Anniversary I met a city that I…
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Here’s the first of many (hopefully) 10 Minute Dinners I plan on featuring at my blog. I’m always into anything that is quick and easy and incorporates the ‘stuff’ I tend to…
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This recipe was awarded one of the first blue ribbons I ever took away from the Iowa State Fair (2010) cooking and baking competitions. I won the breads class within the “Fresh Corn…
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I’ll have to admit to you all… I’m smitten with these little Duroc piglets. Oh my goodness. If they aren’t the cutest little pigs I’ve ever seen. They are sweet as sugar…
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As many of you know, softball was a major part of my life for many years. As a fastpitch softball pitching coach, I still get my ‘fix’ for the sport. I don’t however,…
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How did I miss that it is National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day? (I already missed the National Pig Day memo… sheesh). I gave 8 softball pitching lessons today and 9 if you count the…
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In the past year I can’t think of any pigs I’d like to celebrate more than the four little orphan Yorkshires ‘yorks’ that we raised in our garage. The attachment that came with raising them…
