Making fresh pasta with my daughter has to be one of the highlights of my life. I am working on recipes for an upcoming class and tonight we focused on the pasta…
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I would love to story tell about these cookies and how wonderful they are, but today I’ll save it. You need to gather the ingredients immediately and start making them, NOW! They are…
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Engage your memory and take yourself back to the interesting pop-up blizzard we had on Thursday afternoon that lasted through the evening. (If you are from central Iowa). If not, imagine Armageddon, only worse. At…
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If you want to get your children in the kitchen with you, this homemade pizza dough recipe is great. This dough gets an A+ in the ease of preparation department and I…
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I’m always trying to find additional uses to recipes in my ‘tried and true’ vault. My Prize Winning Dinner Roll Recipe is a recipe that is quite versatile. I use it for traditional…
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I say this to myself all of the time: “You know you are from Iowa when…” or “You know you are a farm family when…” well today I think both sayings are appropriate…
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Great news. I was hoping the follow-up post to my last one would be just like this. We have four living orphans on our hands! Three of the four are thriving and…
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“Mooooooooom! Are we going to have lunch soon?’ This is a typical question around most homes if lunchtime hasn’t occurred by 12:30 p.m. The typical answer to the “when is lunch?” question is…
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I’m going to write a note today about our four little orphan piglets. I’m losing track of the timeline of their health. I meant to post sooner but I just couldn’t do…
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Many of you have asked if I would mind sharing what happened to the sow-Mama of the “Christmas Pigs” (for those of you who are not ‘caught up’, we have 4 Yorkshire…
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We’ve got some friends coming to live with us for a while… More on the story soon. For now a cute little picture. Santa ain’t got nothin’ on Daddy… unless he brings…
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This time of the year is so magical for me. It always has been, since I was a little girl. I love everything about Christmas. Every. Single. Thing. Always have, always will. The warmth of home, the…
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Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle is one of my husband’s favorite Christmastime treats. I should have named it Mike’s Christmas Crack, but that name is terrible for oh-so-many dang reasons so we will stick…
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When entering the time of year when gift giving is high I knew I should put together a “Baker’s Gift List”. The stress of ‘giving’ these days is quite traumatic to some.…
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Too often people ask me, how do you stay out of the food in your kitchen when you are BAKING all of the time? My response is, “I don’t, I can’t, I…
