I received some products in the mail from Ball and couldn’t wait to try them out! Here in Minnesota it’s canning season and there are lots of things to can. The peaches are in, corn is ready, green beans, tomatoes and pickling cucumbers are ready. We can and store food for a lot of reasons [...]
Category Archives: Food
Homemade Fresh Cherry Pie
August 4, 2011 – 9:20 pm
The kids and I went into a cute little shop somewhere on Lake Minnetonka yesterday and bought the cutest little Cherry Pitter. The kids wanted it because they love cherries and it looks like a robot. I wanted it because I am sucker for good package design and always worry about Chloe spitting out the [...]
Pasta Salad, Zucchini Cake and More, What We Did With Our CSA This Week
July 25, 2011 – 12:55 pm
We joined a CSA this year, Loon Organics, because we knew we wouldn’t have enough time to tend to the garden this year. My only regret has been that I signed up for an every other week share instead of a weekly share! This last box we got was breathtaking. The vegetables don’t look anything [...]
Homemade English Muffins
July 19, 2011 – 3:12 pm
Recently I purchased a bag of English Muffins at the grocery store and was really disappointed when I got home and saw how dried out they were. I remembered I had a recipe for homemade ones in my book, Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads Every Day so I decided to make my own. I had to [...]
Third Trip Up to the North Shore
June 30, 2011 – 1:00 pm
We were up on the North Shore again last week and even though it rained a majority of the time I still really enjoyed myself. I didn’t mind the light mist while walking through the woods of the Superior National Forest at all actually. In fact, it kind of added to that almost mystical-feeling element [...]
