I was excited to get up north this winter to finally get some snowy shots of my favorite city. Unfortunately, the closer I got to Duluth the more I started to realize that there was about as much snow in Duluth as there is in Minneapolis right now- less than an inch in most parts [...]
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The North Shore
April 29, 2011 – 11:12 am
I got the chance to travel up the North Shore with a group of students this week. I had never been north of Duluth and now I am convinced I will retire there. It was still cold, but with views like this it didn’t seem to matter. We stayed at the AmericInn in Silver Bay, [...]
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum- Very Early Spring
March 31, 2011 – 3:38 pm
The Arboretum was free for its last Thursday of the cold season so we decided to take advantage of that and get out of the house for a bit. The temperature was about 49 degrees and actually felt pretty nice as we walked around the grounds. We started out indoors though and hit up my [...]
The Best Gingerbread Cookies
December 14, 2010 – 9:12 pm
My kids made gingerbread cookies with their grandmother today. It was a pretty big production. The kitchen got a little messy. But the kids didn’t get too crabby. Chloe just had to roll out her own dough. I will cherish these pictures for years to come. We let Andrew decorate the burnt ones. He didn’t [...]
The Best Pizza Ever- “Pizza Vesuvio” from Francis Ford Coppola’s Restaurant Rustic (via Food & Wine)
November 18, 2010 – 2:15 pm
I can honestly say that the recipes in Food & Wine are the most useful recipes of any food magazine I subscribe to. Every month I choose one recipe from my most recent issue to blog about. This month I chose this, Pizza Vesuvio With the Works from Francis Ford Coppola’s restaurant Rustic. The picture [...]
