Category Archives: Photo

The North Shore

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

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

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)

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 [...]

I Dared to Make a Wedding Cake. . . and I Succeeded!

Researching the Cake Assembly A former student and now neighbor of mine got married in Las Vegas last month. She held a reception back here in Minnesota so that everybody could be included in the celebration. She may have asked me to help her make a wedding cake for the reception, or I may have [...]

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