Three sourdough experiments in one weekend It all started with a log of purple goat cheese at my favorite bargain/novelty grocery store. I spotted LaClare Ube Goat Cheese while shopping, and naturally it had to come home with me. Purple has always been my favorite color, and as a lifelong Minnesota Vikings fan, how could …
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Eating, Drinking, and Hiking my Way through Peru
Introduction If you know me at all, you know I’m going to plan a trip around the sights, the activities, the hiking…and the food. Definitely the food. 🙂 So yes, going to Peru meant hiking the Inca Trail, seeing Machu Picchu, climbing Huayna Picchu and visiting Rainbow Mountain. But it also meant I had nearly …
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Next Level Chili – Over the Top
My new favorite cooking appliance is my electric pellet grill. The hubby bought two of them last winter – one in ND and one in AZ. I know I’ve used them 10 times as much as he has. Thank you Pinterest and the Traeger Women’s group on Facebook! I love the flavors it gives all …
Fall Colors, Fall Flavors, Fall Pizza
Sundays are usually work days for me, getting all my class materials for the week posted and other prep work for school. They are also my “long run” days since I started marathon training again. I’m hoping to do the full Rock ‘n Roll Marathon here in Phoenix in January – if the pandemic numbers …
Pasta Making Day
Last week we had a family birthday party to celebrate all 5 grandchildren’s birthdays. Three of their birthdays are on consecutive days and the fourth less than a month before, so we just throw one big party. Most of the family loves angel food cake, so that’s my contribution to the festivities. There are usually …
Dough Day + Rhubarb!
I recently saw on a Facebook discussion group that a local restaurant is serving rhubarb caramel rolls. That got the wheels turning. 🙂 I read through a few recipe suggestions about how to make the rhubarb sauce and how to integrate it into a caramel roll recipe and then commenced winging it as I usually …
Ukrainian by Osmosis?
A Beet and Cabbage Kind of Weekend Fall in ND means it’s time to harvest the last of the garden vegetables. While tomatoes are usually my bumper crop, this year it was my beets and cabbage. An unusually wet summer caused all kinds of issues with my tomatoes, so I’m thankful I still have salsa, …
A Sunday of Bread and Wine
. . . and chocolate and more! Yesterday was probably one of the most enjoyable Labor Day Weekend Sundays I can remember – and it did not involve a lake or river, packing a cooler or camping. It also came together the way it did quite by accident. I was sitting on my patio Saturday …
Thinking Outside the Vineyard
This “interesting” combo will rock your world! I love to try new foods, new recipes, new drinks, etc. My husband, unlike me, does not think “interesting” should be an adjective used to describe food or beer, and he pretty much hates wine altogether. So, while I’ll miss him dearly when I’m in AZ and he’s …
Something Old, Something New
How to make chicken rivel soup like your grandma – with a few modern conveniences 🙂 Who doesn’t love a bowl of homemade rivel soup? For those of you who aren’t from the South central part of ND, it’s homemade chicken noodle soup except that the noodles are little pieces of dough about the size …
