Fall Pickings
This end of summer and early fall weather is exquisite—warm, breezy days, blue skies, a crisp feel to the air—and beckons us to
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Going Up North to the Lake
It is August and the heat is upon us. Actually, it’s been cool all summer with about one week of really hot weather.
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Picnics
Eating out usually means restaurants but I think eating outside is an even better choice. The picnic season has begun and it is
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River City Days
It’s August—the strangest month of the year. There are no holidays in August, for one thing and the summer is drawing to a
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June 2019
“June is bustin’ out all over” finally! We are really late this year with Spring, but now that the temperatures are starting to
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Easy as Pie
There is that old saying, “Easy as pie” but from my experience, most people don’t think pie is easy at all–and of course
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Monika’s Bacon Rolls
Family, traditions, culture, love—all come together in many ways, among them food. My beloved mother-in-law, Monika Gudrais passed away on December 28, 2007,
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2019: The Year of Cooking (Almost) Everything From Scratch
With all the concern today about highly processed food and the chemicals used to process them or the high fructose sugars to preserve
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January
I love the feeling of January 1. A new month in a new year and it feels like a new beginning. The symbol
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Fruitcake12/01/18
Okay, I know that fruitcake is universally made fun of and not in vogue anymore and frankly, until recently, I didn’t like it
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