Category Archives: Kitchen

My favorite dog Aja with her favorite human Chuck.    By Deb Johnson Do you have a dog? Or do your kids have a dog? Or more than one? If so, are you like many who don’t want the pets to feel left out, and in doing so give them actual Christmas presents? Yes, me, guilty as charged. Of...

We are anticipating an exciting, event-filled end of the week celebrating Thanksgiving, the annual turning on the Christmas lights at the farm, Christmas tree excursion (just looked at email and saw the pig load schedule for the week – looks like we will load a load of pigs before the Christmas tree excursion on Friday),...

By Megan Pothoven “We interrupt this marriage to bring you hunting season.” This quote is a humorous way to describe the months of November and December in our family because I am, in fact, a hunter’s wife. Now of course, the reality is not quite this dramatic, but sometimes, the early mornings and late afternoons of...

A fun collaboration between Lynnville-Sully’s art and foods classes led to creative pumpkins and a first-of-its-kind pumpkin spice seed cook-off. Mrs. Tara Conover, K-12 art teacher, came up with the idea to feature the culinary talents of L-S students at the same time her high school artists are completing their annual pumpkin carving, sculpting, and painting projects....

Harvest, baling cornstalks, picking pumpkins, and hanging Christmas lights were some of the activities that filled the days of October. What beautiful fall weather we have been blessed with this fall. On the Friday that I am writing this article, it is to be close to 80 degrees and last Friday, pizza night in the...

By Deb Johnson I’ve been an avid label reader at the grocery store for a long time. About 20 years ago, I started reading labels in depth when I studied more about better nutrition. Nutrition Facts share the vitamin/mineral content of the product, but also list the ingredients that were used to create the product. The...