Category Archives: Kitchen

Have a seat at my table By Cathryn Dunsbergen

Summer is here, our garden is growing, and Penelope’s hair has officially started to bleach out. An unpleasant reality summer is here: Allergies. Poor Penelope received that gene from me. Is anyone else feeling the sinus pressure and itchy eyes like we are? I feel like the pollen is everywhere! As I’ve mentioned before, we are...
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Soak up that sweet summertime fun

By Megan Pothoven School is out and summer is here! Some may be spending their summer going on vacations, swimming at the pool, or other fun activities. Our summer days will consist of playing in our newly fenced in backyard built this spring. This gives us a lot of peace of mind with Hayden outside and gives...
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A Slice of Home by Simone Bates

School’s Out! Is your life currently ruled by the school calendar? Has your schedule been turned on its head with the end of classes these past few weeks? Has a new routine taken over, defined by baseball, swimming lessons, or an early summer vacation? In our house, we notice the change in season more by setting...
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Farm to Table by Julie Van Manen

May is Beef Month!

                May has been an exciting month around here, and the weather has certainly added to that! In April, we said we would probably go from furnace to air conditioner and that is exactly what happened! The corn certainly popped out of the ground quickly last week. Spraying became a...
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‘Have a seat at my table’ by Cathryn Dunsbergen

Our first and last day at the beach in Florida, we had extremely clear water. We went paddle boarding the last day and, unfortunately, that was the day I got the most burnt.    May started with enjoying sunshine in Florida, listening to ocean waves, and sipping on an iced, honey-vanilla latte. We had the best time...
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Time to fire up the grill

By Megan Pothoven Now that the warm weather has finally blessed us with its coming, our grill has been much more utilized. I’m always grateful for this because it usually means less cooking for me as I would call my husband, Adam, the grillmaster. He always likes to try different spices on the meat we grill....
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‘A Slice of Home’ by Simone Bates

“You Say Potato …”

                Do you remember this old song? “You say potato, I say…” well, I say potato, too. Everybody does. I tried to find some ostracized hamlet in Scotland that might possibly pronounce it “po-tah-to,” but it turns out “po-tah-to” was made up for the lyrics of the song. Now, the...
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