Category Archives: Kitchen

From the Kitchen of Kayla Dunsbergen

This week’s featured cook is Kayla Dunsbergen. She is a 2012 Lynnville-Sully High School graduate. She is married to Kenton Dunsbergen, and they live outside of Kellogg on Kayla’s family farm in the house she grew up in. They have one son, Brody, who is four months old. They also have two Shih-tzu dogs named George and...

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Farm to Table: Planting season is here!

Just as farmers are planting the first seeds of the 2019 growing season, gardeners are busy putting the early season seeds in the freshly tilled soil. Many schools across the country are adopting the new trend of growing a school garden. In addition to teaching gardening skills using the hands-on approach for teaching science and math, gardening also provides...

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What to do with leftover Easter eggs

What to do with leftover Easter eggs

It’ll be here before you know it, the joy that comes with Easter Sunday, along with all of the fun traditions that accompany it: The Easter bunny, Easter candy (good and bad, I’m sure you have ideas that fit into both of these categories), and of...

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From the Kitchen: Kaila Harsselaar

This week’s featured cook is Kaila Harsselaar. Kaila grew up north of Reasnor and graduated from PCM High School in 2011. She went to DMACC for nursing and also obtained her massage therapy license. 

                About growing up about two miles north of Reasnor, Kaila said, “My dad built the house I...

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FARM TO TABLE: Signs of Spring

                Longer days, Lent, March Madness brackets, mud, light jackets, and the first delivery of seed are all things that represent signs of spring. I think they are especially exciting signs for us this year as we eagerly say good-bye to winter. Well, maybe not the muddy roads! However, after seeing and hearing about the floods in...

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THELMA & BONNIE’S: “Have a seat at my table”

Hello everyone and happy March! It is officially spring and that means new possibilities are in the air and warmer weather is on its way.

                At the beginning of March, Blake and I continued our tradition of heading south to visit Grandma Bonnie for a long weekend. Every time we visit,...

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FROM THE KITCHEN: National Pi Day

National Pi Day is observed annually on Mar. 14. Math nerds and pun enthusiasts (such as myself) enjoy finding the fun in 3.14, the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (also known and pronounced as Pi).

                Pi, as you learned back in math class (eons ago, right?), is the numerical...

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