Category Archives: Feature

The Hansen family may be new to the Lynnville-Sully area, but they are already very involved in the school district. This week’s featured cook, Jodi, is married to her high school sweetheart, Chris. The couple graduated from BGM High School and the University of Northern Iowa. Chris also has a master’s degree from the University...

I know all you people have to be tired of reading about my family get-togethers. So I will be brief. My daughters, husbands, and grandkids showed up again Sunday. No big event this time, just popped in and consumed a couple hundred dollars worth of food and left. The old beagle, that we decided was 105 years...

Well, it’s apparently the time of year when three of my grandchildren and two of their dogs come to my home and stay for days. This visit was like most of them. One of my granddaughters decided to make popcorn balls. I don’t know what kept the balls together because it appeared to me that most...

So, National Coffee Day has come and gone. This household celebrated with a few couple dozen pots of coffee. Did I say pots of coffee? I meant cups of coffee. Pssh. In the last couple weeks, we celebrated the girl who made us parents for the first time. She's now three. I have no idea why...

My wife and I recently went to a theater to see the movie about the passenger plane that landed on the Hudson River in New York. It starred Tom Hanks, who was very good. He portrays the pilot, a man nicknamed Sully, the title of the movie. On the way in, I got a barrel of...

When it comes to cooking, one ingredient (or lack thereof) can make all the difference. This week’s featured cook, Beth Sullivan, learned this lesson the hard way. “When [husband] James and I were still newlyweds, his brother came to live with us for three months during the summer...