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Up North Life, Family, & Food
Join me, Stefanie, as I adventure through marriage, parenting, learning the homestead life, and feeding my family. There will be love, laughs, chaos, and Jesus along the way!
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Easy Venison Marinades: Enhance Your Game Meat Cooking
Venison Marinades Learning to cook venison to make delicious, healthy meals for my family is a skill I have been trying to perfect over the last few years. It can be a tricky meat to prepare, and often gets a bad reputation of tasting too “gamey” or being too tough. After researching about cooking wild
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Easy and Delicious Breaded Venison Chops
Growing up, Shake and Bake breaded pork chops with macaroni and cheese (spiral shapes, of course!) was one of my favorite meals. It is one of those meals that shoots me back to evenings around my parents’ dining room table for suppertime. I am not a big fan of pork chops as they can get
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Venison Round Steak Vegetable Barley Soup
Venison Round Steak Vegetable Barley Soup Fall has settled in up here in northern Minnesota, and it is officially my favorite time of year! As much as I love being at our family cabin and out on our boat in the summer, fall and winter are the seasons I have the time to do activities
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One Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu Mac & Cheese
Is there a more well-loved comfort food than macaroni and cheese? As a kid, the Kraft spirals (the regular just did not taste the same!) was a side dish I always looked forward to. Now that I have a love of cooking from scratch for my own household, I have discovered how versatile this seemingly
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Easy Sourdough: Basics for Beginners
Sourdough seems to be a very common household term these days. With the food shortages (no yeast!) and challenges during 2020/2021, many people were looking for a way to be a bit more self-sustainable and healthy when it came to their kitchens. I have always enjoyed sourdough bread for the flavor, but have only in
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What You Can Make with Rhubarb
Rhubarb seems to be a crop that everyone has growing in their gardens, but no one is quite sure how to use it up. I believe that rhubarb is often an underrated food, overlooked as being common and overabundant, therefore not worth growing or harvesting much of it, if any. This cannot be further from
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