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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 chocolate chip cookie bar recipe
Is there anything more wholesome and comforting than a chocolate chip cookie? I have a random memory of watching Sesame Street episode as a child that showed a girl going to her grandma’s house after school, and they baked chocolate chip cookies together. The sound the spatula made on the cookie sheet when taking the
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Slow Cooker Butter Ranch Parmesan Potatoes
Being from northern Minnesota, where it is winter more often than it is not, I love good comfort food. Often this translates into “served hot and involving a lot of butter”. I also have potatoes we harvested from our garden last fall to use up, so I am always trying out new ideas for them.
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Bread machine sourdough cinnamon raisin bread
My sourdough journey is still relatively new, but I have been enjoying learning and experimenting over the past year and a half! I didn’t really know much about the benefits of sourdough, or that it is really a whole different way to eat bread products. After making and killing two starters, I finally bought a
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Raising Chickens in a Northern Climate
Spring is approaching – in theory – and many households are thinking about starting to raise chickens. Farm stores are starting to schedule their shipments of chick breeds and hatcheries around the country begin their ship dates very soon (or have already). Our homestead began our chicken tending journey in the spring of 2022, making us
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Quick and Easy Homemade Chicken Fried Rice
As a wife and mom of almost-five who works part-time out of the home, along with household and mom-taxi duties, there are nights when I must get creative with having supper ready at a decent time. This quick and easy chicken fried rice is a go-to in our house for those nights, and as a
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Rižot: Ethnic Cooking from a Slovenian Kitchen
This is a recipe that takes me right back to childhood into my grandma’s kitchen. My dad is 100% Slovenian, and both sets of my paternal great-grandparents immigrated to northern Minnesota from Slovenia. My paternal grandma kept as much of the culture alive as she could, but as was typical for immigrants at the time,
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