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Easy Two Serving Egg Salad
It is the time of year with longer days and lots of sunshine, and those of us with chickens know what that means: eggs, eggs, and more eggs! At the moment we have around 45 laying hens and two roosters (one for each coop, and they are both great at their jobs). Now that the…
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Perfect Instant Pot Hard-Boiled Eggs
The perfectly cooked and easily peeled hard-boiled egg is a goal anyone making deviled eggs or egg salad hopes to achieve. Since getting chickens a few years ago, I have tried various ways of boiling eggs to make this happen, and one of them has consistently worked the best: steaming the eggs in my Instant…
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Chicken Carbonara Pasta Bake
Carbonara is one of my favorite pasta dishes. When I visited Italy years ago, I kept trying to convince myself to try different dishes at restaurants but the carbonara always called to me! The eggs and melted cheese made such a creamy sauce…and really, how can anything involving bacon and bacon grease be disappointing? I…
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One Pan Chicken & Rice Dinner
Easy, quick, and only one pan to wash at the end. This rendition of the Campbell’s 15 Minute Chicken and Rice Dinner that my mom made often when I was young is a great recipe for a weeknight family dinner. Easy ingredients and a quick cook time make this an all-in-one meal that your whole…
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Chocolate Protein Nut-Free Granola
Crunchy. Chewy. Chocolatey. Contains fiber, protein, antioxidants, and more. This, my friends, is the best granola I have ever tasted. As I have said before, I love granola but have a difficult time finding delicious types that don’t have tree nuts or coconut – I have an allergy. Learning to make my own has cleared up that struggle, and now I am trying out…
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Easy Lasagna for Beginner Cooks
I was never much of a cook until I was a few years into my marriage. Growing up, my mom always had delicious, healthy, home cooked meals on the table most nights of the week. We almost always sat down to eat as a family, though sometimes on the fly as we ran in and out from…
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Delicious Homemade Fish Fry Breading Mix
Walleye. Northern Pike. Crappie. These are some of our favorite fish to catch in our area to have a fish fry with. While we love many different species of fish cooked in all kinds of ways, a big fish fry with fish we caught and cleaned is our favorite! Fishing is a big part of…
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Bread Machine Mini Sourdough Blueberry Bagels
My family LOVES bagels. We buy and eat them bags at a time. I am on a mission to try making our bread and snacks myself to cut out unnecessary ingredients and be more cost effective, and bagels are next on my list. My hope is that I can get into a groove with bagels…
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Chicken & Pasta with Lemon Garlic Sauce
Chicken and Pasta with Lemon Garlic Sauce Once in a while, I really like to get my “chef” juices flowing and create a meal from scratch without a recipe. Once you get comfortable making a few basics in the kitchen, this comes with repetition and practice. This lemon garlic sauce served over chicken and pasta…
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Ice Fishing: A Favorite Northern Minnesota Winter Activity
There is nothing I love more than getting outside on a sunny winter day. Snowshoeing, skating, sledding, ice fishing – I just love enjoying the outdoors with snow! Ice fishing definitely tops the list of winter family activities on our homestead. Our whole family enjoys it, and we go often throughout the winter season (as…
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