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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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Quick and Easy Venison Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry
Easy Venison “Beef and Broccoli” Recipe Sometimes recipes are born out of creativity, and sometimes they are created out of necessity. This is one of the necessary ones – I had meat thawed and had no idea how to cook it! You may have noticed we are a wild game eating type of family, but…
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Classic Family Banana Bread Recipe with Easy Instructions
Banana bread is one of those classic foods I enjoy making again and again. It that can be enjoyed as breakfast, dessert, or a snack – so versatile! It is easily customizable with add-ins, and there are hundreds of recipes out there to try. We always seem to have a few over-ripe bananas on the…
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Cast Iron Skillet No Nut or Seed Sourdough Granola
Having tree nut and coconut allergies often makes finding healthy, homemade recipes for snack foods and baked goods challenging. Coconut oil and coconut flakes are used as healthy fat and flavor alternatives, and nuts are such powerhouses of protein, healthy fats, and other beneficial attributes, so when you start searching for “healthy recipes”, most will…
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Working Mom Home Management Ideas
Due to being a working-out-of-the-home mom of 4 (almost 5!) kids, I often get questions like “How do you get everything done?” and “How do you do it?”. I find it ironic since often the women who are asking me these things have multiple kids themselves. I always think, “Well, the same way you did…
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Venison Cheddar Sausage Sheet Pan Meal Recipe
I am all about quick, make ahead meals on weeknights. The big kids have school, my husband and I work outside of the home, and there are sometimes one or two Mom Taxi jobs in the evenings. I have seen others prepare sheet pan meals that are then easy to just pop in the oven,…
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