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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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Garlic Rosemary Lemon Roasted Chicken
The phrase “Sunday dinner” immediately brings to my mind a meal of either pot roast or roasted chicken. I feel like these are stereotypes brought in from television shows and movies, but also true within my families growing up. Sundays are days for Jesus, family, and relaxation, and I have really grown to enjoy spending…
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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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Slow Cooked Venison Tip Roast
Hunting and fishing have always been a large part of northern Minnesota culture, and I have always enjoyed eating whatever game my dad, brother, and now husband and sons bring home. A typical wild game meal up here consists of fresh fish (walleye, crappie, northern pike, or trout), venison, partridge, or, if you are very…
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