Tag: cooking
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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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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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Delicious Family Recipe: Wild Game Bird Oven Bake

This family recipe for cooking game bird is not one to overlook. It is simple and delicious. I have yet to meet a person who didn’t love it after trying it. My favorite time of year is fall, and when partridge season opens we always hit the trails and back roads as a family looking…
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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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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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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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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…
