My mind has been pondering my work mom life versus the two weeks of vacation I’m doing right now to be a stay-at-home mom (SAHM). A longer blog post of rambling will come in the next couple weeks on my advantages and disadvantages I have pondered. For today, I’m just relishing in our family time. Share your Wordless or Wordful…
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Homemade Guacamole, Gooseberry #4 Recipe
Filed Under: Fruits, Party Foods, Recipes Tagged With: avocado, cooking, Gooseberry Patch cookbooks, guacamole 6 Comments
In between running around around outside with the kids this week which is a big part of my Wordless Wednesday I’ll share tomorrow, I’ve been eating a bowls full of fresh and zesty homemade guacamole, mashed with California avocados, onion, garlic, lime juice, salt, our own garden tomatoes, jalapeno and cilantro, plus a little salt to taste. It’s divine. You…
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How to catch, clean & grill fresh fish
Filed Under: Family Values, Proteins, Recipes, Small Town Living Tagged With: family fun, fishing, grilling, North Dakota, prairie, rural Leave a Comment
The blog has been hijacked by me, Nathan, the blog hijacker. I’m also otherwise known as Katie’s husband and father to our three children. We work long hours on the prairie but when we allow ourselves some downtime you can usually find me with my family, camping and fishing. Catching walleye is always the goal.
Hunk of Meat Monday: Chicken Cashew Casserole Recipe
Filed Under: Proteins, Recipes Tagged With: cashew chicken, cooking, Gooseberry Patch cookbooks, hunk of meat Monday, meat, protein 2 Comments
Do you need a fast, easy, affordable and healthy family meal? With Chicken Cashew Casserole, I found a quick answer in the Gooseberry Patch Comfort Foods cookbook. It’s the third recipe I have made from the cookbook and this was a family pleaser that I will put into our evening meal “rotation” for the upcoming school year. This also I…
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Cowgirls are born in the barn
Filed Under: America's Farm Table, Family Values Tagged With: agriculture, family, family farm, farming 6 Comments
Our lil’ cowgirls were fresh from their Sunday morning baths today as we visited with our GriggsDakota family. But as fresh and clean as they were, the only place they wanted to go was the barn. All they could think about was getting to the barn with Uncle Jim to bottle feed the calves they have known since early this…
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