The prairie summer is a chapter of the year we anticipate year round and then it flies by and is over so quickly. After learning to cultivate pinto beans with Grandpa Fred this week, our busy lil’ farm girls have had a lot prairie fun from mowing lawn with me to swimming lessons to plenty of bike riding time and…
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Caramel Apple Muffins Recipe
Filed Under: Family Values, Grains Tagged With: caramel apple muffins, cooking, cooking with kids, Gooseberry Patch cookbooks 5 Comments
This morning, the girls and I made another Gooseberry Patch Comfort Foods recipe, Caramel Apple Muffins. They were a big hit and definitely a recipe we’ll be making again and you might just want to whip up this recipe for a weekend morning treat this coming weekend. Today is my first day at home without daycare on a weekday in…
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Wordless Wednesday w/ linky: Cherries on the prairie
Filed Under: Giveaways, Life in North Dakota Tagged With: prairie life 16 Comments
Below is the Wordless Wednesday linky for you to join. I just wrapped pitting 20 lbs. of cherries with my mother-in-law tonight for freezing, canning and jam making. But how do we find cherries on the prairie? We can grow wheat, barley, sunflowers, pinto beans, canola, lentils, soybeans, corn and more. But we can’t grow cherries. A few times a…
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A story of friendship: Roxanne Henke book giveaway
Filed Under: Family Values, Giveaways, Life in North Dakota Tagged With: faith, friendship, prairie life 43 Comments
This marks my first ever giveaway in over 3 1/2 years of blogging. And I can’t wait to share with you. There are 7 ways for you to enter and I’m giving away 3 signed copies of After Anne by Roxanne Henke, which are gifts from the author herself. When I moved to my husband’s hometown on the prairie, I told…
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Hunk of Meat Monday: Pitchfork Steak Fondue
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota, Motivated Moms Tagged With: cooking, family, family fun, hunk of meat Monday, North Dakota, prairie, protein, rural life, travel, working mom 9 Comments
Give me a steak on a pitchfork, cooked in a vat of hot oil and I’ll tell you there is nothing more divine. Enjoying it in the Badlands of western North Dakota makes the steak even better. It’s a family tradition for us to attend the Medora Pitchfork Steak Fondue. It’s an event. It’s a spectacle. It’s divine. With a…
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