Kuchen. Do you what it is? I didn’t until I married into a staunch German heritage family. My husband is the 3rd generation in the United States but the German traditions live strong in our corner of the prairie. One of those traditions is kuchen. This weekend, Miss E and I set out to the county fair on Saturday afternoon…
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It’s Friday Farm Girl Fair Time
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota, Small Town Living Tagged With: county fair, family fun, Farmgirl Friday, prairie life 6 Comments
Our county fair started Thursday night and we are immersing ourselves in attending events at it through the weekend. It makes me giddy with excitement. It’s not from the years of experience I’ve had at the fair. I didn’t grow up showing animals or submitting 4-H projects to a local county fair. Despite generations before me blazing a trial of…
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Food lessons learned from my vegetarian girlfriend
Filed Under: America's Farm Table Tagged With: agriculture, friendship, girlfriends, where my food comes from 12 Comments
My longtime girlfriend Laura picked me up at the airport in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio. I had a few hours before my colleague would arrive and we would drive that evening to our destination for the next day’s round of client related commitments. I was elated to finally have time to hang out with Laura on her home turf…
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Wordless Wednesday: Last frontier of tranquility
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: North Dakota, prairie, prairie life, rural life 21 Comments
Below is a link up for you to join, Wordy or Wordless Wednesday. Blogging connects me to so many different people, in unique walks of life, across geographies I’ll never know. Rather than show you food, family or farming today which often are usual topics for me. I thought it was time to show the drive I took tonight home…
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Red Velvet Cupcakes
Filed Under: Dessert, Recipes Tagged With: baking 3 Comments
If you want to live a richly authentic slice of life I have decided you need to make Red Velvet Cupcakes. I have had a recipe printed off from a newspaper article for years. If you research Red Velvet Cake recipes you’ll find every man, woman and child has a similar version of the Waldorf Red Velvet recipe that was…
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