Low fat, easy and quick meals are ideal on a busy night for us. Plus I like to use ingredients I have on hand. I’m starting to get creative. Last night, I had a toddler who “helped” me quickly pull together a chicken bake using “Heart Healthy” Bisquick as a crust, barbeque sauce, chicken, mushrooms, green onion, spinach and mozzarella…
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Building big basketball dreams in the barn
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota, Small Town Sports Tagged With: prairie life 10 Comments
There is a teenage boy at our house whose number one love is basketball. This weekend one of his basketball dreams came true in the barn. Hunter is working this summer, earning a “real” paycheck in our family business in between days of daily baseball practice and numerous games a week. But he wants to be shooting baskets any other…
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What little girls love in the summertime
Filed Under: America's Farm Table, Family Values, Life in North Dakota Tagged With: agriculture, family, family farm, Farmgirl Friday, farming, prairie life 8 Comments
What do little girls love in the summer time? Farming with Grandpa Fred. My mom had a couple posts this week on our family farm blog GriggsDakota as the girls got in on late Spring seeding of canola and planting soybeans. Miss A was holding my phone in the above picture and yes it says “#AgNerd” on the back of…
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Vegetable Pasta Salad Recipe with Walnut Oil
Filed Under: Grains, Recipes, Vegetables Tagged With: cooking with kids, vegetable pasta 10 Comments
What could I quickly pull together in 10 minutes to quickly feed a boy that needs to eat before (and after) baseball practice? Last night while Nathan was grilling pork chops, I stirred together this Vegetable Pasta Salad. The real treat in it and twist in flavor was adding Walnut Oil to it. Plus we added chick peas, artichoke quarters, dried…
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Wordless Wednesday: Farm Ride By the Lake
Filed Under: America's Farm Table, Family Values Tagged With: agriculture, family, family farm 21 Comments
It’s Wordless Wednesday and below is a link up for you to join this blog hop. First, enjoy our Wordless Wednesday of a farm ride for our girls from Uncle Jim. What’s your favorite free spirited moment that you relish in? Hopefully our girls won’t be tooling around on four wheelers or motorcycles with out helmets in their free spirited…
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