A few years ago – about a year and a half after I started my mom blog – I was in a cooking competition for a wine company. We were supposed to make side dishes that would pair well with…
Baked Butter Garlic Shrimp Scampi recipe
I feel like Shrimp Scampi is the gateway fish dish. If you’ve never loved seafood before, this is one that almost ALL people seem to love. I remember trying it for the first time when I was about 7 and…
Roasted Peppers and Burrata Salad
As spring approaches I’m craving lighter meals that are easier to make. With all the work on the farm in the spring, I just can’t afford to spend as much time in the kitchen as I can during the fall…
Creamy Zucchini Soup
This is the time of year when my garden always goes from quaint, farmhouse garden to the jungle from Jumanji. All the vegetables are expanding and pushing out of their little spaces into the aisles and encroaching on each other….
Mini Blackberry Lavender & Lemon Icebox Cake
Summer can often feel too humid, too hot and too busy to fit in a meal. Here it’s been in the 90’s for weeks and the humidity has been intense. You start sweating the second you walk out the door,…
Caramelized Onion & Tomato Tart + tomato tips
Slicing into your first homegrown tomato of the season is like a treat for the senses. The vibrant colors, the smell of fresh dirt mixed with the promise of something delicious and the firmness as your blade makes the first…
Crunchy Apple Coleslaw
We literally live right off of a street that’s named for its abundance of fruit farms. We have fresh blueberries, pears, peaches and probably enough apples to supply half the country growing up and down the street. You can also…
Perfect Instant Pot pulled pork sandwiches
Before fall ends and winter officially sets in in Michigan, I wanted to share one of our favorite fall recipes. However, since the lines here between our seasons tend to blur in the Midwest, I think you’ll find my Instant…
Zucchini bites recipe with creamy garlic dip
How many zucchini’s do you have growing in your garden right now? If you’re growing zucchini, your answer is probably, “Too many.” I love, LOVE growing zucchini but I always end up have too much of a good thing in…
Watermelon Lemonade Recipe with mint
Lemonade is the quintessential drink of summer so I felt like I couldn’t let the summer go by without sharing a lemonade recipe. But… I didn’t want to share just a regular lemonade. I love flavored lemonade and seeing what…
Bacon & Blue Potato Salad Recipe
When I was a child, we would have a family picnic each summer. It would be a large party at a local forest preserve and include distant and extended family we would only see that one time a year. It…
Simple, delicious basil pesto recipe
With summertime in full swing, you probably have a vegetable garden that’s popping with fresh tomatoes, zucchini, basil, pea, green beans and more. While our garden was delayed over here this season, it is finally up and running. I’m thrilled…
