Bulgur With Tomato & Avocado

Quick-cooking bulgur makes a great salad when combined with fresh vegetables, a light vinaigrette, and feta. You can serve it warm, or make ahead & refrigerate until meal time. If you do the latter, wait until the last minute to add the avocado and feta. You’ll find a printer-friendly version of the recipe at the bottom…

Butter Cornbread

This is cornbread at its most decadent. Fluffy, rich & flavorful. You’ll find a printer-friendly version of the recipe at the bottom of this page. Ingredients: 1 cup corn meal 1 cup flour ¼ cup sugar 4½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp kosher salt ¼ cup butter (½ stick), refrigerated & cut into pats 1 cup milk…

Summer Veggie & Potato Medley

The challenge: Use up some garden vegetables before they have a chance to go bad. The result: An easy, delicious salad!  My cucumber vines were done, so it was time to harvest the cukes & clean up the box for a late planting of sugar peas. My basil needed pinching and the grape tomatoes &…

Northwoods Beer Can Chicken

I love chicken. There are so many different ways to cook it, from simple to fancy and everything in between. It’s tasty on its own or can take on a million different flavors. In the winter, I love a good roast chicken with smashed potatoes & brown gravy. (Stay tuned, I just might share that…

Rosemary-Balsamic Beet and Arugula Salad

Beets are another acquired taste – for me, anyway. We used to have them at Christmas, and I hated having to eat my “no, thank you” helping (a phrase I learned at Camp Onanda – Stand Up, and Cheer!…). When I started vegetable gardening in earnest, I decided to grow vegetables I thought I didn’t…

Guacamole

Whenever I’m in the produce section at the grocery store, I check out the avocados. It’s not often, unfortunately, that I find them at just the right ripeness. So when I do, I grab them and build my dinner menu around guac. It’s just so tasty! Fun to make, too, if you like mashing things,…

BBQ Pulled Pork

I knew it was going to be a long day, and I wouldn’t have any energy left for cooking dinner. Little did I know it was also going to be a crummy day, so I was doubly glad to come home to the smell of dinner bubbling away in the slow cooker. Less than 15 minutes…