May 2012

Steamed or Grilled Asparagus with Easy Blender Holladaise Sauce

May 31, 2012

in Appetizers & Misc., Recipes, Salads & Sides

Come and check out my new recipe over at the Edible Madison website! My husband and I love this easy blender hollandaise – perfect for a family with 300 asparagus plants!

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Snack Time

May 29, 2012

in Baby Evelyn, Chocolate, Kids

My older kids have been having these for a special, strawberry-season-only snack. I think Evelyn might be feeling left out!

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May Strawberries and Strawberry Recipes

May 28, 2012

Wisconsin is a northern state, and it is highly unusual for us to have strawberries until June. Last year’s strawberries, for instance, didn’t ripen until the end of the month. But this is year is different – this year our berries are coming in strong right now, and it’s not even the end of May. [...]

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The Girls

May 28, 2012

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Chocolate Dipping Sauce for Strawberries

May 23, 2012

Look what I’ve got in the garden: My kids found and picked these. Then they brought them to me. Then they asked me to make them some chocolate dipping sauce – the kind of question I don’t need to be asked twice. Most days. Here’s what to do:

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The First Lettuce

May 22, 2012

How is your garden doing? Our lettuce is up! It is actually growing in one of these ultra-easy and super-cheap makeshift cold frames made of hay bales and old windows. Baby greens are my favorite! And here is some head lettuce. Here are my two favorite ways to dress and eat lettuce: Garlicky Homemade Vinaigrette [...]

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Giveway Winner Announced: $250 Gift Certificate to Bedding Style

May 21, 2012

***This giveaway is now closed*** The winner of the giveaway is #9: Colleen Gilgenbach: “Steve Madden Gamma …. love it!” Congratulation, winner! You will be receiving an email with your gift code shortly. The thing about a growing family is that you one day find yourself needing more of everything: more food at meal times, [...]

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The Tobacco Shed Art Project

May 21, 2012

The rural South-Western Wisconsin county where we live used to be farmed predominantly with tobacco, so there is no surprise that our ten-acre farm was once a tobacco farm – the fact that, to a familiar eye, is made loud and clear by our farm’s primary outbuilding – the tobacco shed. Tobacco sheds, designed for [...]

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Cream of Nettle Soup

May 16, 2012

I have mentioned this recipe briefly in one of the previous posts, but because that was in passing, I wanted to assure that it could be easily located in the archives by giving it a post of its own. Do you love nettles? I love nettles, and there is a sea of them in my [...]

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Adventures in Homemade Playdough

May 8, 2012

Although I have now been a mom for six-and-a-half years, I somehow never presented my kids with playdough. I am not sure why, but I think this is because: 1) There was no play-doh in the Soviet Union. 2) I never played with it as a child (see above). That is, never until that fine [...]

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