Holiday
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Turkey Shepherd’s Pie
Finally the Thanksgiving holiday is behind us, and hopefully we all survived the anxiety of making sure guests and food all turned out well. This past Thanksgiving was another success. We did not…
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Grilled New York Strip with Blue Cheese Butter
Finally. Yes, finally we are back to a few good months of weather in Wisconsin. Let’s face it, this past winter was brutally long, and finally everything is blooming. The smell of late…
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Root Beer Glazed Ham
I’m still here, don’t worry about me. It seems like it has been an eternity since my last post, and there are reasons for that. One is that I have been busy, and…
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French Onion Soup
Every year that I am able to cook beef around the holiday season, I get excited, not only because we get to enjoy some beef, but I know that I will have some…
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Seasoned Popcorn
One of my first things I was able to make, by myself, in the kitchen while growing up was stove top popcorn. I ‘owned’ as my kids might say today, making stove top…
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Butternut Squash Gnocchi
It’s nearing winter time here in the great state of Wisconsin, and I still have a handful of butternut squash that I pulled from the garden weeks ago. Now don’t get me wrong…
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Fried Smelt
As you may or may not know, Wisconsin is huge when it comes to the Friday fish fry. I know I’ve mentioned this a couple of times, however Wisconsinites take their fish fry…
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Crispy Shrimp with Citrus Glaze
I had decided to make two different shrimp dishes this past holiday. I wanted to start with a shrimp appetizer that was marinated in alcohol and served with a vinegar based dipping sauce,…
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Porchetta Cracklings
Last year around this time, I was getting super excited, not so much about the holiday (well, I kind of was), but I was extremely excited for what I was going to prepare…
