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Love is Sweet

Sharing recipes & photos from a very special event!    

Summertime Lime

Our summer tradition continued this year with a waterfront vacation full of family, food and adventure! Our final night was all about the refreshing taste of lime. It was easy and amazingly delicious. After 26-30 count shrimp were…
Serving Cajun

Cajun Chicken Pasta

We developed this recipe for friends who wanted to serve Cajun Chicken Pasta at their son’s graduation party. After testing and tasting, we thought we had a winner. After making eight times the recipe included here (four full roasting pans),…
Strawberry pea salad
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Mighty Microgreens

How’s this for a spring salad… tender salad greens with peas and pea shoots, strawberries, toasted almonds, and poppy seed dressing? Now imagine it with local grown strawberries! Spring has finally arrived in the upper Midwest, hopefully…
Baked Tomato gratin dish

Baked Tomato Gratin

Tomatoes! Can be eaten fresh or cooked, and equally nutritious both ways. Good source of vitamins A, C, and K. Full of antioxidants, especially lycopene*. Available year round from hot houses. Plentiful…
chocolate cupcakes

Inspiring for 5 Years!

Favorite Chocolate Cake INGREDIENTS STEPS 1 1/2 cups Vanilla porter beer, or stout 6 oz Unsalted butter 2 1/4 cups Sugar 1 cup Cocoa powder (high fat) 2 1/2 cups Flour 2 tsp…
plated pancakes with blueberries

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

WARNING: You will feel hungry after reading this! As you you can see by the inside of these pancakes, they are lemony (notice the zest), luscious (trust me), and light (evidenced by the airy texture)! They are also incredibly easy…
Salted Pretzel Knots

Soft Pretzels

I’m not going to lie, these are a bit of a project. But one bite of a warm soft pretzel and the effort is worth it. Shaping the dough into pretzels takes some practice and when you get frustrated a simple knot works fine. Tastes just as…
Chicken plate

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Question: What is the best part of Buttermilk Chicken? The tender, juicy, and delicious chicken. The bones you can use for making fresh stock. The extra chicken for soup. How simple it is to prepare. Answer:…
Pastry box variety

Gifts from the Heart

Christmas cookies… oh, the pressure! Sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving the magazine racks at the grocery checkout become full of covers adorned with perfect looking and exquisitely decorated holiday cookies. Every year the holiday…