Make sure to add your recipes and food posts to the link-up at the bottom! We’re planning a short weekend trip for our birthdays this year. As long as the weather cooperates, we’ll be heading to Assateague Island sometime in late March for a backcountry camping trip with a couple friends. We stayed on the [...]

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Daisy loves to help in the kitchen… HAHA! I can’t explain why these photos crack me up so bad. But I completely enjoy how intense she is about cleaning that spatula. She does not clean with a lick and a promise; she cleans thoroughly. You can almost …

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Taken from Martha herself, “That’s a good thing!”.  I have 3 good things I’d like to share with you today having to do with food that I either ate or saw on tv.The other day I was in the Akron area with my daughter and we stopped at the West End B…

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Here’s what I made – Make sure to add your recipes and food posts to the link-up at the bottom! Flatbread (We had it with Broccoli soup – Yum!) Adapted from Heather Homemade  You have no idea how easy this was! I don’t know why I hadn’t tried this already. No yeast, to rising time, [...]

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Here’s what I made – Make sure to add your recipes and food posts to the link-up at the bottom! Smoothies This was my first attempt at making healthy smoothies at home. I started with a good assortment of fruits to choose from, some fresh spinach and just went with it. I made two different [...]

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Here’s what I made – Make sure to add your recipes and food posts to the link-up at the bottom! Freezer Meals My husband does a lot of the cooking because if we waited until I got home from work to make a meal, we’d be eating at 7 o’clock. The thing is, I like [...]

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Just read my dil’s post and saw her beautiful pizza that she made.  Dawn, it looks great and I’m sure tasted the same!  So what is my problem with my pizzas?  I think I have equipment issues out the wazoo, not to discredit my dil on her …

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Congratulations on making it halfway through the months that have R’s in them.  Those can be the toughest between the Back to Schooling, the Holidaying, the Seasonal Affective Depressioning, and the Holy Crap I’ll Never Be Able to Feel my Toes Eve…

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The tree is up.  The construction-paper chains are linked and strewn.  The stockings are hung.  Now the cookie planning starts.I’ll be baking next Thursday night and Friday afternoon, for anyone who wants to stop by and take advantage of…

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That’s where you come in! Add your recipe post link to the linkup at the bottom of the post and check out what others are making. You can post any recipe you’d like. Don’t forget to grab the Food Friday button and let your readers know where to go. You can find the code in [...]

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Another batch of cider is done!  This was a two day project, mainly because we didn’t feel like going any later in the evening than 8 pm with it.  We were tired, had seen enough apples for one day and that was that.  It went smoothly tho…

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This was a dip recipe I have had in the back of my mind for quite awhile.  It was a couple years ago when apples and jalapenos were abundant in the garden that I found a recipe in the SureJell box for a freezer jam.  My intention was to make …

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Halloween happened, a few weeks ago.  I was a little nervous how it would go with having school the next day and school the day of and school school school school school.The kids had a Halloween party at school the Saturday before where they got t…

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Ok, last year I kind of missed the apples but we were so busy with everything else it was merely a passing thought.  I didn’t miss all the picking, sorting, resorting, cooking, baking and then ending up realizing we threw many of them away anyway….

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That’s where you come in! Add your recipe post link to the linkup at the bottom of the post and check out what others are making. You can post any recipe you’d like. Don’t forget to grab the Food Friday button and let your readers know where to go. You can find the code in [...]

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That’s where you come in! Add your recipe post link to the linkup at the bottom of the post and check out what others are making. You can post any recipe you’d like. Don’t forget to grab the Food Friday button and let your readers know where to go. You can find the code in [...]

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That’s where you come in! Add your recipe post link to the linkup at the bottom of the post and check out what others are making. You can post any recipe you’d like. Don’t forget to grab the Food Friday button and let your readers know where to go. You can find the code in [...]

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Showman Farms is a small, family owned and operated dairy farm located along Little Conneautee Creek in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.It has been milking happy, healthy cows for six generations since 1892. Every cow, bull, or calf has a name, a…

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That’s where you come in! Add your recipe post link to the linkup at the bottom of the post and check out what others are making. You can post any recipe you’d like. Don’t forget to grab the Food Friday button and let your readers know where to go. You can find the code in [...]

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Five things I love that start with the letter C.1) Cheesecake. I don’t really like cake or cupcakes, but damn I love cheesecake. I know. I know. How can I not like cake? It’s too sweet and the sponginess doesn’t thrill me. I guess it’s not that I don’t…

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Now that it’s getting a little colder out I’m thinking soup so last night I decided to use the leeks I bought over the weekend and make soup.  At first I was thinking of using chicken because the lady that sold me the leeks said her husband was go…

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That we keep our trash and our food in the same room?

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Ten years ago, Dan Crandall was setting up for the 5th Annual Taste of Meadville. The earlier events of the day September 11, 2001, had

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Tonight, I’m gearing up for my first Taste of Meadville. The fifteen-year-old event showcases 30 different local food establishments at the Meadville Market House in

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I love to crack my living room windows and watch for the bus to drive by.  The way they are lit up so brightly inside, you can see what everyone is doing in there during the two seconds it takes for the bus to pass by.  Looking at the lives o…

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I saw this recipe several weeks ago while watching Barefoot Contessa at my parents’ house. It’s a simple recipe and now that my tastes are expanding as I’m getting older, it’s a sandwich I’ll finally enjoy.I’ve always liked bacon, but only in the last …

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Five things I love that start with the letter B…1) Breakfast. It is the most important meal of the day, afterall. I feel like I could eat breakfast for any meal of the day. What’s not to love?! I love eggs. I love yogurt. I love fruit. I love waffles…

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Five things I love that start with the letter A:Art: This weekend was Gallery Night in Erie, which happens monthly. We made it to three exhibits. It was fun, albeit brief. And as I mentioned before, my mom is an artist. It was been a pleasure to decora…

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State and County fairs are infamous for their eclectic food offerings. A week’s worth of food for a week at the Crawford County Fair. What: Garbage Fries at Parker’s Concessions Description: I’d seen the bowls all over the fair. Piled high with everything from bacon and cheese to sour cream and pork, these bowls of [...]

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