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Brown Sugar Bourbon Pickled Mustard Seeds
Brown sugar bourbon pickled mustard seeds, I know you agree, just the name sounds exciting and awesome. The recipe evokes so many sensory triggers, letting you know there is something...
Red Kuri Squash Tart with Parmesan and Fontina
Autumn is in full force, and the squash season has arrived. Autumn is my favorite time of the year; leaves are changing and showing their beautiful colors and the first chill...
Discovering Cafe Pasquale’s Big Red Chile Sauce
We all live in a world of herbs, spices, and seasoning. Sometimes during our travels, we find a dish that is just so awesome. A dish that is telling a...
Peach-Lavender Shrub and the Dog Days of Summer
Peach-lavender shrub, also known as drinking vinegar, is the perfect summer refresher. Usually mixed with cold or sparkling water, shrubs are the perfect drink mixer. I get it, drinking vinegar,...
Blackford Farm Sous Vide Cooked Beef Barley Stew
Sous vide beef barley stew is cooked with beef from the Blackford Farm in Armstrong, Illinois. A two hour trip from Chicago; Armstrong is a rural village of about 400...
Old Fashioned Cider Glazed Cake Donuts & Vanilla Butternut Squash Smoothie
Old fashioned Cider glazed cake donuts, the name speaks for itself. Great by themselves or accompanied with a vanilla butternut squash smoothie that is blended with dates, chia seeds, and...
Pineapple Ginger Iced Tea, made with the Pineapple Core
I LOVE fresh pineapple and enjoy pineapple grilled, baked, broiled, poached, roasted, sautéed, stir-fried, and in my pineapple ginger iced tea. That pretty much tells you how versatile pineapple is...
Sweet Corn Polenta, Bacon, Hot Sauce & Soft Boiled Egg
I noticed one thing in stores, sweet corn is never sold by a great name. It’s simply called sweet corn and if you drive the country roads of Illinois, farmers...
Roasted Banana, Chocolate Bread with Quark & Fresh Fruit
The magic with this roasted banana chocolate bread is the bananas. I roast them in the oven at 350 F for 40 minutes. By adding roasted bananas that have been...