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Delve into my pantry, refrigerator, and freezer and you will find an assortment of food products and ingredients. I do a fair amount of home cooking, even on weeknights so I always have eggs (regular conventionally-raised eggs, by the way), meats (A LOT Of turkey, of course), pasta, bread, rice, seasonings, etc. at the ready. […] Read more…
This. Just this. A turkey theme song. It could be my life’s theme song right now with just a week or so to go before Thanksgiving. 🙂 Enjoy and #GobbleOn! Lara Other Thanksgiving posts: Photos from Thanksgiving Weekend 4 Thanksgiving Recipes Read more…
(Lara’s note – I wrote this blog post for Agriculture.com and am reprinting it here with the permission of the Meredith Corporation.) I have a teeny little confession to make. I think I’m burned out on writing about all the misconceptions and mistruths about agriculture. Those of you who know me well know that I’ve […] Read more…
Note from Lara: Here’s a post I wrote for Agriculture.com this week and I felt it was worth the share here too. It’s reprinted with permission from Successful Farming/Meredith Corporation. Given the choice of $.99 a dozen conventionally-raised eggs or $5.99 a dozen cage-free eggs, which would you choose to buy for your family? If […] Read more…
Joe and I have this mother-son thing about the Minnesota State Fair. Often I have some work-related events to attend to at the fair and for the past several years, he’s come with me to hang out. I work for a few hours and then we play for the rest of the day. This year, […] Read more…
It’s Minnesota State Fair time (Thursday is opening day!) and soon thousands of folks will descend upon the fairgrounds in Saint Paul to check out the exhibits, take in the midway, and – most importantly – eat like there’s no tomorrow! It’s all about the food, right? The Minnesota Turkey Growers Association and its sister […] Read more…
Hey guys – I wrote this post below for Agriculture.com (I’m a #WomenInAg blogger) but I wanted to make sure I shared it here because I think it’s got some great basic information about turkeys. And it is Turkey Tuesday after all! No recipe today, though – sorry about that! I was gone all weekend […] Read more…
You guys! I have so many fun pictures from our weekend that this post may get a little obnoxious. We ended up having two wedding celebrations to attend – one on Friday evening and the other on Saturday. And of course they were 200+ miles apart … road trip! 🙂 Friday night was a party […] Read more…