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State Fair Blue Ribbon Bread and Butter Pickles

August 7, 2020 By Mary Leave a Comment

State Fair Blue Ribbon Bread and Butter Pickles Several years ago I had a bumper crop of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Eat Local, Foodies, Garden, Health, Home, homesteading, Pickles, Recipe Tagged With: Bread and Butter Pickles, cucumbers, Home cooking, Making Pickles, Pickles, recipes

Veggie Soup

March 15, 2020 By Mary Leave a Comment

Are you and your family trying to stay healthy by doing some social distancing?  Maybe even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Foodies, Garden, Health, Herbs, Recipe, Social Distancing, Soup, Vegtables, Wellness Tagged With: cabbage, carrots, covid-19, diabetes, Exercise, Health, healthy, iowa, Iowa Food and Family Project, light, low-cal, skinny, social distancing, weight-loss, Wellness

Hawaiian Sliders

One Rotisserie Chicken, One Afternoon and Four Healthy Recipes

March 5, 2018 By Mary 9 Comments

When I was a young bride, my mother gave me a lesson on how to buy a week's groceries on twenty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicken, Ethnic Foods, farm, Foodies, Health, Main Dish, Recipe Tagged With: bone broth, broth, burritos, chicken, chicken broth, chicken salad, Enchiladas, Hawaiian, Healthy recipes, homemade, homesteading, quesadillas, rotisserie chicken, Sliders, Sweet Hawaiian Rolls, tacos

4 leaf clover

Musings of My Inner Erma Bombeck: An Irish Blessing

February 9, 2018 By Mary 14 Comments

“CLEARLY, MARY, WE ARE NOT LUCKY!”, wailed my sister Sue in her best Dirty Harry voice, whipping … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family, farm, Health, Humor Tagged With: Dogs, Erma Bombeck, family, funny, human interest, iowa, Irish Blessings, Lucky, sad, sisters, Tragic story

Green Bean Casserole

Lighten Up and Skip the Canned Soup: Green Bean Casserole

February 8, 2018 By Mary 12 Comments

When I was in 7th grade we were required to take Home Economics and the first thing we made was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Church Cookbook, Foodies, Health, homesteading, Recipe, Side Dish Tagged With: 10 Week Wellness Challange, Baby Bella Mushrooms, Béchamel sauce, butter, Casserole, church ladies, family, FOODIES, Green Bean Casserole, Green Beans, healthy, Iowa Food and Family Project, Mushrooms, Recipe, Roux, White Sauce

Wellness Challenge Week 10, Mexican Pizzas + $25 Scheels Gift Cert.

March 29, 2017 By Mary 8 Comments

We are nearing the end of our ten week wellness challenge with the Iowa Food and Family Project, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizer, Beef, Health Tagged With: easy, green pepper, ground beef, Ground Chicken, Ground Turkey, light, Mexican, onion, Taco, tomatoes, veggies

Blackberry Balsamic Vinegar Chicken Salad Recipe

February 5, 2017 By Mary 13 Comments

Hot Damn Sam!!!  I lost weight this week and it feels great.  Granted it was only a pound  and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicken, exercise, Foodies, Fruit, Garden, Health, Midlife, Recipe, Vegtables, Wellness Tagged With: balsamic vinegar, blackberry, diabetes, easy, Exercise, farm, FOODIES, Fruit, garden, grilled, Health, healthy, herbs, iowa, Iowa Food and Family Project, lettuce, light, low-cal, Recipe, romaine, rotisserie chicken, salads, skinny, SOUP, spinach, VEGTABLES, weight-loss, Wellness

Week #1 Iowa Food & Family Project and Iowa 10-Week Wellness Challenge

January 30, 2017 By Mary 13 Comments

Last Wednesday I received my emails to let me know we are kicking off  first day of our Iowa Food … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Foodies, Garden, Health, Herbs, Recipe, Soup, Vegtables, Wellness Tagged With: cabbage, carrots, diabetes, Exercise, Health, healthy, iowa, Iowa Food and Family Project, light, low-cal, skinny, weight-loss, Wellness

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