This has been a big mixed bag of a school year for us. We’ve had tremendous fun—lots of regular season hockey, the All-Star Game, and a deep playoff run with accompanying travel and tailgate parties. We had a lot of charitable projects we were thankful to be involved with. The kids all were on teams […]
Tag: summer
National Hot Dog Day
Celebrate this important and historic day. Or the next time you want to watch a game on the couch. Or don’t want to do dishes. Pair a good hot dog with some Summer’s Not Over Baked Beans in mason jars and cold root beer in bottles and you’re good to go. (It’s kind of all […]
Patriotic Deviled Eggs
This is either a desperate cry for professional help or a fun way to celebrate Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day cookouts. Take your favorite Deviled Egg recipe and throw in a little reverse Easter egg dying, and you’ve got the weirdest yet best addition to any potluck. For my sized large platter, […]
Top 10 signs school is about to end
Top 10 signs you know the school year is ending: 10. School busses start carrying salve on board for the third degree burns resulting from vinyl seats reaching 37,000 ℃ by 7 am. 9. Too short to be considered “crayons,” you now have a box of wax finger paints. All in Burnt Sienna color. 8. […]
Fresh fig, walnuts and goat cheese pizza
It may seem as though I’m dogging on the South a little bit lately, and I want to set the record straight that this is not the case. There are some things that the South is considerably superior over the geographic North. Namely, grocery stores. Seriously, North, you don’t know what you’re missing. And although […]
Summer’s Not Over Baked Beans
We’ve discussed how they are trying to pretend summer is over for us all by starting school so a-b-c-d-e-effing early, but as long as Labor Day is still weeks ahead, we all know the truth. Here’s a great baked bean dish to eat every day until September. Slow-cooker BBQ Beans (You can also bake these […]