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Black Raspberry Pie with the Best Crumble Top Recipe
Pick the Black Raspberries and Make the Pie Filling It’s no secret that one of my favorite parts of summer is being able to pick fresh black raspberries all over my yard and at a local park in July! Last summer I discovered that not only could we enjoy fresh black raspberry recipes but I could also can jams and…
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Rosemary Who? Try this Amazing Prime Rib Roast Recipe
This year, my nephew was telling me he would be cooking a prime rib roast for my sister and her kids at their little family get-together. He told me they were on sale and I was intrigued. I have never had a prime roast. Ribeyes – yes. We are a huge steak-eating family. But I have never had it in…
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The Best Chicken Pot Pie Recipe + Mini Pot Pies
I found a Chicken Pot Pie recipe a long time ago that I really enjoyed! Since then, I have changed and fiddled with it depending on what kind of vegetables I have on hand and who I am making it for. My dad doesn’t care for onions or celery so when my parents come over for dinner, I leave them…
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How to Make Mini Blueberry Pies
About a month ago, we picked and froze about 20 pounds of blueberries after a fun blueberry picking adventure on our trip to Michigan. Yesterday, my daughter Olivia and I grabbed two of our premeasured bags out of the freezer, let them thaw for a couple of hours, and made mini blueberry pies! It was a lot of fun and…
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Easy Spicy Peach Salsa Recipe with Fresh Michigan Peaches
As a kid, I used to go up to a lake house in Michigan with some family friends every year. I hadn’t ever gone peach picking until we went back a couple of weeks ago! We picked peaches and blueberries while we were there. With the peaches, I made peach cobbler and this awesome spicy peach salsa. Can you believe…
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The Best Galaxy Activities for Your Homeschool and Classroom
I’m wrapping up my space camp series today with some of my FAVORITE galaxy activities from the week of camp! We did some exploring about stars, talked about what makes up our galaxy, and made rockets to blast off! If you haven’t checked out my other two posts about some of the activities we did this summer during space camp…
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Easy Three Ingredient Thimbleberry Jam Recipe
It’s been the summer of berries for us. First black raspberries in Northern Illinois and then Thimbleberries in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Thimbleberries only grow in a few places and their season is pretty short. We were lucky to be up there when they were ripe! The Thimbleberry jam recipe is SO easy but it is different than all…
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Homemade Hot Pockets your Whole Family will Love!
When I told my girls we were going to start eating less processed foods and get away from foods wrapped in plastics one of the biggest upsets was the thought that we would never have hot pockets as a simple snack again! YUP… it was devastating news to all of us! For them, they loved the way they tasted. For…
