Join me for a little lunch. Or something. Sometimes.
Our secret MN recipes often feature noodles, cans of things, and seasonal local ingredients.
We were always happy with pancakes straight from Mom’s pan, not too thick or too thin, drizzled with some homemade jam or jelly or sugar or maple syrup from the Piggly Wiggly.
Lois Thielen, the famous Minnesota baker, is making rhubarb crunch this week. With her recipe, we all can.
Ick is the new ish.
When my sister turned 70 she wanted to shake things up. Have adventures. So she took up dumpster diving.
Residents of Fishers, Indiana resorted to signs to divert covert lawn poopers.
The truth is out there about the jar of pickles on the side of the road near Des Peres, Missouri.
When I left Stearns County to live in New Zealand, one of the things lost to me was cherry pie.
A flowering crabapple tree is a sight to behold.
Lena and Mina were my grandmothers – Stearns County, Minnesota women who grew up and raised families in small towns around the Lake Wobegon Trail. Born in the USA, they spoke German and had German accents. As did my parents, who spoke only German until they went to school. As do some of my cousins, who have never lived anywhere but Stearns County. We’re quirky folks, like those in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Stearns town of Lake Wobegon. I’m Laurie Hilsgen, and if you’re reading this, you might be Wobegonian, too. Let’s celebrate our loony ways. Oh ja!
