Category: Home Sweet Home
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Beef Flavor Factors
Even though my family is able to fill our chest freezer with a wide variety of different beef cuts, I still get confused in remembering where each cut comes from and knowing the best way to cook them. This is especially true now that new value cuts have been created out of the chuck, shoulder,…
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Full Moons
Even though a full moon tends to wreak havoc on my sleep, I can’t resist looking admiringly at the moon every month. It doesn’t always look the same and sometimes it’s more beautiful-looking than others. I usually struggle to get enough sleep when the moon’s out but not shorted enough to curse it for keeping…
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Our Tree of Life
Most of the trees that surround my family and I are pine trees but the deciduous willow tree located north of our house is one of my favorite trees. When I think about home, the sight of our big willow tree is part of that image. After doing a little research, I’ve identified our type…
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One of My Favorite Summer Perks
One of the advantages of living at an elevation of 5,300 feet in the Black Hills of South Dakota is that we have cooler nighttime temperatures and very little humidity. (That can be good and bad though–we joke we live in “the high desert.”) We can get away with living without air conditioning most of…
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Tourists That Drop Out of the Sky
There’s more than one way to see the Black Hills. You can of course, drive through it by car or RV, but you can also hike it, bike it, horseback ride it, or get up a little higher and see it from a hot air balloon. During the summer, it is not uncommon to see…
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Roast Beef and Colby-Jack Biscuits
After our branding a couple of weeks ago, I had some leftover roast beef that I decided to make the next night’s supper out of instead of freezing like I do with a lot of the leftover meat and potatoes from our branding day dinner. I am always on the hunt for unique and new…
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The Supper Table: Nourishing a Family Tradition
The one thing I have fought hard to keep as a tradition in my household is having meals together as a family; most especially supper. In today’s busy world, I am shocked that sitting down together as a family is not a priority with a lot of families. Many allow busy schedules to infringe on…
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Calving Season Suppers
Once calving season is in full swing, the thought of fixing supper gets to be a drag and a hassle. Since my energy and concentration starts to dwindle around suppertime, I try to simplify feeding my family by relying heavily on my crockpot to do a lot of my cooking for me (actually I have two crockpots)….
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Coffee Cake in a Cup
Have you ever had a craving for just a piece of chocolate cake but didn’t want to make a whole cake that’s not only hard to stay away from but also dirties up a lot of dishes? I discovered the perfect solution to such dilemma from our former Extension 4-H Youth Educator. She demonstrated to…
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Lazy Baker’s Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
I love surprising my family with made-from-scratch cinnamon rolls but the only time I make true cinnamon rolls is on branding day and vaccination day when neighbors help us out. I consider myself a lazy cook and balk at the time it takes to make them. In order to satisfy my desire to make…