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Thanksgiving 2025

Hmong Hot Pepper Sauce

The combination of having a Hmong wife, and doing most of the cooking, has led me to creating Hmong Hot Pepper Sauce. When I taste it, if it burns my mouth and makes my head sweat, I know I'm on the right track.

Last fresh beans of 2025

Fall Squash

Apple is half of the filler, and it is delicious!

Grilled Lake Trout

We caught it in July on Lake Superior.

Summer Food

Early NFL Games

Vikings games at 8:30am means adjustments to the game time menu.

Stuffed Peppers

I make these about once per year.

Charcoal Grilled

Zucchini for Lunch

Fried Lake Trout

If you happened to have seen the Lake Trout we caught on Lake Superior, here is how a couple of filets looked fried tonight!

No oven, hot weather pie

reverse order

Baked Apple filled with Rhubarb

I cooked these on hot coals for 10 minutes--turned once after 5 minutes.

Rhubarb/Apple Pie

Nobody was eating the fresh rhubarb, so when I saw that graham cracker pie crust at the store, I began to get ideas. I didn't follow a recipe, though I did look at two before I started. The ingredients were, rhubarb, sugar, lemon juice, apples, cinnamon salt, flour, butter. I baked it for one hour at 375 degrees Fahrenheit. I don't bake much, but this pie was good.

Flipping Eggs

There is a trick to flipping an omelette when the egg is infused with so many herbs and vegetables. But if you can do it, it turns into something beautiful.

Favorite Breakfast

I eat this once a week and never get tired of it.

Easter Eggs 2025

My son colored Easter Eggs, while I grilled a chicken...

9 Piece Chicken

9 Piece (I kept the back) Grilled Chicken with Asparagus and Red Potatoes

Christmas Duck!

Half Turkey

After Thanksgiving, my local Cub Foods sells half turkeys. I can't resist, and my family wants more like this...