The Perfect Family Recipe for Authentic Swedish Meatballs
From my Minnesota kitchen, this authentic Swedish Meatballs recipe is easy to make and BETTER than the IKEA version. A traditional family favorite!
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Sex on a Snowbank Cocktail
What on earth is with the name? Humor, that's what. We don't take things too seriously around here and this Sex on a Snowbank Cocktail
Swedish Pear Upside-down Cake
This upside-down pear cake is from a Swedish recipe. Perfect almond cake and fresh pears combine into an amazing dessert!
3 Ingredient Blueberry Coffee Shake (the Big Blue)
I'm a MN girl and can't waste a good opportunity to blend my fave ingredients, blueberries and coffee, into an absolutely delightful treat in honor
Juicy Lucy Meatballs
It's absolutely essential, if you are from MN, that you know what a Juicy Lucy is. And not just know what it is...have partaked in
Grandma's Strawberry Homemade Shortcake Recipe
In partnership with Driscoll's, we bring you my Grandma's homemade Strawberry Shortcake recipe. We use their delicious berries to #BerryTogether and create delicious memories! Find our full
easy Puff Pastry Rhubarb Tart
Today’s recipe is delicious, tart, and sweet all at once. Rhubarb Tart. Sooooo good! And so incredible in its simplicity!
Chocolate Cherry Swedish Almond Cake
This is the cake of your dreams. An utterly delicious, full of flavor, and quite simple to make cake utilizing a Swedish almond cake recipe,
Cinnamon & Maple Latte
Make a Paul Bunyan latte, whip up a stack of pancakes, and enjoy an afternoon with your family... Minnesota style. A delicious Maple Cinnamon latte!
Rhubarb Margarita
A rhubarb margarita might be the best cocktail you will have all summer! I'm using this summer favorite in a fun, new way!
Hot Walleye Dip recipe
Do you know what people do for fun in Minnesota? They ice fish. As in, go out on the frozen lake, drill a hole through
the Mosquito. A Minnesota coffee drink.
Because it's tiny and packs a punch! I KNOW you were asking why it's called a mosquito! Although, any readers from Minnesota didn't have to
MN Grape Salad
I'm bringing you this recipe more for humor than logic. Sure, it's tasty enough and if you haven't ever tried it... do so. Just to
Reuben Donuts
Alice, from Dining with Alice, is just being a show-off today!  Seriously...Reuben Donuts?! She is the kitchen star for the local Twin Cities Live T.V. show
Minnesota Dairy Free Wild Rice Soup Recipe
This recipe for Minnesota wild rice soup with almond milk swaps out traditional cream for almond milk making it a non-dairy version of the traditional
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