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Butternut Squash Pie

Mom keeps cranking out the Thanksgiving pies. This time she made a delicious butternut squash pie.

American Native Pecan Pie

American native pecans from Missouri, bourbon, chocolate, Griffin's syrup, butter and all that good stuff that makes Thanksgiving and pecan pies the best. Too bad most people end up with the commercial variety of pecans in stores, because the native varieties have more flavor but are hard to find. You can notice that the pecans are much smaller than the store bought variety.

This is a family recipe from my grandmother modified slightly by my mother. She made this pie the day before Thanksgiving, and it did not make it to turkey day whole.

Prairie Pride Pork ribs smoking on a Hasty-Bake grill, a match made in foodie heaven!

June 25, 2011

We finally made it to the Saint Paul Farmer's Market, and the good people there never disappoint. I was able to whip up a simple market dinner with our purchases. We bought some beautiful new potatoes and young garlic from a Hmong family. I pan-fried the vegetables in olive oil and finished them with parsley. Another Hmong girl was selling some young onions that I baked in the oven with olive oil and salt. Finally, we picked up some farm-raised rainbow trout fresh from the Brook Park Farm, which I pan-fried and topped with a beurre blanc sauce I made.

Our little Michigan State Spartan fan at 11 weeks