The Suburban Homestead
Fresh From the Garden Rice Bowl Recipe Our Garden Fresh Rice Bowl recipe will have you dreaming of summer nights all year long! With the garden starting to produce, you can have unlimited versions of this garden fresh rice bowl all summer! For ours today, we used fresh kale, chives and pea shoots from the […]
Creamy Zucchini Soup is a really fun zucchini recipe that hits the spot on those late summer nights. It’s the savory flavors are mixed in a light frothy soup and balanced by the fresh garden vegetables. The recipe calls for Creme Fraiche which can be bought from the store, or made the day before. We’ll […]
Chocolate Zucchini Cake Chocolate Zucchini Cake is my absolute favorite way to use the abundance of zucchini that comes from our summer garden! I first received this chocolate zucchini cake recipe from a good friend after having it at her mom’s house. It is a rich and moist cake that doesn’t need any toppings. It […]
It has been said that the panfish was created so everyone could be a fisherman while Walleye were made to separate the men from the boys. Today, I’m writing the easy Minnesota fish fry recipe for all of you fisherman out there. This is a crappie, a great-eating fish. He will be made into dinner […]
A second Campari Tonic is the new summer drink of 2017. Why? Any second drink is always the best. Campari is a tart, herby drink, if you are looking for something a little sweeter, you will fall in love with our Rhubarb Mojito. Here’s my experience with this unusual drink: I had my first Campari Tonic […]
Grandma’s Baked Zucchini Casserole is my second favorite way to eat the plethora of zucchini that graces our summer table! Obviously, my favorite is Chocolate Zucchini Cake! Moreover, this is the dish that I always request for my birthday dinner. Always. Grandma’s Baked Zucchini Casserole tastes like a little slice of cheesy heaven AND it’s […]
Salad Taco Wrap Good moring! We have had a very busy week around the Four Kids and a Chicken home. Soccer, hockey, dance and school have started to destroy anything that is left of our personal life or time off. But that’s kind of what you get when you have four kids. Earlier this week, […]
Dill Pickle Recipe A quick note about canning: Canning is very safe if you follow food safety guidelines. I highly recommend sticking to known and trusted sources like Ball’s Blue Book and actually read the first chapter where it talks about food safety. We usually use published recipes, but this post is a family recipe that has […]
Tomato Sauce From Our Garden So, why would someone go through the trouble of making all of their own sauce from their garden? Going to the store seems so easy right? Why don’t we just buy all of our produce? It seems so much easier than growing, harvesting, canning, and storing all of our own […]
One great thing about summer is the tomatoes. If you are following along on our blog Dan330.com, in our Grow Your Own Challenge series, you know we have picked hundreds of pounds of tomatoes. We’ve been canning, making our own homemade ketchup, salsa, tomato sauce, honey, and much more. But I thought I’d show you […]