It would be killer if this event turned out to be huge. Iowa’s Latino population gets overlooked a lot. This month, the Figge is bringing back its Día de Muertos or Day of the Dead celebration. Unlike most things posted here, this one is totally family-friendly and a great alternative to some of the scarier…
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Making Bacon – The Easiest Cure
Warning: this cure makes bacon that tastes better than any you have ever had, and it will ruin all store bought varieties for you forever. Curing bacon is not hard. Artisans on the Food Network have the general public thinking that it’s a grand undertaking. While this may be true for the entrants in the…
Simple and Tasty No-Cook Tomato Sauce with Kale
Part of the Thanksgiving comedown; I totally OD’d on meat and carbs, so none of that for a few days. Here’s what I whipped up for dinner last night, and it turned out really well. The recipe for the sauce came from Health.com and is described as a pasta sauce, but in searching Google for…
Thanksgiving Comedown at Jim’s Rib Haven
Thanksgiving. Holy hell. Carb overload. Meat sweats. Pants that no longer fit. You’d think after an enormous meal and a day of leftovers, no one would want to even look at still more meat and potatoes. In deference to our out-of-town visitors, however, we rolled up our sleeves one last time on Saturday night and…
How To Make Lefse
Every fall, my family tries to get together for a big family meal. When I was younger, Thanksgiving was the big family meal, but these days we try to get together for Halloween because 1) there’s a ton of cars on the interstate at Thanksgiving, making travel a pain for family coming from far away,…
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