Author Archives: staceyjean22

Peasant Bread

There are a few things I have tried to bake or make for a lot of years that I haven’t quite perfected. They either take way too much effort and time or the science and ratios are a little confusing to me. Bread is one of them. I like bread fluffy not dense. I finally...

Sesame Crunch Salad

I am a pretty particular salad eater. It has to have a lot of flavor. I found this one a while back and it was absolutely incredible. SO MUCH flavor. The original recipe calls for tahini which is really hard to find here in Wyoming, but I did find sesame seed paste (thanks to my...

Rain On a Sunny Day

It’s the first day of school. College. I sent my son some Venmo money. For coffee. Or whatever he needed on his first day of college. It’s surreal. The fact that I can pay for coffee without standing next to him, or the fact that he’s starting college. It’s a new stage in all of...

The Grand Strand

The best kinds of vacations are the kind where you come home with sand in your pockets and a stellar seashell collection.The kind where you wake up and go to sleep to the sound of waves. The kind where the most important part of the day is how many cornhole games you get to play...

Salmon Croquettes and Tartar Sauce

Winter allows me to expand my own recipe book. And go back to it all year long. We are major seafood fish eaters. And are really blessed to almost always have Alaskan salmon either gifted to us or fish for it ourselves. However, I find salmon, no matter how perfectly it’s cooked…. needs something. And homemade tartar sauce...