Simple syrup

    Simple Syrup

    Simple syrup is a staple ingredient in many cocktail recipes and is worth keeping on hand if you like mixing cocktails at home.
    Strawberry Raspberry Smoothie Recipe

    Strawberry Raspberry Smoothie

    These strawberry raspberry smoothies use strawberries, raspberries, and greek yogurt to create thick, delicious smoothies to get you started the morning.

    Buttermilk Pancakes with Maple Syrup

    Buttermilk Pancakes

    Buttermilk pancakes with warm maple syrup are a great way to start the morning. This pancake recipe creates light golden-brown pancakes with a hint of cinnamon.
    Maple Whipped Cream

    Maple Whipped Cream

    Maple whipped cream adds a subtle maple flavor to your desserts. This recipe only takes a few minutes and is delicious on cakes, crisps, pies, pancakes, etc.
    Apple Gallete Recipe

    Apple Galette

    Apple Galette is a free-form apple pie with a flaky pie crust that gently encircles tart apples, brown sugar, and walnuts. This galette is less sweet and more of an everyday dessert, versus something for a fancy dinner party.
    Grilled Butternut Squash with Honey Maple Glaze Recipe

    Grilled Butternut Squash with Honey Maple Glaze

    Grilled butternut squash highlights the squash’s natural sweetness while crisping up the outside. Add a honey maple glaze with a little char and you have a delicious grilled squash recipe worth eating all year long.
    Maple Frango Recipe

    Maple Frango

    Maple Frango is a frozen, creamy dessert, where the tanginess of greek yogurt contrasts with the sweetness of real maple syrup, and toasted pecans round out the texture and flavors.
    Whole Roasted Brussel Sprouts Recipe

    Whole Roasted Brussel Sprouts

    A simple way to create an eye-popping presentation is to serve roasted Brussels sprouts still on the stalk. The secret to this roasted Brussel sprouts recipe is how olive oil, lemon juice, and honey add flavor as the sprouts roast.
    Honey almond ice cream is a perfect topping for fruit crisps.

    Honey Almond Ice Cream

    One of my favorite treats at the Minnesota State Fair is a honey and sunflower seed ice cream. It inspired this honey almond ice cream recipe that has the perfect combination of floral honey flavors and a touch of nuttiness.
    Strawberry Jelly

    Strawberry Jelly

    Making homemade strawberry jelly lets us preserve summer strawberries in small half-pint jars that can be opened all winter long, whenever we need a reminder that summer will come again.
    Summer strawberries for canning don't need to be picture perfect

    Canning Nostalgia One Strawberry at a Time

    Canning strawberries in the summer always makes me feel nostalgic for the generations of my family who canned before me and for how this summer’s strawberries will help us weather the cold winter nights ahead.

    Bourbon Brown Sugar Sauce

    Bourbon Brown Sugar Sauce

    Bourbon and brown sugar create a scrumptious sauce that is a perfect addition to ice cream, cookies, cakes, crisps or just about anything you want to add sweet caramelly goodness too.
    Rhubarb Cake

    Rhubarb Cake

    This rhubarb cake recipe is one of our favorite desserts for how it combines tart rhubarb and a touch of brown sugar to create a light airy cake with a delicious rhubarb filling.
    Ancho Chili and Honey BBQ Sauce

    Ancho Chili and Honey BBQ Sauce

    With their dark color and rich smoky flavor, Ancho chilies are the perfect foundation for a great BBQ sauce. This Ancho Chili and Honey BBQ Sauce recipe uses dried Ancho, Chipotle, and Pasilla Chilies to create a sweet, smokey, sauce with a little heat on the finish.
    Cranberry Sauce with a Touch of Bourbon and a Hint of Cinnamon

    Cranberry Sauce with a Touch of Bourbon and a Hint of Cinnamon

    A good cranberry sauce is a great way to complement roast turkey and pork dishes. This recipe uses a touch of bourbon and cinnamon to add some depth of flavor and interesting notes to the cranberry sauce.
    Grilled Sweet Potatoes

    Grilled Sweet Potatoes

    What makes these grilled sweet potatoes so delicious is how this recipe uses two simple techniques to create sweet potatoes that are crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside.

    Sweet Potatoes with Andouille Sausage

    Brown Sugar and Maple Syrup Sweet Potatoes with Andouille Sausage

    This sweet potato recipe gets its sweetness from the maple syrup that is balanced by the spiciness of the andouille sausage.

    It takes thirty gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup

    From Tree to Pancake – Let’s go Maple Sugaring

    Some good friends invited me to help them make maple syrup. Seeing how real maple syrup is boiled down from sap is an eye-opening experience.