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Home style Baked Ziti
If you asked me to create a list of comfort foods, baked ziti would definitely be in the top 5. I always double this recipe and make a pan for the freezer, it freezes beautifully! Everyone in my family...
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Cornell Chicken BBQ
I really do not consider myself a food nerd, but recipes that has origins in Upstate New York always intrigue me. Cornell chicken is probably the best known version of chicken barbecue in Upstate New...
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Grilled Fish Tacos and Peach Salsa
There was once a time, long ago when I did not eat meat. Yup, you read that right the girl who married a beef cattle farmer did not eat meat. It started at some point in my teens and continued until...
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Homemade Taco Seasoning
Homemade Taco seasoning came about for me because of poor planning. Meal planning is not one of the areas where I shine, but I am trying to work on that! Many weeks my meal “plan” is formulated while...
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Why your facial scrub could be irritating Lake Ontario and a sweet solution
I was just reading this NPR article about pollution in the Great Lakes from those tiny scrubbing microbeads found in various facial and body scrubs. The microbeads are included in products for “gentle...
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Visiting Perkins Park in Newark
This post was intended to be a wordless Wednesday post. While running errands last week I found myself with a few minutes to kill. It was a beautiful day and visiting Perkins Park in Newark to try to...
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Willard Asylum: Hadley Hall
This post is part of a series. To see all the buildings I visited on the Willard Tour click the links below. Morning at the Asylum by the Lake Grandview Hadley Hall ( You are here!) The Morgue Elliot...
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Willard Tour: Gilbert House/ Bleak House
This post is part of a series. To see all the buildings I visited on the Willard Tour click the links below. Morning at the Asylum by the Lake Grandview Hadley Hall The Morgue Elliot Hall Brookside The...
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Morning at the Asylum by the Lake in Willard NY
This post is part of a series. To see all the buildings I visited on the Willard Tour click the links below. Morning at the Asylum by the Lake (You are here!) Grandview Hadley Hall The Morgue Elliot...
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Willard Tour: The Morgue
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Willard Tour: Brookside
This post is part of a series. To see all the buildings I visited on the Willard Tour click the links below. Morning at the Asylum by the Lake Grandview Hadley Hall The Morgue Elliot Hall Brookside...
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Willard Tour: Elliot Hall
This post is part of a series. To see all the buildings I visited on the Willard Tour click the links below. Morning at the Asylum by the Lake Grandview Hadley Hall The Morgue Elliot Hall (you are...
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Willard Tour: Grandview building
This post is part of a series. To see all the buildings I visited on the Willard Tour click the links below. Morning at the Asylum by the Lake Grandview (You are here!) Hadley Hall The Morgue Elliot...
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Lady In Granite, Penn Yan, NY
I am excited to have a guest writer today! The local legends surrounding the mysterious face of a woman showing in a white marking on a granite gravestone in Penn Yan is shared here by Chris Clemens,...
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Soft Brown Sugar Cookies
We have been busy here, like ridiculously busy. Calving season is in full swing (pics coming soon, I promise!), farm planting, I am recovering from the mother of all sinus infections, the kiddos...
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Seasonal Recipe Round Up: Asparagus
Ok, so I admit this post is a little later than I would of liked to share it, but asparagus season runs May through June here in Upstate New York, so I am not too late If you have been enjoying...
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Wordless Wednesday: Discing
I have decided because I don’t get off the farm much anymore to share a little of what goes on around here when I am neglecting my blog for Wordless Wednesday. I have to admit I have very little...
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Venison Steak Marinade
Last year my husband got a deer, and why not there are a ton of them wandering around the farm acting like it is their own personal buffet. The extra meat is handy to have in the freezer, but cooking...
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New York Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women, at Newark, N.Y.
After my visit to Willard I started thinking the old Newark State School grounds and buildings are very similar, in style and layout. I decided to dig around in Google and see if that was a asylum at...
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Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade
Yay! Strawberry season is here, and it is actually at it’s peak right now in Upstate New York. There really is nothing like fresh local strawberries, I try to take advantage of the fresh strawberries...
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