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Red Peppers in the Attic
Little House in the Big Woods was about guns and bears and sugar snow … but it was also about FOOD.
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Please pass the parched corn…
Add a “Little House” tradition to your Thanksgiving celebration!
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“Apple Pie! Where in the World Did You Get Apples?”
Wendy McClure makes her own green pumpkin pie, just like Ma in The Long Winter.
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Little House Cooking in the NYT
A New York Times food writer discovers the delicacies inherent within Big Woods hog butchering.
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The Long Winter, Chapter 4: October Blizzard
That’s right, an OCTOBER BLIZZARD. But don’t worry, there are beans and tea.
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The Long Winter, Chapter 3: The Fall of the Year
This chapter is also known as “The One With The Green Pumpkin Pie.” Frost, schmost! Ma knows what to do!
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Wild Chokecherries
I went hiking this weekend along the Sakatah Singing Hills Trail in southern Minnesota, enjoying the crisp fall air and the changing colors. The Sakatah Trail follows an old railroad bed that led from west to east, beginning and ending in Mankato and Faribault, Minn. The section of the trail I hiked with the Man
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Pie Plant
One of the key questions I had about The First Four Years had nothing to do with the plot, the relationships, or Laura. It had to do with pie plant. You may remember the scene: Laura was cooking for the threshers, the first dinner in her very own little house, and was running through the
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