by Mary Tastad | Sep 14, 2021 | cookbooks, cooking, Culture, Food, Foodie, North Dakota, recipes, Tasty Tuesday, Watford City
Best Soup In The West. Knoepfla. Knopfla. Knophla. Knepfla. Knoephla! Western and central North Dakota boast heritage based in many cultures, a result of pioneer settlement in the latter part of the the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries....
by Mary Tastad | Aug 20, 2019 | Food, North Dakota, North Dakota agriculture, recipes, Tasty Tuesday
Brilliant Yellow Fields! Brilliant yellow sunflower fields are a common sight in western North Dakota. In fact, you’ll find these bright yellow fields all over North Dakota each August. North Dakota Tourism even provides a Sunflowers in Bloom Map when the...
by Mary Tastad | Aug 17, 2019 | cookbooks, Food, North Dakota, recipes, Williston
Chokecherries. Love ’em or hate ’em. They’re Historic! Chokecherries! Many people love them. But some people hate them! Their astringent taste is their trademark! And their history is long! Archeological findings have revealed their use by...
by Mary Tastad | Jul 2, 2019 | Billings County, cookbooks, McKenzie County, Medora, Mild-mannered Explorers, North Dakota, recipes, restaurant, Tasty Tuesday, Watford City
Cowboy Recipes! What’s as important as fireworks on the Fourth of July? Food! No gathering in the grasslands and badlands of western North Dakota and eastern Montana is without the smell of meat grilling! Add to that a few accompaniments, and...
by Mary Tastad | Jun 11, 2019 | Billings County, cafe, cookbooks, Dunn County, eatery, Food, Killdeer, McKenzie County, Medora, North Dakota, recipes, Watford City, Williston
Rhubarb Love it. Hate it. Weird rhubarb was a mainstay of the early settlers of the badlands and grasslands of North Dakota. It still is! Whether it was brought from Scandinavian countries, or Germany, or Ukraine, or Russia, no one really knows. But almost every...
by Mary Tastad | Jan 29, 2019 | cookbooks, Food, Medora, recipes, Tasty Tuesday
\ Best Cowboy Cookbook in the West? Cookbooks. Everyone eats, and most people like to eat. Some even Love To Eat. And then there are those who transform eating into a literary past time. Not only can cookbooks become literary works, they can become a...