Grandma's Kitchen

03/13/2026

I had a great day baking! Each loaf 🍞 looks deliciously fantastic. 😋 I have two extra Dakota Multigrain breads, and they can be yours for only $7.00 each. Let me know if you'd like this 🍞 for your breakfast tomorrow morning ☕️.

03/13/2026

Well, she worked like a champ! Mixed & mixed and gave me beautiful bread just for you.
If you placed a bread order the Home Market will be open between 10:00 AM and Noon. And I'll text your totals. See you Saturday 😊😍

03/09/2026

Baking on Friday for Home Market on Saturday, March 14. Place your order by Tuesday.
Cinnamon Swirl
Country White
Dakota Multigrain
Jalapeno Cheddar
and Rye breads (Steakhouse Black Rye, German Dark Rye, & Lite Rye)
I used my new mixer today - so quiet and works like a champ! So bring on the bread orders - I'm ready! ;) 🍞😍

03/04/2026

We will be traveling back home tomorrow morning - farewell sunny Florida

03/01/2026

Made a few noodles to make chicken 'n noodles dish to take to a potluck. Wow - a few too many ;) but they were good. Have you made homemade noodles? I learned from my mom

02/26/2026

My Home Market will be Saturday, March 14, just in time to get your fresh rye breads to go with your corned beef & cabbage for St Patrick's day - right? ;) But I have plenty of other kinds to choose. I'm posting a little earlier to give me the time I may need for shopping for supplies when I get back to Michigan. I'm anxious to use my new mixer to knead all th breads you may order 🍞😍😎

02/21/2026

We continue to enjoy our time in Florida. We've experienced our first Ash Wednesday service, receiving a special blessing by our daughter and the ashes of a cross on our foreheads. And let me tell you it was VERY special to be blessed by our daughter

02/15/2026

While in Florida we are staying in The Light and Life Park. When they experienced hurricane Milton many homes were affected by the flooding, including the home we're staying in. Well, many good friends and family took personal time to get our place all repaired and readied for us. We were so overwhelmed by what they did to make our first stay here I wanted to show my gratitude. And my baker love language came out and I put together my caramel cinnamon rolls for them. So want share with you what I made for them. I miss you all, but will see you in March for another Grandma's Kitchen Home Market!

02/10/2026

No matter where I'm at, I find myself thinking about baking. I just ordered this fantastic mixer to do bigger and better breads for you all (or should I say, y'all 😅)
Now I'm so excited about baking when I get back in March.

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02/09/2026

Cute explanation story of Paul Bunyan and Babe, the blue ox. 😁😅💙

In the late 1800s, when Michigan was the lumber capital of the United States, loggers working the white pine forests told stories to survive long winters and back-breaking work. Out of those camps came the tale of Paul Bunyan.

Paul was said to be born already larger than any man in the camps along the Muskegon, Manistee, Au Sable, and Saginaw rivers. As he grew, bunkhouses cracked and whole logging camps had to move just to make room for him. By the time he was grown, he was the biggest lumberjack Michigan had ever seen.

During one brutal winter—later remembered as the Great Blue Snow—Paul found a calf frozen blue from the cold. The calf stayed blue forever and grew to enormous size. Paul named him Babe, and together they hauled logs through Michigan’s pine forests with ease. Babe could drag entire log booms downriver, and Paul could clear land faster than any saw crew.

Paul ran massive logging camps like those that once dotted northern Michigan. The camps fed hundreds of men at a time. Pancakes were cooked on griddles the size of cabins and flipped with shovels. Coffee was poured by the barrel. These exaggerations mirrored real camps—just blown up to mythic scale.

As Paul and Babe worked across the state, loggers joked that their footprints filled with water and became lakes, and that long scratches from Paul’s tools shaped river valleys. These weren’t meant as geology—they were campfire explanations for Michigan’s oversized landscape.

Eventually, the great white pines were gone. Sawmills slowed, railroads replaced river drives, and machines took over the work of muscle. With Michigan’s forests cut and the logging era ending, Paul was said to have headed north with Babe, leaving Michigan behind as the age of giants came to a close.

That’s why old-timers said when the wind roared through northern pines or logs groaned on frozen ground, it was just Paul Bunyan finishing one last job.

02/08/2026

Livin' the life and loving it ✨️