Like to cook, bake, sift, stir, knead and whip? This is the place for foods you can make at home that somehow, some way relate to the Great Lakes.

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It’s a Great Season for….Apples

• Fall for this Apple Bread: Molasses makes the difference
• Mummu’s Apple Cake: A quick and tasty seasonal treat
• Easy, Tree-Mendus Applesauce: From Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm
• Inn Season: Applesauce Bread: Tasty bread from a country inn
• A Super Apple Supper: Combine Michigan apples with butternut squash in a smooth soup and top it off with a nice apple crisp

It’s a Great Season for…Blueberries

• Blueberry Yogurt Pie: A favorite Finnish recipe
• Rustic Blueberry Pie: Another favorite Finnish recipe
• Blueberry Streusel Puffs: The topping makes them special
• Blueberry Smoothie: Drink your berries
• Blueberry Scones: The lemon glaze adds to the goodness
• Blueberry Muffins: Classic favorite
• Blueberry Grunt: Funny name for a special stovetop treat

Breads & Muffins

• Fr. Keefer’s Whole Wheat Bread: A hearty loaf loaded with good memories
• Yogurt Bread is Good Therapy: Quick bread satisfies

Breakfast at…

• Borcher’s B & B: Famous Egg Casserole

Brownies & Cookies & Cakes

• Moosewood Brownies: Picnic-perfect treat from iconic Ithaca restaurant
• Palmer House Brownies: Mrs. Palmer’s delectable dessert from the 1893 Columbian Exposition
• Gingerbread Men (and Women): This recipe makes a village of cookie folks
• Carrot Cake: Veggies for dessert
• Cranberry Tea Cake: Goes with coffee, too! A favorite from Moosewood.
• Rhubarb, the “Pie Plant,” Makes Delish Bread, Too
• Savory Zucchini Muffins: Here’s an idea for the abundant squash

Finnish Flavors

• Mustikkapiirakka: A blueberry and yogurt pie
• Karelian Piirakka: Mini rye pies
• Mojakka: Beef stew
• Nisu or Pulla: Grandma’s cardamom coffee bread
• Pannukakku: Oven baked pancake

Something Fishy

• $1,000 Salmon-Cheese Pie: One of Mom’s specialties

It’s a Great Season for…Pumpkin

• Simply Delish Pumpkin Cake
• Got Pumpkin? Make these decadent cupcakes
• Flip Over These Pumpkin Pancakes 

It’s a Great Season for…Veggies

• In the Tank for Rutabaga: Loving the lowly baga
• Senate Bean Soup: Don’t let the name keep you from this Navy bean fave
• Donna’s Vegetable Pot Pie: Got veggies? Make a pie
• Rustic Roasted Vegetable Tart: Got veggies? Make a tart

Vernors Recipes

• Gnome Foolin’: Versatile Vernors Makes Great Onion Rings
• Deliciously Different Country-Style Pork Ribs
• Vernors Goes Swimmingly with Salmon

Yooper Favorites

• Pasties According to Mom (and Grandma): Interpreting the Upper Peninsula meat pie
• Oh, Deer: The Hands Down Best Venison Ever