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Slow Cooker Lumberjack Ground Beef Casserole

by Sheryl Thompson 53 Comments

Slow cooker ground beef recipe

This recipe in the top 50 at allfreecasserolerecipes.com for the month of Fbruary 2018!!!!!!!!!! An Old Maine Logging Camp Favorite Adapted for the Slow Cooker! This old logging camp favorite has been adapted for cooking in today's slow cooker. Here in the Northwoods, the logging camps were famous for the hearty meals that they served their work crews in the old days.  … [Read more...]

My Winter Herb Garden…Deep asleep!

by Sheryl Thompson 5 Comments

Garden, Home Depot garden Club

  Herb Garden Planning ...I can't Wait! But I guess I will have to because my little raised bed herb garden is deep asleep under a blanket of snow. … [Read more...]

Good Ol’ Vegetable Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 30 Comments

Veggie soup, how to make vegetable soup

   Vegetable Soup Recipe Vegetable Soup.... it's a great nutritious pleaser at our house. We had another Souper Sunday Supper last night with a great big pot of Vegetable Soup! Sometimes it just good to go back to basics and there is nothing more basic than Vegetable Soup. We spent Saturday and Sunday afternoon getting ready for Hurricane Sandy.  We never get … [Read more...]

Chuckles and Mr. Chips …a sordid cross-species love affair!

by Sheryl Thompson 15 Comments

Book "AMoose For Jessica"

There have been famous cross-species realtionships like the moose and hereford cow in Vermont in the 1980's  Over the years there have been strange cross-species relationships reported in the news.  Back in the 1980’s there was a moose in Northern Vermont that was smitten with a Hereford cow. There was Koko the Gorilla and All Ball the kitten; Surya the orangutan and … [Read more...]

Which Came first..The Chicken or the Fresh Eggs?

by Sheryl Thompson 4 Comments

Free Range Chicken Flock

There is nothing like having your own fresh eggs from your own backyard flock! Fresh eggs....nothing compares! We have our own chickens and we have them for many reasons.  Both Bill and I had small family flocks growing up. Our breed of choice is the Buff Orpington.  Right now we have 25 chickens- 23 hens and 2 roosters (Baxter and Charlie) with more on the way. A … [Read more...]

In Search fo the Elusive Fiddlehead Fern

by Sheryl Thompson 7 Comments

Fiddlehead, fiddlehead recipe, fiddlehead recipes, how to cook fiddleheads

The hunt for the elusive fiddlehead fern........ For the last couple of weeks, Bill and I have been in pursuit of the revered Northwoods delicacy, the Fiddlehead Fern.  Technically, it is called the ostrich fern.  But when it first pops up through the ground, the frond is tightly curled in on itself resembling the head of a fiddle, thus it is referred to as a … [Read more...]

Today’s decorating project – Hand-painted Loon Switchplate design

by Sheryl Thompson 7 Comments

Handpainted Loon Switchplate

We’re redecorating our bedroom and I have decided to go with a Northwoods theme using a lot of blues and greens in the palette. I want it to be cool and soothing for summer and in the winter I can change out some accessories to warm it up a little while still going with the same basic palette. I have always felt that blue and green go with all colors.  It’s in our “DNA” to … [Read more...]

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The Wilderness Wife Blog is a lifestyle blog. It's a blog written for families and is full of recipes, holiday ideas, family fun, pets, and info about our home state of Maine. Sheryl, the family matriarch, has years of experience as a working wife and mother and wants to impart what she has learned to young families and especially working moms, giving them resources to use … [Read more...]

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