Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too. But back in the l950s and early l960s when I...

Blanching vegetables

By Tom Kovach Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 If you plan to freeze your vegetables, it is a must to blanch most of them. Blanching slows or stops enzyme action which can cause the vegetables to...

Hungarian venison stew

Recipe of the Week  Hungarian venison stew  Courtesy of Tom R. Kovach   You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 1 lb. (or a little more) of chopped venison (ground venison works, too) 3...