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Roasted Potatoes and My Visit to Smucker’s

0 · Nov 4, 2013 · 1 Comment

// Roasted Potatoes Recipe // 

Roasted Tri-Color Potatoes

A few weeks ago I had the fabulous opportunity to visit Orrville, Ohio the home of the Smucker's Family.

Heather from WhipperBerry at the Smuckers General Store

You know… Like Smucker's jam and jelly. Little did I know how diverse the Smucker's family really is. It's not all jam & jelly, they have a large family with all kinds of wonderful and iconic brands like Folgers, Jiff, Hungry Jack, Pillsbury Baking and Crisco to name a few. We had the chance to meet Tim & Richard Smucker the Grandsons of J.M. Smucker the founder of the family owned Smucker Brand. 

Tim Smucker

Leigh Anne (Your Homebased Mom) // Me (WhipperBerry ) // Tim Smucker // Sarah (A Thrifty Mom) // Kristen (Six Sisters Stuff)

Heather & Richard Smucker

Richard Smucker & Myself

We had a couple of amazing days learning all about this truly remarkable company. Still family owned, still infused with the values instilled by J.M. Smucker himself. A company that refuses to let go of the family touch in a world where products and brands are becoming more and more sterile. 

the whole crew at the J.M. Smucker House

Here is the whole crew out in front of J.M. Smucker's house that he built right on the grounds of his company headquarters back at the turn of the century. The house is still there along with some of the old buildings he used back in the day. Today it is a beautiful campus with a good mixture of old and new. A fabulous way to help their employees remember their roots and core values. 

I just fell in love with the whole Smucker Family and I can't wait to share more of what I learned while I was there. But… instead of boring you with one long wrap-up post. I thought I would develop some fun recipes using some of the Smucker's products to tell the story. 

Since we are getting close to Thanksgiving, I thought I would share one of my family's favorite side dishes.  Roasted Tri-Color Potatoes. I know, you thought you were going to get a jam or jelly recipe coming from Smucker's… Don't you worry, I thought I would start with the savory.

Roasted Tri-Color Potatoes

What makes these roasted potatoes special, is that I use three different types of potatoes. Sweet, Russet & Fingerling potatoes are the key to this dish. The secret ingredient that takes it over the top… Crisco Culinary Fusions Garlic & Herb Oils.

Roasted Tri-Color Potato Ingredients

2 – 3 sweet potatoes 

3 russet or baking potatoes

1 lb. of fingerling potatoes

1 1/2 tablespoon of Crisco Culinary Fusions Roasted Garlic oil

1 1/2 tablespoons of Crisco Culinary Fusions Italian Herb oil

4 tablespoons of chopped fresh parsley

salt & pepper to taste

Directions

Preheat oven to 425˚

roasted potatoes with Crisco Culinary Fusions Oils

Cut potatoes into bite sized cubes uniform in size. Place in a large bowl with generous amounts of salt & pepper, your chopped parsley and the oil. 

add parsley along with salt & pepper

Mix to coat all of the potatoes in the oil and seasoning.

season potatoes with Crisco garlic oil

Pour mixture onto a baking sheet and place into the 425˚ oven.

tri-colored potato roast

Bake for 20 minutes and then remove the sheet from the oven. Carefully toss the potatoes and the return to the oven for an additional 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and test your potatoes to make sure they are done. If they are still a little hard, return to the oven for an additional 10 minutes or so. 

Once they are finished remove from oven, sprinkle with salt and let cool for a few minutes. Serve as a side dish for all kinds of meals. You could even serve this as a fun mashed potato alternative at Thanksgiving. The flavored oils make these potatoes taste so good. You have all the flavor from the garlic and the herbs without having to spend the money and go through the hassle of preparing those ingredients each time. I LOVE It!! 

These oils are also really good for marinating meats and veggies before you grill or even use as a dipping oil for bread. They are so versatile. What is your favorite way to use flavor infused oil?

Roasted Tri-Color Potatoes

Spring Wreath DIY // Vintage Vignette // Whatever Craft Weekend Part II

2 · May 2, 2013 · 12 Comments

Spring Wreath DIY // WOWZA that's quite a bit to have all in one post!! I have been working on my Spring Vignette for a little bit. Gathering treasures and such, tweaking and rearranging. I finally have a fun grouping to share with you today that's inspired by my Whatever Craft Weekend. Of course it starts with my Winter White Wreath that I will be using all year. I've used it for Christmas, The New Year, Valentine's Day and now I've updated it for Spring!

Spring Wreath from WhipperBerry

All I did was add some fancy yarn and a fabric banner to the wreath. The fabric garland was made by my friend Amy from Ameroonie Designs. I had been trying to find time to put together a fabric garland for the wreath and just hadn't found the time. Luckily, Amy was handing little fabric garlands out to her customers at the Queen Bee Market last month at SNAP and I was sooooo excited… I didn't have to worry about that element anymore! Not that they are hard to make, the issue for me would be to find my sewing machine in the sea of boxes still in my garage. We are in a temporary home right now, so there is no need to unpack everything. Thanks Amy for the rescue!! 

Now, for the full vignette. It was inspired by my Whatever Craft Weekend… Yes, I will be trying to live in that fabulous weekend for the rest of my life I think. Almost everything in the display came from that magical weekend…

Spring Vingnette from WhipperBerry

Isn't it cheerful and fun?! Part of the Whatever Craft Weekend is a fun Junking trip. Meg & Kimberlee have some amazing treasure troves that they share with all of their guest and I had a ball finding all kinds of goodies. 

Lunch at the barn Whatever Craft Weekend

Here are Ashley, Mique, Kristi, Pam and several other friends on our junking tour, Kristi is going ga gah over all the amazing wood available at this amazing junk barn!

I curated a group of fun smaller items like these…

WhipperBerry typewriter

Many of these goodies made it into my vignette… and, I even found a large item that I am head over heels in love with.

shopping at the barn whatever craft weekend

Check out that lovely, chippy bench that Ashley is testing out… yep, it came home with me!! Several friends found some amazing quilts in our antique tour. All of them just divine. I'm not sure if there is anything more fun than junking with several fun friends!

Back to my Whatever Vignette… Here are some of my little elements…

Vintage Typewriter with sign from Katy Girl Design

This typewriter was one of my favorite finds… it was only $30, a total deal! I've paired it with my sign from Katy Girl Designs. You have to run over and check out Katy's shop. Its lovely!!

Vintage Canon Camera

Next, I have a fun biscuit tin as a base for my vintage fan and Canon camera. The camera belonged to my Grandfather and I love having it out on display. It reminds me of his curiosity and love of life and it makes me happy to see it sitting there all day.

antique glass with felted foxes felt balls

I have always been in love with felted balls and have made many projects with them, but I was dying when we opened a whole package from FeltedFoxes during our craft time at Meg's.  I've made felt balls… I even have a tutorial on how to make them. They aren't easy and take quite a bit of time and effort to  make. I think I will just order them from now on from FeltedFoxes and save the time and effort! I love how they look in my emerald Depression Glass… just stunning!

Create sign from Little Branches

I LOVE my new Little Branches CREATE sign. It's just so perfect for my house. I love the colors and the gold accents! It's just so cheery!

Vintage Kodak Camera

I used  fabric in old embroidery hoops to add color and texture to the display and peppered in more cameras from my vintage camera collection.   I'm just so in love with this display. It may stay up for a few months while I soak in all the vintage goodness!

Spring Vingnette from WhipperBerry

Are you a junker? What do you like to collect?

Whatever Craft Weekend // Part One

8 · Apr 10, 2013 · 15 Comments

Whatever Craft Weekend // Yea, I won the lottery, well I didn't per say… Kristi from Barn Owl Primitives did, and she was kind enough to share her winnings! What did we win? A weekend at Meg's Whatever Craft Weekend!!

whatever chalkboard

What is the Whatever Craft Weekend. Several of you have asked over Instagram. Meg from the blog Whatever, has a house, a magical house that she opens up a few weekends throughout the year for a fabulous craft weekend. Her partner in this endeavor is Kimberlee and together these ladies pull off one of the best girls weekends I've ever had. They pampered us (we couldn't even clear our dishes from the table), they made us laugh and most of all they inspired us! This Whatever Craft Weekend has become so popular in some circles that you have to add your name to the waiting list and then all of the participants are selected by a lottery sysytem. People have been on the list for over a year waiting for a spot. That's why I feel like one of the luckiest girls out there!!

meg and kimberlee

When we first arrive at the house you're greeted with a smile and shown your room, and the minutes you walk in you are transported back to when you were a kid and life was just simple and magical…

Bedroom at Whatever Craft Weekend House

My roommates for the weekend were…

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img source // little miss momma

Mique from 30 Handmade Days and the Queen Bee Market, Kristi from Barn Owl Primitives and Ashley from Little Miss Momma. These girls are amazing and I am truly blessed to be able to call them friends. Once we were settled, threw on our comfy outfits and Kimberlee treated us to her wonderful dinner, we got to work in the studio on our Whatever Craft Weekend Aprons…

making the whatever apron

These aprons are iconic and so fun to make. Meg has an amazing collection of fabric and goodies to use for all of the projects. Just take a look at one of the supply stations…

whatever craft supplies

I wouldn't say that I have amazing sewing prowess and this project made me feel like a sewing ROCK STAR!! That's the magic of Meg's creation. 

whatever apron copy

If you can sew a straight line you can make this project. It was so fun to see everyone's personalities come out in their fabric selection. Here are all of our aprons…

Whatever Craft Weekend Aprons

From left to right, Kristi, Mique, Ashley and mine along with one of Kristi's amazing Barn Owl Primitive signs. Aren't they all so fun!! They weekend is just amazing. Here are some more shots of Meg's house…

red and white wall

Whatever House Map

Whatever Pantry

Whatever Pillow

Everywhere you turn, you are treated with amazing eye candy. Color, textures and patterns are all over the place. The house is just so happy. The whole weekend truly inspired me in so many ways. For one, I realized I need more color in my life. Like I've said before, I think this year is going to be operation add color to my life. We all need color!! 

Tomorrow, I'll share a bit more about our adventures and some of the amazing swag we received. 

EVO 2012 // Why I LOVE This Conference

0 · Jul 18, 2012 · 3 Comments

Not all blog conferences are created equal, I've been to a fair share and I've seen the good, the bad and the spectacular. EVO 2012 // The Evolution of Women in Social Media Conference is one of my favorites! This year was my second year and even the second time around I was blown away. 

Why Attend EVO?

EVO is a conference that covers several types of blogs. You have your foodies, your mommy bloggers, the humorists and the creatives. It kind of sounds like all the social groups in high school.  You have your preppies, the jocks, the headbangers, the skaters, the stoners {wow, I think I'm dating myself!} My point is, the conference is full of all types of bloggers with many different passions and I believe, that's what makes it special.  We all have our strengths and weakness and to be able to share our work with each other only builds our community even stronger.

EVO has several different types of classes and workshops.  I tend to stick with the foodie side of things because I love it for one, but I also feel what I learn in the food photography sessions translates really well into my specific kind of photography.  Photographing a craft project isn't too different from photographing a recipe. I went to several hands on workshops this year and I'm not going to bore you with a run down of all of them, I'm just going to give you a little taste of my favorite one.

My very first workshop at EVO this year rocked my world!  I've had a blog crush on the White on Rice Couple for some time, but to have the opportunity to have an intimate workshop with them was a dream come true.

Diane Cu from White on Rice and Heather Thoming from WhipperBerry
We started the workshop that was sponsored by Truvia with an amazing lunch at the top of the mountain at the Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah.

truvia lunch at EVO'12

After lunch we learned about all the fun stuff that you can do with Truvia's new Baking Blend and had a ball making Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies using the new Truvia Baking Blend… they turned out great by the way.

Brown Butter Chocolate Chop Cookies with Truvia Baking Blend
After the baking class we headed right into the food styling an photography class with Todd and Diane from White on Rice.  This was my FAVORITE part.  I could sit and listen to them teach for days and not get bored, They have a sneaky way of teaching you not only about working with food and photography, but about life! They have such talent and are so wonderful to share their talents unselfishly.

tell your food story workshop with white on rice
The conference was packed full of fabulous classes, workshops, speakers and get togethers that were fun, informative and life changing in some cases.  I HIGHLY recommend EVO'13 if you are looking for a great conference to attend next year.

What's a blog conference without a little silliness…

Here's sweet Desiree from The 36th Avenue and Kristyn from Lil'Luna having fun playing with their cameras when we were supposed to be mixing up cookies.  LOVE those girls!!

Our Digs with Links Luxury Rentals

This year instead of staying at The Canyons {which is lovely, by the way} I had the opportunity to bunk with some of my favorite people at a luxury penthouse condo owned by Links Luxury Rentals. This place was swank!!

Links Luxury Rentals // kitchen, dining & living rooms

Check out all the fun details… A beautiful farmhouse sink in the kitchen, reclaimed barn wood floors, high ceilings, stylishly furnished and tons of room to gather with 17 of your favorite friends!! Seriously, it you really want to see all the fun you should check out my instagram… it was WAY too much fun for one weekend!

Here's a look at the master bedroom and one of the FOUR bathrooms…

Here's the crew /// Tauni SNAP! | Myself | Amy The Idea Room | Michelle A Little Tipsy | Desiree The 36th Avenue | Kristyn Lil'Luna | Landee Landee See Landee Do | Jen & Jodie Eighteen25 | Shauna & Courtney The Orange Blossom Shop | Mandy Vintage Revivals | Brooke All Things Thrifty | Kristen Kristen Duke Photography

Love ALL these girls and can't wait until I get to see them again!!  Thank you so much to Links Luxury Rentals for helping us find a fabulous place to stay in while in Park City.

Overall the conference was amazing and I plan on attending next year for sure!! Have you attended any conferences?  What has been your favorite so far?

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