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Aunt Lisa's Recipe Gifts Celebrate your favorite memories! Family and friends gather around favorite meals. Enjoy the memories your recipes create year-round!

Put your recipe on custom recipe gifts, like towels, hotpads, oven mitts, aprons, cutting boards and more 🙌😀🧑‍🍳

10/08/2026

Hope you make it downtown Ames Thursday night 6-8 PM to try my mom‘s recipe for Russian tea! It will be a beautiful evening. I hope you can get down to Main Street for a festive night!

Oh, the memories. 💗 The colorful gold and jewel toned tin container that held my mom‘s mix of Russian tea. 😌 Tang, insta...
10/08/2026

Oh, the memories. 💗 The colorful gold and jewel toned tin container that held my mom‘s mix of Russian tea. 😌 Tang, instant tea…. hello 70’s. 🙌✌️

When I was a kid all that mattered to me was that it was sweet. And delicious. 😋
I am resurrecting this 70’s classic recipe for our downtown Witches Walk event tomorrow (Thursday) from 6-8 p.m. Come by to say hi!

Bonus: enter our spooky display window for a fun event photo! 🕷️💀

Plus, make sure to submit your 🧙’s Walk
‘26 photo on our brick and mortar shop PhotoSynthesis’s website and get your free 4 x 6 souvenir photo for witches walk 2026. See comments below for your checkout code , and your souvenir print is on us! 🙌👏 🎃 👻 🕷️

Link in comments too! 🙌👏⭐️👋

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09/27/2026

If you love lefse, and want to learn to make it, this workshop is for you! Learn the techniques to make lefse in a one hour workshop for two. Best part? Take home what you make (and my grandma’s recipe too!)!🧑‍🍳

Link in comments 👏🤩

My great auntie Madge’s recipe for Swedish Limpa, a fragrant dark rye bread. This recipe is written with a fountain pen ...
09/23/2026

My great auntie Madge’s recipe for Swedish Limpa, a fragrant dark rye bread. This recipe is written with a fountain pen so I’m guessing it to be from the 1940s? ⭐️

I don’t recall this particular bread on our visits to northern Minnesota to visit my grandpa‘s oldest sibling, but my mom would make this for us growing up. 🥰

My aunt Madge was quite a prolific baker! As soon as we would enter her kitchen in Cotton, Minnesota, after a long drive from Illinois, we would find ourselves surrounded with delicious baked goods. We’d be greeted with all kinds of pastries and bread. And to what kid does bread not equal heaven. 🙂 I have a particularly special memory of her teaching me how to whip egg whites and fold them into waffle batter. ☺️

I was fascinated with my great aunt as she cooked with a neat old woodstove, grew her own produce, and had to (and knew how!) to protect herself from bears as they would come out of the woods and could be aggressive! 😅😳

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This is a very special towel and is a long time in the making! This is a design I created featuring two of my grandma Fa...
09/12/2026

This is a very special towel and is a long time in the making!

This is a design I created featuring two of my grandma Faith’s handwritten recipes. Faith is my mom’s mom, whose story took her around the world.

Her education started at Grinnell College following in her sister’s footsteps. However, the depression hit and her family could no longer afford the tuition so she turned direction and became an RN.

I think it’s neat both my grandmothers have history in Iowa. Faith in Grinnell and Esmer in Cylinder.

Until I was 16, Faith lived in Bermuda. It felt like such an exotic world to me, and the few times we got to visit as a family were truly magical. How my grandma got there is a bit magical too.

When she went on a cruise around the world after her husband passed away in the late 60’s (before I was a thought), she met a Bermudian named Harley. They fell in love and got married, and my grandma moved from Rochelle, Illinois, to Warwick, Bermuda!

At first, she lived in Harley’s ancestral huge home called Maudadmar that had a big grove of fruit trees and a barn they turned into guest apartments they rented, and I remember visiting when I was very small, running through those trees and picking fresh grapefruit and oranges. It made quite the impression! Later they moved into a smaller home up on a bluff that overlooked the ocean. We would get around by moped and go see the dolphin shows and enjoy the freshest seafood on the planet! I have a very distinct memory of sitting with my grandpa Harley on their curved couch by the window overlooking the ocean and him telling me that he was born in 1899. That blew my mind! And he pulled out a huge British penny, and gave it to me. I still have it!
Harley was such a calm and gentle man, who wore glasses that had the thickest lenses I’d ever seen, had a full head of beautiful white hair, and a wonderful English accent.

I have included a photo here of my mom holding me as a baby. This was the first time I was in Bermuda, at Maudadmar.🙂

But when my grandma Faith and my grandpa Harley would come to United States, I have memories of her making baked custard for me. That’s where I learned about bain-marie’s. 🧑‍🍳 My grandma was a very good cook.

And while my Norwegian heritage plays a very big part in me, I am also English and French by my grandmother. ☺️ What is really neat is that my grandmother Esmer and my grandmother Faith were friends in later years and would meet up in Bermuda. I’ve also included a photo of the two of them together on the island. 💗

So find those special photos and recipes and let me create something for you too! Makes the perfect memorable gift to share with family.

Celebrate memories and surround yourself with the best ones. 👏⭐️☺️

I was gifted these baby eggplants by my wonderful neighbors 🤩🍀 so I’ll make roasted eggplant with a garlic yogurt sauce ...
09/10/2026

I was gifted these baby eggplants by my wonderful neighbors 🤩🍀 so I’ll make roasted eggplant with a garlic yogurt sauce tonite.

The recipe calls for sumac and labneh. Have you used these ingredients? I have not! What else should I make while I have fresh labneh, any suggestions?

I’ll be heading to our middle eastern grocery store (how lucky we have one!). I’m looking forward to trying these new, unknown ingredients to me.

Here’s the recipe: https://everylittlecrumb.com/roasted-baby-eggplants/ Looks yummy yes?!

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Shipment from Norway arrived on time as hoped for! 👏⭐️🌎 A lefse rolling pin tried to escape!! 😆😳🫣 More importantly…Engra...
09/08/2026

Shipment from Norway arrived on time as hoped for! 👏⭐️
🌎 A lefse rolling pin tried to escape!! 😆😳🫣
More importantly…
Engraved krumkake rollers are engraved…. Others packaged and boxed….shipping today if you’re waiting. Shipping emails have been sent!

Smoking salmon. What do you like to season with?🎣
09/06/2026

Smoking salmon. What do you like to season with?
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My newest batch of krumkake rollers with clips are on their way from Norway! 🇳🇴👏🤩 They are so fun to use. I’m offering a...
09/03/2026

My newest batch of krumkake rollers with clips are on their way from Norway! 🇳🇴👏🤩 They are so fun to use.

I’m offering an option to engrave the handle which makes it a true family heirloom 💞. There isn’t much room, so initials seem to be the way to go, but a shorter word or maybe some icons could be cute too! Hmmmm…🧐

Thoughts? Other ideas to decorate it a bit?

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My sister and her girlfriend are visiting…. So it’s an Apple dutch baby morning 🍏🤩If you’d like this much-favorited reci...
08/23/2026

My sister and her girlfriend are visiting…. So it’s an Apple dutch baby morning 🍏🤩

If you’d like this much-favorited recipe, comment below and I’ll send it to you! 👏🙌

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