CobornsDelivers Serves Northstar Commuter Train Travelers

It’s official!  Starting tomorrow, Dec. 1, we’ll be delivering groceries directly to Northstar Commuter Rail travelers at the Coon Rapids-Riverdale station. We’ll deliver between 4 – 7 p.m. on weekdays, so you can pick up your groceries on the way home from work.  Orders placed by 10 a.m. can be picked up the same day [...]

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Healthy School Lunch Alternatives From Mom’s Kitchen

As soon as our children reach school age, we take on a whole host of new worries: Will my kid have friends? Is learning fun? Is the day too long? But my constant concern since my oldest set out for the big world of kindergarten 12 years ago wasn’t the social or learning part of [...]

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Black Friday Shopping: Order Online & You’ll Have One Less Stop on Your Shopping To-Do List

The other night, my husband and I took our two small children to a local mall to do some holiday shopping.  I thought this would be fun.  Apparently I was suffering from some sort of short-term delusional fantasy brought on by seeing holiday ads depicting cute, smiling children and sprinkled Christmas cookies. There was no [...]

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Holiday Side Idea: Creamy, Cheesy Mashed Potatoes

I love the holidays, mostly because of all the delicious food I get to sample.  My favorite dish by far is my dad’s creamy mashed potatoes; my love for it is so profound that it regularly makes an appearance at my birthday dinner, and my dad usually prepares a separate dish for me to take [...]

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Try a Deep Fried Thanksgiving Turkey This Year

If you’re like me, just thinking about being responsible for the main event on Thanksgiving – in other words, the TURKEY – is enough to keep you up at night.  I haven’t hosted very many years at my own home, but this year we are having 11 people up north to our cabin, which means [...]

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Irresistible Holiday Pies

My holiday memories consist of baking with my mom, gathering with loved ones around the table and a decadent turkey dinner with all the trimmings.  But what I always looked forward to the most (and still do!) was dessert…specifically pie.  Nothing beats the smell of a freshly baked pie, except, of course, the taste of [...]

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Holiday Grocery Shopping Tips

Throughout the year, the one thing that usually gives me comfort is planning meals and entertaining dear friends. I know, it sounds absurd but true – hosting gives me a great sense of joy! However, for some reason, this year the thought of all that entertaining makes me feel slightly stressed out.  Instead of giving [...]

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Holiday Tips: Create a Thanksgiving Planning Calendar

Thanksgiving is “my holiday.”  It was a great holiday for me to claim because typically there isn’t snow yet to make the trip more stressful for my parents and siblings who live in Chicago.  With the seven-hour drive to Minnesota, they usually arrive a day or two before Thanksgiving and stay through the weekend, so [...]

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Advice for Dealing With Your Picky Eater

My two-year-old did not eat dinner last night.  She wouldn’t try the chicken.  She refused to taste the carrots.  For some reason she kept demanding rice, but my in-laws were serving mashed potatoes and she would not allow those spuds to even touch her little plate.  Of course she wanted the key lime pie for [...]

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Holiday Side Idea: Cranberry Salsa

Did you know that Wisconsin is world famous for its cranberries?  In fact, they are the largest producer in the nation and also grow more than half the world’s supply of the tart, bright red fruit!  I grew up in Wisconsin, which might be why I know that, and probably also why they are one [...]

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