Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens

11/24/2025

Looking to switch up your cheesy hash browns for Thanksgiving this year? Here are 9 variations. One is even cheese-free.

https://randomsweets.com/9-cheesy-hash-brown-casserole-and-funeral-potatoes-recipes-one-is-cheese-free/e

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11/24/2025

Have you read this cookbook yet? I’m putting a hold on it at my library. I know it’s odd, but…what a great book!

When archivist Rosie Grant launched a TikTok channel, GhostlyArchive, as a testament to gravestones, she discovered a niche form of memorial: cemetery marker...

11/21/2025

Darla Bakker’s episode made it into the Lake Benton Journal and the Tyler Tribute. 😍

What do you like most about this episode?

Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens season 4 episode 2: https://randomsweets.com/darla-bakker-family-favorites-cookbook/i

11/20/2025

What started as a friendly Thanksgiving invitation—a practical solution for three families juggling hockey schedules—grew into an annual Friendsgiving tradition, and eventually a monthly supper club too.

Season 4 episode 4 is ready for you wherever you listen to podcasts.

If you’re inspired to start your own Friendsgiving or maybe even a monthly dinner club, I hope this episode gives you that nudge you’ve been needing. It only takes one meal to start your own tradition of feasting with friends.

Thank you to my guests Ann Park, Lisa Svobodny, and Michelle Bouchard.

Recipes from this episode are on randomsweets.com https://randomsweets.com/friendsgiving-to-dinner-club/

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11/19/2025

Gotta love the Midwest! What’s your favorite Top the Tater flavor?

11/12/2025

Do you remember meeting Liz Murphy, owner of Betty’s Antiques in St. Paul, MN? Liz was on season 2, episode 19. Well…House Beautiful named her shop one of the best home stores in America!!

The antiques shop opened in 2023.

11/11/2025

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11/01/2025

Hey, hey! Top the Tater loves a cozy pan of funeral potatoes—especially when they’re made with Top The Tater® Bacon Onion Chive Sour Cream Dip and topped with Old Dutch® Dill Pickle Potato Chips—two Midwest staples! 🧅🥓🥒

💚 Save my recipe that landed on topthetater.com: https://topthetater.com/recipe/cheesy-hash-brown-hot-dish/
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10/15/2025

10/14/2025

Think you don’t need another brownie recipe? I thought I had all the brownie recipes I needed. I was W-R-O-N-G. Thankfully, Darla Bakker included her childhood recipe in her third edition cookbook with her three daughters.

Get the recipe: https://randomsweets.com/darla-bakker-family-favorites-cookbook/

🎧 Listen to Season 4, Episode 2 of Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens wherever you get podcasts. Or listen on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/v4ST-09Iyvg?si=Sk6Zbd_c9wdr9_at

10/11/2025

“Is this recipe in your book?”

That’s the question everyone asks Darla Bakker—and now her "Darla Bakker’s Family Favorites 3rd Edition Cookbook" has the answers. Darla and her daughters, Andrea Kolstad, Danielle Brandt, and Laura Feller share the stories (and some recipes) behind their Family Favorites cookbook—filled with more than 830 of their Midwest comfort food recipes for bars, cookies, cakes, pies, holiday treats, rhubarb, breads, muffins, vegetables, sides, sandwiches, salads, soups, main meals, appetizers, beverages and a few gluten and dairy free twists for the grandkids.

Join us on Season 4, Episode 2 for a heartfelt conversation about family traditions, showing love through food, and the importance of gathering around the table with family.

Plus, Darla’s seven grandkids surprise her with a sweet message you’ll love. 💗

🎧 Listen to the episode on Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens wherever you get your podcasts, and find photos and recipes on https://randomsweets.com/darla-bakker-family-favorites-cookbook/

06/05/2025

Step into kitchens of the past! On the latest Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens podcast, I chat with the curators and designers from the Old Courthouse Museum in Sioux Falls about their exhibit Cooking Up History: The Evolution of Kitchens and Cookbooks.

We explore how kitchens transformed from open hearths to high-tech hubs, how cookbooks reveal cultural and social shifts, and how food traditions from immigrants and community cookbooks shaped what we eat today.

🎧 Listen to S3 Ep10 now in your favorite podcast app or on YouTube (audio only) https://youtu.be/_G3bE9PkoYA?si=CMMp29rLBRfXDpK7

📸 See photos + links: https://randomsweets.com/cooking-up-history-the-evolution-of-kitchens-and-cookbooks/

📍 Visit the exhibit: Old Courthouse Museum, Sioux Falls, SD