Kailey A Clark

If you couldn't tell we are a meat eating family. We hunt and catch most of our meat (moose, deer, grouse, fish) and try to buy locally raised meat when possible. My Husbands cousin raises pigs and chickens and then gets them butchered and sells them. We get the occasional chicken from her but usually get a 1/2 a pig and it gets butchered into various items. We got a lot of hams this year. They're nice and small 1-2 lbs and the perfect size for our family. The place that she got them butchered this year did an amazing job! They were done at Huber's Bavarian Meats  and they are smoked just right. Everything we have had so far has been delicious. From the bacon to the pork chops and even the schnitzel! I think we might even take some bacon out for a nice big family breakfast one morning this weekend because that's what weekends are all about! We love to spend time together as a family, doing activities with the boys. Saturday mornings are tot time with fellow friends an...

Our go to meat marinade! I call it meat marinade as I use it on all kinds of meat. Moose steaks, deer steaks, beef steaks (if we had to buy them), pork tenderloin, I've even used it to make moose and deer jerky (would also make a good beef jerky). I personally haven't tried it on chicken but it's on our list to try. A few times we have taken our meat out too late or just decided to try some steak spice for something different and we're always disappointed that we didn't add the marinade. My oldest son even likes to dip his meat into the meat juices that are on the plate as he can't get enough of the taste. We recently got a food saver for Christmas and are planning on packing and freezing some of our steak packages in the marinade. This will help us on our busy nights as it will already be marinaded for us and soak in the juices as it thaws.  The following pictures are of deer steaks as that is what we took out of the freezer for tonight. Ingredi...

Have you ever had someone say to you "cherish these moments as they go fast"? I have... a lot! It's usually at the time when one or both of the boys are crying and the dog is howling because he does that any time one of the boys cries, and all I can think to myself is "this needs to STOP!". These are the memories I might miss the most as this is what makes us US. I’m a big fan of pictures and keeping all the memories of the boys growing up. When we had our first son, family were always asking for updated photos of the new baby or what they had been up to. I love taking pictures and capturing all the moments of them growing up. However, sending everyone individual updates was getting exhausting and this was with just one kid! This is when my husband and I decided to try the app Tiny Beans . This app is AMAZING!!! I essentially explain this app as baby Instagram. You post pictures and videos onto the app. You get to pick and choose who is a member of the account...

OMG! This recipe is oh so good! When my husband was carving the chicken he couldn't stop eating it. He was even eating the skin it was that good! I can also speak to how good the skin was as I had  some too and I never eat the skin. The flavour was unbelieveable and it was so crispy and juicy at the same time. I highly recommend scrolling down and finding the recipe down at the bottom. Sunday's are usually really busy for us with my oldest son having hockey mid day, me doing my meal planning and grocery shopping, and then I usually get dinner ready before heading off to my hockey to rush home in time to sit down to dinner with the family. It's usually exhausting! But today my son didn't have hockey and neither did I. I had also already done our meal planning and grocery shopping as we were in Dryden for a hockey Jamboree and we stopped at Walmart to get what we needed for the week as well as to stock up on Pantry items. You see, when you live in a small town off ...

Let's face it, life is challenging and finding time to workout can be exhausting in itself. Add children into the mix and you've just added on an entire new level of exhaustion. When you're not juggling cooking dinner and breaking up brotherly battles, you're helping with homework and loving sick children. There is no rest! So when do you have time to take care of yourself? I have found these 5 key things to success to keeping active and sticking with as a mom and before I had become a mom. 1. Planning  having a plan is the most important thing. It is easy to talk yourself out of a spur of the moment workout. However, if you have planned it out or even better if you have a weekly or monthly plan it helps to keep your workouts on track. Personally I try to make a weekly plan to help keep myself on track. I look at what my hockey schedule looks like for the week and then plan other activities around there. If I have a late hockey game then the next day I will have an ...

Welcome to my Blog! I’m a mother of two boys living in NWO Canada (Northwestern Ontario). We’re in the thick of winter right now. Waking up to a frigid day of -27 degrees Celsius and feeling like -34 degrees Celsius with the wind chill. It is cold to say the least. I’m looking forward to travelling for March Break with my family - so look forward to that post in the near future! As a family we live a busy life of work, sports for the boys/my husband and I and then throw our highly active Brittany Spaniel into the mix and you have what we like to call life. Bob the Brittany is very active and very vocal. Trying to calm a crying toddler while also attempting to console your howling dog at the same time... This is life and I wouldn't have it any other way. Staying active is very important to me and that will most likely be the theme of my next post. I have always been an active person (playing hockey, soccer, baseball) growing up and luckily into my adult years. Fun fact my husb...