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The Great Indoors: End summer meals with grilled fruits

With Memorial Day just around the corner, many Americans will fire up the grill for hot dogs, burgers, steaks and whatever else looks and tastes good with char marks.

• Grilling fruits
• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Simple taco dip a summer crowd pleaser

We all know those moms and dads who go completely overboard with graduation open house party planning. When little Susie or Johnny graduates, they spare no expense to make sure her/his food is the best.

• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Classes teach kids healthy, tasty cooking

Are your children stuck in a food rut? Are you living in a world filled with macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets and PB-and-J?

• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors: Beyond tacos for Cinco de Mayo

Tim Rosendahl has been awfully busy holding classes at Casey Steele’s Square One Rental Kitchens. So when we asked the two of them to help us out by creating an extra special Cinco de Mayo meal for “The Great Indoors,” we were thrilled that they could squeeze us in.

• Tracy Briggs

Tracy Briggs: Bossart guided us with humor and grace

Normally, my Thursday column is dedicated to our food/lifestyle blog “The Great Indoors.” But today I felt like doing something a little different. The fact is, it’s been a tough couple of days for some of us at Forum Communications. We lost a dear friend and former colleague. Veteran WDAY-TV anchorman Marv Bossart died Tuesday after a battle with Parkinson’s disease.

• Tracy Briggs

Her Voice: Disease helps Fargo woman prioritize life

FARGO – Sarah DeVries was working out at the gym when she started feeling pain and numbness in her legs. At first it was only when she exercised so she ignored it, thinking she was pushing herself too hard, DeVries, of Fargo, said.

• Sarah DeVries, of Fargo was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008

Parenting Perspectives: Moving to a new home, moving on

There are two things in life that have made me utter the words, “I’m never doing that again.” One of them is paintball. I still have welts from a rousing game of paintball that one “Saved-by-the-Bell” looking co-worker talked me into playing in 1989.

• Tracy Briggs

The Great Indoors with Tracy Briggs: Former Disney World chef teaches classes in Fargo

FARGO – I was excited when I heard I would get to cook with a man who once called Mickey Mouse “Boss.”

• Chef Tim Rosendahl with host Tracy Briggs
• More info on Square One Rental Kitchens and Rosendahl’s classes

The Great Indoors with Tracy Briggs: Here’s one substitute ingredient that works

I have to admit I haven’t always been on board when someone suggests I substitute a favorite ingredient for something more healthful.

• “Great Indoors” host Tracy Briggs and Tanya Friesen

The Great Indoors with Tracy Briggs: Treats make longer winter more bearable

Is there anything good about this winter not wanting to end? An outdoor Easter egg hunt next week doesn’t look like a good idea, it’s hard to imagine we’ll be playing any rounds of golf anytime soon, and lazy days at the lake seem as far away as ever.

• Tracy and Hanna prepare Peanut Butter Oat Bars on this episode

Columns

The Great Indoors: A delicious dish for hunters

As some of you may know, our video blog, "The Great Indoors" was created to celebrate the finer things inside four walls such as eating, drinking and entertaining. We decided to leave the hunting, fishing, and camping to the Outdoors people.

• Great Indoors