Homemade Beef Jerky Recipe - A Guilty Pleasure Without the Guilt
The things I do for you people! I have made beef jerky FOUR times in the last couple weeks in an attempt to get it right! Now I know why people were giving me the goggle-eyed I’m impressed look when I...
View ArticleA Whole New Kind of Lunch Lady at Emerson Spanish Immersion Learning Center
I don’t know about you, but until recently, the words “lunch lady” conjured less than pleasant memories of crabby women in hairnets glopping mystery meat and mashed potatoes onto plastic trays with ice...
View ArticleCelebrate St. Patrick's Day with an Irish Rebel Stew
Before I begin, allow me to offer a wee disclaimer: I’m not Irish. Not even a little bit. But I did go to Notre Dame, have never met an Irishman I haven’t liked, and love drinking holidays, which, when...
View ArticleThe Mill City Farmers Market Kicks Off Another Great Season with a Spring...
Chances are that if you're reading this article, you already know how awesome the Mill City Farmers Market is. If you happen not to, I have three words for you: Go! It's AWESOME. Whenever we have...
View ArticleMaking Spring Happen at Barbette
I won’t even begin to discuss the weather this past week -- gray, cold, spitting rain, and even (gasp) snow? Is this fair for Minnesotans? No. Is this normal for Minnesotans? Well, I hate to say it,...
View ArticleSusan Power's "Rawmazing: Easy Raw Food" Really Is Rawmazing
When our fearless editor, Lee, sent out an email to the SGT writers asking if anyone was interested in reviewing a raw food cookbook, I jumped at the chance. I didn’t know much about raw food, aside...
View ArticleSpring Green Puttanesca Sauce and a Few of My Favorite Things
If you are a woman anywhere near my age and I started singing Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens . . . chances are good you would pipe in immediately with bright copper kettles and warm woolen...
View ArticleOn the Look-Out for Uli Westphal's Mutatoes
With juice dripping down her arm, I heard my daughter tell her younger sister that they were eating “elf strawberries.” Indeed, it seems hardly more of a stretch to imagine that the farmers market...
View ArticlePin-Up Girl Eggplant - A Savory Dish for those Purple Beauties
I don't know about you, but I find it virtually impossible to walk by an eggplant and not pick it up. They are just so beautiful. The heft, the mysterious deep purple skin, the smooth contours just...
View ArticleEver Wonder What the Farmers Market Vendors Do During the Winter? Hint: They...
(Buddy the Pony and his friends - photo by Mike Braucher)I am a creature of habit and one of the most comforting and delicious of my habits for the last couple summers has been a trip to the Kingfield...
View ArticleSoupapalooza! Kicking Off the New Year with Four Rockin' Soups in Four Weeks
It's a good thing Minnesota is (typically) such a cold and snowy place as we turn the calendar page to a new year, because for the second year in a row, my New Year's resolution has involved soup....
View ArticleSoupapalooza! Week Two with a Hearty (and Heartwarming) Minestrone
One of my earliest food memories is of eating soup with my dad. Both of my parents were medical residents and although I don't remember feeling juggled, I know that caring for me with two punishing...
View ArticleSoupapalooza! Week Three with a Creamy Elegant Cauliflower Soup
For week three of Soupapalooza, I was inspired by one of the few measly snowfalls we've gotten here in Minnesota to make something white and creamy. Given its availability this time of year,...
View ArticleSoupapalooza! Week Four With a Spring Minestrone with Chicken Meatballs
Who would have imagined, during the first act of Soupapalooza back in February, that the fourth act would come during a stretch of 70 degree weather and popping tulips? Never mind the weather,...
View ArticleThere's a New Pie in Town! Introducing Red Wagon Pizza Co.
I first met Pizza Pete (a.k.a Peter Campbell) before our school's fundraiser on a balmy night this past February. I was in charge of the bar (no small feat for this particular fun-lovin' SW Minneapolis...
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