Salsa and Wine, all Home grown

by | Aug 27, 2010 | Unassigned

Everybody has some fall-back meals. Easy things that you keep the ingredients for in the pantry. For me, quesadillas and nachos involve having chips or wheat tortillas on hand, and some tasty cheese. From there on out is where it gets interesting. I was invited to...

Cheeseburger, Fries, and a Side of Statin Drugs?

by | Aug 24, 2010 | Unassigned

It really says something about our ability to educate ourselves about food when we start talking about serving the antidote to junk foods in pill form right in the restaurant. At the beginning of August, researchers from Imperial College of London published a study in...

A Local Adventure with “The Minnesota Table”

by | Aug 19, 2010 | Unassigned

I am guessing that if you are reading this, you probably have some commitment to local foods. Whether you trek to a Farmers market or shop your Coop or grocers looking for the local label, you seek out food with fewer food miles between you and the grower. But have...

Local Exotica:Yard Long Beans go Italian

by | Aug 14, 2010 | Unassigned, Vegetables

A great resource that we have at our markets in the Twin Cities is the Hmong growers. Every farmers market has several of these dedicated and hard working farmers. They grow everything from beets to watermelon. But what gets my culinary juices flowing is all the Asian...