The Beet Goes on and On

You just can’t beat the beets this year. Gorgeous. Candy sweet, jewel tones. Both bulb and green leaves shockingly good for you. They will be around for a while, but the fresher, the sweeter, so delicious, you can eat them raw. Use all manner of beets in this salad. It will keep several days [...]

How the Prettiest Veggies Make the Best Salad

Packed with peppery punch, radishes are rolling in to the farmers markets in ruby waves. Man are they zesty. Try them thinly sliced on open sandwiches of pumpernickel with sweet (Hope) butter sprinkled with a little sea salt. Pan roast them with a knob of butter until just tender, hit them with shaved Parm and [...]

Radical

Pepper packed, punchy, tiny radishes smack back at spring. There’s nothing delicate in these tiny tight orbs. They’re tough, fighting through the last crusty snows, standing up to the pounding rain. Baby it’s cold out there, but the radish, red and hearty pops through it all. Hell this is Minnesota and we’re all tough, [...]

Color of Money

Payday at Farmers Markets this weekend;tables topped with sacks of cash — spinach. Talk about putting money in your mouth. New as spring, fresh as morning, this stuff sings with flavor, fills you with vigor, and needs little more than a drizzle of olive oil, a splash of vinegar, salt & cracked pepper, those tiny [...]

It’s time to get those potatoes in, and the carrots and the beans and just about anything you want to get going in your garden. Most garden centers sell seed potatoes, and often CSA’s will include them in their share (you did sigh up for a CSA share, right?). It just takes one [...]

Dinner in a Box

Spring is galloping to summer and its earlier and tastier than ever. Already, the lettuce and herbs are on their way. You’ve signed up for your CSA share (right?). If not, hurry-up. There are still a few spots left in many of the farms around. Take a look at the list [...]

Spring Pesto! Presto!

Hungry for spring and greens and all the glorious bright fresh stuff? No need to wait for summer’s basil. Pound together some pesto NOW. The term pesto refers to any fresh herb based sauce. Just about any flavorful green is up for grabs, watercress, parsley, cilantro, mint, alone or in combination. It’s [...]

National Organic Coalition

For the most up-to-date information about your food, food-safety, organics, and the importance of sustainable agriculture, chec, out the National Organic Coalition — www.nationalorganiccoalition.org
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My Big Fat Bundt Cake

Cake with the hole in the middle; the one baked in that fluted tube-shaped pan. The pan was created so to help the uber rich buttery cake rise evenly, not sink in the middle under it’s own weight (as it did when cooked in a round or square cake pan). The word “bundt” evolved from [...]

Northern Comfort – St. Paul Farmers Market

The weather is frightful, but baby, cold as it is, the St. Paul Farmers Market is the hottest place in town. Come Saturday mornings, it’s an all out happening, even in sub-zero temps. Conversations heat up over how best to cook free range chicken (braised and low and slow) and when the duck eggs will [...]