Stalking what?
Brussels Sprouts. If only I had enough room on my table to display them this way I wouldn’t fuss with flower arrangements. They are amazing right out of the field. Get them now because our recent frosts have made them sweeter, the cold causing the plant’s natural sugars to surge up. It’s a little more [...]
pumpkin head
Fall is finally really fall, forget all that snow; you can still catch a whiff of burning leaves (illegal though they may be). Good Sundays for football; forget the Vikings, you can play better than they. It’s good because you’re going to be really hungry by the time you are done and ready for something [...]
Is our food making our kids stupid?
Smart Food Choices
Feeding the Teen Body & Brain
Skinny Bitches’ Butt(er)
Want to know a secret of those thin French beauties? Bet it’s the butter. They buy it in glorious little cheese shops that dot street corners in every big city and each tiny town. There, golden mounds of soft butter, sit ready to become a lush sauce or silky truffle. French women don’t forgo foie [...]
Great Berries
They are gorgeous these bright fresh berries, are coming in fast. Get them now and they taste best when they’re at their freshest, mild and crisp, not too tart. Last night, I tossed handfuls in with a fresh pork loin along with onions, leeks, shallots and equal parts beer and cider. The cranberries added [...]
Cranberries!
The tiny town of Tomah is the fresh cranberry capitol of the world and the Habeman Bros. Company are reaping a stunning harvest. Big, bouncy and brilliant red, these berries are prized for their high vitamin C content, their anti-oxident properties and their enzymes that aid digestion. They are delicious, too. Tart but not bitter, [...]
GOING NUTS!
Badgersett Farm in Canton, MN right near the Iowa border is nuts. Literally. Here Phil Rutter and his son Brandon are breeding chestnuts, hazelnuts and hickories to be cold hardy and provide food, animal feed and bio fuel. I wanted to taste them, crack them, cook them. They’re amazing. Just off the tree the hazels [...]
BEST DAMN PORK
The easiest Sunday dinner is just 1 hour away which is to say you just drizzle a lot of olive oil over one of Tim Fischer’s Pork loins (bone in) put it in a pan with lots of veggies (onions, garlic, tomatoes, carrots) whatever you have, sprinkle all with some seasoned salt and toss in [...]
Report from Featherstone Farm
Just back from Featherstone Farm in Winona, Minnesota where the cabbage, kale, storage carrots, winter squash, and beets are all coming in big and strong. There was a hard rain there on Wednesday and the temperatures have dropped. These are the hearty and heartwarming vegetables that will keep us going through the colder months of [...]
