Enjoying the remains of the day!

The sun is setting on Thanksgiving!
It’s every cook’s holiday. OK. It’s not the big deal Christmas is with it’s prelude of cocktail parties, office hoopla, family gatherings and traditional fare. It lasts but one single meal, but it is, for many, a favorite, as there are no other agendas that get in the way. The [...]

THANKSGIVING’S SERIOUS SIDE

Thanksgiving brings a riot of flavors and colors to the table; there’s no such thing as too much food. As much as I honor a big roast turkey, I also want my vegan friend and vegetarian niece to feel happy and well fed. So side dishes are serious stuff. I like to have a lot, [...]

Money

Fat green and crisp as a new dollar bill, cabbage is money. Hugely underrated, it’s the bane of those who just don’t know how to cook it – boiled or steamed into a swampy mass, it literally stinks. But you can do a much with these monstrous heads, stir-fry, shred, and, pan fry or roast. [...]

Garlic caper

It’s called red rose garlic for a good reason. The stuff is really pretty and it smells great. The cloves are big, succulent and mild. You can use it raw in salads and dressings, chop it into salsa, flash it in stir-fries and it won’t take over the dish. Of course, I love it roasted [...]

Shockingly sweet!

Carrots! Jam-packed with flavor; crunchy and sweet. They’re delicious now and even better several weeks later. See, these are storage carrots, a variety whose sugars develop after they are harvested. (Later in the year you can find them in the natural food co-ops when they are released from storage in February). Loaded with anti-oxidents, vitamins [...]

What mold?

Mary Falk at Love Tree Farms cheese adores mold and she’s great with it. Find her at the St. Paul Farmer’s Market on Saturdays and sample some of the best kick-ass sheeps milk cheeses in the country (honest, they’ve won all kinds of awards). With names like “fish bait” and “nasty old goat” this cheese [...]