Category: Recipes

• Salmon Fit For the Holidays

  Remember my recent post on the Julebyen Christmas Village in Knife River?!  Call this post “Julebyen: The Epilogue.”  With the Alaskan sockeye salmon we purchased at the outdoor market from “Fish” Johnson, we had a lovely early Christmas dinner with my parents who came to visit for the weekend.  When my book club hosted the…

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  12/16/2013

  Eat, Recipes

  Christmas dinner, grilling, holiday menu, lingonberries, Lingonberry Sauce, mustard glaze, salmon

• A Stuffing That Covers All Food Groups

  The Thanksgiving Day dinner recipes and tips are coming out of the woodwork!  Blogs, magazines, Pinterest  . . . the Thanksgiving Day countdown has begun (two weeks from tomorrow!).  So, I decided I would chime in to the saturated conversation with one of our favorite stuffing recipes. When you need that one dish to cover…

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  11/13/2013

  Eat, Recipes

  apple, Bon Appetit, dried cranberry, NaBloPoMo, sausage, stuffing, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day dinner recipes

• Baked Garlic (I Hope We Can Still Be Friends Tomorrow)

  Baked garlic with a slather of melted brie on a cracker is divine.  Of course, I live in a household whose occupants believe there is no such thing as too much garlic! The four of us have been known to each consume our own head of garlic . . . and guarantee that no one else…

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  11/05/2013

  Eat, Recipes

  appetizer, bad breath, baked, Baked garlic, body odor, brie, cheese, garlic, NaBloPoMo, unwanted guests

• Have You Been Getting Locally Laid?

  LoLa is the little chicken that could.  With only three more daily opportunities to vote for this small business and help LoLa win a Super Bowl ad, I have become even more enamored with this cheeky local farm, Locally Laid Egg Company (where “local chicks are better”). LoLa’s daily Facebook updates, her sassy photo ops, the company’s…

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  10/11/2013

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  chickens, Duluth, eggs, frittata, Locally Laid, Minnesota, pasture-raised, small business, Super Bowl, sustainable

• Dessert for Summer Potlucks When You Have No Time to Cook (If the Cat Licks the Beaters, Even Clean Up Goes Quickly)

  Kudos to those who enjoy and/or have time to spend hours crafting an elegant dessert that creates a memorable end to a meal.  I tend to be the one who thinks as I am working, “Crud, what are we going to make for the neighborhood gathering tonight?” and then runs a quick lunch-hour errand to…

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  05/27/2013

  Eat, Recipes

  berries, cat, dessert, Mini Fruit Pizzas, potlucks, quick and easy, small bites, sugar cookies