Huevos Rancheros… Where have you been all my life? A few months ago I discovered Huevos Rancheros. I was eating lunch with a friend at Moose & Sadie’s when on a whim I ordered their Huevos Rancheros. This is coming from the person who doesn’t like runny eggs or melted cheese on my eggs. I […]
It’s been cold in Minnesota lately. Really cold. Even for Minnesotans. When it gets this cold, all I want is comfort food. The other day I satisfied my comfort food craving by making Golden Peanut Miso Velvet, a deceptively nutritious version of gravy. I roasted some root vegetables, boiled up some barley and suddenly
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This recipe screams Autumn. Creamy, dense sweet potato dumplings are tossed in a chunky medley of lightly toasted pine nuts and bread crumbs. This is perfect for a rainy/snowy day. Serve with a crusty sourdough bread and you have a recipe for bliss. Making gnocchi from scratch is an art. So, make the Rustic Pine
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This meal was just pure fun. Creativity, experimentation, flavor explosions all rolled up into one delicious birthday celebration. My youngest nephew was celebrating his first birthday, so I offered to help my sister-in-law with the celebratory meal. She decided to serve a meat lasagna and a vegetarian lasagna. I found some recipes and viola!
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This soup will make your taste buds dance for joy. Just pure deliciousness. The other day I decided to resume my cold-weather habit and baked some french bread. This got me thinking about traditional French soups. Pistou soup is a vegetable and bean soup in an herbed broth. The name comes from the pistou sauce that is dolloped
This recipe is like being reunited with an old friend. When I was first learning to cook on my own, I purchased the cookbook 100% Vegetarian: Eating Naturally from Your Grocery Store by Julianne Pickle. It is a small cookbook and extremely simple. Just what I needed at the time. All ingredients from the book
It’s the State Fair in Minnesota. Twelve days of fun, friends, and of course, food. For those of you not familiar with the MN State Fair, it’s HUGE! Over 1.7 million people attend the Fair every year. It’s the second largest state fair in the United States. The MN State Fair was originally designed as
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This salad doesn’t get any easier! I whipped it together in the morning before heading to work and ate it for lunch. Healthy, quick, and tasty. It does taste better after it’s had some time to chill, which is why making it in the morning works really well. Alternatively, I have been known to
This summer I discovered the wonderful world of grilled pizzas. Conventional ovens just can’t cook a pizza well. And it just isn’t practical to build a brick oven in my tiny 14th floor condo. Grilled pizzas are a wonderful alternative. They have the charred taste that makes even a simple cheese pizza explode with
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I’ve been craving eggplant parmesan. I love the crunchy breading covering the soft eggplant and then smothering the eggplant in a simple tomato sauce. It’s amazing how well eggplant and tomatoes go together. I don’t, however, love how long eggplant parmesan takes me to make (over an hour), and I don’t love turning on the
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