I always get a little touchy about “stuff” this time of year. After spending a month buying, wrapping and exchanging Christmas gifts, then shopping post-Christmas sales and attempting to find a home in my home for each one of my gifts and purchases, I start to feel like I’m drowning. Which explains why [...]
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Last year my mom and I stumbled on a new holiday tradition when I gave her tea at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum as a Christmas present. We went to one of the arboretum’s post-Christmas holiday teas, and it was so relaxing to look out the window and watch birds feeding in the wintery garden [...] Meatballs are probably one of the things that vegetarians should give up, but apparently we don’t want to. (A Google search for “meatless meatballs” or “vegetarian meatballs” yields quite a few hits and I never have trouble finding them frozen at my co-op.) And really, despite the name, there are a lot of other [...] If you’re trying to avoid pre-holiday excesses (or if you’re just feeling a little Grinchy), Turtle Bread is a terrible place to go. The bakery is filled with thumb print cookies, Russian tea cakes, gingerbread, cinnamon rolls and other goodies right now. It was all so tempting that I had to break down and [...] Inspired by some baby bok choy, I decided to add some Asian flavors to what would’ve been a basic bean soup, and the results were delicious. I love the earthy flavor of miso (which is fermented bean curd), but I wanted this soup to be a little more substantial than your typical miso broth, [...] One annual family holiday party down – two more to go! Next to spending time with family, of course, the best part of our extended family Christmas party is the food. Each year I wait for my grandpa’s fudge and homemade potato salad (made with potatoes that he grew himself), my aunt’s vegetable pizza [...] While I usually prefer to eat at local restaurants where ever I am, sometimes convenience wins and I end up at a chain restaurant. In the past getting stuck at a chain usually meant making a meal of french fries or dining on a wilted green salad, but it seems that as of late [...] It’s probably not normal to get as excited as I got over the prospect of vegetarian wild rice soup, but this is Minnesota after all, and a girl begins to feel left out when every restaurant gratuitously adds chicken stock or bacon pieces to the pot. So when I spotted the Wild Rice Soup [...] Our delicious cookies are on a plate made by Alyssa Welch (www.alyssawelch.com). For the past few years, I’ve gathered with former co-workers for an annual cookie bake and exchange. Each year everybody brings a bowl of dough to the host’s house, and we spend an afternoon rolling balls, frosting and sugar-coating until exhaustion [...] Every once in a while, I have to go back and visit the Hope and King Scotch Ale at Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis. The pub was a favorite in college, so the Scotch Ale brings back fun memories. On last night’s visit, I not only enjoyed my usual brew, but was completely impressed [...] |
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