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Fine Dining Begins at Home
I’m officially announcing the end of an age. The age of fine dining. It went out with a bang, namely a trip to Restaurant Alma. I’ve been wanting to eat at this restaurant ever since I saw the film Dirty Work: … Continue reading
Posted in garden, recipe, reviews
Tagged art and food, brunch, eggs with salmon and asparagus, Feast, fine dining, gourmet at home, performance art, Restaurant Alma, Weisman Museum
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New Plant Room
The plant room, formerly known as the basement, is up and running! I love it from the ice cold floor and new storage boxes along the western wall to the super-bright shop lights hanging over the planting bench. A word … Continue reading
Posted in garden
Tagged cold storage, cold storage boxes, grow lights, planting bench, planting room
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Farming
Yesterday I attended the Minnesota Sustainable Farming Association’s (SFA) annual conference at the College of Saint Benedict. It is only a mile from me and brings together small farmers from all over the state. Last year it was at this … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm
Tagged beyond vegetable gardens, community farming, CSA, food hubs, organic farming, small farms, sustainable farming in minnesota, vegetable farming
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Potting Room
I know. I’ve been gone. Not actually, but from the blog. This is, I believe, the longest I’ve gone without posting since I started in 2008. It feels like a really long time. And I have no excuse except, well, … Continue reading
Bay Catfish Stew
Back in the 1990s, one of my go-to winter recipes was “Cantonese Fish and Vegetable Soup” from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home. It was my favorite way to eat catfish, which back then was a cheap fish. When I made it last … Continue reading
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Tagged catfish recipe, catfish soup, catfish stew, fish recipe, fish stew
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Bean and squash soup
I’ve started the year on this “clean eating” thing during January. And happily, it very closely resembles the way I usually eat. I’ve cut out caffeine and alcohol and cut down very seriously on the gluten. And my real goal … Continue reading
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Tagged bean and squash soup, bean soup, butternut squash soup, delicata squash soup, great winter soup, squash soup, winter squash soup, winter vegetable soup
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Carrots in December
Last night I went down to the basement and rooted around in a bucket of sand until I had unearthed all the carrots I buried there in August. The sand was cold and damp. Some of the carrots had sprouted … Continue reading
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Tagged carrots, storing carrots, winter vegetable storage
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…
I am sure the Eskimos have a word for this kind of snow. I believe it can be translated as “January snow.” I went out for a little ski yesterday, my sister-in-law being kind enough to blaze the trail through … Continue reading
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Tagged kale and pomegranate salad, kale salad, pomegranate, pomegranate salad, salad recipe
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Coming Inside
This morning there was ice on the pond. Not a good sign. I went out and, indeed, the rest of the Brussels sprouts are frozen. We’ll eat them anyway, but I wish I’d saved them from the freeze by harvesting … Continue reading
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Tagged babka, chocolate babka, fall garden produce, garden kimchi, Jerusalem cookbook, kimchi
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Bounty
When I wrote the blog post about how I discriminate against some of the things growing in my garden and choose not to eat weeds like purslane and dandelions (not that there’s anything wrong with that), a friend e-mailed me a great story. … Continue reading