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Creamy “pumpkin” soup
Happy, happy New Year to you all! Did you ring in the New Year in style? I know we did. Much more stylishly than we really are, in fact. But if the holidays aren’t a time to up your style game,...
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Such a favorite
Right at this moment, it is 20 below zero outside. The windchill is -43F, and the high today is a balmy -4. In other words, it is January in Minnesota. And while this kind of weather does make you...
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Down to Basics: Stew & Co.
Ever since eating salad while admitting it was stew weather, I haven’t been able to shake stew off. Stew has been following me, or more accurately I have been following stew, chasing it into every...
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Pepper crusted salmon cakes with horseradish sauce
Even when you’re a northerner through and through, and you cherish each of the four seasons, there are times when winter starts to wear on you. Just a little bit. There are times, when it’s been a...
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Gingery kimchi fried rice
Decidedly not a beauty queen this one. She’s all lumpy and monochromatic. But the frumpy exterior conceals a heart packed with flavor. And truly, on most days at least, who really wants a gorgeous...
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Polenta hiding mozzarella and lemony greens
This past weekend Joel and I were in Wisconsin for the American Birkebeiner. The Birkie, as it’s called, is the largest Nordic ski race in North America and the third largest in the world. Every...
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Broccoli salad with bacon and pecans
It is decidedly not spring here yet. In fact, it’s blowing ferociously and snowing several inches outside right now (just a stone’s throw further south they’re getting close to 10 inches, but we’re...
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Panade of leeks, greens, and gruyere
I’ve been going through a spate of soup-mania lately. Vast quantities of soup have been making their way from the kitchen to my lips. It’s practically all I want to eat. I mean, I always like soup,...
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Spinach and pine nut soup
I wasn’t kidding about the soups (I even made another one today for lunch. This one, in fact, but with kale instead of cabbage). And, as you can see, I definitely wasn’t kidding about the spinach...
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Down to basics – the omelet
After I posted about my method for making creamy scrambled eggs, I received several requests asking whether I could write a similar post on making the perfect omelet. The answer: most certainly! …...
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