Minnesota Wild Rice Soup
A few more shots of ABR in Ironwood, Michigan. Datsa lotta wood. I forgot to bring my coffee cup out to the ski-in cabin the first night so I made it in a jar in the morning. The heavy cream went in …
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Turnip Chevre Gratin with Peas
. Once again it’s the time of year when we pack up the trusty (and a little rusty) 4Runner with food and gear and turn her nose northward. For months we’ve been reading the tales of snow in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and have tried …
Kale Sausage Soup
This may be a good meal for the post-holiday recovery. Brothy with good protein and the vitamin punch of kale, your liver will thank you. This is also a favorite of my friend Mary Kay and one that we’ve eaten as she’s been on this stem …
Crawfish Étouffée
I have been spending quite a bit of time lately with my dear friend Mary Kay from south Mississippi while she is in the upper midwest. Recently she wanted to give back to her friends here in the northland the experience of Mississippi/Louisiana hospitality, so …
Thanksgiving Flashback
I often trot through our nearby wooded parks and recently stumbled upon this fire pit. Most of our trails were built by volunteers in the mountain biking community…can you tell? Knowing some of this crew I would guess this pit will be used well into the winter …
Potato Dill Soup
October days are either stunningly orange with sunlight filtered through turning leaves, or it’s grey, rainy and chilled giving us a hint of the November to come. This potato soup with a tang of buttermilk, yogurt and dill seed will not let you down during …
Mini Eggplant Pizzas
For the last month or two colorful eggplants have been brightening the palette of our local Farmer’s Market. This picture of dazzling garden abundance is from my friend and photographer David Cavagnaro of the Pepperfield Project. Color and shapes! Many of these varieties can be used but the size and …
Sweet Potato Falafel
These orange lumps turned out to be great munchables. We served them at an event as a gyro substitute with yogurt tzatziki, then the next day we ate them as leftovers, and the day after that I packed a few along for a road trip …
Garbanzo Raisin Salad
My friend Robin gave me this recipe from the Real Simple magazine—she said that it has repeatedly been her potluck smash hit. I made a couple of little changes, but not much. Hearty yet lightly sweet-and-sour with a hint of cumin, this could do well in summer …
Lettuce Wrap BL(A)T’s
Gluten Free and Low Carb—perfect for summer! You can put nearly anything in a lettuce leaf and it provides a handy shell to hold the flavors. I often am looking for edible vehicles that can deliver the punch line and in the summer lettuce leaves …
Smoked Salmon Cakes
These buddies were a scrumptious success at a luncheon I recently catered. You can make them without smoking the salmon, of course, but smokiness adds a rich depth, a ‘something extra’, oooh I could even say “je ne sais quoi”…whatever you want to call it, it will compel you to eat at …
Mushroom Wild Rice Soup
This was a Comfort Meal in the deli, a bowlful of both Brothy and Filling. It’s another soup with the tangy buttermilk-secret-ingredient, added at the end when the soup has cooled slightly (so it won’t curdle) and with the addition of a little …
Fuul in Spring
Question: What does one eat when coming home after weeks on a ski sabbatical? Answer: Whatever is in the house because the catering has not yet begun and we blew our wad for the winter. I think it’s time to revisit pintos and Pinto …
Red and Green Potato Croquettes
Croquettes enable you to eat mashed potatoes with one hand and no fork. Isn’t that what everyone has been asking for? Last week we found ourselves driving home in the midst of another blizzard, perfectly bookending the trip with driving north in …
Creamy Pinto Chipotle Sauce
Packing into ABR‘s remote cabin with cubes and a pulk and a sherpa. As my cousin says…why travel light when you can travel well? . For the most part the absence of internet access is welcomed when we travel or stay in remote locations. …
German Onion Pie
This may sound a little like ‘stone soup’ or just a way to use up loads of onions in a pie but it really is scrumptious, summer or winter. These tangy squares will be our travel food—snacking in the car or popping it …
Hoppin’ John
Eat Good Luck for your New Year! There was an idyllic snow on Christmas eve, and after walking home from a Norwegian Jule dinner on quiet streets in the falling flakes, we awoke to more snow and a perfect day for a …
Bacon & Liver Pâté
Two liver posts in one year?!? I must really have a need to push your boundaries, and this time there is no conclusion to the cliff-hanger story. Just think of it as another tasty grey spread….creamy and rich and great on a cracker. Step …
Polenta Pancetta Dressing
This is another recipe that appears the November/December edition of The IOWAN magazine. They asked for “Iowa-Sourced” holiday recipes so polenta seemed like a good direction to take the classic dish since organic polenta is grown and produced near Cresco. It resembles cornbread stuffing—flavorful and …