Posts tagged as farmers market
Learn Eat Drink: Provisions Class at Kitchen in the Market!
Friends with CSAs, gardens, or farmers market addictions…I’d love to see you at the Provisions class I’m teaching at Kitchen in the Market with chef Scott Pampuch. The focus will be on extending our too-short growing season’s bounty with time-honored techniques, helpful restaurant tips, and translations to making great quality food at home. Our first…
Chicken Soup with Kale, Garlic & Sweet Potatoes (Paleo, AIP-Friendly)
My mom is recovering from major surgery here at our home. She spent the first couple of weeks in a hospital and rehab facility, where the food was…truly awful. I brought her little farmer’s market treats like sliced tomatoes and strawberries, to remind her that not all food comes from boxes and cans, but man,…
Grilled Asparagus Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette
The play of hot against cold, tender against crunchy, preferably with a salty-sweet vinaigrette, hits enough texture and flavor notes to transform a simple salad into a meal. Use this recipe as a formula to play with all summer long, as other vegetables come into the market. Grilled Asparagus Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette Serves 2…
Eggplant Caviar
My family is more than a little obsessed with the eggplant spread – or melitzanosalata – at It’s Greek to Me. The creamy eggplant is perfectly balanced with lemon, garlic, fresh herbs, and salt. Nathan and I could sit down with just that, and a mountain of pillowy, hot-off-the-griddle pita bread, and stuff ourselves like…
Minneapolis Farmers Market – Fresh & Local Radio Show
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of farmers markets – what’s not to love? – and the Minneapolis Farmers Market in particular because it’s my “home” market. I shop there every week, most weeks two or more times, loading up on all of my favorite fruits, vegetables,…
Fried Chickpeas with Chorizo & Spinach
I posted this recipe a few weeks ago at Dara & Co./Minnesota Monthly magazine. I’ve probably said this about too many things to be credible (I’m aware that I lean a bit heavily on the superlative), but this is one of my absolute favorite dishes. I crave it. I devour it. And now you will…
Blueberry Lemon Buttermilk Cake
I still had blueberries left from last week’s farmers market haul, but since they were just-past gorgeous (yet still perfectly edible), I decided that today was the day to bake them into this pretty blueberry lemon cake I’d had my eye on. Although really, every day should be a day for buttermilk cake, don’t you…
Green Beans with Pork & Black Bean Sauce
Green beans are the first vegetable that I genuinely liked. My grandparents grew them in their garden, and my Grandma Meyer would pick them fresh, boil them until they were tender, and serve them with lots of butter and salt. Alongside walleye fried crispy in…butter. What was not to like? I still like them the…
Tomato Salad with Burrata & Croutons
I know, I know. Another tomato salad. But bear with me for a minute, because of one special ingredient…burrata cheese. It’s fresh mozzarella, but with a creamier, tangier twist. I bought it at Whole Foods, in the cheese section, and haven’t looked back. Burrata is completely incredible with garden fresh tomatoes, even more so than…
Raspberry Gratin
I’ve had my eye on this Sunday Suppers at Lucques dessert for awhile. It’s really just fruit and custard, keeping the focus firmly where it belongs – on perfectly ripe, juicy, summer-bursting-in-your-mouth berries. (The recipe calls for raspberries; I used both blueberries and raspberries. It’s worth hitting the farmer’s market for the real deal –…