Mincemeat

Foraged for essential ingredient for the holidays at Lunds, Uptown. Pie crust will be from scratch–thanks, Dwight.

Cooking with Wine

Cooking with wine today; some of it will even end up in the food. (Thank you, Julia Child.)

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Vietnamese Veggies

Today, found good bike route to Minneapolis Farmers’ Market. I need to ask The Google how to cook Vietnamese veggies.

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Pesto Time

Sunday: Time to make pesto. We’ll enjoy our basil all winter.

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Eggplant

Minnesota-grown eggplant at Wedge Co-op. Dinner tonight.

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Kale Chronicles

We grew kale this summer, so it has been our default vegetable for the past month. Kale is extraordinarily easy to prepare. Here’s a 20-second video (my first cooking show) showing how to quickly remove the stem and break up the leaf, all without the use of tools. This is one of my favorite kale… Continue reading Kale Chronicles