Foodie BlogRoll
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Yeah for food!

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T&Bs Burgers and Bananas.
Memorial day weekend just wouldn’t be right without a group of friends, a grill and a firepit. Sunday night we headed over to T&B’s for B’s Famous Burgers and T’s grilled bananas. I can just say I was glad we had kayaked for an hour and a half earlier in the [...]

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Minneapolis Star Tribune: The Taste 50
Yesterday my local paper published their annual taste listing. In it they list “Fifty people, products, places and ideas that make Minnesota the place for food fans.” Over the course of the next year (52 weeks) I plan (and hope) to cover each of the 50 products/places/ideas listed in the [...]

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I’m not rolling out the red carpet quite yet….
Driving back to my office after lunch at the Edina institution, Pearsons, I noticed a banner on the new building on 50th and France. It read “Coming Soon: Sur La Table.” I immediately picked up my cell phone and called K to let her know. She was [...]

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Heartland…. Oooooo…..
My wonderful husband brought me to the Heartland Restaurant the other night to celebrate my graduation. The heartland is a small, neighborhood place just across the river from where we live. I had been to the wine bar, but never made it to the restaurant, and I could kick myself for not going sooner.
There [...]

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Finally, Rhubarb…
As hard as it is to say, I’ve never worked with Rhubarb before. Okay, there, I said (wrote) it.I picked up a bunch of organic rhubard at the Seward Coop when I stopped by to pick up lunch and knew I had to do something with it. It’s rhubarb season, for gods sake, and [...]

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Just a quick quote for the day…
The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb

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Another restaurant to drool over.
I met a friend today at Saffron, the new restaurant that’s taken over the first floor at 123 North Third Street. The space was most recently home to Jazzmines, with a series of semi-successful restaurants before that. When I first graduated from college and started hanging out in Minneapolis’ warehouse district, [...]

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I never thought I’d say (write) this…
But who needs Dean & Deluca in town when we’ve got the Golden Fig!
The Golden Fig, a small shop on Grand Avenue in St. Paul is full of wonderful treasures. I first heard about this store last fall, and made a mental note to stop by. The mental [...]

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Easy Weeknight Dinner Idea: Kitchen Sink Quesadillas
About once a month my mind goes blank when it comes to an idea for dinner and we have Quesadillas. I borrowed this idea from my friend Lisa years ago, and its become a staple in our house. Each time the ingredients change just a little bit depending on [...]

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