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BLTs

Posted in Edible Resources, Recipes, Twin Cities, tagged , , , on August 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »

At the farmers market last weekend, my favorite farmer (Otis Family Farm) had a sign at his booth that read, “How about a BLT?”. And then it advertised their specially smoked bacon. Needless to say, we bought some bacon and grabbed tomatoes, lettuce and bread from a neighboring booth, and had the most amazing BLTs [...]

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Another Birthday Dinner; Dam Bistro

Posted in Restaurants, Travels, tagged , on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a post from a few weeks ago that I totally forgot to publish. Silly Blonde. Enjoy!

Yep, one more birthday dinner. This time in Wisconsin, in the lovely town of St. Croix Falls at the chef-owned, family run Dam Bistro. We’ve been there before and unlike most restaurants, the couple running this little joint really [...]

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Local Melon

Posted in Edible Resources, Twin Cities, tagged , on August 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

For something different, I stopped by the Minneapolis farmers market last week. It’s just blocks from my office and during the week it’s shamefully, almost empty. The weekends it’s chaos. My complaint about the MFM is that vendors are not required to sell local products. There are bananas and avocados and mangoes. But this summer, [...]

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Easy Tomato Sauce

Posted in Edible Resources, Recipes, tagged , on August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

(Surprise, I’m back)

We bought a whole bunch of fresh tomatoes at the market yesterday and when I couldn’t think of anything for dinner, we decided to go with this easy tomato sauce recipe from last weeks Taste Section. It’s actually a base sauce, but it worked just find served over some pasta. I added a [...]

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