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Lucky, Green, Local and Fun: A Fresh Look at St. Patrick's Day

Posted in Family & Home, Out & About on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 1:23pm by Tracy Morgan -

photo credit: Zazzle.comphoto credit: Zazzle.com"May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.”

Leave it to an Irish blessing to anticipate overindulgence! Though my Morgan roots came originally from Scotland, my maternal grandmother and great-grandmother – O’Keefe and Brennan respectively – handed down some definite ideas about how an Irish lass such as myself might honor St. Patrick.

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Upcoming Workshop Helps Chefs Put More Local Food on Their Menus

Posted in Out & About on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 4:08am by Amy Thielen -

My first cooking job was at a small German diner on my hometown’s Main Street in Northern Minnesota. It was a hybridized place; we hand-pounded schnitzel cut from pigs the chef had raised, but we also served a dizzying number of filet-o-fish sandwiches. And when we ran out of green beans we opened up a jumbo can.

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Organic Farmers at MOSES Conference Plant Seeds for a Sustainable Future

Posted in Farms & Gardens on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 4:59am by Angelique Chao -

A couple of weeks ago, I spent a day at the largest annual organic farming conference in the US, held just two hours away from the Twin Cities, in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) conference provided a glimpse into the zeitgeist of today’s organic movement. Although organic food is fully integrated into the marketplace and can be found everywhere from Cub Foods to The Wedge, the small farmers who make up the backbone of the movement don’t lack for revolutionary fervor. They’re still driven by a passion to change the world.

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Still Searching for a CSA? Consider This...

Posted in Family & Home, Farms & Gardens on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:00pm by Alicia Jabbar -

For years, I would see a vegetable like okra or mustard greens in a grocery store and imagine what it would be like to make a delicious meal with such exotic ingredients. I was constantly promising myself that next week I would find recipes to fulfill my culinary fantasies. But as the weeks passed, it became obvious that I needed something else to get my creativity going. Fortunately, my fiancé knows me incredibly well, and he gave me a CSA subscription as a gift.

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Pastureland Butter is Key Ingredient in Scotch Shortbread

Posted in Farms & Gardens on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:11pm by Amy Thielen -

Most of the buzz about grass-fed cows focuses on their lean and flavorful meat. But what about their milk?

Making butter and cheese from the milk of grass-fed cows is a lot like making a varietal wine. This is not the plonk composed of a crushed mixture of grapes from a bunch of different vineyards. No, grass-fed milk offers terroir, a sense of place, and the courage to actually taste like something.

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