Demo Dates at Farmers Markets

NEWS FLASH:  Delivered Dish of the Week service is on hiatus for the time being, most likely til end June. I’m figuring out a move to a better professional kitchen and taking a family vacation. Both have been long awaited, and both are just in time. The kitchen prospect is very exciting!  Even just the [...]

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Sustainable Sustenance

Last night I oversaw a community dinner for 60. The goal was to make it locavore and vegan. Sized up what was available at the farmers’ market and decided on Ratatouille to take advantage of the very last zucchini and to bid farewell to summer. Main components are zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes, with optional bell [...]

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Locavoracious 2

Aunty Oxidant makes Firecracker Salad at the Moving Planet MN350 event at the State Capitol, St Paul, 09-24-11 Saturday was an incredibly beautiful day to be outside, talking to people about sustainable agriculture and buying local, and handing out samples of fresh raw salad made from vegetables I had just bought at the farmers’ market that morning.  I [...]

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Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon

Yesterday, Kingfield Farmers Market in South Mpls was a buzz with locavores buying and selling and chatting with one another.  It was a perfect summer day to demo Firecracker Slaw, made with veggies bought at the market for only $10.  I‘ve posted the recipe on my Recipes page. It can also be found on the [...]

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Locavor-acious

“Do the locavore” is a song I sang to open my farmers’ market show & demo ”Little Locavores”. Adapted from “Do the Locomotion”. Very catchy! Now that local veggies are in, I’m doin’ the locavore and buying from farmers like Reimann Family Farm in St Francis. I also hope to buy produce from youth-run community gardens. [...]

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Chopped Salads of the Week

Today, “Chopped Salad of the Week” club members will be receiving their deliveries. I typically offer one whole grain-based and one legume-based dish with lots of  fresh local veggies. Choices are: Spicy Black Bean & Peppers in Lime Cilantro vinaigrette Minty Quinoa & Bulghur Tabbouleh Next week: Ratatouille and Kamut Crunch. Click on  ”Chopped Salad of [...]

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Mr Green Bean; honey cream cheese

This past Sunday, Little Locavore focused on fresh green (string) beans, with tastings of  green, yellow and purple, both raw and steamed. Volunteers helped me prep them by snipping off the stems with kids’ scissors. They mixed local honey from a market vendor with reduced fat cream cheese for taste-testing raw beans plain and with the spread. [I'd [...]

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Strib says 130 farmers markets in MN

Star Trib July 17th Sat: MN among nation’s farmers market hot spots “The popularity of buying locally has led to a statewide explosion. … In five years the number has tripled.”  In the metro: Minneapolis, St. Paul, Richfield, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Bloomington, Minnetonka, Maple Grove, Rosemount, Burnsville, Falcon Heights, Columbia Heights, Woodbury, Shoreview, Brooklyn Park, Eagan, [...]

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New gorgeous photos

Please surf a bit to enjoy Brad Dahlgaard’s marvelous, mouthwatering photos that I have posted on most every page and inserted into a couple older posts!  I am very lucky to be friends with such a talented man.

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Cukes for this Sun’s Little Locavores

Sweet, crunchy, Oh-so-refreshing cucumbers are our featured guests this Sun on the Little Locavore program at the Mpls Farmers’ Mkt. You can try samples of different kinds of cukes, and also play a couple fun games! Fun fact: Did you know that ancient desert dwellers revered the cucumber because its high water content helped them [...]

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