July 2011
7 posts
I got 99 problems, but tomatoes ain't one
This is the dawning of the age of solanum lycopersicum, and I hope you have snatched up your share of ‘maters from your garden/ area farmer’s market/ favored roadside stand/ neighbor Bob.
The tomatoes have been off to a slow start during my Minneapolis summer, but luckily there is a group of freakishly good-looking Amish teenagers at the Mill City Farmers Market who bring in crates...
This cake is bananas
My family has a long history of thinking we regularly snack on bananas, buying them and occasionally glancing at them as they sit on the counter, become mottled and wrinkled and leave shiny slicks of decay.
So this time when we had three ripe bananas on the precipice of mush, I asked myself WWTBCD (what would The Barefoot Contessa do?). The answer… old-fashioned banana cake with cream...
Coleslaw: the just beet it edition
When I saw the recipe for candy-stripe beet and carrot slaw in Bon Appetit a few weeks ago, I knew I wanted to try it, but I assumed that candy-stripe beets were a magical root vegetable only found in Tri-State-area farmers markets or co-ops in the produce Valhallas of California.
Dammit, this is Minneapolis I thought, while travailing the grocery stores near my house; this is the hippest,...
Custard pie: the remix
When I hear the word remix, I associate it with either Jennifer Lopez (my middle school days were the new golden age: “Love Don’t Cost a Thing - RJ Schoolyard Remix featuring Fat Joe” anyone?) or the group of hipsters, for lack of a better word, I knew in college who would pee their stovepipes whenever a band you’ve never heard of tinkers with a song by a band that...
Please help the hungry Somali children and their...
Rebecca Blackwell AP
Some days it feels silly and indulgent to write about pies when there are children like this in the world.
Farah Abdi Warsameh AP
If you can, make a donation to the United Nations Refugee Agency. The crisis in East Africa has become a humanitarian disaster, and children are dying everyday from malnutrition and dehydration on the way to or at refugee camps in Ethiopia...
An "I want to go to there" moment brought to you...
Patisserie 46 in Minneapolis — a casaba and honeydew minted tart with vanilla bean pastry cream: one of few things in this world that can be judged for goodness completely based off of its appearance and apparent shininess.
Next up on my Summer of George Twin Cities bakery tour: Rustica, Cocoa and Fig, and Salty Tart.
My Summer of George begins: edible adventures with...
Greetings fair readers. I apologize for my long absence. If I had updated six days ago, I might have had an excuse, but now I have embarrassment and a hole in my heart that only Chef Lee Richardson’s Arkansas rice grits can fill.
From bacon to fried green tomatoes to even more bacon, the people who put together The Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers (which was and will be the...
