May 25 Recipe Roundup
Gazpacho soup, asparagus salad with chervil vinaigrette, lemon bread pudding, black raspberry cheesecake pots, and pickled ramp dressing.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
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Brace Yourself for Spargelfest
In late May, the Black Forest Inn will devote a special Spargelfest menu to asparagus (or spargel, in German). They’ll serve fresh, local asparagus with pork, with steak, or with shrimp, and make asparagus pizza, soup, and salad. They’ll wrap asparagus, roast it, candy it, and infuse vodka with asparagus to make the Spargeltini. All […]
MoreApril 14 Recipe Roundup
Sun-dried tomato pasta salad, Swiss chard chips, leek and sorrel soup, macaroons a plenty, and grilled calamari with sauteed asparagus and leeks.
MoreMarch 30 Flickr Photo Roundup
Parmesan roasted asparagus by pickycook, the Sacrifice Burger from King’s Place in Miesville by rabidscottsman, ugly peppers by andy_pucko, a French press by K-SAKI, and a Brussels sprouts and radicchio pasta salad by urbanfoodie33.
MoreMay 29 Morning Roundup
Trout Caviar whips up some brown trout escabeche with ramps and asparagus, DeRusha’s omnipresent always-streaming Jasoncam catches Don Shelby in the act of stealing a cupcake, a kickass watermelon photo from surlygrrrl in our Flickr group, Katie makes some monsterburgers, and giant beer glasses pop up over at Town Hall [via MNBeer].
MoreTwo Solutions to the Asparagus Crisis
Green Your Plate offers a couple of intriguing ways to deal with the current glut of delicious asparagus: Asparagus and White Bean Salad with Feta and Lemon Dressing, and Tofu and Asparagus with Lemongrass Rub.
MoreBrace Yourself for Spargelfest
The Black Forest Inn, starting May 22, will serve fresh, local asparagus (“spargel,” auf Deutsch), using traditional German and not-so-traditional recipes. Some highlights: savory cheesecake featuring asparagus, asparagus soup, deep-fried asparagus, rolled asparagus in crepes, and an asparagus-infused vodka drink, known as the Spargeltini. And on May 29, the restaurant is having a special benefit […]
MoreMar. 17 Morning Roundup
Philip Dorwart of Mpls.St.Paul hails the annual return of the California-grown asparagus, the Como Avenue Jug Band will be rocking Brit’s Pub tonight (pst, Brit’s Pub, it’s not the “Coma Avenue Jug Band”), and Eating Minnesota wants to know how much to tip a bartender around here.
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