Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
Honey-glazed chicken with roasted grapes and blue cheese, tacos la playita carnitas, raspberry ginger spritzer, spinach quinoa salad with Wisconsin blue cheese, garlic-sauteed smelt with tomatoes, and watermelon salad with cherry tomatoes and beets.
MorePomegranate and raspberry wine pork; homemade pizza with greens; smelt po’boys with wild remoulade sauce; red lentil, chickpea, and tomato soup with smoked paprika; slow-cooker split pea soup; and wild rice-mushroom soup.
MoreChefs Lenny Russo and Isaac Becker are off to NYC for the Beard Awards, the cream puff could become Wisconsin’s official state dessert, morels are back, and smelt is at the Minneapolis Farmers Market (or was, at any rate). And if you missed our smelt fry story, it was a doozy.
MoreThe City Pages best of awards for food and drink (plus some endorsements of select awards by East-Lake.net), Well Fed Guide to Life visits Bar Abilene, some thoughts on digestifs, and info on a smelt fry in Chisago City. UPDATE: Looks like we won readers’ choice for best blog. Thank you, readers! We’re honored and […]
MoreSummit’s Mark Stutrud takes a stand against a proposed exorbitant beer tax, Aaron of The Captain’s Chair echoes the call, Rachel hails smelt season, Stuff About Minneapolis invokes this magazine’s name while pouring scorn upon Sarpino’s Pizza, Kare11’s story on Surly (via East-Lake.net), this Tuesday Acadia Cafe is offering $10 six-shooters (six 5-oz beer pours, […]
MoreBill Roehl hits Ettlin’s Ranchero Supper Club in Webster, MN, wherein fried smelt are served in vast quantities to their adoring public. If this sentence doesn’t put you off of smelt for life, you’re a stronger person than I: “…while other tables found themselves with heavily battered pieces of fish that looked nothing like the […]
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