Take flight from winter. Head to Sparrow Café and ease your spring fever pains. A good cup of coffee or tea works wonders for the soul. Melt away your worries in Minnesota’s only bird friendly certified coffee shop. Dark, dreary barely get out of bed winter days, become brighter with a trip to Sparrow Café. Coffee or tea with a little sweet or savory on the side awakens the senses. The surroundings almost chirp to life with birds. Big, bold, […]
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Avocado Grapefruit Almond Salad
Serves: 1
Time: 1/2 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Add a little avocado to your next salad. Better yet, slice up the whole thing and pile on every slab. Avocados like to be eaten all at once and quickly. Sleek army avocado green turns into mud puddle mush fast. Avocados Instead of Pomegranates Back in December, I shared a recipe for Pomegranate, Grapefruit and Marcona Almond Salad. Substitute the avocados for the pomegranates for a whole dish. Avocados add a fruity-vegetative meaty quality to salads. These fatty fruits have […]
Breakfast Bread Pudding
Serves: 12
Time: 2 hours plus soaking time
Difficulty: Moderate
All too often, bread pudding appears as an evening dessert. This Mother of leftover food turned luscious makes an even better starter for the day. A good dowsing of first-rate, French Grand Marnier doesn’t hurt either. Boozy Breakfast Bread Pudding A little liqueur goes a long way to heat up the subtle sweetness of breakfast bread pudding. A mixture of dried fruit soaks up the Grand Marnier and then goes into the custard. The result, bread pudding studded with happy […]
Milk Chocolate Pots de Crème
Serves: 4 - 6
Time: 3/4 hour to prepare and overnight to cool
Difficulty: Moderate
Valentine’s Day and chocolate are old friends. Doesn’t everyone love chocolate? Love and chocolate go together hand and hand. Pick your favorite flavor – dark chocolate, milk chocolate or white chocolate. Each captures the true spirit of the day in sweet form. While store-bought boxed chocolates are lovely, homemade chocolate pots de crème are luscious. A traditional French recipe with a modern twist transforms wobbly custard into a delightfully decadent dessert. A good splash of Grand Marnier puts a […]
True Love Tiramisu for Two
Author: Lee Ann Owens
Posted: February 3, 2014
Valentine’s Day gives the perfect excuse to dive into dessert decadence. Like a cake-cream-coffee-chocolate combination? Go ahead, fall in love with tiramisu. Tiramisu for Two Lunds and Byerly’s has a terrific tiramisu treat. Rich coffee-infused sugary Italian cake and cream flavor comes with all the trimmings, ready to go. Tiramisu for two has a catchy name that suggests this is a dessert to share with your sweetheart. In reality, Tiramisu for Two easily becomes a big splurge for one. […]
Orzo, Chickpea, Tomato, Feta Salad
Serves: 6
Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Salads in January have to be good. During the post-Christmas diet season, it is all too easy to fall off the calorie wagon. Even if you are blessed enough not to be on a diet, a tempting salad can’t hurt. Orzo, tomato, feta salad has all the right salad fixings — healthy ingredients with a happy colorful look. Healthy and happy isn’t that what we all want to be? Eating right makes everything easier even on the coldest winter […]
Food Trucks Debated in Edina
Author: Lee Ann Owens
Posted: January 20, 2014
Food trucks may be coming to a crossroads in Edina. Food trucks are prohibited but discussions are going at full speed. Take a glance at Speak Up Edina. Food trucks are sparking lively debate. Public Comments The City of Edina is asking for public comment throughout January and not just from Edina residents. While no change is proposed at this time, a debate is going full gear. Speak Up Edina poses questions about food trucks in Edina, including: Should […]
Sweet and Sour Sesame Green Beans
Serves: 4
Time: 1/2 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Spice up your plain old green beans with a simple sweet and sour sauce any time of year. Who says vegetables are boring? Sweet and sour green beans have a zingy flavor and spicy aroma. A splash of savory soy sauce and sprinkling of nutty toasted sesame seeds will fill the air with the aroma of the Orient. Fast Cooking Side It only takes a few minutes to prepare sweet and sour green beans. They make a good […]
Edina Food in 2013 – A Year in Review
Author: Lee Ann Owens
Posted: January 6, 2014
Ready or not, change pushes life forward in Edina. This is a community that reveres trendy fashion and food is no exception. The only thing that stays the same is a fast pace of change. Hellos and Goodbyes A few of my favorite food places closed their doors for good during 2013. It is almost like losing an old friend when a good restaurant or unique food shop disappears. Edina area food places that went out of business […]
Baked Alaska a la Minnesota
Serves: 8
Time: 4 hours
Difficulty: Difficult, except during winter
A baked Alaska in frozen Minnesota. What better way to begin the New Year? When the weather gives you rock solid lemons out of the deep freeze, head right for the ice cream. Polar Paradise Here in Minneapolis, the current weather conditions mirror the name of the dish. Sub-zero wind chills and a fluffy thick blanket of snow set the mood. It is one big ice box out there. Today’s high temperature of 1 °F provided ideal household freezer […]
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