Recipes & Cooking
Socially Savvy: Polishing Your Skills
Prepare for Spring with a Midwinter Cooking Class Winter’s cold dark nights can leave us feeling as if we’re locked in and hibernating. If your post- holiday, pre-spring entertaining schedule is lagging and you haven’t [...]
Truffle Hunt with Bret Bannon: Stay at Julia Child’s Home in France
Program We are excited to be considering offering a Winter Truffle Hunt in 2012. Details are currently being finalized. The following are tentative details. For dates and availability, please e-mail bretbannon@bretstable.com (This e-mail address is being [...]
Locally Sourced: Sitting at Bret’s Table
On a crisp winter afternoon, I was invited inside the warm Longfellow neighborhood home of Bret Bannon and his partner Jon Templeton. Whisked into a stunning kitchen I think I shouted an obscenity and hugged [...]
Locally Sourced: Food Swap
I learned many invaluable lessons this summer. One was that pickling is really just boiling – shockingly simple. Who knew? Also, making jam? A breeze. I was astounded by my new-found talents. Armed with this knowledge I was [...]
Holiday How-To: Reminisce and Stress Less
I was the hippopotamus for Christmas Christmas wasn’t about anxiety until 5th grade. It used to be the odor of pine in the living room, colorful lights attached to our farmhouse, and the anticipation of [...]
Nordic Ware: Family Affair
I grew up watching Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, and first run Brady Bunch on television. Entrepreneurship was a regular premise with dad sitting at his work bench in the basement inventing or [...]
Locally Sourced: Sustainable Seafood?
Sustainable seafood in Minnesota seems like a ridiculous concept. For one: the unavoidable presence of the word “sea” as in, we don’t have one anywhere near us. Second is taking on the “sustainable” tag. The [...]
“Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee. Let’s Have Another Piece of Pie.”
The title refers to a song by Irving Berlin appearing in the musical comedy Face the Music, which opened in 1932 on Broadway. The song was sung by a group of once-wealthy citizens who were [...]
Fall Wine & Dine: Saint Croix Vineyards & Recipes
It’s good to be us, here, in this moment of time. Minnesota fall blows cool, with toasty scents of burning leaves and musty flannel. I invite you to celebrate and savor the fleeting day by [...]
How-To: Canning 101
Late spring 2004, I received a letter from the Creative Activities supervisor at the Minnesota State Fair and I’m paraphrasing, “Since you have won 1st place three years in a row for your Vidalia Onion [...]
