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Home(stead) Cooking

A cookbook by a polar explorer from Minnesota brings out good home cooking.

Giving Thanks – Twice Big Lake Residents Can Enjoy Double the Leftovers

Residents by Lake Superior could get a rare holiday opportunity. Really, if we wanted, we could embrace two Thanksgivings – the Canadian one in October and the U.S. version in November.

Everybody Loves Pie

As the summer sun slants across our decks and shadows lengthen, let’s get serious about pie.

Recipe Box: Feasting at the Farm Market

At our local farm markets, the heaped tables deliver a living calendar detailing our harvest bounty, week by week.

Salad Savvy, Building a Smarter, Healthier Dish

Salads say summer. More than any other dish, the toss up of cool, crisp, refreshing ingredients is the essence of this bountiful season.

Recipe Box: Surf Over Turf, Tapping the Lake Superior Terroir

The French use a term, “terroir,” to define how a region’s terrain, soil and sunlight influence the favor of a wine or cheese.

Delivering a Taste of Home, Local Comfort Foods Can Make the Greatest Gifts

The package arrives days before Christmas (or the start of Hanukkah, your birthday or wedding). It’s labeled perishable, so no use waiting … you open it right away.

Recipe Box: Bring It Home, A New Crop of Cookbooks to Harvest for the Holidays

Thanks to the internet, you can find recipes aplenty online, but I want to sing praises here to the joy of a good cookbook, one that offers much more than a sets of ingredients and the instructions for assembling a meal.

Super Snack Challenge

Three Duluth students made the final 52 cut in the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee’s “Super Snack Challenge” for children to suggest healthy game day snacks.

Recipe Box: Trail Mix, You Don’t Need a Hike to Savor Healthy Snacks

Trail mixes date back to the pre-colonial era when indigenous people created portable, nutritious, lightweight foods that didn’t need to be cooked, could handle any weather and stored well for a long time.

Recipe Box: Food Growing on Water - The ‘Good Berry’ Still Nourishes

If any food has a history in this region, it's wild rice – that aquatic grain that's a natural gift of the local waters.

Community Supported Agriculture: Edible Profits for Investors in Our Local Food

Community Supported Agriculture opens an investment connection between local farms and residents, plus you get a box of goodies to boot.

Recipe Box: Farm-Fresh Ideas

Try these three recipes suggested by local farms: Cucumber Salsa, Braised Carrots with Mint and Cider Vinegar, and Eggplant Caponata.

Beatrice Ojakangas: Our Scandinavian Julia Child Bakes Sisu into a Career

In her new memoir, “Homemade: Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food,” Beatrice Ojakangas tells her own rich story, beginning with the immigration of her grandparents.

Around the Circle This Week: March 14, 2025

Around the Circle This Week: March 6, 2025

More Snow Days, Moose Maintenance, Film Festing