Food/Recipes
Home(stead) Cooking
A cookbook by a polar explorer from Minnesota brings out good home cooking. Read more
Jan 26, 2022
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. Read more
Nov 19, 2018
Everybody Loves Pie
As the summer sun slants across our decks and shadows lengthen, let’s get serious about pie. Read more
Oct 5, 2018
COURTESY BAYFIELD COUNTY TOURISM
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. Read more
Jul 30, 2018
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. Read more
Jul 24, 2018
TODD MARSEE
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. Read more
Jan 19, 2018
COURTESY SUNRISE BAKERY
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. Read more
Dec 22, 2017
METTE NIELSEN
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. Read more
Dec 14, 2017
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. Read more
Nov 24, 2017
Mette Nielsen
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. Read more
Nov 6, 2017
Amy Larsen / Lake Superior Magazine
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. Read more
Oct 5, 2017
Mae Lynn Stoutenburg
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. Read more
Apr 3, 2017
Courtesy Hermit Creek Farm
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. Read more
Apr 3, 2017
Thomas Strand Studio LLC
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. Read more
Feb 1, 2017
Superior Notes
Around the Circle This Week: April 18, 2024
Photo Winners, Forceful Winds, Performing Poets Read more
Apr 18, 2024
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More Recipe Box
Recipe Box from back issues of Lake Superior Magazine.