Category: Feature Post

Flavor Bouquet Winter Salad

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Embrace the warming weather by utilizing in-season citrus to create this fresh, bright flavor bouquet. Packed with natural energy, Vitamin C and fiber, it’s perfect for brightening a meal, a mood or a Monday.   Winter Salad Ingredients: 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, divided Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tbsp sherry vinegar 1 … Continued

Seriously refreshing MOCKTAILS

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Photo Credit: Mette Nielsen These days, “Let’s meet for a drink,” no longer implies beer, wine, or alcohol. Sometimes, you really need to go out, but you really don’t want alcohol. These grown-up boozeless cocktails, called mocktails, are not too sweet, plenty refreshing, and very sophisticated. They hit the mark! Mixologists in the hippest bars … Continued

Elegantly Simple Cacio e Pepe Pasta

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Put true love to the test with a simple, mouth-watering pasta dish. Judging from our taste test its sophisticated simplicity is almost too good to share. Avoid the Valentine’s Day restaurant crowds and learn how to make this trendy pasta dish for two instead. We like to think of it as a grown-up mac and … Continued

Local Apples, Global Flavor

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Fall is in the air, a wonderful time of year when organic apples fill the trees and our produce bins. Our apple season is short and sweet: mid-September through mid-October is prime time to enjoy the best of Minnesota-grown apples. This handpicked international recipe is a delicious way to get more local flavor on your fall menu. … Continued

Back to the Grindstone

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The toasty, yeasty scent of bread baking catapults me right back to my grandmother’s kitchen. There, as a child, I’d stand on a step and help her twist dough into a braided loaf or shape fist sized dinner rolls.  These days I find baking bread, actually, baking anything, to be as relaxing as it is … Continued

Helping Lakewinds Shine: Veronica Penson

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Veronica Penson has worked at the Lakewinds store in Richfield since the day it opened its doors. She shared her story of how she came to Lakewinds, why she loves her work, and why work IS her family. Q: Where are you from, originally? A: I was born in Chicago, the oldest of six kids. … Continued

Healthy Halloween Treats Kids Will Love

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Halloween is an opportunity for strengthening community, with many people walking door-to-door around their neighborhoods. It’s a time to foster imaginations as kids (and adults) dress up as superheroes, princesses or villains. It’s a time of delivering treats, seeing gap-toothed grins and hearing “thank you” from Elsa and Harry Potter as they head down the … Continued

Support Local Farmers: Growing Your Community Roots

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Whether they sow acres of corn, tend a plot of tomatoes or graze 40 head of cattle, farmers are in the business of growing our food. Over the past few years, we have been urged to “know our farmer” or “buy local,” sometimes without even understanding why this might really be an important thing to … Continued