Farmers Market Finds

26th September, 2009 - Posted by Emily - Comments

I visited the Minneapolis Farmers Market last weekend – look at all the wonderful veggies I found!Farmers Market

I used some of the veggies to make potato leek soup and a zucchini and goat cheese pizza. For dessert I made apple dumplings, but they turned out looking more like “apple blobs” due to my horrible puff pastry skills. They were good though – it’s hard to go wrong with puff pastry, cinnamon, apples, and vanilla ice cream! Sorry there are no pictures this time!

What’s happening in my tidy kitchen?

16th July, 2009 - Posted by Emily - Comments

No, I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth, but there hasn’t been much going on in the kitchen lately (just a lot of cheese quesadillas and mac & cheese). I am finishing my fourth week of full-time work and haven’t had much time to cook lately. John also started working in the office three days a week (he was previously working from home) and our work hours and meal schedules unfortunately haven’t really been on the same time frame lately, which makes cooking difficult!

I’m not sure what it is about summer, but I never seem to cook as much during this season. I’ll have to stop by the farmers’ market soon and hopefully find some inspiration. It’s a shame that I haven’t taken advantage of all the fresh seasonal produce.

When John and I went to Chicago about a month ago, I spotted these Cinnamon Pecan Rugelach cookies at the Corner Bakery Cafe and was inspired to make my own version. Perhaps I will get to that this weekend… stay tuned!

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