It’s been a few years since we celebrated our anniversary at W.A. Frost. It’s always a great experience so we decided to go back again this year. It was a fabulous experience! Come with me while I walk through our evening last night. We always like to start the evening in the bar adjacent to … More W.A. Frost & Company, St. Paul, MN – an anniversary restaurant review
Our grocery store makes up these wonderful beef and veggie kabobs that we’ve eaten on numerous occasions and we decided to have them again tonight. We like to defy winter by grilling all year long. When we got to the store they only had all meat kabobs instead of the meat/veggie ones we normally purchase. … More winter kabobs in the snow
While I wait for my family to awaken so that we can travel back home I thought I’d put this post together of one of our favorite local places to eat. We’re in Bemidji where we spent the weekend in order to celebrate Christmas with family and we’ll head home later this morning. We had … More Flame – a favorite restaurant
Thanksgiving. I love to cook and I love to plan so, for me, Thanksgiving provides the best of all worlds. I decided to share my holiday menu and some photos too. I always try at least one new item each year and this year I tried two new things, the stuffing and the salad. I … More my favorite holiday
I have made paella many times using this same recipe for about 30 years. It came from a now closed restaurant in Los Angeles called La Masía. And this time I decided to document so that I could share the process. Rather than write out the recipe because, after all, you can find the basic … More The making of paella
We sure have interesting restaurant names here in the twin cities eh? Here’s another one that we tried almost a month ago when some friends were here from northern Minnesota. It was also their 28th anniversary. How nice of them to spend it with us (?). Ha ha. They came down to see their daughter … More Hell’s Kitchen – Minneapolis, MN
I recently had dinner with friends at Pracna on Main. I had never been there before nor have I been to St. Anthony Main in quite a long time. It was nice to be next to the river again after some 12 or 13 years. I used to work just across the river and on … More Pracna on Main, the oldest operating restaurant in Minneapolis
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