Appetites: Cheap eats in the Twin Cities. Listen Story audio Like many of us, you're probably trying to eke out the most from your food budget — and have a fun night out every now and then, too. Rachel Hutton, editor-in-chief of Minnesota Monthly magazine, spoke with MPR News' Tom Crann about her creative ideas for inexpensive restaurant eats in the Twin Cities. Click the audio above to hear their conversation, and read Hutton's thoughts below. Craving something with a kick? If you're looking for big flavor and small prices, you might start with a few of my favorite local Asian restaurants. For Thai cuisine, Bangkok Thai on University Avenue in St. Paul or its sister restaurant, Krungthep Thai on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis make excellent curries for about $10 apiece. A newer place I like in the downtown Minneapolis skyway called Ipotli.
Mexican and Hmong Hmong Village in St. Feeding a crowd The ultimate combination platter at Fasika Ethiopian restaurant in St. Trendy, and cheap Map: Cheap eats tour. 25 Food Things Only A New Mexican Would Understand (PHOTOS) Do you have a New Mexican in your life? Do they have less freezer space than you because it's mostly filled with green chiles? Do they get cagey and dart their eyes around any time they smell a hint of roasted peppers? Have they ever tried to order a green chile cheeseburger at McDonald's? Don't worry, it's not just your New Mexican, it's all of us. New Mexican food is a tricky thing to understand if you didn't grow up with it or adopt it as your own.
Mexican ≠ New Mexican ≠ Tex Mex New Mexican food is its own, special animal. Rebecca Orchant But secretly, every once in a while, this is all you want. 30 Simple Ways to Supercharge Your Diet. Oreo Peanut Butter Is A Black Abyss We'd Like To Fall Into (PHOTO) Forget New York: Why Madison, Wis. is a top foodie paradise. If someone were to ask you what’s one of the best U.S. cities for farm-to-table dining and local foods, what’d probably say New York, Chicago, or Portland, right? But Madison (yes Madison, Wisconsin) -- a city with fewer than 300,000 people--has one of the strongest local foods scenes in the country. But you'd never know it unless you visited because bragging about it just isn't their way. Surrounded by farmland and natural resources, farm-to-table dining in Madison is a no-brainer. It's not a gimmick or a good PR move, as it has become in so many other places.
It's just the natural state of things. With so much farmland surrounding the city, almost every restaurant you walk into proudly displays a long list of the local farmers and purveyors they work with. And the craft beer scene is one of the best in the country. If it's a foodie paradise you're looking for, look no further than Madison. 1. National Flags Created From the Foods Each Country Is Commonly Associated With. Feeling hungry? You will be after looking through this creative collection of food photography by Australian advertising agency WHYBIN\TBWA. To promote the Sydney International Food Festival, which is Australia’s largest food festival which had almost a million attendees last year and chefs from all over the world, the imaginative team re-created 17 national flags using foods common to each nation. Basil, pasta, and tomatoes create the stripes on Italy’s flag, while hot dogs and buns were used for the U.S., olives and feta cheese for Greece, and curries with rice for India and Indonesia.
See Also Man Follows Girlfriend All Around the World What’s even more impressive than the simpler striped flags is seeing the clever ways the team improvised stars and symbols of the more complex flags. Above: Italy’s flag made from Basil, pasta, and tomatoes. Brazil’s flag made from banana leaf, limes, pineapple and passion fruit. China’s flag made from pittaya/dragon fruit and star fruit. 43 No-Cook Dinners You Can Make Without Turning On Your Stove. Cooking-Oil-Comparison-Chart_02-22-12.pdf.
Food Poisoning Lawyers and Attorneys | Marler Clark. Food Systems Creating Public Health Disaster. Global food systems are making people sick, and Olivier De Schutter is taking them to task for it. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food warns that current food manufacturing and agricultural practices are causing a public health disaster. In a new report, he writes: “For society, the costs are huge, directly in medical care and indirectly in lost productivity.” De Schutter cites the culprit as being an “obesogenic environment,” a term public health analysts use to identify the multiple factors that have caused the global obesity pandemic.
Commenting on the report, De Schutter said: Urbanization, supermarketization and the global spread of modern lifestyles have shaken up traditional food habits….Governments have been focusing on increasing calorie availability, but they have often been indifferent to what kind of calories are on offer, at what price, to whom they are accessible, and how they are marketed. Related Care2 Stories Why Walmart Can’t Fix Our Food System.
No Surprise: Meat Is Bad for You. I did not intend to broadcast an anti-meat mini-series this week, but there are so many angles to this argument that sometimes one gets carried away. And events have overtaken me, so no wonder. As I was finishing my Wednesday column, up popped a study in the current issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one that reported finding that too much meat can kill you. The headlines screamed, of course. The Los Angeles Times: “All Red Meat Is Bad for You.” Here at home: “More Red Meat, More Mortality.” Well, duh. Yes, the study cheers those who argue for cutting back on our half-pound-a-day meat habit. Which is exactly the point. It could be one or more of many things.
There are two things wrong with focusing too closely on meat in the diet. Secondly, industrially produced meat’s effect on our morbidity and mortality and the associated infamous health care costs are not the only problems with meat. New Agtivist: Bryant Terry is inspiring his community to eat better. Photo by Jennifer Martine. Chef and food justice activist Bryant Terry’s latest book, The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus, may look like a simple cookbook, but it’s also much more than that. In it, Terry has included personal reflections on the history, music, and politics that shaped his interest in healthy, whole foods, as well as the cultural influences that inspired the recipes. Terry wrote the book before and immediately after his daughter was born and his intention, he says, was to create a snapshot of who he was at the time.
But he also hopes the book inspires people to connect with their food. He’s included a “basics” section, but if you’re ready to take on some jerk tempeh, he’s got you covered, too. We spoke with Terry recently about the book, as well as his broader work to inspire healthy eating within communities of color, and change the food system from the bottom-up. Q. A. My goal isn’t to convert people into vegans. Q. A. Q. A.
27 Foods to Make from Scratch (Slideshow) Top 10 coffeehouses in the Twin Cities - Minneapolis Restaurants and Dining. The second wave of coffee awareness has seized the Cities. Where once we happily sipped diner swill for $1.50, when we were introduced to Starbucks the coffee snob revolution began. Now we have single-cup brewing of fair trade beans and elegant surroundings in which to savor them. We scoured the Cities to compile a list of coffeehouses that offered not only the best of the beans but a comfortable room to savor an expertly brewed cup. 1.KopplinsIt's newer, it's bigger and if it's possible, even better than their former home on Hamline.
The Kopplin's space on Marshall Avenue is bright and full of room for spreading out work and laptops. Bull Run imports its beans from all over the world and roasts them locally. 3. The espresso beans are Intelli Black Cat, and the coffee-brewing methods are craft, single cups using chimex, pour overs, and siphons. 4. 5. Now with two locations, the perennially hip spot is perfectly suited for a refined boho artist sort of vibe. 6. Previous coverage: This Week's Vegetarian Meal Plan, December 26th to January 1st. © Jerry James Stone via Flickr Wow, 2011 is almost over! Can you believe it? I cannot as it went by so fast; it always does. But I digress, let's talk about food. I want 2012 to be about peace and unity, and all those other treehuggin' values. Monday: Vegetarian PhởTuesday: Lentil Stuffed Samosas with a green saladWednesday: Korean Fried Tofu and Brown Rice (and leftover Phở)Thursday: Spanish Meatball Tapas Friday: Vegetarian Meatloaf and Curried Mashed PotatoesSaturday: Tempeh Buffalo Wings for any New Year's Eve Party!
Vegetarian Phở Lentil Stuffed Samosas with a green salad 1 cup toor dal/ split pigeon pea1/2 cup spring onions, finely chopped1/4 cup mint leaves, chopped1/4 cup coriander leaves, chopped1 green chilly, finely chopped1 teaspoon red chilly powder1 teaspoon garam masala1 teaspoon roasted cumin powderSalt to taste¼ cup all purpose flour3 tablespoon waterReady to use spring roll wrappers Korean Fried Tofu and Brown Rice Spanish Meatball Tapas Tempeh Buffalo Wings. Powerfoods - Foods to Change Your Life. You may have powerfoods in your kitchen right now and don’t know it. By eating powerfoods everyday you can energize and balance your body without costly vitamins and medical bills. Foods affect us on many levels and understanding these factors can help you make better health choices. For a complete understanding of powerfoods and where they get their power, read below . But first a list of all the powerfoods we explain on our site.
Fruits: Apples: Powerfood Pomme. Bananas: Healthy, Silly and Sexy Lemons: the Alkaline Powerfood Mangos: 10 Health Benefits Pears: ‘Gift of the Gods’ Pumpkins: the biggest powerfood…ever! Saskatoons: Our favorite berry. Raspberries: Summer Red Powerfood. Watermelon: It’s alkaline and tastes soo good. Vegetables: Asparagus: The Balanced Powerfood Cabbage: The big Powerfood for glowing skin and hair – some say it collects “moon power” Carrots: This crunchy powerfoods have health benefits that go beyond your eyes! Celery for Weight Loss and Calm Nuts and Seeds: Grains and Beans:
Talronnen. Fast Food Fails (PHOTOS) 21 Ways to Sneaking Vegetables & Eating More Vegetables | Raw Foods Witch. 1. Drink Green Smoothies. If you’ve been here before, you’ll know how much I love green smoothies . Blend 60% whole fruits, 40% green leafy veggies, add water, and you’ve got yourself the best tasting veggie dish ever. Fresh zucchini pasta! 2. You can get a Spiral Slicer or a Mandolin Slicer at most cooking stores, but failing that just use a vegetable peeler to create fun noodle shapes out of veggies. 3.
Instead of reaching for those starchy potato or corn chips, why not get your greens in? 4. Green vegetable juice is on equal footing with green smoothies. 5. You can either use a blender or a juicer to make fresh, yummy veggie soups. 6. See what’s available in your area and surprise your senses with exciting new vegetables. 7. With a food processor or by hand, shred those tough “winter veggies” into an easy to enjoy slaw. 8. Chop up some of your favorite vegetables and marinate them for a few hours to soften them up and give them that extra taste. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. The silliest meal of my life (followed by a good mushroom recipe) | Kitchen Antics. Today’s post comes in two parts.
First, a not-very-glowing review of what is arguably New York’s hippest restaurant. Second a recipe. So if you don’t feel like reading the rant, and simply want a simple mushroom recipe, skip to the bottom. In Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolf uses food as metaphor. In the fictional restaurant La Boue d’Argent, a diner is served a plate of “flat green noodles carefully intertwined to create a basket weave, superimposed upon which was a flock of butterflies fashioned from pairs of mushroom slices for the wings; pimientos, onion slices, shallots and capers, for the bodies, eyes and antennae.” And one day, in another novel about New York which has yet to be written, gullible Manhattanites will surrender to the fetish for local, “sustainable” food, and pay large sums at a restaurant called ABC Kitchen to be lectured on eco-nonsense and eat pieces of grilled squash. And yet never, NEVER, has the phrase “Emperor’s New Clothes” been more apposite. You sit down. Five myths about healthy eating.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to stay out of the Republican presidential race means that the American people will be spared months of discussion about his ample waistline and the bad example it sets. Nonetheless, with first lady Michelle Obama urging everyone to get moving , obesity remains a political hot potato, or maybe a tater tot. Below, a helping of skepticism about the causes of Americans’ poor eating habits — and the effectiveness of political fixes.
Walk into nearly any supermarket in the United States, and you are immediately confronted with abundance — bok choy, mangos, melons and avocados from across the globe — where a couple of varieties of apples and carrots once struggled to fill shelf space. But not everyone has easy access to this fruity phantasmagoria. Making those food deserts bloom is a centerpiece of Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity agenda. But the prevalence of food deserts is almost certainly overstated. 12 Top Vegan Iron Sources. If you are a vegan, what is the first argument you hear from meat-eating advocates? Well the sarcastic ones might say something about plants having feelings too, but the most popular rebuttal usually has something to do with iron. And yes iron is an essential mineral because it contributes to the production of blood cells. The human body needs iron to make the oxygen-carrying proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin. But just because you don’t eat meat doesn’t mean you’re going to wither away with anemia.
However, anemia is not something to be taken lightly. (Although I realize I just did.) So here’s the 411 on iron: how much you need, where you can get it, and tips to maximize its absorption. Love This? Thanks for subscribing! Iron Requirements The Food and Nutrition Board at the Institute of Medicine recommends the following: Infants and children • Younger than 6 months: 0.27 milligrams per day (mg/day) • 7 months to 1 year: 11 mg/day • 1 to 3 years: 7 mg/day • 4 to 8 years: 10 mg/day.
21 Sources of Protein for Vegetarians.