I’d never seen "redband" trailers offered on a movie website before. I guess I’d just been going to too many Doris Day movies. Anyway, I was attracted to the one on No Country For Old Men‘s site. It’s the new Coen Brothers movie. Anyway, you click on the redband trailer link, and it asks you … Read more
The Minnesota Timberwolves traded one of the ten best players in the NBA, along with the rest of their starting lineup. They retained a coach who went 12-30 in the second half of last season, and a general manager who has become the default scapegoat–and not without reason–for anyone with even a passing acquaintance with … Read more
I like the rodent. Gotta love the beautiful turn of phrase in a blog. Jeff Horwich over at MPR got off a good one about MinnPost‘s staff yesterday in his piece on the pending competition between MinnPost and The Daily Mole. He described them thus: "[the staff list] reads like the manifest of lifeboats from … Read more
Salad Ingredients: 1 pound bag shredded cabbage with carrots 1 bunch green onions, sliced 1 package chicken ramen noodles, broken 1 small package sliced almonds Dressing Ingredients: 1/2 cup vegetable oil 3 tablespoons sugar chicken flavor packet from the ramen noodles Method: Brown the noodles and almonds in frying pan with a little oil. … Read more
Ingredients: 1 pound puff pastry dough 17 ounces ground beef 1/2 onion, diced 9 ounces button mushroom, sliced 7 ounces plus 2 tablespoons water 4 fluid ounces veal stock, reduced 1 ounce flour 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 egg Note: you will need 12, 6-inch aluminum tart shells. Method:Mix the flour and 7 ounces … Read more
Ingredients 1 small onion, diced 3 cloves garlic 1 cup morel mushrooms, chopped 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 teaspoon thyme, fresh 1 cup Arborio rice 4 to 5 cups water or stock 1 teaspoon soy sauce 1/4 cup cream 1/4 cup Parmesan, grated 1/4 cup white wine salt and pepper to … Read more
Ingredients: 1 ½ cups rice (arborio or medium grain white rice) 1 ¾ cups Porcini mushrooms, whole ½ cup butter ¼ cup onion, chopped 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1 cup vegetable broth ½ cup dry white wine ½ cup milk ¼ cup Pecorino (Sardo or Romano), grated 1 tablespoon Italian parsley, finely … Read more
Like “Le lasange”, meatballs vary from region to region. In Campania the secret is in the pine nuts and raisins. Buone feste! Ingredients: 1 pound ground pork 1/2 to 3/4 cup plain bread crumbs 2 to 4 eggs 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, finely grated 6 tablespoons pine nuts 2 tablespoons raisins, diced 1/2 cup … Read more
Snubbed again, dammit! I just called the H&M store at the Mall of America to double-check, but it looks like the retailer has decided to skip Minneapolis (yet again) when it launches its massclusive line of Roberto Cavalli for H&M next week. Not that the line is covetable in the first place. (I mean, leopard … Read more
Ingredients: 2 butternut squashes, peeled and de-seeded 1 4-ounce package Boursin cheese 8 ounces heavy cream 1 whole egg 3 ounces mozzarella cheese salt and pepper to taste Method:Mix cheeses, cream, and egg. Ladle just enough cream mixture to lightly coat bottom of pan. Layer peeled squash on mixture. Repeat this step, layering cream … Read more