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Pinot, Produce and Prima - The Minneapolis Star Tribune in 60 Seconds

corn and tomato salsas
Corn and tomato salsas. Photo: sporkist, Flickr.
  • With just-picked farmers' market ingredients, the Salsa Lady makes sinfully spicy salsas.
  • After a class-action lawsuit was filed against Dannon for overstating Activia and DanActive health benefits, the company reached a settlement.
  • The Star Tribune thinks a warm September is perfect pinot grigio weather, and suggests Scaranto Delle Venezie Pinot Grigio 2007.
  • Warming up the cool fall kitchen with fresh corn fritters.
  • Is there such a thing as wine that works for everyone?
  • Minneapolis has the largest group of Hmong people in the U.S., but their ethnic food is still underground.
  • In metro dining news, Chambers gets a new look and tasty new menu, Loring Kitchen & Bar gives great views of Loring Park, and OM Restaurant dishes up fresh and complex Indian food.
  • Weekly restaurant pick: Lyndale Ave's Prima.

Frittering Our Days Away- Feast Your Eyes

potato fritter
This potato fritter looks, in our humble opinion, exactly as a potato fritter should.

It's crispy around the edges with little shreds of potato and sweet potato trailing seductively from a perfectly golden brown, tender center. It sort of reminds us of the sun, or, less abstractly, of what we'd like to be eating right now. The fact that this fritter's creator, Molly Watson of The Dinner Files, originally intended for this to be a potato latke makes us love it even more.

We know the pain and sorrow of potato latkes -- indeed, our mother's first and only attempt to make the starchy little devils resulted in an unscheduled visit from the fire department -- so we can sympathize with the myriad frustrations Ms. Watson describes on her blog. And we can also relate to the unexpected joys of happy kitchen accidents that yield gorgeous fritters like this one, particularly if they're accompanied by a few spoonfuls of applesauce or tangy Greek yogurt. So please, go fritter some time away -- yes, we went there -- with Molly.

[Via The Dinner Files]

Pyshki, Georgian sage and mint fritters

Close up view of a sage plant.
A few months ago I became friends with someone from Georgia (the one in Eastern Europe). He got me interested in the cuisine of that nation and I eventually ordered myself a Georgian cookbook, which I now love. I've been amusing myself by trying new dishes and seeing how close I get to what the dish is supposed to be like.

Georgian cuisine is all about fresh everything, with lots of fruits and vegetables and wine. Did you know it's thought that wine grapes originated in Georgia, and that it is probably the birth place of viniculture? This is just one fact that Georgians are proud of, and believe me they are proud of everything Georgian.

A while ago I tried this recipe for sage and mint fritters called pyshki. My friend didn't really know what they were, so I hope it's just a dish from a different region than where he's from (rather than my cookbook being wrong). The fritters were really good. You basically just make a very batter-like yeasted dough, let it ferment for about an hour or so, then drop it by the spoonful into a fryer of some sort. The only problem with the original recipe is that it doesn't call for salt. I ended up sprinkling salt over the fritters as they came out of the oil and they tasted great. Very fresh and summery tasting, we used them almost like bread (because I made them too big)which is a required item at every Georgian meal. I didn't try it with Tkemali, which has become my favorite condiment, but I bet it would be a great combination. The recipe is after the jump.

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Wild Edibles: Red & White Clover



Red & White Clover are both edible raw in salads, as cooked greens, and more. The young and tender shoots and greens can be tasty, but older ones can get tough. Just stick to ones that look fresh and haven't gone grass-like and you should be fine. The flower heads are nutritious and full of protein but they should either be soaked in salty water for a few hours or briefly boiled or cooked before eating; so that they are easier to digest. Eating them raw is usually not as good an experience. I like them stir fried or sauteed until well done, or lightly battered and made into fritters or tempura. I find that the saltiness of the tempura dipping sauce works well with them. If the blossoms seem past their prime, or even going to seed, all the better. Because then you can dry them and grind them into a protein rich and nutritious flour. Just don't try to cook and eat them unless they are soft and fresh, or they will be quite unappetizing.

I was personally introduced to them when I was studying wilderness survival, and one day we had to prepare and eat them every way we could. It wasn't a high point of the week long course, but not the low point either.

One time when I was leading a three week trip in the wilderness and it was near the end of the course. Most of the food was gone and we had been living off the land for a few days. Most of spices were gone, as well as the staples, but we still had a liter bottle of soy sauce and of cooking oil, that had been hidden at the bottom of a food pack; and a few pounds of biscuit mix. I sent half the students off to pick berries. Raspberries, Blackberries, and June Berries; all of which were growing near our camping spot that night. The rest I split up and asked to go into the meadow and pick the biggest, fattest, best looking red clover blossoms they could find; as well as any wild onions. That night for dinner we had Red Clover fritters, some with wild onions, some plain; dipped in a sweetened and spiced soy sauce. For desert were fruit biscuits. Everyone ate until they were full, a hearty appetite the best sauce of all.

Happy National Corn Fritters Day!

Corn fritters with maple syrupI don't think I've ever had a corn fritter. Or maybe I have. Is there another name they go by here in the Northeast?

This Wikipedia page says that a fritter is "any kind of food coated in batter and deep fried." Is that accurate? That seems like a rather broad definition to me. If that's the case, I guess I have had fritters, though definitely not of the corn variety.

Anyway, it's National Corn Fritters Day. Here's a basic recipe for corn fritters, and here's one for Southern Style Corn Fritters. How about a Corn Fritter Casserole? And if you're wondering what corn fritters would taste like with maple syrup, why not make them Vermont style?

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Food Porn: Apple Fritters and Ice Cream

Looking at the picture of these perfect Apple Fritters with Vanilla Ice Cream, featured at Not Just Desserts, made me realize just how long it has been since I had a fritter. I suspect it has something to do with the popularity of retro desserts - mini doughnuts and cupcakes, etc - at restaurants over the past few years because even though fritters have homestyle appeal, they don't have a very retro sense about them. Trendy or not, this photo is enough to spark a craving in anyone's mind.

The fritters are made by dipping apple rings into a lightly sweetened batter, similar to pancake batter. The rounds are then deep fried until golden. The apples are cooked, but are not as tender and soft as the apples in other desserts that feature them, but that just adds texture to the dessert, especially when you serve the hot fritters with some creamy vanilla ice cream.

Five great blog posts...

I have just powered up my feedreader (blogbridge) and ran across several really excellent blog posts from across the foodie-scene that I thought were worth highlighting. They are all inspiring recipes with excellent photographs that should get you all racing to the kitchen...

Chocolate in Context offers us a Dark Chocolate Mousse Cake with Gold Dust. Ground almonds, Maya Gold Chocolate.. what's not to like?

My sweet tooth must be dominating this week as Clivia's Brussels Cookies or Brysselkex in Swedish. When making these in the past Clivia's grandmother described them as 'Church People' - all different!

My good friend Celia over at English Patis has Blueberry Muffins made with sour cream (pictured)

Fat Free Vegan cooking has Grilled Orange-Ginger Tofu with Mango Chutney, Shirataki Noodles, and Grilled Chayote; which while not a fan of tofu does sound fresh and delicious.

Wild Greens Fritters (Hortokeftedes) grace Je Mange la Ville cant wait to try these with some dipping yoghurt as suggested.

Tip of the Day

Drying fruit is easy, mostly hands-off and yields a sweet and healthy snack.

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