tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89783525874441082962024-11-01T05:41:55.535-05:00A food blog with an emphasis on Wisconsin.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09155137602038047059noreply@blogger.comBlogger343125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978352587444108296.post-57523877540112125902014-03-08T08:38:00.000-06:002014-03-08T08:38:34.996-06:00

When I think of summer, I think of a lot of things. Hanging out in the backyard on a sunny day, riding my bike, and quenching my thirst with a nice big chocolate malt. The malt just makes the chocolate richer, more delicious, worth savoring. So when we got a package of Malted Milk Powder from CTL Foods in Colfax, Wis., one of my ideas was to use that malt powder to deepen the richness of

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The big game is just around the corner, that time of year when everyone huddles around the TV to watch the game, the commercials or both. And to satiate the appetites of all those in attendance, you turn to appetizers and small bites. Bacon is a mainstay for a lot of those people waiting in anticipation for the Super Bowl. And to complement that saltiness? Add the sugary sweetness of

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2013 Wisconsin State Fair Food, a set on Flickr. Here's what we thought of the food we tried this year over the span of two days:Omelette: A staple. Best way to start the day from the Wisconsin Products Pavilion.Sprecher Grape Sorbet: Good flavor and a great cooling-off treat.Pizza Fries: Not so great. The biggest disappointment of 2013. Just a marinara sauce with some pepperoni and

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Melissa and I enjoyed the sun, weather in the 70s and a day of food, animals and more at the Wisconsin State Fair today. This was our first trip to the fair this year, and we're planning to go back there next weekend. So Here is our Day 1 mini travelogue of the time hwe spent traipsing around the State Fair Park in search of food and fun. The scenes: Our friend Dairy Carrie said this

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Pesto. It's one of our favorite foods that we made from our herb container garden last year. And, luckily for us, we still had some sitting in our basement, frozen in individual servings. That's when we took some inspiration from a Cooking Light recipe we saw. And we wanted to make sure our recipe was quick, easy and something we could make on a weeknight -- as well as highlighting the pesto.

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Mac and cheese. It's one of those perpetually delicious comfort meals. And we love to experiment. That's what we did when we spotted some Cabot Tomato Basil Cheddar. And that's the blend of flavorings for a summertime mac and cheese dish. We combined the Cabot cheddar with Crave Brothers mozzarella pearls for off-the-charts decadence that is rich and creamy. Toasted breadcrumbs would make a

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Summer pesto is a great thing. And one of its best qualities is its ability to freeze. So it was with great anticipation that we pulled some of our 2012 summer pesto from our freezer and paired it simply with cooked chicken breast. Add in a couple of other ingredients and we had simple and easy Chicken Pesto Paninis. Chicken Pesto Paninis 2 servings serving size: 2 paninis 1/4 cup

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Garden 2013, a set on Flickr. The calendar had flipped to June by the time our garden saw roots digging into it. But that's fine with us.We had our plants sitting about on our porch for a week because we just ran out of time Memorial Day weekend to plant. And the weeknights played along just as poorly for us. Alas.Regardless, here's our garden for 2013.Our garden in 2013. I plan to update

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Light. Refreshing. In Wisconsin, as spring rolls out and the sun shines down for a few extended days, those are the kinds of adjectives that come to mind to describe the types of meals I want to enjoy. With those words in our mind and the sun kissing our cheeks in recent weeks, we pulled on our thinking caps and headed to Europe, where we channeled some Mediterranean flavors. The

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When we picked up the award-winning Pistol Point cheese (Rogue Creamery in Oregon) from Brennan's Market, we were happy with the nice surprise. The cheese, I thought, would pair nicely with some pulled pork, which we happened to have left over in the fridge. And, in celebration of National Grilled Cheese Month in April, we thought that would be a good sandwich to enjoy. (Ahem. Let's not

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We wish you a Happy National Grilled Cheese Month. Take the time this month to grab some cheese, some other ingredients and sandwich them between two slices of bunnage or breadage. That's certainly what we will be doing. We have this simple yet tasty recipe for you today, plus a few more later this month. As with a lot of our recipes, this one started with an ingredient: Blackberry

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Sure, we all have those cravings for chocolate in the check-out aisles, and as a society we buy lots of bags of shredded, processed cheese or pints of ice cream. But it doesn't have to be that way. If anything was apparent yesterday at the Wisconsin Artisan Food Producers Association Taste & Learn, it's that artisan food is worth the wait -- and the price. Indulgence Chocolatiers The

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In this case, the motive was the Tomato Spice Jam full up on tomato, cane sugar, lemon zest and juice, cinnamon, nutmeg and natural pectin that we bought from Pinehold Gardens. It's sweet but sultry, with that wisp of nutmeg drawing you in. Melissa and I thought it would be perfect on a panini. We mixed it with a little bit of mayo and begged it to play nice with some turkey, bacon, sharp

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In January we unearthed a really good recipe from Cooking Light, Fontina and Mascarpone Baked Pasta. We tried it, we liked it. But to us, it was just the beginning. It was just a shell of what it could be. So we picked up some chicken, bacon and broccoli and tweaked a few things. That's how we arrived at Chicken, Bacon and Broccoli Fontina Bake. It's gooey -- thank you BelGioioso fontina --

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As we discussed in our last post, 2012 hasn't seen a large volume of recipes from us. But it has seen some ones that we loved and salivated over. Dips, breakfast, pizza, soup, we've covered them all. So take a gander at our favorites from the past year, and let us know if you've made any of them. (And if you want our favorites from 2011, go view them. Tex-Mex Taco Mac and Cheese Loaded

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2012 has been a rocky year for us. We've been through a lot, in an out of the kitchen. We've been through job loss, through personal injury, through other stresses. The kitchen is where we have gone to rid ourselves of that stress. But because of those things listed above, we weren't as productive in the kitchen as we had hoped to be. Original recipes came to us few and far between, and our

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Breakfast for dinner. It's one of those things that you yearn for every now and then. Fresh eggs, melty cheese, crispy and salty bacon. Yeah, I think you can follow me. When we found ourselves overflowing with a batch of potatoes from the West Allis Farmers Market, we thought of breakfast. But how do we take it to another level, something more than just eggs, bacon and toast, all separated

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We came. We saw. We sold baked goods. Such is the tale of the 2012 #MKEfoodies Holiday Bake Sale. One of the tables at the #MKEfoodies Holiday Bake Sale. This was the second year of the bake sale in Milwaukee, and we raised $1,600 this year. That total comes to nearly $5,000 when including matching funds from OXO and funds from Glad Corp. Cream Cheese Mints (cinnamon flavored). This

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It's time for the holidays. That means a lot of rushing, a lot of hustling, a lot of stressing. So do yourself a favor and take a few minutes off to relax, enjoy some great homemade bakery and other products, and help contribute money for a good cause. It's easy! Just come to the MKEfoodies Holiday Bake Sale to benefit Cookies for Kids' Cancer on Dec. 8. The Details Time: Noon to 4 p.m.

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Milwaukee's Third Ward will be home to a new chocolate experience now that Red Elephant Chocolate is set to open. Melissa and I were lucky enough to have received a box of chocolates (stay out of this, Forrest Gump!) and an invitation to attend a preview night. The store opens Nov. 20, just a few days from now, and it will certainly be a place we stop by again. Cashew cluster (top row, from

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We had some delicious sliced rotisserie chicken that we bought at Costco a while back. When we were pondering meals recently, we thought of that and of paninis, and that led to a great and delicious sandwich. That's how this recipe started to come together. But we knew we wanted some cheese and a couple of other ingredients to really make a good panini. So we headed to Brennan's Market&

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We have made black bean burgers a million times -- that might be an exaggeration -- and they are one of our favorite meatless meals to make. But we have never tried pinto bean burgers. We had no choice but to remedy that. We went the simple route, with standard ingredients (for us) like red onion, eggs and panko breadcrumbs. But we spiced them up with some of our homemade pickled

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Fall: It's that time of the year when you start heading back to your soup and stew standby recipes. But for Melissa and me, it's also a time for another standby food: Pizza. Coincidentally, we had a table full of green tomatoes, sprawled out on newspaper, slowly turning red. So we scooped up a couple of those and paired them with some lime basil pesto we made from our lime basil plant in

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I have been craving a burger for so, so long. A nice, juicy grilled piece of meat, saddled between a pair of hearty Cybros: The Sprouted Bakehouse buns. And that insatiable appetite for a filling burger led to me to think about how I could make it unique. For weeks I was anguishing over how to do so. Racking my brain here, racking my brain there. To no avail. But then DudeFoods posted

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Inspiration is a fickle thing. Sometimes it won't bonk you over the head even if you want it to. And sometimes it's just handed to you as a sample at Costco. The latter was the case when the warehouse store had a sample of Rotisserie Chicken Salad on Pretzel Buns one weekend. We tried it and loved it; it inspired us to make our own recipe. Soft, chewy pretzel buns. Crunch from celery

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