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October 19, 2010
Caribou breakfast sandwiches: Worth the 400 calories?
5 new breakfast sandwiches at CaribouBreakfast is hot right now and everyone wants a piece of the action. Burger King is running a surreal campaign with a flute soloist for their new breakfast bowls, Dunkin' Donuts just started serving hot breakfast sandwiches, and even our own Caribou came o ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
Thanksgiving on a Stick: A new way to celebrate the holidays
rob barrettThe perfect meal if one of the things you're thankful for is the State Fair For some the State Fair could never be over soon enough; for the rest of us, we will be pining away for food on a stick for the next 11 months. If you find yourself in the latter group, there's a great way ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Making pesto before the frost comes
rob barrettFresh pestoWith Sunday's forecast of frost, be sure to take in any of your crops or herbs that are left. If you still have some basil, and you probably do, making pesto is a great way to keep that fresh basil taste all winter long. Maybe some of you have been put off by the unavai ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
The Best of Hot Dish: September 27-October 1
We heart fall.This will be a great weekend to enjoy autumn breezes and falling leaves--and to can, dry, and freeze every last bit of the season's harvest. This has been a great week for food news. Here's a recap of our favorite stories: ~Let Rob Barrett show you how to use up all that basil in yo ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Minnesota State Fair's Top 10 things to do
The Great Minnesota Eat-TogetherThe main question we get asked when people learn we go to the MN State Fair four times each year is, "What do you do there?" When we learn that some people only go for a couple hours and then leave, we ask them, "How do you possibly see everything in such a sho ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Experimenting with bread
300 years in the makingBread, apparently man can't live by it alone. We've been eating bread for about 3 thousand years, and while the staple seems ubiquitous, its genesis remains a mystery. (Somehow we discovered yeast and added it to the wheat.Go figure.) This weekend, take a few minutes ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
A great chicken salad--without mayo
Chicken salad without the mayoThere's a lot of talk about food revolution these days. There was a TV show about it, Oprah is all over it, and the movie Food Inc. may well start it. If you've seen the movie, you'd agree we are in need of something, certainly. Well, if you're going to make ch ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Best of Hot Dish: August 9-13, 2010
Don't mess.This week at the Hot Dish we have been bringing you the goods--stories, recipes, lists, restaurant news, and what-have-yous. If you missed a few of them--or want to read them again--here are a few of our faves: ~Trying to step out on the town without a whole lot of ching-a-ding? Let R ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Top 10 ways to save money while eating out
If you're paying full price, you're paying too much.Paying too much? In tough economic times, one of the first budgetary cuts is often eating out. But with so many restaurants embracing social media and finding new ways to get customers, there's never been a better time to eat out. Here are 10 ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
Roasted ciabatta bread with fresh tomato sauce and grilled shrimp
Minnesota meets IndiaMixing the best of Minnesota and India may sound hard, but it's actually quite easy. This grilled open-face sandwich has shrimp from India but includes fresh tomatoes from Minnesota and bread from the New French Bakery. Try this for your next grill out.
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July 30, 2010
Brett Favre, come back! We have Viking purple potato salad!
purple potatoes And so we enter another season of everyone's favorite game, "Will Brett Favre Come Back." If we care about this upcoming football season we all need to do our part to woo him north. For some that will be praying, for others painting their faces with the number 4 and bothering ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Fresh grilled tomato sauce perfect for pasta or pizza
De-juiced Roma tomatoes ready for the grill.There are a lot of good pasta sauces out there. The trouble is they are all cooked within an inch of their lives. While cooking a pasta sauce for a couple hours to thicken it gives it a nice texture, it removes most of the enzymes and other nutrient ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Rob Barrett Grills: Marinated flank steak
Marinated flank steakThis is it. We are in the thick of grilling season. Memorial Day is past, the solstice has come and gone, and the fireworks of the Fourth have faded. These are the fertile days of summer, and we need to enjoy the earth's bounty. Flank steak isn't the newest cut of meat around ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Best of Hot Dish: July 5-9
JelleS'/flickrThank you, Chick-fil-A!Hot Dishers, we hope your week has been filled with sunshine, puppies, and ice cream treats. So much is going on around the Cities that it's hard to know what to do first: The Basilica Block Party is this weekend, St. Paul has the Dragon Festival, World Cup ma ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Hot and sweet dip for Independence Day
Jalapeno and raspberry dipThis is a weekend of extremes: high heat, cold beer, fat food, lazy picnics, and highly politicized parades. It is a tour de force of the things that helped make this country great, both good and bad. If you're looking for a little different taste that combines inf ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Grilled Upside-Down Pizza--great for dinner ... and dessert!
Fresh bread from fired ovens in CairoIt was a great way to wake up. Each morning the scent of fresh bread would waft through the window like a large pita bread alarm clock. Eventually I would get to know the guys who worked the large ovens with their bare hands, starting in the middle of the ... More >>
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June 22, 2010
Cherry pie to die for--fresh, delicious ... and uncooked!
Take advantage of a bumper crop. A chilled pie is like a cherry bomb in your mouthThis year's crop of cherries is amazing. They're so good that pitting them and eating them one by one somehow isn't enough. What you really need is a delivery vehicle that will get lots of cherries into your mou ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Best of Hot Dish: June 14-18, 2010
Enjoy your garden this weekend.Top of the day, y'all. This is one of those weekends where it is just embarrassing how many fun things we have the chance to do. Don't you feel bad for people who don't live here? The Hot Dish writers hope that you have the lowdown on what's going around town ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
Rob Barrett Markets: Peanut Butter Steak
I've had some luck with viral marketing. rob barrett Two years ago I shot a little cooking vid in my Eden Prairie kitchen, put it up on YouTube, and within a year or so I had been on the Today show, in the New York Times and USA Today, on countless TV cooking segments, and many other media ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Ted Cook's 19th Hole BBQ: Twin Cities' barbecue tour
Remember when we thought Sbarro's was good pizza? Back before Punch and Black Sheep, my wife and I would eat up those hot pies from the streets of Manhattan and think they were good. But times have changed, while Sbarro's hasn't. I found the same to be true of Ted Cook's 19th Hole BBQ. Founde ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
Leftovers, memories of Memorial Day
We went through two pound of butter this past weekend. Two pounds! Now, we did have four parties, grilled 30 ears of corn, made two pies, baked four loaves of bread, and grilled a few pieces of meet, but two pounds? So if you're like us, you probably have a few items leftover from the festi ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Rob Barrett Peels: Mango with sticky rice
rob barrettThere are no mango trees in Minnesota. While that hasn't stopped me from trying or from buying bargain palm trees at Home Depot, we Minnesotans love our tropical fruit in our arctic climate. Recently some have asked me to do a video on how to peel these slippery little buggers. Aft ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Rob Barrett Grills: Coke marinated steak
Life is hard to understand. What seems to be a bad thing so often turns into a good thing. It's that whole "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade" thing. I had just been booked for my first Twin Cities Live appearance, and they asked me to create a recipe for Father's Day. I worked hard o ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Chimborazo: Come for the food, stay for the cultural lesson
We live on a diverse planet.kate sommerstres leches cake Rather than belatedly eat Mexican food on May 6, my new friend Kate Sommers and I decided to try the Ecuadorian restaurant on 29th and Central for a little post Cinco de Mayo lunch. We thought we were in for normal Ecuadorian cuisine, ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Morels and Johnny Walker Blue
I have been completely entrenched in morel season this year. With talk of the hunt all around me, I finally found someone who was not only willing but EXCITED to show me a great place to find morels. I'm not sure I'm ready to announce the spot to the Internet, but I know that when the rain subsid ... More >>
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May 5, 2010
A tour of the Twin Cities' barbeque scene: Dickey's
I don't own a smoker and I don't barbeque. Barbecuing is all about low temperature and slow cooking. I'm a griller - high heat, fast cooking, instant gratification. Most of the recipes I create are meals that can be made in under an hour so ribs aren't something I do on my show. But I do li ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
Rob Barrett Cooks: 3 omelets, 1 pan.
I'm not a big fan of French cuisine. While I've always loved Julia, I'm a texture guy, and it tends to be a little too fluffy and rich for me most of the time. But I do want to give the French their due when appropriate. They know their eggs, and the omelet is a wonderful, wonderful invention ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
Best of Hot Dish: April 19th-22nd, 2010
kevindooley/flickrHey there, buddies! What a week full of celebrating all things wonderful in the Twin Cities food and drink scene. We are blessed with such an embarrassment of riches, it must really suck not to live here. And it is wonderful to see the tip-top get a high-five in the "best of" is ... More >>
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April 9, 2010
Rob Barrett Cooks: Monkey bread 4 ways.
My wife was the one who first introduced me to Monkey Bread. It was love at first sight (and I was fond of my wife as well. :-)). Those little chewy, doughy bits of goodness instantly won me over. While they've beena faithful friend over the past years, I've done a lot of experimenting recen ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Rob Barrett Shops: Cool new gadgets from the Chicago Home Show
rob barrettLast week was an amazing convergence of two of my greatest passions--food and gadgets. Every year the Chicago Home and Housewares show fills up McCormick Place with literally miles of the latest gadgets, doodads, pans, utensils and cleaning products. I spent a very tiring day searc ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Best of Hot Dish: March 22-26
Drink some wine or drive to taste some wine and then store it using a crazy new gadget. Check out what we learned reading this week's Hot Dish.
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March 19, 2010
Rob Barrett Cooks Pasta From Chad, Africa
It's a small world after all, or so the annoying, mind-worming song says. But it holds wisdom. The more we learn about one another the more we learn how alike we are. (Thanks Mr. Brady.) On a recent trip to Chad to help some tribes record their music, I was able to put together this recipe fo ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
Best of Hot Dish: March 8-12, 2010
Eat some ice cream, drink some gin, whip up some shrimp and then go to Fork the Fire this weekend!
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February 12, 2010
Rob Barrett Cooks: Chicken Parmesan for Valentines' Dinner
What a culinary week we're in with brob barrettoth the Super Bowl and Valentines' Day only 7 days apart. 2 of the biggest food days in the same week. So much for those resolutions. I don't about you but both my wife and I are not looking to eat another really big meal this weekend. The wing ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
Top 5: MSP Tweeters for foodies
We picked out some of our favorite food-related Tweeters. There's kind of a lot.
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March 31, 2009
Cooking with Red Bull--eww!!
An Eden Praire family man-slash-YouTube sensation is "Cooking for Dads."

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