Dishing with Stephanie's Dish

I had a delightful conversation with Amanda Paa. Amanda is a food stylist, the author of the “Smitten With Squash Cookbook” and prolific food blogger at HeartbeetKitchen.com , a truly wonderful blog that more recently has featured her exploration into Sourdough Bread baking. Take a listen and you can order her starter here: In Amanda’s words, “Trying to create a sourdough starter  on your own  can...

Taste your way through Minnesota Monthly's 10th annual Grill Fest! Find all your favorite grilled foods and a range of Minnesota Makers while sampling wines and specialty beers. Test out the hottest grills, gather recipes, and learn how to barbecue like a pro with Minnesota made products like: Face Punch Foods 2 Dads Bloody Mix Bare Honey Here's the Deal Spice Hooch Booch Kombucha Kickle...

Nicolle Nelson, founder of Delicacies Jewelry, wanted to continue to spread the message of female positivity and encouragement through her love of food and she did it by creating Delicacies Jewelry. If you're stumped about what to give the food-lover in your life, I recommend Delicacies jewelry. Whether you are the Tomato lady like me or obsessed with your favorite dumpling or noodle their li...

What a treat it was to interview Yotam Ottolenghi last week for our Weekly Dish radio show podcast. Yotam will be in town on May 5, at 7 p.m. for Voices 22, the speaker series at Temple Israel. Get your tickets here . Stephanie and I really enjoyed talking with him about hospitality, cooking, covid, and where he likes to vacation. I loved chatting with him about his “Covid Cooking.” Here is a link...

When we last talked to Ryan Rosenthal and Mike von Fange (Season 3 Episode 13) they had left their jobs to pursue a convenience store model that stocked, healthy, nutritious, convenient foods including prepared soups and salads. Post-Covid a soup subscription business was born. From there they have added high-quality "Chefy" frozen pizzas, bread, and cookies with the hopes of continuing...

3 Bear Oats was born from its founder, Therese Moore's love of cooking and her many years in Europe. Having relocated to Minnesota, Therese began experimenting with steel-cut oats in ways common to Northern European meal routines.  Whether savory or sweet Steel cut oats provide the base for the original grain bowl. 3 Bear Oats embraces the bounty of local farms in season, while supporting loc...

Jenny Breen is a Twin Cities champion of food. From the moment we started talking about food systems, cookbooks, the imposter syndrome, and social media, I was hooked. Jenny really understands food systems and is passionate about eating local, sustainable food and regenerative agriculture. In 2012, Jenny published the cookbook, “Cooking Up The Good Life” because she wanted to contribute healthy, n...

Katherine Ellison, founder of Bright Planet Pet took her sales experience from the Pet Food Industry and turned it into Bright Planet Pet which makes plant-based, vegan dog treats, that taste just like meat! As they describe on their website they use sustainable ingredients to lower your dog's carbon pawprint but really, their treats create up to 90% less carbon emissions and use up to 68% le...

Originally we met up with Julie Stellar from Stellar Handcrafted Goods on an episode where we featured Arc's Value Village (Season 1 Episode 52) and showcased how Julie's products are made from upcycled wool sweaters.  After a pandemic mask-making detour, Julie is back in a larger workshop in NE Minneapolis and is featuring other Scandinavian products in her storefront. She is hard at wo...

What exactly are the iconic dishes on the Twin Cities food scene? They are the culinary game-changers and true originals that have made the Twin Cities — and Minnesota — a food destination. They are the must-haves of food writers Joy Summers and Sharyn Jackson of the Star Tribune., They selected 10 iconic Minnesota Makers that you can get in local markets to stock your pantry, fridge, or freezer,...

What a delight to spend time with my new friend Robin Asbell , Chef and author of 11 cookbooks. We talk about writing Cookbooks and how she makes her videos for her youtube channel Robin Asbell, the plant-based chef. Follow and subscribe here Watch Robin on Twin Cities live on April 12 showing you what to do with leftover Easter Eggs and try some of Robin’s recipes including this Ooey Gooey Monkey...

We catch up with the cricket farmers from 3 Cricketeers  Farm   (Season 2 Episode 30 ).  Claire and Chad Simmons have expanded their urban cricket farm and are adding cricket chocolate, snack bars, and protein powders to their product line. Support the show Follow the Makers of Minnesota on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram @MakersofMN. Send story ideas to Stephanie@stephaniesdish.com If you appr...

Ken Velky loved being in the restaurant business, but his first venture wasn’t meant to be. He kept the dream of having a food business alive for many years and finally realized it with Dueling Grandmas Shortbread Cookies. These shortbread cookies are fantastic and based on a family recipe. Hear how he got started, what product innovations he is undertaking, and where he plans to go from here.  Su...

For Minnesota native Wayne Kemper and his friends Tim Roche and Tony Ullman, the love of hockey runs deep. Not only because they love the game, but because of the memories of gathering at each others’ homes in high school to bond over food. As they got older, they all played “old-man hockey,” where they’d play and then gather with their families for food and drinks. It was at these gatherings that...

It’s another episode of Dishing with Stephanies Dish this week. In this episode, I talk with the author and owner of the iconic New Scenic Cafe on Duluth’s North Shore about their second cookbook, The New Scenic Cafe, The Second Cookbook. This book is beautiful. The photography and the recipes follow the seasons of Duluth as cooked through The New Scenic Cafe . This is one of those cookbooks that...

Kurt and Ellie Johnson are co-authors of a new book called,  "The Barrens" based on a fictionalized account of Ellie's real 40-day journey in the subarctic of Canada in a canoe.  A part adventure story with white water rapids and grizzly sightings and part coming out and coming of age story, The Barrens will transport you. Join the authors on May 18 at Lush Lounge and Theater with M...

Nikki and Brian Podgorski created The Salsa Collaborative . Born out of their curiosity for flavor and creativity. The Salsa Collaborative is a collaboration of ideas and tastes which inspires their recipes. Every sauce/salsa is made from scratch and in small batches and bottled by hand.  Support the show Follow the Makers of Minnesota on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram @MakersofMN. Send story...

Hello friends. I am really excited to launch my Dishing with Stephanie’s Dish podcast on Substack. In this episode I talk to fellow cookbook author Emily Maxson . Emily is a new friend I met at Modern Well , a coworking space I joined in January 2022. I talk with Emily about co-working and her new cookbook Emily’s Fresh Kitchen and what it’s like to write a cookbook. Emily’s book is published by t...

Josh Neumann went from being in real estate to the founder of Minneapolis-based Kind Lips . His goal was to create a lip balm that actually works. The longer you use Kind Lips the less you need to apply, leaving your lips nourished, hydrated, and protected all day long. He truly discovered less is more, so he created a formula with a minimal number of the absolute highest quality ingredients that...

Mary Scott Riviere, Co-Creator of The Sleek Belt®!  is convinced if more people knew about the awesome belt she has created the world would be a better place! The Sleek Belt® is a creation resulting from her personal frustration with sagging pants and bulky belts. She loves fashion and always try to look her best and knew there had to be a better way when it came to keeping pants in place. She tho...

Allie Billeadeau and Maria Sharperson are Minnesota gals who share a love for food and specifically,  oats. In 2017 they put a modern twist on a breakfast classic (oatmeal) and started MINNEØATS .  Their apartment at the University of Minnesota operated as a “cafe” where they served friends and family fresh bowls of oatmeal. Since serving their first bowl, their mission has been to share wholesome...

Surly Brewing founder Omar Ansari wanted to make great beer. The first beer was Bender, an oatmeal brown ale. That opened the door. Furious, an aggressively hopped IPA, kicked it in, transforming the way Minnesota thought about craft beer. Word spread, especially among the Twin Cities craft beer community.  Best-of lists and Brewery of the Year honors followed.  As this idea started to gain moment...

For years family and friends have said that Carline Bengtsson should open a restaurant or write a cookbook. Both suggestions were the furthest thoughts in her mind, but something clicked in her 2013 and she decided to pursue a cookbook. From there she published  – “Carline’s Fork & Cork Simply Delish !”. She established “Dine4Dinners®” to combat hunger in partnership with organizations that pr...

Muddle & Mint is crafted for you by Haley Turner and Micah Pace.  Whether you are alcohol-free, sober curious, or looking forward to a booze-y beverage after work, our cocktails are exactly what is missing in your life. Our products were conceived to fill a gap in the beverage market. Particularly for those evenings when we wanted to be social but didn't necessarily want booze, there was...

Kathryn Nelson has experimented with food from her earliest days, making her own "green goulash" out of whatever she could find in the cupboards of her kitchen. It wasn't until college, while working at a small coffee shop in St. Paul, Minnesota, that she discovered the joy, and the art, of making granola. Fast forward a few years, and, when a friend was looking for a lower-carb alt...