Tuesday, November 13, 2012
If you need a new recipe for your Thanksgiving turkey, give one of these non-traditional twists a try.
There are many ways to cook everyone’s favorite holiday bird. Each family has its own special technique for cooking a turkey, whether it's using an old family recipe, adding a secret ingredient or shopping at a certain store in town that helps make the turkey taste all the better. When making your shopping list to fix that fabulous recipe, you have several stores in Minnetonka that can find the items you need such as Trader Joe's, Cub Foods, Whole Foods, Lakewinds Natural Foods and Target. If you're hosting Thanksgiving this year, you can try any of the recipes below to add a new kick to your feast. If you're attending someone else’s dinner, hopefully their turkey will taste as good as one of these! Just the name of this recipe makes my …
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Minnetonka Patch gives you the recipe for a perfect pairing.
Imagine this: it's 8 a.m. and in five hours, 20 of your closest friends and relatives will be walking through your doorway to sit down for one of the most celebrated, although sometimes dreaded, meals of the year, Thanksgiving dinner. Patch headed over to Minnetonka's Pairings Food & Wine Market and got some advice about choosing the right wine to compliment the turkey on your table. Tips are courtesy of wine specialist Jeff Craig. Tip 1: "No rules apply!" said Craig. The old adage that you must pair white wine with white meat can be thrown out the window. Craig said, "If you don't drink what you like, why drink it?" According to Craig, the Thanksgiving table is too bountiful to choose only one type of wine. He tells customers to try a …
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Pairings
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Minnetonka Patch heads into the kitchen with Jimmy's Food Chef Michael Walker and gets his favorite stuffing recipe.
Thanksgiving dinner is all about the turkey. So Minnetonka Patch stepped into the kitchen with Chef Michael Walker of Jimmy's Food and Cocktails to talk turkeys and fixings. Here are his seven tips for creating a great Thanksgiving meal: Tip 1: A free-range turkey is the top choice if you want a tender and flavorful bird. "Where turkeys are raised to be big and fat as quick as can be, the steroids used toughen up the meat," Walker said. Tip 2: Thawing a turkey is best done in a cooler or home refrigerator. Thawing on a countertop is a culprit of food-borne illness because disease-causing bacteria grow at room temperature. For refrigerators, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Service recommends allowing approximately 24 hours…
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Jimmy's Food and Cocktails
11000 Red Circle Dr, Minnetonka, MN
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