Of course there isn’t that kind of shellfish readily available in the Upper Midwest. But if you grew up on the East coast eating it and having it widely available, moving to Western Wisconsin where your Friday-night walleye fish-fry is pretty much the only fresh seafood is a huge culture shock. The town I lived in…

I am well aware of the L&B soup. I just used to love going to The Happy Gnome. *sob*

NYC-born, NYC/DC raised person who moved to Western Wisconin in her 30's - an area of the state that one of my friends described as “The Wisconsiniest Part of Wisconin” - and then jumped the St. Croix to the Twin Cities. I’ve been up here over 15 years now.

No, they mentioned it:

I know it’s late, but I love this recipe. I feel like it’s more chicken-and-dumpling adjacent than Chicken pot pie, though.

I am still standing by my Game Pie. (That’s venison, rabbit, and duck.) Though, admittedly, it’s now turned into our Thanksgiving dinner since it’s always just the two of us and my husband doesn’t like turkey. Also because - holy bejeezus, farm-raised game can get expensive and prepping three meats, a…

This makes me feel better about spending $9.50/each on my double-ended marrow spoons. Because I do make osso buco at least twice a year and the occasional batch of marrow butter, and they really are great for getting every last bit of marrow out of the bone. (I used to use the ends of my seafood picks, but this is…

From what I can tell, the writer pretty much stuck to University Ave beteen Snelling and Hennepin, with a few forays that took her a few blocks north at best. The weirdly-unnamed yet meticulously-described brewery is Black Stack - which has held several Bernie Sanders events - and Warren’s offices are in Case & Court…

Brittany Curran as Fen has been an utter delight.  

If Marshawn showed up at my school for this kind of gig, didn’t say a word, and simply danced like he did at his first Raiders home game in 2017, I would be tickled pink. Because Marshawn Lynch is a delightful human being.

So this is up on BuzzFeed right now...

I think Ryan Reynolds knows his strengths and plays to them. I really can’t find fault with that.

They didn’t happen to release nutritional info, did they? I’m curious.

Saint Dinette in Lowertown. It’s a block away from CHS Field, home of the Saint Paul Saints baseball team (partially owned by Bill Murray).

One of my favorite mocktails is a “Black Tea Egg Cream”:

I tried a Seedlip cocktail at the Virgin Atlantic lounge about a year and a half ago - I figured it was free/included, so I might was well try it. Besides, booze doesn’t help me sleep, so I thought a mocktail might be better than a G&T.

Minneapolis gets all the love, but I’m telling you: St. Paul has some amazing restaurants.

All of the bon-bons she makes generally come out of the same molds. So she has different patterns and decorations to make them discernable. She uses a lot of colorings, too. For example, this is the peppermint version:

One of my favorite chocolatiers decorates the original flavor of her tiny, honey-filled bon-bons with a flake of edible gold maybe half the size the fingernail of your pinky. It is truly a garnish, and it’s very pretty. If you don’t like that kind of thing, though, her other flavors are phenomenal and come decorated…