Becki Melvie

Let's start September off with a plate of hot peppers stuffed with sweet corn, cheddar and basil. Huzzah! Huzzah? Mmm, hmmm. Over the ...

Sweet Corn Fritters with Honey Butter are for everyone. Evv-err-reee-ya-one. Everyone: your kids, duh, these are like puffy little pseudo-...

Hello! How are you today? Today Minnesota is having  the most gorgeous weather day of the year. Guaranteed. Temperature is right around 7...

Eggplant was intended for a great love affair with basil. Like Harry and Sally, red wine and chocolate, peanut butter and jelly, blue jea...

Cochon King, Thomas Boemer's Festival Masterpiece. If you are a lover of all things allium sativum  the 10th Annual Minnesota Garli...

St. Paul's Irish Fair. Fairly certain Irish people will not dress like this. Or will they? I'm moving to Ireland. To become a ...

If you're receiving a CSA basket, you may have reached the point of the season when staggering feelings of overwhelming anxiety hit yo...

The headline of my newest recipe is paleo and gluten-free, but if you're like me and eat one-fourth of the chocolate chip brioche th...

Oh, my…where does the time go? Already on CSA Cooking Week 8?! I apologize if you've noticed an absence in the Recipe Writing Departm...

Photo: Mary Sue Stevens Another week participating as a work-share member at Sweet Beet Farm and I've got some vegetable love to s...

I was invited to attend the 4th Annual Fine Spirits Classic held by Minnesota Monthly Magazine  on Thursday evening because I submitted a...

So, here is the first time I made this Spanish Tortilla, and I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. The recipe is in no way a ...

Today, between telling Liam NO, he could not have this 46th piece of banana laffy taffy, forgetting the hose running in the yard for hmmm...

Nick and Amelia Neaton graciously opened up their CSA farm operation for a BHM Community Education class, offering a tour of the worki...

I've made this recipe 2,000 times, but had never substituted the original recipe's main ingredient, orzo, until today when I need...

It's Saturday and the Buffalo, MN Farmer's Market sent me an 8:00 AM text alerting me that they are open for business! So, I'...

How is your garden growing? What do you have an abundance of? Are you starting to can ? My herb garden is always brimming and I've ma...

Berry season in Minnesota has seen a bumper crop this year. Everyone's raspberry bushes are busting at the seams — who was it that sa...

Photo: Mary Sue Stevens Volunteering as a work share member at Sweet Beet Farm has been so richly rewarding because the knowledge gained...

The heaping pile of mustard greens supplied by my weekly CSA had me wondering what I could possibly do with the abundant, slightly peppe...

Pull out your Easy Summer Weeknight Rotation Meal List and add this recipe because it is beyond fabulous for so many reasons! First, allow...

If your herb garden is out of control blossoming beautifully you may be like me and desperate for ways to consume herbs in everything i...

Week two of  Sweet Beet Farm 's CSA bushel is here and boy, oh, boy is it abundant! Even as I find myself in my third year participat...

Hello! Are you enjoying summer? Isn't it grand? Besides soaking sunshine up at the lake, usually with family, basking in lazy, long e...