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Make Greek ravioli using won ton wrappers
The kitchen of my youth was often filled with the heady aromas of Italian cooking, which my father preferred and my mother obliged him by preparing.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Grilled veggies make a ‘divine’ soup
It’s called Zuppa All’ Ortolana at Toscana Italian restaurant in downtown Fargo. It is described on the menu as “Fresh Grilled Vegetable Soup.” And it is divine.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Women who have shown me the way 
While going through one of the many boxes of memorabilia in our house, I came across the following poem, written to my mother on her birthday.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Chocolate, oatmeal mix for great cake
In the past few years, there has been a lot of news about the health benefits of chocolate – dark chocolate, always appended with the caveat “in moderation.”
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Beef Barley Soup a treat on cold day
Soup is about the only thing I want to eat when the weather is as cold as it’s been lately. I want something to warm both my body and spirit, and a steaming bowl of soup is always the answer.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Spices add to Tomato Juice Cake
The only thing I remember my mother using cloves for was to stick them in the scored fat of a ham before it was baked. So in the early years of my marriage, when I baked a spice cake that called for cloves, I added whole cloves. I was not familiar with the ground variety.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Herring salad a special treat
Many years ago, I was invited to the home of Chris and Virginia Jensen for a New Year’s supper. The Jensens were friends of my parents, but this gathering was for David, one of the three Jensen sons, who was home for the holidays with his wife, and it was just young friends of the Jensens.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Enjoy tasty rømmegrøt in pie form
This time of year, the food police are giving advice on how to eat correctly so you can live to be 190 and not gain weight while doing it. The holidays are one of their favorite times. They often seem to be skulking around in the fridge and kitchen cupboards and under restaurant tables.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Minneapolis’ Saffron restaurant magnificent
During a recent visit to the Twin Cities, our dinner plans took us to a restaurant called Saffron. The food was excellent beyond belief, and I sure don’t want to wait for next year’s trip to eat there again. It would be worth an overnight stay just to sample their magnificent meals.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Trip to Cities filled with culinary delights
It used to be that if you wanted to go to a restaurant and have something other than steaks or chops or fried chicken, you had to travel.
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Halgrimson: Barn is all that remains of ND’s first county hospital
Fargo - In the early 1960s, I used to drive my husband out to Edgewood golf course. The paving on North Elm Street ended at 32nd Avenue.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Top culinary educator comes home to Fargo, offers classes
A trade publication described chef Tim Rosendahl as “one of the top culinary educators in the industry” when he left his job in 1996 as executive chef instructor and administrator of culinary development at Walt Disney World to join Red Lobster as vice president of food and beverages.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: 1926 photos lead to search of Fargo’s livery stable history
FARGO - When I went to work at The Forum in 1972 as their librarian, I came across two photos of a site being cleared for a building.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Fargo’s Forsberg House was a fascinating place
‘Thousands See Forsberg House: While it is not one of the oldest in Fargo, The house at 815 3rd Ave. S., is probably one of the best known because it has, in the past 20 years, been visited by thousands. Officially, it is listed in the American Association of Museums as The Forsberg House,” according to a Forum article on June 15, 1975.
RELATED CONTENTAs I Recall: Jazz great Dave Brubeck visited area several times
The first story about the Dave Brubeck quartet in The Forum files is dated Oct., 23, 1956. The review by Francis Schoff begins: “The Standing Room Only sign was out at NDAC’s Festival Hall Monday night as a packed house of students and townspeople applauded and sometimes whistled in enthusiastic approval of The Dave Brubeck Quartet.”
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Shopping at Broadway’s dime stores missed
As I drive from our north Fargo home out to West Acres to pick up something that I can no longer buy downtown, I am, as always, reminded of the past.
RELATED CONTENTHunter Halgrimson: 100 years of ND chiropractors
Fargo - This month marks the 100th anniversary of the North Dakota Chiropractic Association. The group will celebrate the occasion by meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn April 27-29.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Sampling new restaurants in the Twin Cities
Usually when I visit the Twin Cities, I tend to want to visit the same restaurants I’ve been to before and liked. But on a recent, brief sojourn we sampled four new places in two days.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: ‘Illegal’ cookies worth doing time
“When I opened the door … my home was redolent of cinnamon and cloves. I was baking molasses cookies. The anxiety kindling in my overburdened mind demanded the kind of psychopharmaceutical relief that could be obtained only in the kitchen, and I’d stopped at the supermarket on the way home to stock up on illegal substances: butter, sugar, molasses, eggs. The orderly steps of cookie baking had freed my mind to meander.”
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Put locally grown carrots to use in savory soups
I love carrots. And while the orange vegetables are available year-round, the best ones are locally grown and available now.
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