Category: Minneapolis

Wedding Party Tiramisu

INGREDIENTS / serves 10-12 6 egg yolks or 4 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 1/4 cup mascarpone cheese 1 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream 2 – 7 oz. packages Italian Lady Fingers 1 cup cold espresso or strong coffee 1/2 cup coffee flavored Liquer 1 oz. cocoa DIRECTIONS Combine egg yolks and sugar in the […]

Mecca’s Hot Tamales

INGREDIENTS / makes 20 servings 1/4 onion, diced 4 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 tsp coriander 1/2 tsp oregano, Mexican 1/2 tsp cumin 1/4 cup hatch or New Mexico chiles, soaked in hot water and pureed [Mecca’s special blend] 1/2 Tbs honey 1 Tbs red wine vinegar 2 # ground beef 1 cup cornmeal 1 bag corn […]

Mónica’s Flan de Queso

serves 12, makes 1 flan INGREDIENTS 1 cup sugar 1 – 14 oz. can evaporated milk 1 – 12 oz. can sweetened condensed milk 1 pkg. – 8 oz. cream cheese 6 eggs, room temperature 1 tsp vanilla DIRECTIONS Make sure all your ingredients are room temperature. This means your eggs and cream cheese, too. […]

Filiberto’s Nopales / Cactus Salad

Ingredients (serves 8) 4 cups [about 1.5 lbs.] chopped fresh nopales, with spines removed 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 1 large red onion, thinly sliced 1/3 cup fresh lime juice [opt: apple cider vinegar] 1/8 tsp red chile flakes 1 tsp salt 2 fresh tomato, diced 1/2 cup cilantro, chopped 1/2 cup queso fresco, crumbled […]

Make/Dance Your Own Butter

We’d wanted to have a butter-making dance session at Wild Springs ever since hearing about this interactive art and aerobics exercise called Feel the Churn. People-powered local food, set to dance music? Count us in. You can do this in your own kitchen by turning up your favorite jam and shaking it to the beat. Ingredients […]

Eat for Equity Catering, SBC

Eat for Equity is a nonprofit, and by the end of the year, will be separating our growing catering program into a benefit corporation owned wholly by the nonprofit. The nonprofit will be be the sole shareholder of the benefit corporation [b-corp],  a specific benefit corporation called Eat for Equity Catering, SBC. Why go this route? Eat for Equity began catering […]

Vilay’s Laab

A recipe from Laos, from the kitchen of Vilay Ingredients (serves 8) 1.5 lbs. ground chicken 3/4 cup chicken broth 1 – 2 limes, juiced 1/2 cup mint 1/2 cup culantro 1/2 cup cilantro 1/2 cup very thinly sliced red onions 1 – 2 Tbs. fish sauce, to taste 1 Tbs., to taste, Laab Namtok […]

Festival Menu 2017

Notes: All menu items are halal unless noted otherwise. We prioritize purchasing local and organic food, from women-, minority-, and cooperatively-owned businesses. Welcome Snack Espresso Brownies [not halal] Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies [V] PB Cookies [V, GF] Chocolate Chip Cookies [not halal] Local Cheeses, Roasted Garlic [V, GF], Pepper Jam [V, GF] Fresh Vegetable Crudite […]

We are donating our trailer to the International Indigenous Youth Council at Standing Rock.  Above, is the [formerly Eat for Equity] trailer, in its new home at Oceti Sakowin camp, Standing Rock. Many of you will have been following the Standing Rock water protectors, an Indigenous led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from crossing through […]