Instructions for all oatmeal recipes: On a Whisperlite camping stove, set a pot of filtered water to boil. For each serving of oatmeal you’ll want 175 mL of water (for reference, one Nalgene will serve about six to eight people). If you also want enough water for coffee add another half a Nalgene for that…
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No ketchup necessary: Zait & Za’atar serves up fries and falafel
I spend a little too much time on Yelp — finding new restaurants, checking up on old ones and getting mad about reviews I don’t like. Somehow, though, Zait & Za’atar has managed to slip right under my nose for two years. Normally in this situation I might be tempted to blame an unassuming exterior,…
Food & Drink
Quixotic Coffee offers warm soup, nitro brews and great atmosphere
Growing weary of the Macalester bubble, this week I set off to explore the neighboring bubble of St. Catherine University. I had heard rumors of Quixotic Coffee through the grapevine of fellow elite caffeine critiques in the 55105, and gosh darn it, it was high time I tried it for myself. I walked in and…
Food & Drink
Oats Recipe
Ingredients: 1 jar 1/4-1/3 jarful of old fashioned rolled oats A few sprinkles of other seed items (like those chia seeds you impulse bought at the start of your last health kick) A few dashes of cinnamon Milk of your choice, twice as much as your oats 2-3 drops of vanilla extract 1 big squeeze…
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Easy, yet savory Beef & Broccoli Recipe
With the introduction of food-delivery apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats, I have seen my roommates increasingly binging on cheap, American-style Chinese food. I don’t blame them; it’s inexpensive, delicious, filling and most importantly, not Cafe Mac. However, this school year I’ve been trying to make my own American-Chinese “takeout” dishes at home to…
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Leftover Vegetable Bake
Ingredients: I’m using (about 2 handfuls of each): Brussels sprouts, ahalved String beans Mushrooms, sliced Red Onion, cut into pretty big pieces Cherry tomatoes A swoosh of oil (I prefer olive) A good scoop of garlic in whatever form you want Many dashes of curry powder (enough so there’s some on all of the vegetables)…
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Autumn Jacket Soup
Ingredients: 1 medium onion 1 large spoonful of pre-minced garlic, or 2-3 cloves fresh 1 can chopped tomatoes 1 can beans of your choice (I’m using cannellini) 1-2 carrots A few (3) handfuls of mushrooms* About as much zucchini as carrots Bouillon** 3 handfuls rice* Leafy greens (I’m using kale) A lemon Spices: A bunch…
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Barrel Theory Beer Company offers “rain drops” and “drop tops”
“The capacity of a barrel is always limited by its shortest stave… the content that the barrel can hold isn’t determined by the taller staves, but by its shortest,” said one of Barrel Theory’s founders, Brett Splinter. What he was explaining to me wasn’t about beer at all. Brett was describing Liebig’s Law of the…
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All Square: Ex-inmates serve grilled cheese at new restaurant
I walked under a constructed frame that beams down a pink and blue glow and hesitated just inside the door. A worker cleaning tables welcomed me in and gestured towards the register. On its third day of business, All Square was already a bustling part of this small neighborhood off Lake Street at 4047 Minnehaha…
Opinion
How to not write racist food reviews
An Adventure into Mac ‘n’ Cheese #heymac The name itself, SpaghettiOs, foreshadowed a rather “O”minous experience. The Campbell brand Mac ‘n’ Cheese came in a can, containing a tomato liquid that basically tasted like watered-down ketchup, which (to our surprise) contained circle shaped pasta, which is better than the half-circle shaped pasta in other instant…