Are you game?
If you're a fan of game dinners, here's a humdinger. The Grand Superior Lodge in Two Harbors, Minn., is hosting on Oct. 25 its annual Wild Game and Brewers' Feast, a buffet meal that will include dry-aged bison, antelope meatloaf, venison Parmesan, roasted quail, breast of duck, smoked pheasant potpie, walleye roulade, rainbow trout and planked wild salmon. South Shore Brewery of Ashland, Wis., is providing tap brews. Cost is $50, which includes beverages (along with side dishes and from-scratch pies). Reservations are required; call 1-800-627-9565. For more details (plus info about weekend packages), visit www.grandsuperior.com.
The road to bacon
For your planning calendar: Tickets are on sale for the first Madison Bacon Festival on Nov. 1 in Madison, Wis. It's being billed as "a uniquely quirky celebration" that will feature "bacon lectures, bacon-inspired dishes, bacon competitions, an annual bacon queen contest, live entertainment and bacon fellowship." Tickets are $45, which gets you unlimited bacon samples, restaurant coupons, live music, admittance to bacon education lectures and more. To order and for more info, visit www.madisonbacon festival.com.
Grandmas in the kitchen
Three grandmothers in Minnesota are featured this month on "My Grandmother's Ravioli," a show on the Cooking Channel hosted by Mo Rocca. First up on Oct. 15 was Grethe Petersen, who has been called the Julia Child of Danish cooking. She served a multicourse luncheon at the Danish Center with chicken soup and dumplings; herring with curry and cream sauces, and aebleskiver with sugar and strawberry sauce. On Oct. 22, Joenie Haas, Andrew Zimmern's mother-in-law, introduces Rocca to traditional Midwest dishes, including Tater Tot hot dish, Jell-O salad and her traditional Christmas Jesus cake, at her family's log cabin on Lake Mille Lacs. On Oct. 29, Aslaug Warmboe shares a traditional Icelandic Christmas dinner, which includes smoked lamb, creamed potatoes and a brown bread. Episodes will be repeated throughout the month. For the full schedule, visit bit.ly/1BSH2eU.
Flora, fauna and food
Sunday suppers inspire a certain feeling of calm and community. Now the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is offering a new Sunday Supper series of family-style, affordable comfort-food meals. They begin at 4 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at the Arboretum Restaurant, beginning Oct. 19. The first menu will be pot roast and pork arrabiata with side dishes including garlic mashed potatoes, acorn squash, Brussels sprouts with bacon and more. Cost is $17.99 per person; children 8 and younger eat free. Diners will be seated at a long table for "family-style" meals prepared under the direction of University of Minnesota executive chef Scott Pampuch. Other dates are Nov. 16, Dec. 21 and Jan. 18.
STAFF REPORTS
