Anna's Kitchen

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We: 2 – 8 pm
Th/Fr/Sa: 12 – 8 pm

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612.378.0611

Cafe Service

We: 2 – 5 pm
Th/Fr/Sa: 12 – 5 pm

Classic Table-side Service*

We: 5 – 8 pm
Th/Fr/Sa: 5 – 8:30 pm
*Reservations suggested

Last seating, all nights, 8 pm.

Anna

Apr 02 2013

Vasilis Kourtaki @ Gardens!

Third generation owner of the Kourtaki Winery and purveyor of some of are longest and best selling wines, Vasilis Kourtaki visited the Gardens Tuesday before flying back to NY guest of Lynn Johnson of Johnson Bros and Doug McIntyre of Nestor Imports. They dined family-style and dashed to the airport.

Mar 29 2013

4th Annual Daily Planet Fundraiser: Tired of Eating Bad Food for a Good Cause?!

Platters of flavor served non-stop at this Wednesdays sold-out event: Saganakis of Mushroom, Shrimps, Scallops, followed by Arugula Citrus Salads with Feta,
All-natural, spice-rubbed Schulz chicken on the vertical rotisseries, Country style lamb ribs braised in white wine, fennel, shallots, honey, and orange peel, topped off with Revani, Greek syrup soaked sponge cake with yogurt mousse and Anna's own Kumkquat preserve.

Mar 23 2013

Symposia. A Series, XXIV! Wed, April 17 with Hazel Belvo

For fifty years I have painted, photographed, printed, and drawn the Spirit Tree, a four hundred year-old cedar tree that grows out of a rock in Lake Superior and is a spiritual icon for the Ojibwe people. I have studied it in every season, every time of day, every day of the year. For me it is a personal symbol of survival. --- Hazel Belvo.

More portrait than landscape, these trees move and transform, suggesting an enormous range of dynamic human states of being: anguish, solitude, and attitudes of ecstasy. The tree transforms in each painting to take on character traits that...

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Mar 15 2013

Get GREEN @ Gardens!

Green beer scares you? We've got Greens that pour pure gold: Mythos, Finnegans, Martens, NordEast! Accompanied with a plate of Horta, steamed GREENS drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and wedged lemons, or Melitzana, pureed baked eggplant, scallions, and parsley and lots of garlic. Now, just in time for St Patty's Day, we've released Anna's line of organic Pistachio Ice Cream!

Mar 15 2013

ASPARAGUS, ANCIENT & PACKED FULL OF NUTRIENTS

Asparagus has been used as a vegetable and medicine, owing to its delicate flavour, diuretic properties, and more. It is pictured as an offering on an Egyptian frieze dating to 3000 BC. In Ancient times, Greeks ate it fresh when in season and dried the vegetable for use in winter. A recipe for cooking asparagus is in the oldest surviving book of recipes, Apicius’s third-century AD De re coquinaria, Book III.
The ancient Greek physician Galen (prominent among the Romans) mentioned asparagus as a beneficial herb during the second century AD, but after the Roman empire ended, asparagus...

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Oct 13 2012

As DEMOED on RENA'S Debut EPISODE of KARE 11 SATURDAY NEWS, Recipe for MILOPITA

It's Apple time! and just in time for the Holidays, to make ahead and freeze or to make and share, MILOPITA, Apples Baked in a Fillo Pastry, makes for a new tradition!.

MILOPITA
A ½ sheet pan or torte form, 2” pastry brush

You will need:

5-8 apples peeled, cored, chopped into big chunks: about 2-21/2lbs; Haralson, Granny Smith, Honey Crisp—dense, crisp, tart combinations.

1 medium quince peeled and grated or finely chopped
or
½ c. dried blueberries or craisins

½ c. organic sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp nutmeg

¼ tsp...

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Jan 05 2010

Mezethes/Krasi/Horos Donation for Milkweed Editions

On Tuesday, the Gardens hosted Jim & John's purchased donation package: Mezethes/Krasi/Horos benefiting Milkweed Publications. What is Mezethes? Krasi? Horos? Mezethes is the plural of Meze: an appetizer traditionally served

on smallish plates for all to share at the table. Really, all I ever want to eat in Greece is the endless parade of brined, grilled, vinaigretted, skewered teasers that are more satisfying than rich entrees that leave me unable to move, let alone dance. So, Mezethes are plates of appetizers or smallish portions of food. What did Jim & John's guests...

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Jul 15 2009

Tour Reunion Dinner: Success!

Was it already two nights ago! Katrina and Fred hosted a fabulous reunion on their island home below the Mississippi bluffs in Cottage Grove. Everyone and their spouses/siblings came.
At some point the food came out: Katrina's Taramosalata, my Xoriatiki Fava with the peas lugged from Santorini at 8 euros for a half pound: do the math--some of the most expensive beans you'll ever eat! Beautifully marinated olives and feta. Then Fred expertly grilled the braised octopus as per my detailed directions complete with hand gestures: psst, then (hand flips) psst: mark 'em and they're...

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