Back when the morels and the leeks were just popping out of the forest floor, I spent a whole day foraging with the Young family. Tim and Kathy Young operate the all-organic Food For Thought preserves and wild foods company in Honor. We had such a blast together. While Tim and their tw…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on July 9, 2009 at 10:00am —
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I first made this fresh cucumber-pineapple salsa go alongside a Crock-Pot of Huli Huli turkey meatballs when I had a bunch of girlfriends over for a backyard Bunco dice game a few weeks ago. By the next day, I started getting requests on Facebook for the secret ingredient. The surpri…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on June 30, 2009 at 11:30am —
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May is off to a good start…with three fantastic food & wine events Up North.
Taste the creations of T.C.’s up-and-coming chefs at Siren Hall’s Scholarship Dinner!
On Sunday May 3rd, Siren Hall Restaurant in Elk Rapids is hosting a scholarship dinner to benefit Great Lakes C…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on May 1, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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photo by David Williams
I am in the process of transforming one of my flowerbeds, which (in my dreams) I want bursting with billowy poppies and funky purple allium flowers. I planted allium bulbs last fall and they’ve already started to pop up! I cannot wait to see their Dr.…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on April 24, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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I (Heart) Kalkaska.
It is quite special to witness the culinary prowess in Kalkaska, a very small northern town in the heart of blue-ribbon trout streams. Every small town has one dinner spot secret—the place that all the locals go. This town has several. Wednesday night I had t…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on April 24, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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I had lunch at Traverse City’s best-kept gourmet dining secret last week.
Lobdell’s, a Teaching Restaurant has it all: a gorgeous perch above Grand Traverse Bay, exquisite food prepared with superior ingredients and care, and fr…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on April 20, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Among the lost arts needing a serious revival, like growing your own vegetables, is making a homemade loaf of bread. But until last week, I was a bread baby. I had only made banana bread, never anything that required yeast. Or kneading. Or know-how.
I signed up for a cl…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on March 31, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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While out on the town in Traverse City on Friday, I kept bumping into people lamenting the loss of the legendary Tapawingo restaurant. Chef/owner Harlan "Pete" Peterson announced its closing earlier that day. These were friends who both had and hadn’t made the pilgrimage to Ellsworth’…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on March 22, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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The Curreys at
Currey Farms in Charlevoix started tapping. Rich McCarty in Copemish has started collecting sap. My friend and fellow
Traverse Magazine staffer Jodi Simpson even started making syrup from sap…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on March 11, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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The results are in from the 6th annual Friske Orchards cherry recipe contest! This past chilly, blue-sky Saturday morning, I came out to snow-cloaked Atwood the Adorable to taste test the hand-picked cream of the crop from over 35 entries in two categories: pies and breakfast dishes.
I was there as food and wine editor of
Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine and MyNorth.com and was joined by fellow judges Pete Peterson, chef/owner of Tapawingo restaurant in Ellsworth, Babette Stenius S…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on March 9, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Andy and I had a little pre-Valentine dinner last weekend: Boyne Highlands’ Aonach Mor Moonlight Dinner in Harbor Springs.
We didn’t ski or snowboard at Boyne Highlands that day, but drove up from Traverse City to ride up the ski slope in a sleigh to a candlelit dinner at the mountaintop.
As with all Tyra dates, romantic or otherwise, we left with little time to spare. We mistakenly headed to the cafeteria and ticket counter at Boyne Highlands rather than lodge proper, so missed the first slei…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on February 4, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Saturday's snows were wild—shoveling was a lost cause, and the drifts out the back door reached up to our golden retriever's poor belly! It's true I am never really snowed in, living in Traverse City proper. I can always throw my snowshoes on and hoof it to Tom's. After getting sn…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on December 8, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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I spilled the beans that I can't make a good pie crust (or, to be honest, any pie crust) in the October issue of
Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Since then, I got a little help from my friend, Olida, a homemade Michigan apple pie lover transplanted to NYC, who had been experimenting all summer with her pie crust while awaiting fall apples. Now she's a pro, even mixing Gruyere cheese in the crust of her apple pies.
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on November 25, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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Aaron Peterson, one of
Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine's Upper Peninsula writers and photographers, called us on Monday with news from Chatham: "Snow possible tonight, tomatoes still not ripe."
Say it isn't so. I planted purple and black heirloom tomatoes this year (purple is the new red!) here in my backyard container garden in Traverse City and they're still hanging green on the vine, with just a few starting to take on their variegated dusky purple hue.
Before the frost comes…
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on October 8, 2008 at 10:30am —
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