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Author Shares Recipes, Memories | The Marshall Independent

A New Cookbook Dishes Up Minnesota Recipes (and stories!) | Pioneer Press

New Cookbook Unveils Cherished Family Recipes and the Stories Behind Them | The Villager

Minnesotans’ Recipes and Stories Are At The Heart of ‘Dish & Tell’ | The Minnesota Star Tribune

Favorite Recipes from Sarah Peterson’s ‘Dish & Tell’ | The Minnesota Star Tribune

Rhubarb Meringue Dessert | Edible Minnesota

‘Dish & Tell’: Honoring the Women Who Feed Us | Minnesota Monthly

Cookbook Author Draws Recipes from Minnesota Childhood | West Central Tribune

The Stories We Share Around the Table | University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts

TV

The Mill City Museum Will Be Serving Up Some Treats | WCCO Saturday Morning (CBS)

Try the Church Egg Dish from ‘Dish & Tell’ Cookbook | WDIO’s The Lift (ABC)

Vintage Dish & Tell Shares Beloved Recipes and Stories Behind Each Dish | FOX 9 Good Day

Taste Buds: Cooking Through the Decades | FOX 9/Syndicated

Dish & Tell: Recipes from the Heart | KARE Saturday (NBC)

Aunt Sally Cookies | Twin Cities Live/KSTP-TV (ABC)

Radio/Podcasts

New MN Cookbook Spotlights Comforting Family Recipes | Ham Radio/KAXE

Dish & Tell: Recipes from the Heart with Sarah Peterson | Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens by Random Sweets

Dish & Tell: Recipes from the Heart | Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar (WCCO-AM)

About Sarah

Hi there! My name is Sarah. I am a passionate home cook and storyteller who draws inspiration from tried-and-true, family recipes that have been handed down through multiple generations. When I am not in the kitchen of my 120-year-old house, I can be found scouring estate sales and vintage shops to feed my obsession for old recipe boxes, church cookbooks and pretty dishes.

I also happen to be a lifelong (and very proud) Minnesotan who loves snow and winter, dreams of living the “lake life” and can never get enough of the Minnesota State Fair. I currently live in St. Paul with my husband, two grown children and two pups.

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I love my recipe box! I am always surprised when p I love my recipe box! I am always surprised when people say they don’t have one. I use mine for recipes that have been handed down to me but I also write down my favorite recipes I use over and over (from online and cookbooks) so they are all in one happy little home. 💕
Who else is giddy that it is only three weeks to t Who else is giddy that it is only three weeks to the @mnstatefair?!

Well…I am EXTRA excited as I will be participating in the @startribune Day on Sept. 1 in the Cambria Kitchen in the Creative Activities Building-a building I know well! It’s always one of my favorite parts of the fair…to drool over all of the amazing baked goods, marvel at the winning entries and to watch the demos in the kitchen area. 

I am still in disbelief that little ol’ me will be doing TWO demos , one at noon and another at 2 p.m.  Please come and dish & tell with me! I am going to make two items from “Dish and Tell: Recipes from the Heart” that I have actually won ribbons for at the fair! If you can correctly guess which recipes these are in the comments below, I will pick one person and send you a signed cookbook.😘
Have you heard of glorified graham crackers? I c Have you heard of glorified graham crackers?
 
I came across this recipe from my Aunt Ede and had a hunch these would be good. Spoiler alert: They are GLORIOUS.
 
Ede had a knack for making truly extraordinary treats and meals from ordinary pantry ingredients. I have quite a few of her straightforward recipes in my cookbook (including the BEST meatballs that get their flavor from a few distinct cans of condensed soup), but I was so excited to come across this one tucked in my mom’s collection of recipe cards.
 
These would be a quick and easy treat to bring to a get-together or to simply have on standby on your counter to go with coffee. Or, as Ede likely did, have on hand just in case company stops by so you’d have something to serve them.🩵
 
Just use enough graham crackers to line a cookie sheet, boil one cup of butter (you have my permission to replace Oleo/margarine and just use butter) with ½ cup sugar for two minutes. Pour the “syrup” over the crackers. Cover with nuts (I used pecans) and bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees.😘
I had the chance to stop by @thelift_wdio to make I had the chance to stop by @thelift_wdio to make Peanut Butter Pie and share the sweet story behind this recipe. 🤗
 
It is one of my favorite pies, and it comes from my lifelong neighbor Sharon, who lived next door to my parents’ in Cloquet and shared many scrumptious treats with our family through the years.—like only a good neighbor does! Sharon often made this recipe (which makes two pies!) for her son Todd’s birthday, as he preferred it over cake! It’s also a favorite pie they have at Thanksgiving.
 
I’ll put a link to the station’s page in my story with Sharon’s recipe. It’s also in “Dish and Tell: Recipes from the Heart!”😘
Throwback to summer in the 70s! Love so much abo Throwback to summer in the 70s! 

Love so much about this picture…me in my little gingham bikini while my brother is in a winter sweater(!) and my dad looking so super cool with his sweet sneakers! And these lawn chairs!💕
I LOVE onion rings, but does anyone else eat arou I LOVE onion rings, but does anyone else  eat around the onions and just pick off the crispy outside?! 🤪 That was me until I made this recipe. I used sweet onions which I think really made a difference and also replaced half the milk with a little beer. So good!
These lovelies in the stunning pitcher that belong These lovelies in the stunning pitcher that belonged to my Grandma Hilma were supposed to be part of a TV segment I taped yesterday...but I forgot them in my car!  Oopsie daisy!

Thankfully, they found a good home in my mom’s apartment! I think Grandma Hilma would approve.💕
Stopped in at my favorite neighborhood haunt, @bet Stopped in at my favorite neighborhood haunt, @bettys.antiques.stp, today. Do you see what I see?! 🤗

It means the world to me to see “Dish & Tell” on the shelves at this charming shop that I fell in love with the moment I walked in. And it feels especially fitting because one of the recipes in the book is for Liz’s Grandma Betty’s famous caramels. 💕

Thank you, Liz, for believing in my book and giving it a spot among all the vintage treasures including those adorable matching pink linens! ❤️ It looks right at home there!!
Here is a fun find from a vintage sale I stopped a Here is a fun find from a vintage sale I stopped at when I was up north all about PIE🥧!!

Sometimes these little pamphlets from food brands have the best recipes! This one is from Carnation Evaporated Milk and who I believe is its version of Betty Crocker—a fictional character known as Mary Blake. 💕

The “cool & frosty” pies sound particularly good to me in these dog days of summer. Which ones look good to you? Also did you know you can whip Carnation and you can get 3 cups of whip from one cup of the milk? 🤷‍♀️
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I love my recipe box! I am always surprised when p I love my recipe box! I am always surprised when people say they don’t have one. I use mine for recipes that have been handed down to me but I also write down my favorite recipes I use over and over (from online and cookbooks) so they are all in one happy little home. 💕
Who else is giddy that it is only three weeks to t Who else is giddy that it is only three weeks to the @mnstatefair?!

Well…I am EXTRA excited as I will be participating in the @startribune Day on Sept. 1 in the Cambria Kitchen in the Creative Activities Building-a building I know well! It’s always one of my favorite parts of the fair…to drool over all of the amazing baked goods, marvel at the winning entries and to watch the demos in the kitchen area. 

I am still in disbelief that little ol’ me will be doing TWO demos , one at noon and another at 2 p.m.  Please come and dish & tell with me! I am going to make two items from “Dish and Tell: Recipes from the Heart” that I have actually won ribbons for at the fair! If you can correctly guess which recipes these are in the comments below, I will pick one person and send you a signed cookbook.😘
Have you heard of glorified graham crackers? I c Have you heard of glorified graham crackers?
 
I came across this recipe from my Aunt Ede and had a hunch these would be good. Spoiler alert: They are GLORIOUS.
 
Ede had a knack for making truly extraordinary treats and meals from ordinary pantry ingredients. I have quite a few of her straightforward recipes in my cookbook (including the BEST meatballs that get their flavor from a few distinct cans of condensed soup), but I was so excited to come across this one tucked in my mom’s collection of recipe cards.
 
These would be a quick and easy treat to bring to a get-together or to simply have on standby on your counter to go with coffee. Or, as Ede likely did, have on hand just in case company stops by so you’d have something to serve them.🩵
 
Just use enough graham crackers to line a cookie sheet, boil one cup of butter (you have my permission to replace Oleo/margarine and just use butter) with ½ cup sugar for two minutes. Pour the “syrup” over the crackers. Cover with nuts (I used pecans) and bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees.😘
I had the chance to stop by @thelift_wdio to make I had the chance to stop by @thelift_wdio to make Peanut Butter Pie and share the sweet story behind this recipe. 🤗
 
It is one of my favorite pies, and it comes from my lifelong neighbor Sharon, who lived next door to my parents’ in Cloquet and shared many scrumptious treats with our family through the years.—like only a good neighbor does! Sharon often made this recipe (which makes two pies!) for her son Todd’s birthday, as he preferred it over cake! It’s also a favorite pie they have at Thanksgiving.
 
I’ll put a link to the station’s page in my story with Sharon’s recipe. It’s also in “Dish and Tell: Recipes from the Heart!”😘
Throwback to summer in the 70s! Love so much abo Throwback to summer in the 70s! 

Love so much about this picture…me in my little gingham bikini while my brother is in a winter sweater(!) and my dad looking so super cool with his sweet sneakers! And these lawn chairs!💕
I LOVE onion rings, but does anyone else eat arou I LOVE onion rings, but does anyone else  eat around the onions and just pick off the crispy outside?! 🤪 That was me until I made this recipe. I used sweet onions which I think really made a difference and also replaced half the milk with a little beer. So good!
These lovelies in the stunning pitcher that belong These lovelies in the stunning pitcher that belonged to my Grandma Hilma were supposed to be part of a TV segment I taped yesterday...but I forgot them in my car!  Oopsie daisy!

Thankfully, they found a good home in my mom’s apartment! I think Grandma Hilma would approve.💕
Stopped in at my favorite neighborhood haunt, @bet Stopped in at my favorite neighborhood haunt, @bettys.antiques.stp, today. Do you see what I see?! 🤗

It means the world to me to see “Dish & Tell” on the shelves at this charming shop that I fell in love with the moment I walked in. And it feels especially fitting because one of the recipes in the book is for Liz’s Grandma Betty’s famous caramels. 💕

Thank you, Liz, for believing in my book and giving it a spot among all the vintage treasures including those adorable matching pink linens! ❤️ It looks right at home there!!
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