Dining Duster

5 Reasons To Visit Mankato’s Charming Tea House

July 1, 2017

Mankato, MN is home to one of the recently named, “7 of the Most Charming Tea Houses in Minnesota”. We’re going to give you 5 reasons to visit Mankato’s Charming Tea House for the ultimate charming, local experience! Last fall Dusty and I took a walking food tour in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago. One of our stops was a tea shop. Our experience with good tea thus far was limited at best. We vowed then and there that we’d explore tea options going ...

Recipes

Farmer’s Market Soup- #MeatlessMonday

June 26, 2017

This post includes affiliate links. This adds no added cost to you but helps fund our blog. We participate in our local CSA (community supported agriculture) and received, among other things, Swiss Chard. We’ve never cooked with Swiss Chard before. Soup sounded good so we threw in the ...

Minnesota Dining, MN, Restaurants

Darn Good Meal – Pig Ate My Pizza

June 19, 2017

We took an opportunity to eat at Pig Ate My Pizza when we met friends for dinner who were visiting from Texas. We arrived a few minutes early and got a lay of the land. Fun, rustic layout. Large wooden tables all set up with ice waters served in mason jars awaited dinner guests. The chalkboard ...

Drinking, Minnesota Drinking, MN

Discover Midwest Wine Country with the Winery Passport

June 16, 2017

Dining, drinking & discovering Minnesota and its neighbors is exactly what Dining Duster is about. Imagine our delight when we stumbled on the MGGA Winery Passport! The Minnesota Grape Growers Association passport is $25 and includes 10 tastings from 48 participating wineries ...

Dining, WI, Wisconsin Dining

How to Order Vegan Pizza at a Non-Vegan Restaurant

June 2, 2017

After completing the Hard Hat Tour at New Glarus Brewery, we decided to grab a bite to eat before heading to Madison for the night. Since going vegan, or as we prefer to say, whole-foods, plant-based, we’ve become more comfortable with making requests to have our meals modified when ...

WI, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Drinking

New Glarus Brewing Company Hard Hat Tour- The Ultimate Brewery Tour Experience

May 29, 2017

If you love brewery tours, you’ll want to get the Ultimate Brewery Tour experience at New Glarus Brewery in New Glarus, Wisconsin. New Glarus Brewery Company is legendary, especially around these parts of Minnesota. New Glarus Beer is only available in Wisconsin. Exclusivity makes you ...

Gardening, MN

Vegetable Garden 2017

May 25, 2017

We have been spending the last few weeks with dreaming of our 2017 Vegetable Garden Plan. We’re finally putting our plans to work. Dusty prepped the garden for a new season of fresh vegetables in our back yard. A few years ago he built these awesome raised garden beds and then we expanded ...

Dining, Discovering, Drinking, Minnesota Discovering, MN

Traveling Deeper at the New Ulm Instameet

May 22, 2017

We attended the New Ulm Instameet in New Ulm, MN hosted by Pickles Travel and New Ulm, Minnesota. This was our first Instameet. We love visiting New Ulm and do so often as it is a charming little community that is just 25 miles west of where we live in Mankato. Our check-in point was the ...

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Part 3 Our Favorite Kitchen Tools for WFPB

May 16, 2017

If we have used it and loved it, it’s listed on this page. This is a great resource to get you started on some of the kitchen products that help keep us WFPB at home! This page includes affiliate links. When you make a purchase from one of our links/ads, we’ll earn a small commission that ...