Saint Paul News

On the Melissa & Joey episode that originally aired August 24, 2010, Mel, Lennox, and Ryder are enjoying the amazing meals Joe makes when he's in a good mood. One day, Joe meets a woman at the grocery store. He tells her he's a nanny. She gets an emergency phone call from work and leaves abruptly. He assumes she faked her exit, because she didn't like his career choice. Joe is bummed. He starts making boxed dinners and ordering take out. Later, Joe meets Mel's old sorority sister, Liz. Mel wants to make Joe happy, so she can eat well again. She sets Joe up with Liz, and...

Just getting back into your running routine after a summer vacation? Even if you are just increasing your milage a bit, it can still take a toll on your muscles that you haven't worked out intensely in a while. Here is a piece of advice. Keep it up! Running on sore muscles good because it is making you a stronger and tougher runner and as you push your body to new limits, you will see results faster and your body will adjust quicker as your workouts get more intense. Don't sweat the small stuff, mild soreness is normal when you are starting a new running routine, but any feeling of...

This peach cake is the perfect dessert for transitioning into fall. The cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg spice in the cake batter hints of cooler weather. The lemon zest surrounding the peaches keeps it summery. And the vanilla sweetens the sun-kissed taste of the ripe peaches. If you want a creamy topping, add a pinch of cinnamon and ginger and a little sugar into heavy cream and whip till you have soft peaks. Or add lemon zest into the cream. Or add cinnamon ice cream. Alone or with an addition, this peach cake delivers: spice, summer, sweet and delicate. The recipe was developed by Reeni...

  << back to page 1 of the article which contains a race report and photos from the first half of the race. Below are more photos from the 2010 Minneapolis Duathlon. Follow Steve on Twitter (http://twitter.com/SteveinaSpeedo) or on his blog.

On the Cake Boss episode that originally aired August 16, 2010, Buddy Valastro and his Carlo's Bakery staff made the biggest cake they've ever produced. It was for National Train Day. The boards they were given to build the cake on were too big to fit in the delivery truck. They decided to take two delivery trucks and the supplies they needed to assemble the cake at New York's Penn Station. When they unveiled the cake, it looked like a city with a train running through it. During that episode, they also made a cake for a retiring fire captain. It was decorated with an axe. a...

  Dubbed the "largest duathlon in the world," the second Team Ortho Minneapolis Duathlon is in the books! Downtown Minneapolis was the site for a breezy and slightly warm duathlon this morning. Almost 1,400 athletes finished the duathlon, 340 finished the "fun course" duathlon, 153 teams did the relay, 45 cyclists finished the time trial, and nearly 100 runners finished the 5K. That's a total of around 2,200 athletes, and all these events were going on at the same time! That's a lot of athletes taking over downtown Minneapolis. Make sure to check out all the...

On the Keeping Up with the Kardashians episode that originally aired August 22, 2010, Kim is getting settled in her new house. Kim keeps her house obssessively clean. Her Mom, Kris Jenner, decides to throw Kim a housewarming party. Before the party, Kim puts up barriers and shoe racks to keep her white carpet clean. During the party, Kim gets upset when she discovers a guest has spilled a drink on one of her pillows. After talking to her step-father, Bruce Jenner, she decides to lighten up and take her anger out on her party planning mom by starting a food fight with her. Khloe Kardashian...

  Yesterday was the first running of the Maple Grove Triathlon. They had a sprint and an olympic distance (although the oly had a bike that was 2K longer than normal). The sprint was a .3 mile swim, a 14 mile bike, and a 3 mile run. The olympic was a .9 mile swim, a 26 mile bike, and a 6.2 mile run. The race had SOLD OUT with around 500 athletes competing between the 2 events. In the olympic distance, Devon Palmer (St. Paul) took the win by nearly 6 minutes in 2:00:07. Palmer had the fastest swim and bike, and then "eased" in with the 4th fastest run of 38:12. Chris Leiferman...

“Max would never forget that faraway summer when, almost by chance, he discovered magic. It was 1943, and the winds of war were dragging the world relentlessly toward the abyss…” -from The Prince of Mist Because of the war, Max’s father decides it would be safer to relocate his family to a house by the sea. However, the house he buys has a dark and mysterious past involving a child ho drowned. Eerie events slowly reveal the existence of a dark entity returned to claim a debt. Max, his sister Alicia, and their new friend Roland, all become targets of the being called...

Note to readers: to protect confidentiality, I’ve used a fictitious name for the young man described in the article below. From the looks of him, the husky young man with the short-cropped dark hair and clean-shaven square jaw could have played defensive guard for the Univ. of Minn. Gophers. But I knew Joel in another setting, a local adult residential mental health facility where I worked part-time evenings as the front lobby receptionist. With two kids in college, I’d taken the job to contribute to the family income while trying my hand at freelance writing. Answering the...

On April 29. 1993, Joe Soucheray invented Garage Logic for his AM 1500 KSTP's signal talk radio show. Garage Logic is a make believe town in East Central Minnesota. It is filled with interesting characters and terminology. In the spring, when the temperature hits 70 degrees, the townspeople open their garage doors and start socializing. They keep track of how many cylinders they each store in their garages, and hand out hardware to Trick-Or-Treaters on Halloween. The married men abide by the 48-Hour Rule. If their wives don't notice a large purchase within 48 hours, they do not have...

One zucchini plant can give way to over 20 zucchini. They are wonderfully prolific and zucchini has grown abundantly this year. August 8th was "sneak zucchini on to your neighbor's porch" day. If you are lucky enough to grow zucchini, have stocked up on it from the markets or have been the recipient of zucchini, consider these recipes. These zucchini recipes are best with the small to medium sized zucchini widely found at the Farmers Markets. Local zucchini is also sold at Kowalski's. If you have zucchini the size of a club consider the sausage-stuffed zucchini which uses...

Peaches are abundant this year. Have your fill of them fresh and then look at baking with them. Stuffing them with amaretti cookies mixed with honey and almonds adds a delicate crunch to the soft flesh of the fruit.  The White Bear Lake Farmers Market has peaches from Michigan. Kowalski's has Colorado peaches on sale this week as well as organic ones.  Stuffing and baking peaches can be served elegantly in a wineglass or in a cereal bowl for an impromptu dessert. If you cannot find amaretti cookies, almond biscottis are also good. You want a hard, crunchy...

This 70 second video shows how you should be fit for your next pair of running shoes.  Does your running store do all of this?  (Click here to see the video if it doesn't load below.) Follow Steve on twitter (http://twitter.com/SteveinaSpeedo) or on his blog.

Twenty-year-old Dakota is overwhelmed. After her mother Georgia's death, she realized life is short and there are a lot of things she would like to accomplish. When she is done with pastry school, she plans on changing the knitting shop her mother left her into a knitting cafe. But, it is hard to focus on her goals when everything around her is constantly changing. Peri, the joint owner of the knitting shop, has decided to move to Paris. Dakota has to find someone to replace her. Anita and Catherine, two of her closest friends, have decided to have a double wedding on New Year's Day...

This addendum to Erin Hunter’s popular adventure series about feral cats follows up the fate of SkyClan, who have gained something of a cult following among Warriors fans. Leafstar, the leader of SkyClan, must contend with internal conflict over the controversial “daylight warriors” – cats who hunt and fight with the clan, but at the end of the day go back to human owners. During this time, Leafstar will discover what it truly means to be a clan leader. This series as a whole is some of the best animal fantasy ever written – it does not contain many of the...

It's late August and Summer is REALLY slipping through our fingers. Despite being naturally drawn to Fall weather, I am clinging to Summer as hard as I can. Here, south of St. Paul, cocktail parties are a weekly habit and sitting outdoors to enjoy the weather is a MUST. Despite mosquitoes and humidity, summer cocktails are to be had! So considering the time of year and soon-to-be-changing seasons, what better way is there to cling to Summer than a series of fruity cocktails? If anything, this series will give you a reminder of what Summer is for all of us come Winter. The series is...

Most people have a select group of authors whose works they prefer and look forward to their new releases. But like eating the same meals week after week it can become tiring and it is refreshing to try something new. Something new could be an established writer you have never read before, or a debut writer with a fresh style and a storyline that hasn't been recycled. With this thought in mind, The Roseville Barnes and Noble store at Har Mar Mall has established a book group focused solely on reading and discussing the works of new...

If the goal of a writer is to torture her characters, Suzanne Collins should be arrested for violation of the Geneva Conventions. For those who are not familiar with the books and are wondering what the fuss is about, The Hunger Games takes place in a post-apocalyptic future of America led by a tyrannical government. Once a year, two young people are taken form each District and forced to compete in the Hunger Games, a brutal, gladiator-like competition where the goal is to kill the other competitors while surviving in a booby-trapped wilderness. Collins’s hero, sixteen year old,...

It's that time of year: Minnesota State Fair time, located off Snelling in the heart of our great State Capital- St. Paul, the Minnesota State Fair is one of the most widely renowned. (I may be prejudiced). Going to the state fair, fighting through the mob of people, and bonding while gorging yourself in as many on-a-stick delicacies as you can stomach, makes the Minnesota State Fair a great place to go with your best friend. The heat, the crowd, the food. What else could you want? While it's a general rule that you walk into this experience without judging each other, that...