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This delicious Minnesota soup is featuring Ferndale Market smoked turkey, as well as hand-harvested wild rice from Autumn Harvest Ojibwe. That's a lot of Minnesota goodness going on!

Candy’ at the Minneapolis Farmers Market sells these amazing sweet potato noodles, so I knew we had to put this dish on the menu. Stir-fry style marinated beef is sautéed with onions, carrots, spinach and sweet potato noodles for a fast delectable dish that is great warm or cold.

If you haven't heard of Amy Thielen, she is a chef from Minnesota and her dishes from "The Heartland Table" inspire applause for farm-to-table cuisine. This Butter-Basted Walleye recipe will make you cry from happiness. Her Kale Salad with Ricotta and Walnuts accompanies the fish dish (because if you live in Minnesota, you can never have too many good kale recipes).

Every spring and fall, mushrooms are in full bounty and I can’t resist. They range from light tan to black, and I want them all. Unlike regular mushrooms, the taste and texture of wild mushrooms is complex and highly varied. This pizza will have some of the season’s finest: chanterelles, black trumpet, and shiitake.

Japchae is a traditional Korean dish with sweet potato noodles called “dangmyeon”. This dish is prepared with marinated tofu, sautéed onions, carrots, spinach and sweet potato noodles covered in a noodle sauce for a fast delictable dish that is great warm or cold.

The quest: A spring-tastic salad that is satisfying enough for dinner. Blackened asparagus and charred lemon nest in a bed of mixed greens tossed in Dijon vinaigrette, topped with alfalfa sprouts, pumpkin seeds and crostini. The result: mission accomplished.