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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.

Too often, salmon sandwiches are a patty of ground up bits instead of a nice piece of fish nestled with some greens and a toasty bun. In this sandwich recipe, the salmon is glazed with miso after searing on the stove and is topped with a wasabi mayo. The side salad of red peppers, orange carrots, yellow leeks, green snap peas and whole almonds.

In this classic 1950’s dish, I always loved everything except the tuna. Creamy mushroom sauce, egg noodles, peas and a crunchy topping, but this version is complete with less-fishy plant proteins of tofu and chickpeas.

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.