Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy Thielen

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Slice of Ham (Radio): Fall disasters and rendering your own lard with Amy and Heidi Sep 25, 2026

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Minnesota James Beard Award-winning author and chef Amy Thielen along with KAXE Director of Content and Ham Radio sidekick Heidi Holtan divulge their mistakes in the garden and the kitchen this fall.

Slice of Ham (Radio): Sloppy Joe wars, apple cider and giant cabbages with Amy Thielen Aug 25, 2026

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KAXE's "Ham Radio" host, cookbook author and James Beard award-winning Amy Thielen weighs in on sloppy Joes, fall harvests and recipes in Northern Minnesota.

Slice of Ham (Radio): Jeremy Messersmith seeks blue ribbon glory at the State Fair Aug 25, 2026

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Minnesota musician Jeremy Messersmith and Ham Radio host and James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Amy Thielen talk bars and cookies and food competitions.

Slice of Ham (Radio): New MN cookbook spotlights comforting family recipes Jun 01, 2026

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Minnesota cookbook author Sarah Peterson brings to light recipes and connection to family and friends in "Dish and Tell: Recipes from the Heart."

Slice of Ham (Radio): Amy Thielen's got a clogged sink problem May 14, 2026

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Amy Thielen is a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and cohost of "Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy Thielen" on KAXE. She lives in the rural Minnesota town of Two Inlets, where she occasionally has issues requiring her to wash dishes in the bathtub.

Slice of Ham (Radio): From Minnesota to the Borderlands: Amy Thielen and Hank Shaw in conversation Dec 30, 2025

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Minnesota James Beard Award-winning authors and chefs Amy Thielen and Hank Shaw talk about the new cookbook "Borderlands: Recipes and Stories from the Rio Grande to the Pacific."

Slice of Ham (Radio): Cookies become our holiday currency, according to Amy Thielen Dec 19, 2025

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Amy Thielen joined the KAXE Morning Show for a live conversation about holiday baking traditions.

Amy talks sloppy Joes, apple cider, giant cabbages on the KAXE Morning Show Oct 15, 2025

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"Ham Radio" host, cookbook author and James Beard award-winning Amy Thielen weighs in on sloppy Joes, fall harvests and recipes in Northern Minnesota, and Heidi and Amy share plans for the future of "Ham Radio"!

Preserving Summer Through Memories, Recipes and Community Jun 28, 2025

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In this episode of Ham Radio: Cooking With Amy Thielen we are all about the summer kitchen.Guests include Alena Levina, one of the contributors of the new cookbook Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home. Alena gives us her family recipe from Belarus: Holodnik, or Summer Beet Soup. It's our Community Recipe: kaxe.org/community-recipe-holodnik-summer-beet-soup-ham-radio-amy-thielen.We're also thrilled to bring you a conversation with newly awarded St. Paul chef Karyn Tomlinson. She just won the James Beard award for Best Chef of the Midwest. Her restaurant is Myriel in St. Paul, and she features local produce from farmers in her hometown of Dassel.So many texts and calls came rolling in this week: from Mikki's gazpacho, Iris' ratatouille, Steve's watermelon Coke and carving a watermelon in the shape of a beautiful basket, we loved every single second of it. Hope you enjoyed the first season of Ham Radio: Cooking With Amy Thielen. Tell others about us, pass the word and send us your memories and recipes! Ham Radio features original licensed music — "You Know How I Like It" by Jeremy Messersmith.Made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Culture Heritage Fund. Support KAXE by becoming a member today: https://donate.nprstations.org/kaxe/donate

More Than A Recipe: Do You Cook by the Book or Off the Map? Jun 20, 2025

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Has cooking changed? Do we expect more out of recipes these days? That's our topic this week on KAXE's Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy Thielen. Amy talks with Natasha Pickowicz, author of More Than Cake. She weaves 100 recipes with delightful and surprising recipes and stories to celebrate how baking can connect. We'll also talk about the cookbook she is currently working on about Hot Pot, and find out if savory recipes are different than sweet.We also get a chance to meet Nick Torres. Nick is a food photographer and stylist who worked on Amy's first cookbook The New Midwestern Table. Nick shares a recipe from home in Ohio involving a man named Chewy and some giant coolers. This week's community recipe is Chewy's Beer Cooler Chicken.And we talk about whether and how to eat Minnesota fresh fish — including the giants of Lake Country, muskies.Long before restrictions catch-and-keep size restrictions, Minnesotans did in fact eat muskellunge, and here’s the evidence: a recipe for a Ten-Pound Baked Muskellunge, from one of Amy's favorite cookbooks, Food on the Frontier: Minnesota Cooking from 1850 to 1900 by Marjorie Kreidberg.Ham Radio Features original licensed music — "You Know How I Like It" by Jeremy Messersmith.Made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Culture Heritage Fund. Support KAXE by becoming a member today: https://donate.nprstations.org/kaxe/donate

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