I will be doing a blog the beginning of each month with recipes and crazy true stories. Also, I will be featuring local artists, writers, crafters, etc… There is a plethora of creative people in our area (Iron Range).
Hey Foodies!
I will be doing a blog the beginning of each month with recipes and crazy true stories. Also, I will be featuring local artists, writers, crafters, etc… There is a plethora of creative people in our area (Iron Range).
My first book signing at Riverside, they made two appetizers for me.
The asparagus canapes (in book) and spinach balls (not in book). This was a very popular recipe in the 70’s and 80’s before chipolte on a dried fig.
Spinach Balls:
2-10 oz pkg frozen spinach, cooked and well drained or fresh spinach in food processor 2 c. stuffing mix 1 c. grated Parmesan cheese 6 eggs, beaten 3/4 c. butter, softened Salt/pepper
Combine all ingredients, mixing well.
Roll into balls the size of walnuts.
Freeze. Before serving, place on cooking sheet still frozen. Bake 10 min. at 350 degrees.
A big thank you to Riverside for putting out a great Grand Book Signing for me. The place was packed.
Also, thank you to Jeff Dougherty of Express Print for his expertise with the printing of my cookbooks.
–Mister Rogers did not adequately prepare me for the people in my neighborhood.-
Kudos to the “Recipe Diva” Mona for all her hard work!
This cookbook is not your ordinary cookbook. “Let’s Party” is filled with stories about Mona’s experiences, friendships and shenanigans! It is a MUST READ, or yah, and the recipes are mouth watering yumminess!
Follow Mona and her shenanigans on facebook!
Cookbooks are $25 each (includes tax) plus $4.50 shipping. One dollar ($1) from the sale of each book will go toward a scholarship for single women attending the Hibbing Community College. Purchase Now.
If you prefer to order thru “snail mail”, please send a check or money ($29.50) order to:
Mayor Mona Meittunen Abel 13039 Memory Lane Side Lake, MN 55781
Please include a note of how you would like me to sign the book. Of course, I’ll need your mailing address.
Cookbooks are $25 each (includes tax) plus $4.50 shipping. One dollar ($1) from the sale of each book will go toward a scholarship for single women attending the Hibbing Community College. Purchase Now.
If you prefer to order thru “snail mail”, please send a check or money ($29.50) order to:
Mayor Mona Meittunen Abel 13039 Memory Lane Side Lake, MN 55781
Please include a note of how you would like me to sign the book. Of course, I’ll need your mailing address.
Wednesday, Aug. 14, 5:30 p.m. : Riverside Inn, Side Lake Thursday, Aug. 15, 4-6 p.m. : Valentini’s, Chisholm Friday, Aug. 16, 11 a. m. : Sunrise Bakery, Hibbing Wednesday, Aug. 21, 4-6 p.m. : Mikes Pub, Hibbing Wednesday, Aug. 28, 11-2 p.m. : Forest Lake Restaurant, Grand Rapids Friday, Aug. 30, 4-6 p.m. : Side Lake Lounge Friday, Sept. 6, 4-6 p.m. : Village Bookstore, Grand Rapids Friday, Sept. 20, 11-1 p.m. : Boomtown, Eveleth
Cookbooks are $25 each (includes tax) plus $4.50 shipping. One dollar ($1) from the sale of each book will go toward a scholarship for single women attending the Hibbing Community College. Purchase Now.
If you prefer to order thru “snail mail”, please send a check or money ($29.50) order to:
Mayor Mona Meittunen Abel 13039 Memory Lane Side Lake, MN 55781
Please include a note of how you would like me to sign the book. Of course, I’ll need your mailing address.
Cookbooks are $25 each (includes tax) plus $4.50 shipping. One dollar ($1) from the sale of each book will go toward a scholarship for single women attending the Hibbing Community College. Purchase Now.
If you prefer to order thru “snail mail”, please send a check or money ($29.50) order to:
Mayor Mona Meittunen Abel 13039 Memory Lane Side Lake, MN 55781
Please include a note of how you would like me to sign the book. Of course, I’ll need your mailing address.
Follow Mona and her shenanigans on facebook!
Mona’s Cookbooks and “Recipe Diva” are getting GREAT Reviews!!
This posting is a compilation of book signings around the Range.
MONA’S BOOK SIGNINGS
Wednesday, Aug. 14, 5:30 p.m. : Riverside Inn, Side Lake Thursday, Aug. 15, 4-6 p.m. : Valentini’s, Chisholm Friday, Aug. 16, 11 a. m. : Sunrise Bakery, Hibbing Wednesday, Aug. 21, 4-6 p.m. : Mikes Pub, Hibbing Wednesday, Aug. 28, 11-2 p.m. : Forest Lake Restaurant, Grand Rapids Friday, Aug. 30, 4-6 p.m. : Side Lake Lounge Friday, Sept. 6, 4-6 p.m. : Village Bookstore, Grand Rapids
Cookbooks are $25 each (includes tax) plus $4.50 shipping. One dollar ($1) from the sale of each book will go toward a scholarship for single women attending the Hibbing Community College. Purchase Now.
SIDE LAKE — Mona Meittunen Abel isn’t holding anything back in her newly published cookbook, “Let’s Party! Recipes Stories & Silliness.”
Book cover
The latest publication from Abel, referred to on the cover of the cookbook as, “Minnesota’s Iron Range Recipe Diva and former go-go dancer,” is her third and supposedly final cookbook.
“I’m not planning on going anywhere soon, but it’s my last cookbook,” Abel insisted in a recent interview with the Tribune Press. “I put every story I know in my book.”
When Abel’s friends heard she was planning on writing her final cookbook, they offered up some advice.
“They said, ‘just let it rip Mona— just tell it like it is,”’ she recalled.
Along with recipes for hors d’oeuvres, beverages, Abel has included “day after” recipes to be served at a brunch or breakfast. Treasured recipes, including porketta, potica and from her first two cookbooks, “To Mom With Love” and “To Dad With Love,” are included as well. “These are some basic recipes that we need to preserve,” she said. Her personality shines through her cookbook. “There’s a lot of silliness and silly stories,” she continued. “A lot of pictures — colored pictures.”
Abel’s stories contain life experiences from various things she’s been involved in and people she’s met on the Iron Range. There are some stories from the time she spent at the former Ironworld, now known as Minnesota Discovery Center, and experiences she’s had at Side Lake.
Mixed in with the “silliness” are stories of people made a lasting impression on Abel.
Life stories of a serious nature are also included in this latest compilation, including the story of Abel’s parents loss of their first child.
“It’s a story that needed to be told,” Abel said.
A trend setter in the 1970s, Abel said she has a photo of herself wearing hot pants and white go-go boots. But was she really a go-go dancer? “I’m sorry, I can’t talk about it,” she said, laughing. It was the same answer she gave to a broadcaster years ago on the subject. “We can’t take life too seriously — if we can’t laugh, we may as well give it up.”
To launch her new book, Abel is planning book signings at the following dates and times: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14, at Riverside Inn, Side Lake; 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, at Valentini’s Supper Club in Chisholm; 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 16, at Sunrise Bakery in Hibbing; 4 – 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21 at Mike’s Pub in Hibbing, and from 4 to 6 p.m., Friday, Aug. 30 at the Side Lake Lounge.
Cookbooks are $25 each (includes tax) plus $4.50 shipping. One dollar ($1) from the sale of each book will go toward a scholarship for single women attending the Hibbing Community College. Purchase Now.
If you prefer to order thru “snail mail”, please send a check or money ($29.50) order to:
Mayor Mona Meittunen Abel 13039 Memory Lane Side Lake, MN 55781
Please include a note of how you would like me to sign the book. Of course, I’ll need your mailing address.
