After deciding last month that my artist dates don’t have to be more solo time, I really enjoyed a bus trip with my sister and a bunch of other women to a few stops in Middleton, Wisconsin. The first stop, and the place where I took part in some cooking art, was Frostwood Farms Kitchen.

An event space, the restaurant buys some of its locally-sourced produce from St. Isadore’s Garden in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, a few miles to the southeast. St. Isadore’s is part of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, where the garden also supplies food for its foodbank.

On the day we visited the restaurant, we were treated to fresh chips and St. Isadore salsa with tomatoes from the garden and a fabulous raspberry mind spritz mocktail. (I had two.) Lunch was a melt-in-your-mouth, marinated, grilled flank steak with garlic and herb butter, all served atop an heirloom cherry tomato salad with baby mozzarella cheese, arugula lettuce, red onion and cucumber drizzled with a balsamic dressing.

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