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Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenFrom Minnesota to the Borderlands: Amy Thielen and Hank Shaw in conversationMinnesota 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."
2025-12-3024 minHam Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenCookies become our holiday currency, according to Amy ThielenAmy Thielen joined the KAXE Morning Show for a live conversation about holiday baking traditions.
2025-12-1920 minHam Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenAmy talks sloppy Joes, apple cider, giant cabbages on the KAXE Morning Show"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"!
2025-10-1527 minHam Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenPreserving Summer Through Memories, Recipes and CommunityIn 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...
2025-06-2859 minHam Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenMore Than A Recipe: Do You Cook by the Book or Off the Map?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...
2025-06-211h 00
Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenHarvest Abundance in Minnesota: Gardening, the Advanced ClassWhen the garden or farmers market gives you everything at once, the best way to handle it is to return to the fundamentals: roast, grill, bake, pickle, can, dry, freeze and sauté. These aren’t just methods, they’re survival tools during harvest season. Especially grilling. Because it’s summer. And everything tastes better with a little char and a lot of butter.This week, Amy and Heidi talked to Erin Haefele of Green Scene in Walker, Minnesota, "a charming food haven nestled in the heart of rural northern Minnesota where small-town warmth meets big-city sophistication." Erin inspires us with simple...
2025-06-141h 01Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenFriends and Family: Cooking for CompanyThis week's show is about having people over — sometimes, a LOT of people over — and how to feed them all, generously, without losing your mind, hiring help, or breaking the bank.We'll call it an audible potluck, with tales of Pennsylvania Dutch country family reunions from Chef David Kinch and his Park Rapids area cousin Bill Dinger, and our favorite theme song-writing Minnesota musician Jeremy Messersmith talking about hosting communal food parties built to pair with his performances.We heard from Megan in Meadowlands who kept the pig roast and Czech family traditions of kolache going in a community celebration. We h...
2025-06-0759 minHam Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenMore Time Than Money: Resourcefulness and Creativity in the KitchenThis week, Amy and Heidi meditate on the theme of "More Time Than Money" — a show about making do with resourcefulness and creativity. They'll talk about incredible recipes that take time and skill, but not necessarily a lot of money. This week's community recipe to cook along with us is Bran Crispbread: kaxe.org/community-recipe-bran-crispbread-ham-radio-amy-thielen. Give it a try and send us your reactions and photos at comments@kaxe.org!
2025-05-311h 00
Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenRisky Business: The delicious science behind cooking with lye and moreThis week, Amy and Heidi's adventures in the kitchen feature cooking with lye, pickling lime, Hawaiian taro and some other semi-hazardous ingredients.
2025-05-241h 02Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenWhy are we doing this show? Amy shares her inspiration for 'Ham Radio'"Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy Thielen" is a new program featuring James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Amy Thielen of Park Rapids, Minnesota.
2025-05-1421 minHam Radio: Cooking with Amy ThielenTrailer: Introducing 'Ham Radio'Coming May 23 and hosted by James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Amy Thielen, with producer Heidi Holtan, this KAXE / KBXE show celebrates the creativity and resourcefulness of rural home cooks.
2025-05-0901 min
Between You & MeStolen ruby slippers story grabs headlines again with federal indictmentMorning Show co-hosts Heidi Holtan and Kari Hedlund reflected on the saga of the stolen slippers the day the U.S. Justice Department announced the grand jury indictment of a Grand Rapids area man for the theft.
2023-05-2032 min
Strong WomenHonor the Earth Rural Rising Thursday January 12th in Aitkin with Shanai Matteson and Annie Humphreyfeaturing musicians Annie Humphrey, David Huckfelt, Jeremy Ylvisaker and Aurora Baer
2023-01-1117 min
Strong WomenThe Jingle Dress - Fashion Show and History with Delina White at Black Bear Casino in Carlton Friday 11/17/22Delina White is the owner and designer of I Am Anishinaabe fashion house based in Onigum, MN
2022-11-1720 min
Strong WomenStrong Women: Running for Office in Northern MN in 2022: Erika-Bailey JohnsonErika is a member of the Red Lake Nation who felt called to run this election cycle as DFL in MN House district 2b in Beltrami, Cass, Mahnomen and Clearwater County
2022-10-2714 minStrong WomenMinnesota's Abortion Laws: Minn Post reporter Greta Kaul"The right of privacy under our Constitution protects not simply the right to an abortion but rather it protects the woman's decision to abort; any legislation infringing on the decision-making process, then, violates this fundamental right" according to Doe v. Gomez in 1995 and U of MN Law Professor Jill Hasday
2022-08-0413 minStrong WomenStrong Rural Women on Climate: Discussion at Balsam Moon PreserveWe gathered women to talk about the connection to the land and climate. We learned that women bring community, adaptability, and a globally-informed, locally-enacted mindset to the climate crisis.
2022-06-2523 minStrong WomenStrong Rural Women on Climate: Gathering to Listen and LearnWe gathered women to talk about the connection to the land and climate. We learned that women innately understand that CLIMATE is personal.
2022-05-2416 min
Strong WomenJennifer Egan's "The Candy House""Inventive, effervescent... Egan plaits multiple narratives and technique to underscore the manifold ways our own desires betray us in a brave new coded world." Oprah Daily
2022-05-1219 minStrong WomenSway Wild at the Historic Chief Theater Tonight!Mandy Fer and Dave McGraw wrap up spring tour in Bemidji
2022-05-1118 minStrong WomenMN High School Speech: Bemidji's Frenzel and Cordts head to state!Amy Frenzel and Ev Cordts discuss the competition of speech!
2022-04-2214 min
Strong WomenLara Hicks: From Bemidji to the United NationsBemidji High School grad discusses her work at the United Nations, her journey, and hope for the future.
2022-03-3018 minStrong Women100 Rural Women: Upcoming Online Events: Executive Director Teresa Kittridgeforging relationships between women leaders across generations and rural lands of Minnesota
2022-03-2519 minStrong WomenMN State Auditor Julie Blaha: The State of Main Street 2022The culmination of five regional listening sessions that brought together the expertise of local government leaders and 2020 data. AuditorBlaha, OSA data analysts, and local leaders looked at 20-year local government financial trends to provide context to the 2020 financial data, which represented the first year that local governments received federal pandemic relief funds through the CARES Act.
2022-03-2411 minStrong WomenBrainerd Public Schools Celebrates Legendary Women Graduates Thursday March 3rd, 2022honoring Brainerd
2022-02-1813 minStrong WomenMN Senator Tina Smith With Bi-Partisan Legislation Signed Into Law: Supplemental Impact Aid Flexibility ActU.S. Senators Tina Smith & John Thune’s Bill to Provide Financial Stability for Federally Impacted School Districts During COVID-19 Signed Into Law Senators’ Bill will Assist School Districts as They Apply for Impact Aid Program Funding
2022-02-0906 minStrong WomenSeason 17 of Native Report from PBS North - WDSE/WRPT Debuts January 6th, 2022: A Preview with Senior Producer Ramona Marozasilluminating the best of Indian Country in storytelling by promoting understanding between Native and non-Native cultures
2022-01-0610 minStrong WomenLinda LeGarde Grover's New Book: Gichigami Hearts - Stories and Histories from Misaabekong"a generational history of a sacredness inseparable from place" author Gwen Westerman
2021-12-0615 minStrong WomenBeheld: A Novel by TaraShea Nesbit: Asking the Questions of WHO Gets To Tell The Story?The riveting story of a stranger’s arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts―and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
2021-11-2317 minStrong WomenThe End of Bias - A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias with MN Author Jessica Nordellthis Strong Women conversation is made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the Citizens of Minnesota.
2021-11-2315 minStrong WomenHunting Traditions in Northern Minnesota: Heather Hansen on Why She Huntsdeer camp traditions are different for all people
2021-11-0307 minStrong WomenGrand Rapids Anishinabe Gikinoo’amadiwin Student Advocate Samantha Gould on Indigenous Peoples' Day at 5pm October 11, 2021celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
2021-10-1105 min
The Strong Towns PodcastDig Deep: What Does Democracy Look Like Now?Since January 2017, at least once a month (and often more frequently than that), Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn has co-hosted a radio show on 91.7 KAXE, Northern Community Radio, along with his friend Aaron Brown—an author, reporter, and educator—and Heidi Holtan, the station’s News and Public Affairs Director. Since the debut of Dig Deep, topics have varied widely: the 2020 election, Minnesota politics, the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, climate change, rural life, health care, universal basic income, the history and future of labor unions in Minnesota, and the cohosts’ latest books, among many others. The show’s aim? To...
2021-02-1522 min
Dig DeepDig Deep with Chuck and Aaron on COVID-19On our extended hour of the Thursday Morning Show, Heidi Holtan hosts a conversation on Dig Deep with our conservative commentator Chuck Marohn and liberal Aaron Brown. They talk about this time of pandemic and the state of the world. Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!
2020-04-0736 min
Youth In RadioYouth in Radio Podcast...the first of manyToday marked the beginning of KAXE/KBXE’s Youth in Radio Podcast which will be aired Thursday mornings around 8:10 during the Morning Show. This morning, Heidi Holtan talked with Youth in Radio Coordinator Shannon Fitch who has been working with groups of students to create short pieces about the subject of their choosing. Hear the whole conversation below.
2019-05-0208 min