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Intentional Living Stunning Lake Minnetonka home features Mediterranean design. By Kristin Holtz

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News, Tips, Ideas Rembrandt at MIA; Outdoor Magic; and more.

5 Recreation

Take a Stand Stand up paddleboarding rises in popularity. By Lindsay Susla

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Lark fishes from shore. He’ll fish Calhoun, but he prefers Lake of the Isles. His tactics are simple: Cast from a spot with minimal weeds, move, and repeat. “I use purple worms like [a] seven-inch twisted tail,” he says. “Bass really hit it. I like catching the old ones, five to seven pounds.” He caught the big muskie he was talking about on the same set up. “The hook was in the edge of his mouth,” he says. “That’s why he didn’t break the line.”

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You’d be surprised If what you remember as a kid of Minneapolis’ lakes are its panfish and carp, you’ve missed the boat. “They’re not jogger lakes,” said Kalon Jones, who fishes Lakes Harriet, Calhoun, and Lake of the Isles. “They’re fishing lakes.” “I think people would be surprised at what comes out of these lakes,” says TJ’s Robertson. “Especially the people who think you have to go north to catch fish.” Chris Zimmer and Jennifer Nowlan cast their lines from The Point on Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis on an early evening in June. Zimmer is using a special lure to fish for bass. Nowlan is baiting with leeches and nightcrawlers in search of crappies and panfish.

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Zak Gens says there’s something to be said to be for fishing only15 to 20 minutes from home. “The numbers aren’t exceptional,” he says, “but there’s fish to be caught.”

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throws big baits; believing that big baits catch big fish. “July is one of the better muskie months,” he says, “but October can be pretty good too.” He doesn’t face a lot of competition out in the middle of the lake, but he’s not totally alone either. “If I fish Harriet or Calhoun, there are usually five to six boats out there,” he says. And he’s not talking about sailboats or windsurfers.

Secret fishing holes Yes, catching a big fish out of a kayak can be a challenge. The challenge wasn’t too great, though, for Minneapolis’ Zak Gens, who landed this Lake of the Isles muskie. Photo courtesy of Zak Gens

After all, Gens has a 45-inch muskie to his credit, a 27-inch walleye, and a bucket load of bucket mouths. “If you work hard enough,” he says, “you could probably catch a seven- to eight-pound bass. Five-pounds isn’t all that uncommon; threes are kind of run of the mill. I caught a couple [of bass] in 2007 that were phenomenal.” Although he’s caught some of these fish from the shore and some through the ice, his ride of choice is a kayak, yellow in color, wide in transom. “You have to get out past the milfoil to have a chance,” he says. After Isles gets too weedy, he’ll concentrate on Harriet and Calhoun. He’ll get past the milfoil and fish the deep edges just outside the weed line. He’ll

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Anglers are none too quick to give up their hot spots. Tom, who fishes the Mississippi River, is an example. He wouldn’t reveal his last name. “I prefer to stay incognito,” he says. After putting gas in his car at TJ’s, he buys a bucket of minnows and puts it in his trunk. “I’m fishing the river,” he says, “and I fish from shore. My best is a sixpound smallmouth, fifteen-pound northern, three-pound white bass, and ten-pound walleye.” Where on the river? “Oh I don’t know,” he says, flashing a sly smile. “Somewhere between St. Anthony [Falls] and the Ford Dam.” Daniel Huss is the sports editor of the Eden Prairie News.

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Intentional living Stunning home on Lake Minnetonka features a Mediterranean design Story and Photos By Kristin Holtz Not everyone would have seen the potential of a narrow strip of land, sandwiched between two bodies of water along northern Lake Minnetonka. To build a house on a lot so restricted by bluff and shoreline seemed foolish to former owners.

Looking back, Georgiou and Feldshon say the time was well spent, for when they moved into the house the night before Thanksgiving 2003, it was exactly what they wanted. “It was like a dream come true for us,” Georgiou says.

But doctors David Feldshon and Archelle Georgiou saw what few others could see – their dream house. Their white stucco home conjures images of the Mediterranean with its red tile roof and lofty vantage. Inside, the house is an ode to the doctors’ ethnic roots and neo-classical tastes.

In the details Running the length of the house is a wide galley with limestone floors, Doric columns and floor-to-ceiling windows, reminiscent of a colonnade.

“We both came from immigrant families without a lot, and we feel like the house is a reflection of everything they gave us, combined with our hard work of bringing it to this,” says Georgiou, 49, a health care consultant. “It’s really the crystallization of everything from the American dream to just working hard.” Built in 2003, the house is a stunner. Perching over well-manicured landscaping and tiered patios where the couple and three daughters often eat summer meals, the 6,500-square-foot house is a peaceful retreat from everyday life. For Feldshon, 60, a gastroenterologist, its lake location brings back childhood memories of fishing from the Long Island pier. “To me, it’s just the ultimate kind of living when you’re on water,” Feldshon says.

Well designed The East Coast natives, who met while practicing medicine in San Francisco, moved to Minnesota in 1997 when Georgiou became United Health Group’s chief medical officer. The adjustment wasn’t easy for the couple or their daughters, Ariel and Athena, now 22 and 19, (Zoey wasn’t born yet), and at times, the Feldshons contemplated moving back to California. But in 2001, they decided, instead of leaving, they would bring a piece of what they considered home to Minnesota. Within a month, the Feldshons had sold their Eden Prairie house and soon after found a narrow lot between Tanger Lake and Brown’s Bay in Orono, which had been vacant since 1996. They tapped luxury homebuilder Keith Waters to design their dream house. Waters encouraged the couple to think about how they lived, moved, and entertained in their home. With a meticulous eye and attention to detail, the Feldshons spent a year designing the house on paper before breaking ground in June 2002. “We wanted them to think about how they’re going to use the spaces and not what they’re named,” Waters says.

A beautiful home is all in the details. Doctors David Feldshon and Archelle Georgiou, pictured in their family room, spent a year designing their home on Tanger Lake with custom homebuilder Keith Waters. They turned to Ramsey Engler for the house’s interior design. Dockside ◆ Summer 2012

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To the left, a formal living and dining room welcome guests with dramatic drapes and special finishes, like an under-lit onyx sideboard. The family room sits at the back of the house with large comfortable furniture and within close proximity to the kitchen and family office, known as “home central.” “We deliberately put [the office] next to the kitchen because that’s where all the activity takes place, so I can sit there and do my work and hear everything that’s going on,” Feldshon says. The natural flow between rooms was intentional, as was the balance between formal and informal living, according to Georgiou. The house is ideal for both formal and casual entertaining, she says, noting she threw 22 parties the first year living in the house. “We love contrast, visually and how we live our life,” she explains. “So we’ll have really formal dinners, and we’ll have really casual dinners, and we wanted all of those options.”

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The Feldshons prepare for 9-year-old Zoey’s piano recital on a rainy Saturday morning. They love to entertain, but when not entertaining guests, family members can be most often found in the home’s kitchen or office.

Georgiou calls the house’s style neoclassical, and with 18 columns and dozens of arches, it definitely evokes images of the Mediterranean.

David Feldshon and his wife, Archelle Georgiou, love the peacefulness of lake living and also being close to the action. They can often be found Monday nights eating burgers at Lord Fletcher’s or walking to downtown Wayzata for coffee Saturday mornings.

For example, above the family room fireplace hangs a 7-foot painting by Italian Nazario Fusco, commissioned specifically for the house. The Feldshons came upon Nazario’s work during an anniversary trip to the Amalfi Coast. The piece, Fusco’s largest ever, took him four months to complete and depicts a village staircase.

Family roots More than just an ideal space, the Feldshons’ home also honors the family’s past. An alcove off the foyer celebrates the Feldshon roots as photographs and immigration papers from the family’s 1920s entry into the United States flank the Feldshon’s grandfather’s refurbished rabbi chair. Georgiou’s Greek roots are evident in the basement’s rustic family room, complete with white-washed walls and a large semicircle fireplace that wouldn’t be out of place in her family’s ancestral home island of Rhodes. Georgiou’s mother’s hope chest (her first purchase after immigrating to the U.S.) and her father’s sewing machine where he made his living as a tailor are also displayed. “We can’t go to Greece very often, but we can come down here,” she says. Georgiou and Feldshon agree their Lake Minnetonka house is the result of a lot of hard work, sacrifice, and risk by them and their parents. It’s something they don’t take for granted. “We really feel blessed to be able to be in this home,” Georgiou says. “It’s just a house, but what it symbolizes to us is so important.” Kristin Holtz is a writer and editor for Southwest Newspapers, which publishes Dockside Minnesota.

The home’s circular staircase is a classic Keith Waters’ architectural design element. In the alcove below, the family pays tribute to its Feldshon Ukrainian roots. Dockside ◆ Summer 2012

RECREATION

Take a Stand Stand up paddleboarding rises in popularity By Lindsay Susla Carri Hammett loves the tranquil silence of paddleboarding, and the opportunity it offers for getting close to wildlife. Photos courtesy of MN Surf Co.

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Cruising noiselessly on still, calm water, without the roar of a motor, you can hear and see the animals and birds around you and enjoy a water sport that is extremely unobtrusive. “I enjoy the solitude—I like the fact that it’s so quiet, you can get really close to blue herons, or even surprise a snapping turtle,” the Lotus Lake resident says. “Although when I see a snapping turtle, I wish I was louder,” she jokes. Soaring in popularity within the last few years, this unconventional sport offers something for everyone—relaxation, exercise, and a chance to get closer to nature. Although it may seem counter-intuitive to stand on a surfboard in completely flat water, you don’t need to rely on waves to enjoy paddling. Evan Lawrence, owner of MN Surf Co., reached via email, says that he thinks stand up paddling is gaining recognition due to its user-friendliness.

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“The sport [is] accessible to almost everyone,” says Lawrence. “Stand up paddling is something anyone from 7 years of age to someone in his or her late 80s can do.”

“It’s really good exercise!” Hammett agrees, saying that it didn’t take her long to feel comfortable with the new sport. “I learned to paddleboard in California, on a tiny lake with warm water and no wind,” she says. “I fell in love right away.” Although Hammett was inexperienced at the time, she says stand up paddleboarding was not a difficult sport to pick up, and that she would urge others to try it, even if they are not overly athletic. “I would recommend it to people of any age—it’s really good exercise, especially

Photo by Lindsay Susla

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for your upper body and core.” For those who would like to try stand up paddleboarding under the supervision of an instructor, many classes are offered throughout the metro area. From learning basic tips and getting comfortable on the board, to trying yoga while standing on a board, tons of options are available. Whether through professional instruction, or simply renting a board and hopping on,

more people than ever in the Twin Cities are trying this new, popular, unusual sport. Witness any metro lake on the weekends, you’ll see paddleboarders out there.

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Building a Better Burger? Just ask your friends for advice By Sarah Tieck

Say the word burger and I imagine one of those big restaurant ones with cheddar, garlic-butter mushrooms, and crispy, breaded onion straws. This is good for a treat, but I was hearing this burger’s siren song once a week — not good for the wallet or the waistline. And so the search began with a simple Facebook post: “Anyone have a burger recipe (turkey or beef, hopefully healthy) that will make me scorn restaurant burgers? Please share.” In an hour or so, I had at least a dozen responses. There are lots of theories about what makes for a great burger. Some say you need to flip it at the right moment, while others warn about smashing down as it cooks. Some say it is the grill, others say it is the meat. I’m definitely learning a thing or two about how to build a better burger. Here’s what I’ve found in my search for the best burger ever: HEAT MATTERS: You can cook an excellent burger on the stove or on an outdoor grill. The key is heat. Pre-heat your grill pan or skillet so the patties will sizzle when they go. With grills, the better your control of the heat, the better the result. I would say tools are important, too, but I think it may be finding the right tools to make you a better cook. We’ve had better results from stainless steel grates than cast-iron, and for us, a high-quality gas grill gave us better control than a charcoal grill. Indirect cooking methods and the right level of heat made for tender, juicy patties as opposed to hamburger pucks. You may find the opposite.

were recommended for being earth-friendly and humanely raised. And, some swear the flavor is better. I found that my perfect patty had little to do with whether it was 93 percent lean ground sirloin or grassfed buffalo. I simply looked for something fairly lean and within my budget. The key is to shape the patties by hand and create a small dip in the center of each one. The burger shrinks as it cooks. That thinner center ensures the end result is a flat patty with no cracked edges.

MAGIC ONION BURGER TOPPER Pretty much everyone agreed that grilled onions were a must. So, I took my favorite onion recipe—the Magic Onion which was first shared with me by Tessa Leung, owner of Söntés in Rochester— and turned it into a quick and easy version for the stovetop. 1 onion 2 tablespoons salted butter 1 beef bouillon cube Dice that onion. Cook it in a frying pan with the butter with the bouillon cube until onions are soft and starting to burn just a little bit. Serve this with your other favorite burger toppings—bleu cheese is a popular partner to slightly sweet grilled onions.

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SEASONING MATTERS: Burgers cook beautifully with most any recipe. But, the wow factor is personal taste, pure and simple. A ranch burger (ranch dressing mix with ground beef or turkey and maybe shredded cheese) got raves from friends. The burgers came off the grill juicy and ready to eat. And, I took one bite and almost spit it out — preferring simple seasoning salt, or a bit of Worcestershire. My favorite health-boosting tip was to mix in diced tomatoes or zucchini—an excellent use of farmers’ market bounty.

Mix it all together and form into patties. This makes 4-6 burgers. “Make them large and use Kaiser rolls and garnish with condiments and vegetables of your choice,” says Dennis Casey of Burnsville, who shared this recipe with me. He uses ground sirloin and says onion soup is the trick. He also adds hot sauce to taste. I’d say part of the magic is the smoky barbecue flavor from the Jack Daniels sauce.

SHAPE MATTERS: There was some debate about the best type of meat to use—100 percent grass-fed buffalo and beef or organic turkey

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