To me peaches are the quintessential summer fruit. Their ripeness signals the height of summer produce. And I don’t know anyone who can resist the soft bite followed by dribbling juice. Truly the nectar of the Gods. We have a miniature peach tree in our backyard. It is miniature in size but the size of…
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Grilled Coffee-Rubbed Bison Tacos and Apple Green Cabbage Slaw
My first meeting with Chef Christy Rost was a fleeting one. It was last year at the Snowmass Culinary and Arts Festival at a fun Tapas and Tequila tasting hosted by Chef Richard Sandoval at his local restaurant Venga Venga. Christy was coming, I was going, though I was interested in knowing more about her,…
Summer Pickled Beet Gazpacho & Snowmass Culinary & Arts Festival
With reality TV becoming such a pop culture cornerstone, the lines of chef and celebrity have become significantly blurred. Rightly so as anyone who can take a box of disparate food items and present a cogent dish in 23.5 seconds with TV cameras rolling deserves the fan accolades worthy of a traditional movie star in…
Golden Oven-Baked Pancake Topped with Sauteed Peaches
Colorado is known for many things. Our microbrew industry. Our skiing. 300 days of sunshine a year. Being the thinnest state in the U.S. But something we locals covet, and those in the food industry do too, is our peaches. On the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in the area of Palisades is our…
Tiny Gooseberry Pies
The bulk of my working career has been spent in the field of High Tech in Silicon Valley California. I worked with a number of engineers and at one holiday party we got into a conversation about being in the ‘Gold Chain Club’. Many of my colleagues were older, having been married for some time…
Patriotic Fruit Salads
I met my husband on July 4th. Well technically I did not meet him but we really found each other over the holiday. We each were living in California at the time working in different areas of the same company. I made plans with mutual friends to rent a house in Lake Tahoe over the…
Cherry-Blueberry Cloud Pie
Fourth of July is shaping up in Colorado to be a different beast this year. It seems our entire state is either on fire, in the throes of being extinguished or being monitored for new starts from the severe heat, lightning strikes and wind. We’ve been front and center in the national news…
