Picture this. The perfect late heat of a sultry summer day circulated by playful trade winds. A beautiful, happy group of party goers dressed festively to celebrate summer, carrying eye catching cocktails or small bites of precisely constructed food. A verve in the air, an excitement for the evening and a sense that everyone belongs. …
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Summer Solstice Farm Dinner
Despite my years of buying food from farms, having a CSA share and my adoration for the craft of small farming, I have never attended a Farm-to-Table dinner. Until now. I met Mark Guttridge of Ollin Farms in Longmont Colorado last fall when picking juniper berries at his farm with distiller friend Rob Masters of…
Chilled Strawberry Mousse and a Strawberry Spritzer
It’s hot in Colorado. We normally don’t get regular days in the 90’s until August and we’ve experienced a handful already. Farmers I know say we are in a drought which is not surprising after our sparse snowfall. Anyone watching the national news will have seen a wildfire only moderately controlled after more than a…
Salsa Judging at Snowmass Chili and Brew Fest
Snowmass Colorado kicked off their summer season last weekend with the flavorful Chili Pepper and Brew Fest. The festival runs a day and a half with attendees having the opportunity to taste varieties of chili (red, green and salsa) from a number of award-winning and new cooks, taste home-brewed beers, taste tequila and listen to…
How to Make Fresh-Style Margaritas
Boulder is a very cool food town. Named ‘America’s Foodiest Town’ in 2010 by Bon Appétit magazine, it fulfills this distinction in a variety of genres. We certainly bear a commitment to quality farm-to-table food production and consumption. One only needs to spend 10 minutes talking to anyone, farmer or patron, at our Farmer’s Market…
Peanut Butter French Toast and Homemade Organic Strawberry Syrup
When I was growing up I was obsessed with peanut butter. I felt it went with everything and spared no other food from an experimental addition of some ‘PB’ at one time or another. I even would sometimes sneak out of bed and scoop out a handful of it to eat plain (which now sadly…
Colorado’s Grand Valley Wine Country (Palisades/Grand Junction CO)
Over the past few years as I’ve endeavored to discover more about Colorado wines I’ve been nostalgic for the convenience of the California wine country. A mere hop from San Francisco I could be in the Russian River Valley for an effortless day outing enjoying smaller wineries, chats with winemakers and practical education through tasting…
