No Machine Strawberry Jam Buttermilk Ice Cream has two ingredients! It’s a sweet tangy ice cream that tastes like summer no matter when you make it! I was poking around in my Grandmother’s recipe box for something sweet to make for Valentine’s Day. I found a little slip of paper on which was a recipe…
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Wild Rice-Sumac-Cayenne Wings and New Planet Gluten Free Beer
I love football season. It signals the slow slide into the cozy time of the year for me. The sweaters come out as does the hearty food and drink. This month our Vintage Recipe Redo and Swap posts smack dab in the middle of the Super Bowl. I originally determined my spin on the assigned…
Seasonal Food with Panache: Lyon’s Fork (Lyons, CO)
Truth be told, if I could spend the entire dreary heart of winter in my pajamas indoors, I would. It’s a season for hunkering down, hibernating, and I’m not as light on my feet to go out exploring. Despite my seasonal inertia I had gotten wind of something that compelled me to venture out…
Grapefruit Margarita
It’s citrus season but of course in Colorado that’s a moot point. I am fortunate though to have two groups of Snow Bird relations who nest in more temperate citrus regions to wait out the Northern winter’s cold hold on their primary homeland. This leads to unexpected citrus care packages. On a very gray windy…
Spicy Mustard Mint Mizuna salad with Tangerine-Balsamic Dressing
Normally salad does not pop to mind much for me during the winter. I think we naturally begin to eat from seasonal cues and hearty, warm foods are what most appeal. However I’ve been craving the robust flavors and textures of cool weather greens. When I took my first trip of 2012 to Jay Hill…
Homemade Ginger-Infused Vodka and cocktails
My last blog post shared a cocktail in the spirit of Chinese New Year called a ‘Happy Dragon cocktail’ made with homemade Ginger-Infused Vodka. It’s a cinch and I’ll provide the instructions so you may do the same. Ginger is a coveted culinary and medicinal root. I have addicted friends who eat it like…
8 Precious Pudding and Happy Dragon Cocktail
This month’s Vintage Recipe Redo/Swap selection is for a Zabaglione from a restaurant in Chicago. I’ll spare you the process of my capricious mind to just say I wove from there through the creamy dessert forest to Chinese New Year which begins on January 23 this year. I wanted to feature a selection both in…
