I really don’t love the pool scene. Though I feel constantly cold in the winter, I tire quickly of being overheated as well. I get bored just sitting. As I stare out over the shoulder-to-shoulder partially reclined lounges snaking around every inch of the pool perimeter, I feel like a sardine. A warm sardine…
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Caramel Apple Ice Cream, Caramel Apple Martini and Shot
This month’s vintage recipe for updating is Ozarkian Taffy Apples. I was stumped about what would be unique to the Ozarks and their caramel apples warranting the regional identifier. Fortunately before I had to crack Google and go to town, ‘Swapper Savant’, Jennifer of the Adventuresome Kitchen, once again jumped to the forefront to educate. The Ozarks…
Homemade Macaroni and Cheese with Chicken-Apple Sausage and Bacon
I just saw a piece in the Huffington Post about the Easter Egg Roll at the White House. Having a family lineage that weaves in and out of that geography, I’m charmed by the holiday traditions held in our nation’s capital. But what I found most intriguing was not the awkward mascot-like Easter Bunny…
Great Salad Dressing recipes and Perfect Spring Gift Idea!
Beautiful mixed salad greens with edible flowers from Jay Hill Farms May I share the bain of my salad existence? Dressing. For years I never felt the dressing I made tasted as good as restaurant dressing and I’m not in favor of bottled concoctions for delicate organic spring greens (my personal bias). I frankly…
Simple Supper: Chipotle Chicken soft tacos, Pepper Jack Quesedilla, Pineapple Salsa and Slaw
Being a locavore, my orientation to cooking always begins with the ingredients and then I figure out what I’ll make; rarely is it the other way around. After subsisting largely from my winter stores, it is a joy to build a meal around items from the Farmer’s Market however meager the choices at this time…
Green Garlic Baby Leek Potato Soup with Brandy
Spring in Colorado does not bring forth sleeveless Easter frocks and sandals. It’s more like a manic roller coaster ride between a tease of early summer and Mother Nature’s reminder she’s not quite done with winter yet. Though nursing a sunburn from an outdoor outing this weekend, I’m writing with a woolen cap on my…
Natural Dye Easter Eggs
Natural Dye Easter Eggs are easy and fun to make. Natural egg dye is made of herbs and vegetables creating earthy colors and patterns. Being a food blogger, I had to find the food aspect to feature with relationship to this book. Eggs seemed apropos, after all the book is about the Easter BunnIES…
