I get my foodie nature honestly, from generations of women who enjoyed cooking and eating both for reasons of necessity and economy as well as the desire to nurture friends and family around the table. My maternal grandmother actually had her own cooking show, teaching a generation of war brides in El Paso,...
My Fall Sport: Eating
Well thank God the snow has finally fallen and we can get on with winter. My pants aren’t fitting right, and it’s fall’s fault. Fall is without question my favorite season of the year, and we’ve had a GORGEOUS and very prolonged one here on the Front Range. While it has been wonderful, me...
Book Review: Good Cheap Eats
I’ve been following Jessica Fisher of Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats for a while now and was really excited to see she had a new cookbook coming out: Good Cheap Eats: Everyday Dinners and Fantastic Feasts for $10 or Less. It was FishMama’s chronicles of her 2014 Pantry Challenge that lead me...
Overachiever’s Bake Sale
Ah bake sale, 2 powerful words. Bake sale + overachiever + Pinterest + a great new book full of crafty treat ideas…clear the counters and get a babysitter – it’s ON! Let it be known that overachiever does not equal perfect! And we all know by now that simply getting an idea from Pinterest...
Pumpkin Bread French Toast
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an almost total lack of long-term memory. Get it? Bwahaha. 😀 The great thing about having no long-term memory is that you can surprise yourself with things you technically already know: “Who made this gumbo in the freezer? I guess it was me. Score!”…and…hmmm…I can’t...
34° Rosemary Crisp Pan-“Fried” Chicken
Did you ever drop a box of 34° Crisps? Mega mega bummer, right? Yes, but! It could also be the start of something very very tasty…34° Crisp Pan-“Fried” Chicken! If you haven’t (yet) dropped a box of crisps then you are either a) lucky, b) graceful, or c) haven’t been eating enough boxes of...
DIY Cream Cheese – It Couldn’t be Easier!
So I made my own cream cheese. And let me be the first to say: I understand it is totally uncalled for to be making your own cream cheese. I a) do not neeeeeed cream cheese, and b) even if I did, it is so readily available why make your own? Because it can...
Front Range Flavor: Holy Smokes Cook-Off!
How excited was I to be invited to guest-judge a fantastic local food event this past weekend? Enormously. Tasting 12 different home-cooked dishes? For a good cause? Yes, please – anytime! I’ve never felt so fortunate to be a) opinionated, b) decisive, and c) have no food allergies, dietary restrictions, or food prejudices! The...
34° Nachitos Rojos
Leftovers got you down? Not once you discover 34° Crisps! (Is that just the cheesiest thing you’ve ever read!? HA, I know – But it’s true). We could talk all day about how well 34° Crisps pair with all kinds of cheeses – but for me their real magic is in lunchtime leftover transformation....
Restaurant Report: Tocabe
My first semester at The College of Santa Fe (now the Santa Fe University of Art and Design), the school offered day trips you could sign up for that cost nothing or just a few bucks, and as a lonely freshman with few friends and no car, I was one of the first to...