Roasted White Yams with Moroccan Seasoning
Every winter, I fall into a vegetable rut. At lunch time you can find me eating the same salad with the same vegetables and I can promise you that there are only so many ways to prepare root vegetables until you are just plain sick of them! I have no clue as to why I...
Cauliflower / Culinary Training / Curry / Ingredient / Main Course / Recipe Creation / Recipes / Season / Winter
Cauliflower Steak with Cauliflower Puree
My in-laws were in town last week visiting from Sunny Michigan. Yes, you read that right – Sunny Michigan and…… its winter. I know what you are thinking and no I didn’t start off this morning with a Bloody Mary…. I grew up in Michigan, so I can confirm that it is not a spring...
Beef Curry Recipe – Simple and in a Slow Cooker
I have a small love affair with French foods (and we aren’t talking French fries here). Even as a child, I gravitated towards the smell of garlic roasting in the oven and applied butter by the spoonful. My love continued to blossom as I moved to the kitchen and now I love to create French-inspired...
Bacon / Culinary Training / Ingredient / Recipe Creation / Recipes / Season / Stocks & Soups / Sweet Potato / Winter
Sweet Potato Soup with Bacon
Last week was intense! First, we had an amazing snowstorm dropping 30 inches followed by intense winds that shut down almost every chair lift in site. For a while it felt like our little house might blow away and poor Ollie has never gone to the bathroom faster. Second, we got to meet the Jackson...
Bacon / Carrots / Celery / Cheese / Corn / Culinary Training / Fall / Ingredient / Onion / Recipe Creation / Recipes / Season / Stocks & Soups / Winter
Bacon Corn Chowder – Round 2
When visiting Jackson Hole last year, Chris and I discovered the Silver Dollar Bar in the Wort Hotel. The place was simply enchanting. Live folk music filled the air while “real” cowboys spun girls in circles on the dance floor. Unable to turn away, we nestled into a table with a drink and glanced over...
Appetizers / Beets / Cheese / Culinary Training / Ingredient / Recipe Creation / Recipes / Side Dish
Technical Tuesdays: How to Bake Beets
Finding out that beets can be used in fabric dyes came as no surprise to me. I’ve been accidentally “dying” my clothes, dishtowels, and finger tips a deep reddish purple for years. Despite this annoyance and a few lost prized possessions (my favorite gray tank top, an old apron my great grandmother wore, and a...
Stuffed Tomato Recipe
Tomatoes. Tomatoes have a rough life. Their vegetable family has disowned them and their new family, fruits, is not very accepting. And on top of its confusing family history, people aren’t so forgiving either. You either love ‘em or hate ‘em. I admit, I once was a hater. I could never get over the texture. ...
Basil / Butter / Culinary Training / Ingredient / Main Course / Orange / Recipe Creation / Recipes / Sauces
Basil and Orange Confit Compound Butter
Life is a bit crazy at the moment. Summer has ended and fall is screaming loud and clear that winter will soon arrive. It’s not the thought of snow that’s gotten me crazy; I love snow! It’s that my New Year’s resolutions may have been a tad optimistic in 2011. I now have 75 days...
Culinary Freedom: Mastering the Vinaigrette
We had a full house over the 4th of July: 6 adults, 2 toddlers and 2 dogs all under one roof. Survival was not for the weak. My parents offered to take care of the kids one night, so my sister, her husband, Chris and I jumped at the chance to get out. Our Boulder...
Basil / Beets / Culinary Training / Gluten-Free / Green Beans / Healthy / Ingredient / Quinoa / Recipe Creation / Recipes / Salads & Dressings
Healthy Quinoa Salad
Plan A The beginning of my week was very different from the end. I spent Sunday – Wednesday caring for my flu-ridden husband while wearing a space suit to avoid his germs. While the rest of my week was spent becoming a Plan A person. What does that mean? Read on… Chris took a ski...
Baked Kale Chips
Sometimes cravings hit you like a sledgehammer. This afternoon at 4:00pm my sledgehammer was a potato chip. Normally, I’d reach for a bag of Lays, but since I’m still recovering from the holidays, I went on a quest for a healthy alternative. I had heard rumors of people passing off kale chips as tasty, but...
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