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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...
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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...
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Celery Root Soup with Bacon and Apples
Celery root is not a looker. Picture tangled roots, hairy tentacles, and more dirt filled crevices than Ollie, my labradoodle, after a romp in the mud. Pick it up in at the farmer’s market and be sure to have a paper towel handy to wipe the dirt off your hands. Celery root is not a...
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Compound Salads
It’s said that an exhausted restaurant owner in Los Angeles threw together leftovers to create the Cobb Salad. I’m not sure whether that’s true, but regardless of where it started the Cobb Salad is here to stay. While every chef has her own recipe, the most common ingredients include crisp lettuce, oven roasted chicken, fried...
Chilled Spring Pea Soup
You can’t fully understand the pain of home renovations, until, well, you live in one. Band-Aids become a staple like milk and far too much beer is consumed. Lucky for Ollie, and us after well over 100 trips to Home Depot, we are D-O-N-E! Don’t worry I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share our...
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Bacon Corn Chowder
Bacon Corn Chowder Chris and I visited the Wort Hotel’s Silver Dollar Grill for dinner. The restaurant is designed like an old western saloon (which makes sense, since it once was) complete with a live swing band with a banjo and trombone. I was waiting for Clint Eastwood to pop around the corner at any...
Simple Meatloaf – Hidden Cheese Layer
A lot of words come to mind when I think of meatloaf. Mystery meat…bland…soaked in catsup…leftover ingredients…frequent 1980’s least favorite dinner… Unfortunately “scrumptious” and “delicious” rarely make it into the same sentence. So, why have I made this recipe countless times? Because it’s good it’s great. And most importantly, it’s everything that meatloaf is not...
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