Nutrition information can be overwhelming and difficult to understand. Add to that the clever marketing involved in many processed foods and making healthy food choices can be very difficult, even with the nutrition labels on most foods. A good example: fruit juice. Science tells us that one teaspoon of sugar contains sixteen calories and that […]
Summer Time Salads
Can you believe it’s already the end of July? Summer is two months gone! The growing season here in CO has been slow this year because of the late spring and wet summer. I’m looking further and further away for my favorite summer ingredients: cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, zucchini and beans. I love the arugula, radish […]
Baking Homemade Cherry Pie
Out of all the fruit that is grown in Colorado, cherries are the most elusive. An old farmer once told me that one out of every five years yields good cherries. They are very susceptible to late frosts. Although it is possible to find some cherries each year, seldom is there an abundance that makes […]
BBQ Kick Off
My partner in crime, Allison, and I bought a bar-b-que rig this spring. We are trying to hone our bar-b-que skills, and who better to experiment on than our friends? BBQ is an all-American art form. Although people have been cooking over fire for centuries, I believe that Americans have perfected the art of cooking […]