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Last month, a friend held his annual bacon party. It’s a baconpolooza of a baconfest where each guest brings a bacon-themed dish to share. Dishes are sampled, everyone votes on their favorite bacon dishes, and we all limp home clutching our tummies at the end of the night. One couple brought vegan Bacon Caramel Popcorn. Another [...]
After camping at Stagecoach Lake near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, we usually come home with a cooler full of lake trout. One of my favorite ways to prepare trout is to smoke it our Masterbuilt Electric Smoker. This recipe is good for any type of fresh water lake fish. Once you’ve tried smoked fish, you’ll never go [...]
After catching my kids watching Family Guy the other night while I was working upstairs, I’ve been searching for more family friendly TV and movie fare. That’s why I signed up to be Friday Night Ambassador to tell you about the latest Family Movie Night show, Who Is Simon Miller?, premiering Saturday, August 6th at [...]
He made mozzarella from scratch with the kids and served up a delicious caprese appetizer for dinner.
If you love Skinny Cow frozen treats like me, you’ll be interesting to know that Skinny Cow has just come out with two types off chocolate candy – Dreamy Clusters and Heavenly Crisp. If you’re a chocolate candy pieces fan, you have the choice of Dreamy Clusters Milk Chocolate or Dreamy Cluster Dark Chocolate. One [...]
I recently saw an article in Fast Company about trendy ice pops that mentioned a wonderful cookbook, Paletas: Authentic Recipes for Mexican Ice Pops, Shaved Ice & Aguas Frescas by Fany Gerson. I quickly reserved a copy at my local library and have been using it for recipe inspiration. What are palentas? A paleta is [...]
One of the reasons I decided to make my own frozen treats this summer is because of all the junk found in most store bought popsicles. Even fruit bars aren’t as wholesome as you’d hope. However, there’s one brand I trust to make a delicious and healthy frozen snack: Stonyfield and their organic frozen yogurt [...]
This summer NAKANO is encouraging us to splash it on! That’s right, just go ahead and splash their gluten free rice vinegars on veggies, pasta salads, grilled fish and chicken, and more. Inspired by some feta cheese and a gigantic seedless watermelon that my husband bought at Costco, I came up with this watermelon salad [...]
I’ve been a fan of Dreamfields Pasta for a long time. (See my Dreamfields review from 2007.) So when I came across the $1 coupon off any Dreamfields Pasta, I knew I had to share it with you. If you’re unfamiliar with Dreamfields Pasta, it’s low carb – 5 grams digestible carbs per serving. It’s [...]
Sometimes food tastes better than it looks. Stews, chili and roasts come to mind. But occasionally, food looks prettier than it tastes. I experimented with two recipes – a gluten free coconut pie crust and a tofu coconut cream pie. The pie crust didn’t stick together well and tasted awful. (I think the canola oil [...]
After struggling with the mandoline to create waffle fries for my Alexia Foods “Reinvent a Classic” French fry creation, I went with crinkle cut fries. My Pampered Chef mandoline isn’t set up to make them without a lot of hassle. Plus I was having a tough time getting a consistent cut. Instead, I used my [...]
This month’s Secret Recipe Club comes from The Pretend Chef. In her post about her Chicken Piccata recipe, she shares a sweet story about when her son, “Itty Bitty” was little and she and her husband, “Mr. Sideline Chef” were living at a motel in Washington where he worked. After discovering the recipe in the [...]
Last month, I attended a Denver food blogger tweetup at the Edge Restaurant & Bar at the Four Seasons in Denver. The purpose was to introduce us to their “Business Quickie” lunch meals at their gorgeous facility in the heart of Denver’s downtown on 14th and Arapahoe. The Edge is known for their happy hour [...]
Holland House recently announced their summer sweepstakes “Grill of Your Dreams” on Facebook. The grand prize winner will receive a $2,000 Visa® Gift Card, which may be used to purchase a new grill. (For that kind of dough, you can hire someone to build a custom one with gas hookup in your backyard. My idea [...]
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