Since I’m avoiding sugar these days, finding something to satisfy my craving for chocolate is difficult. That’s why I was so excited to try out Crio Brü, a brewed drink made from roasted 100% cacao (or cocoa) beans. It’s a chocolate drink that’s brewed like coffee. Nothing else is added to the beans and you’re [...]
Posted on February 27, 2011 in Food Reviews and tagged as chocolate, Denver Post, healthy snacking
Maybe I’m spoiled, but as a kid I grew up eating lamb (not pork) chops. So I take advantage of any chance I have to eat lamb, whether it’s at a restaurant or when lamb is on sale at the grocery store. Last week’s Denver Post food section featured award winning lamb recipes from the [...]
Posted on April 16, 2006 in Recipes and tagged as Denver Post, grilling, lamb
The Denver Post did a wonderful story last week on baby food. While my kids are waaaay beyond the baby food stage, I think I may be able to pursuade them to eat some of these recipes. Just this picture of the Fish Mornay makes me want to try it! Fillet of Fish Mornay with [...]
Posted on March 27, 2006 in Recipes and tagged as Denver Post
Beside documenting my cooking and eating out adventures via this blog (and assuming my digital camera doesn’t break) here are mine: Drink more wine. Tara Q. Thomas, who writes a weekly wine column for The Denver Post and gives some good suggestions for reasonably priced wines. Since I received a wine rack from Big Bad [...]
Posted on January 5, 2005 in More Stuff and tagged as Denver Post
Well knock me over with a spatula, I got an email from Kyle Wagner, the food critic for the Denver Post. She writes: cracking up at your blog, love it! wound up here because our server is down at the post and i needed to find some of my own articles for a christmas piece. [...]
Posted on December 6, 2004 in More Stuff and tagged as Denver Post
I’m jealous of Kyle Wagner, the food critic at The Denver Post. In today’s paper she wrote about her week-long trip on the American Orient Express’s Pacific Coast Culinary Explorer (Scenes from the dining car). This is my dream trip. You travel by train up the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle. You eat [...]
Posted on November 10, 2004 in More Stuff and tagged as Denver Post
This recipe is from The Denver Post article, Scenes from a dining car by Kyle Wagner. She ate it on her Culinary Explorer trip on the American Orient Express. I’m considering making it for Thanksgiving. I love pumpkin pie and cheesecake and this sounds like a good combination. Pumpkin Streusel Cheesecake Per Ms. Wagner, this [...]
Posted on November 10, 2004 in Baking,Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as Denver Post