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I’m a bit of a chilihead. Living in Southwest Colorado for 10 years, (not to mention southern California for a while when I was a kid, and traveling in Mexico for 9 months in my 20’s) has given me a serious appreciation for a well-balanced bowl of red. Read the rest of this entry »
In retrospect, perhaps these should be renamed “rabbit pellets”. They may not be the most appetizing thing to look at, but trust me, they taste great.
Years ago, I had a subscription to Saveur magazine. I love to travel and I love to cook, and I thought a magazine that combined the two would be great. Alas, while the travel stories were inspiring, the recipes just weren’t a good fit for me. A bit too haute cuisine and hard to find ingredients for how I tend to cook. During a one year subscription, I made one and only one recipe, for Sugar Plums. Read the rest of this entry »
Having lived in Southwest Colorado for 10 years, we spent quite a few holidays, and a few long weekends in New Mexico, exploring Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos, and the landscapes in between. If you have ever been in this part of the world, you quickly learn that the local food is “New Mexican”, not “Mexican”. One of the questions you are asked in most every restaurant, if ordering anything with sauce, is “red or green”? By this they mean red sauce made with dried chiles, or a green sauce made with fresh chiles, smothering whatever you have ordered?
I’m not really much of a creamy dressing girl anymore. I could drink good balsamic vinegar right from the bottle, so putting ranch dressing on a salad kind of makes me feel like I’m 12 again. My step-mom made ranch dressing from packets of Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mix, using equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream. The packets themselves were always of questionable age, as she liked to buy in bulk. I probably ate ranch dressing on some sort of salad about 1,000 times growing up and I’ve kind of out grown it.
I love Honest Tea’s Peach Oo-la-long tea. I’ve bought countless bottles of it at $1.00 a bottle on sale, and more than that when it wasn’t. It’s not too sweet (only 60 calories for 16 oz) and has this wonderful refreshing taste.
But, it’s getting harder and harder to find in stores (and the Safeway copy cat brand has twice as much sugar). Plus, it’s an expensive habit in a glass bottle that costs a lot to ship (glass adds weight which requires additional gas which adds to the carbon footprint of the product). Glass itself is also getting harder to recycle, as it costs a lot to ship empty bottles to a glass recycling center, which are often far far away from where you used the bottles, so the glass, after one use, ends up in a land fill. Read the rest of this entry »
In my quest to eat healthier in January, I’ve been avoiding added sugar. This means that my several times a week fruit, plain yogurt and granola habit has been tabled of late. Then I ran across this recipe for Hazelnut Cherry Muesli. I’d been collecting muesli recipes for a while, but had never gotten around to trying one out. This one seemed like a great place to start.
As I’ve probably mentioned on this blog before, I’m a tea drinker. Black tea, brewed strong, with a bit of sugar and a splash of half and half (and no, whole milk isn’t the same, and if you offer me that non-dairy creamer drivel, I’ll abstain all together). My first cup of tea was served to me by my maternal Grandmother when I was about 4, in a fragile china cup, with a lot of cream and sugar. I felt all grown up and special, and I’ve loved tea ever since. Half of my heritage is English, so I think part of it is simply in my genetics. I have never learned to like coffee. Read the rest of this entry »
Yup, I grew everything here except for the garlic.
I was home for a visit to northern California back in the 1990’s, during the height of summer, and my step-mom was making ratatoullie, a French vegetable stew. Not one to eat many vegetables at the time, I reluctantly tried some, and it was a revelation. It was SO good. Nothing like vine ripened tomatoes and fresh basil to make all vegetables taste fantastic. I was sold, and have been making ratatouille in September, during the height of the warm weather vegetable glut, ever since. Read the rest of this entry »
Wish I could take credit for the garlic, but everything else in this picture was grown by yours truly. Note the blue eggs. My Araucanas have started laying!
Years ago, while on a business trip in Albuquerque, a coworker and I stumbled upon a small coffee shop while looking for breakfast. The place was run by a little Mexican woman who barely spoke English, but boy could she cook. We returned there every morning we were in town for her Eggs Albañil, a dish so spicy and wonderful it made my coworker’s ears ring. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been having a wonderful time over the last few weeks, as my husband has been here full-time. He had some “use it or lose it” vacation time, and so took a couple of weeks off to spend on the farm. It’s the most time we’ve spent together in one stretch since January 2010! He helped me with markets (SO much easier with two people), made lots of new earrings (see the products tab above for a sample – yes, those ARE rusted fence staples), and generally “got stuff done” around the farm. Read the rest of this entry »
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