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Anzac Biscuits

November 11, 2020 By cookingintherockies Leave a Comment

A picture of Anzac Biscuits made three ways. With golden syrup, molasses and corn syrup

Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all our veterans for your service. In Australia, they celebrate Anzac Day which is short for the Australian New Zealand Army Corps. It’s traditional to make up a batch of these biscuits in celebration of this special day. So I thought, that I’d make up a batch anyway to

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Cherry Rum Glazed Ham

December 22, 2019 By cookingintherockies Leave a Comment

A picture of Cherry Rum Glazed Ham

Can you believe that Christmas is this week? I’m not quite sure where this year went and I am not sure why the years are just flying by so quickly. All I do know though is that my past year was filled with tons of travel and experiencing so many new and exciting things. It

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Silver Thread Scenic Byway

November 3, 2019 By cookingintherockies 8 Comments

A picture of colorful aspen trees seen from the road while driving the Silver Thread Scenic Byway in Colorado.

This autumns road trip began, as always, through Colorado. This trip was different though, we were blessed with the brilliance of changing aspen leaves on the way out of town which came a few weeks late this year! Follow along as we drive along the Silver Thread Scenic Byway! Silver Thread Scenic Byway Highway 149

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West Elk Loop Scenic Byway

September 24, 2019 By cookingintherockies 6 Comments

This is a picture of a pond with a reflection taken near Blue Mesa Reservoir, Colorado

A few weeks back we did a quick RV road trip through Colorado. Time was not on our side, so I picked out a quick route that I have never done before but have always wanted to do! I looked at the atlas and saw this cool loop that we could do in 3-4 days.

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Exploring the Northern Rockies

August 17, 2019 By cookingintherockies 1 Comment

A picture of the Clark Fork River in Montana

Well here we go, the continuation of the Western Scenic Byways tour takes us Exploring the Northern Rockies through Idaho and Montana! I love this part of the world as it seems that each view gets better and better than the last one! It boggles my mind with how beautiful America is. As you will

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Western Scenic Byways

July 28, 2019 By cookingintherockies 12 Comments

A picture of Red Canyon near Landon, Wyoming

As you may have noticed, I fell off the grid for a few weeks in June. Not that I don’t love you all for following my blog, it’s actually good for my soul to turn off everything and enjoy all the beauty that is really just in our backyards. My motto is to take the

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The Grand Finale

March 23, 2019 By cookingintherockies 15 Comments

The Grand Finale

Well, here it goes. The Grand Finale of my 3 part series of my Big Southwestern Road Trip! Boy, this has been fun and I hope that you have followed along with my adventures! If not, no worries! I will include links later in the post! 🙂 The 4-Corners Region After heading north on HWY

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Big Southwestern Roadtrip-Arizona

February 17, 2019 By cookingintherockies 8 Comments

Big Southwestern Roadtrip-Arizona

Big Southwestern Roadtrip-Arizona. Begins in Kanab, Utah: As a continuation of the Big Southwestern Roadtrip, the second part of the Big Southwestern Roadtrip-Arizona edition began in Kanab, Utah with a coffee and a muffin. Kanab is a cute little town filled with rich “Hollywood” history. In fact, it’s called, “Little Hollywood” as it lured filmmakers to the area

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Big Southwestern Road Trip

January 18, 2019 By cookingintherockies 16 Comments

Big Southwestern Road Trip

I am finally posting “part one” of our Big Southwestern Road Trip from last fall. No, I haven’t been lazy, it’s taken me this long to go through the 2500+ photos that I took on our great journey. Wow! We saw some amazing scenery. The United States of America offers some of the most spectacular vistas that

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Homemade Peach Galette

August 12, 2018 By cookingintherockies 1 Comment

Homemade Peach Galette

A couple of weeks ago when my Palisade peaches arrived, I was on an all-out frenzy making things with peaches. I decided that a Homemade Peach Galette would be a fun thing to make with all peaches. Galette is a French term to refers to a flat, freeform, crusty cake or pastry. They are relatively

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