This past summer, I had a prolific vegetable garden. I grew tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers, tons of herbs, Australian Blue pumpkins, and Delicata squash. The Delicata outperformed everything leaving me with no less than 50 squashes. I gave a lot away and probably still have a dozen left! That’s what prompted this recipe. What is
Fresh Peach Nectar
Ah, summertime! What screams summer more than a ripe, fresh, juicy peach? Not much in my book, that’s for sure. Anyhoo, this week I picked up my yearly flat of peaches from Palisade, Colorado. Did you know that Colorado’s main fruit crops are peaches and apples? The warm days and cool nights bring out the
Homemade Minestrone Soup
Happy New Year Everyone! I hope that you had a safe and fun holiday! This New Years I did something that I haven’t done in probably 15 years! I made the trip up to Keystone Resort to hang out with forever friends from Cincinnati at their home in the mountains, my old stomping grounds. What
Homemade Teriyaki Sauce
Yikes! Have you ever read the ingredient list for that bottle of teriyaki sauce that’s in your refrigerator? I did and immediately threw it out! Besides being a salt bomb of non distinct flavor, it’s packed with high fructose corn syrup and a chemical list too long list, yet alone pronounce. Good news though. Making
Apple Bread Pudding with Apple Brandy Sauce
Well, I wasn’t planning on cooking for Thanksgiving this year but our dinner for seven quickly soared to sixteen in the past day! Wow, this is going to be a fun day! Me and my parents, my brother and his family, my Aunt Nancy, old man Cotton, my friends Lauren and Paul and their kiddos
Fireball Whiskey Peach Bread Pudding
Hi All! I hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. I’m still busy “laboring”… Actually after a super busy week showing houses to a great family, we found a wonderful home for them and wrote an offer last night. So now we are in the “sit and wait” period to hear back from the
Guacamole
Yikes! We seriously had four straight days of snowy wet weather or as the weather people say, a “wintery mix”, which is code word for “it sucks” outside. Yep that was pretty much our weekend in Colorado. I got lucky though, I had to show houses all weekend to clients and it’s kinda a fun
Fireball Whiskey Sauce
I’m not sure where I come up with this stuff. Especially a sauce made with whiskey and let alone cinnamon flavored whisky. Heck, I don’t even drink whiskey, which is a good thing…. don’t ask, HA! Anyway, Thursday morning I woke up and was thinking about what to make for my post this week and
Caesar Salad
Well, well, well… Another year is upon us and all I want to do is eat a salad… Seriously, I’m not sure that I have ever consumed as much red meat as I had this past December! Holy cow. I need a break or at least a time out this week! Back to eating my
Grilled Fruit Bruchetta
On a recent “trip” to Downtown Denver (yes it’s a trip, I live 13 miles away, haha), we had lunch at The Kitchen. You know the place. The restaurant that every city in America talks about, the place that you “must” go to because the food is “to die for”. Well, that is The Kitchen
