A couple of weeks back I was chatting with one of my tennis gals, Leigh and we were discussing our businesses. Her company is Plum Creek Gourmet which produces yummy fruit and nut bar mixes and natural vanilla sugars. Her nut bar mixes are great because they are all natural and contain no preservatives. You
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
Limoncello Cream Berry Cake
Well it’s been a hot one in Colorado this past week. It actually was 100 degrees on Tuesday. Holy cow! One hundred degrees in June. In my twenty six years here, I’m not sure that I have even seen it that HOT in June! I shutter to the thought of what this may bring us
Bronco Biscuits
This week in Denver is a week of anticipation. First of all, after a few weeks of incredible Spring like weather, wearing shorts on dog walks and playing tennis outside, we are going to get hit with a giant snow storm later today and going into Tuesday. The weatherman says 12-24 inches. That always makes
Bermuda Rum Cake
Sorry that I have been MIA again for the past couple of weeks but I have a good excuse! I am so grateful again for another amazing experience! My family and I traveled to Bermuda for a little family reunion to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary! Wow! Fifty years! Mom and Dad went to
“Drunken” Peaches and Cream Pie
Here is another recipe inspired by a friends Grandma! Who doesn’t like a peach pie right? Well. it’s one of my favorite and it’s peach season in Colorado! Georgia isn’t the only state the produces amazing peaches, it’s really Colorado’s hidden secret! They are grown on the Western Slope and mainly come from the town
“Black and Blue” Berry Cobbler
For as long as I can remember, on Father’s Day, my Dad and me sprawl out on the couch, eat Cheetos, have a beer or two and watch the US Open on TV. It’s what we do and it’s always fun. This year instead of baking him a blueberry pie, I decided to mix it
S’more Brownies
Who doesn’t love a S’more? I’m not sure because I sure do. I equate eating a S’more to summertime, camping and backyard BBQ’s however our Colorado weather has been so dang crappy that I had to improvise for last weekends festivities, the “indoor” kind of S’more. S’more Brownie. Equally as delicious, just a little less
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Liquor Ganache
Tis the season’s for birthday’s! It seems that most of my friends and family are either Aquarius people, Taurus people and Leo people. Go figure, but it’s fun to bake birthday cakes for folks, so here it goes. My Dad’s birthday is this weekend and so is Valentine’s day so this flourless chocolate cake
