High Five

This recipe does not disappoint; I made the meatballs too big this time, but next time — I will make twice as many, half as big and freeze the second half for other recipes. It is quick, healthy and delicious. Nice work, Panda! -K...

Comfort Food

Snow returned to Golden this week; we woke up yesterday morning to inches stacked on the patio furniture, and two prissy dogs who did not want to have to go outside. Chilly weather and heavy foods pair so well. I am trying to use what we have in the pantry so it...

Oh, the food.

I didn’t really get any good photographs of any of the fancy meals we ate. I was too busy, well, eating. And oh, New York, you are so good with the food. Even the gyro street carts with saffron rice and suspicious meat sources smelled delicious at times. Ess-a...

Prep

  I can’t be the only person enamored with the simplicity of food photography. Shiny noodles. Charred steak. The fibonacci sequence found in a sliced artichoke. I also can’t be the only one who almost always forgets to take photos of the finished...

Relleno’d

For every negative, there is a positive. Isn’t that some fancy law of physics? (Let me tell you what I remember from high school physics: My teacher Mr. Barrett telling me, “You really aren’t the smartest, but you work the hardest.” Gee....

Sit down, Warm up

A friend’s husband showed up unexpectedly at my doorstep yesterday afternoon. He’d been up canyon on his bike when it had begun to snow. By the time he reached my house, going some 40 miles an hour down Clear Creek, he was blue. His hands were frozen and...