Cooking
Blackened Fish Tacos
What I didn’t like about Stevie Ray’s soft fish tacos:
1. Too spicy hot. My taste buds were so preoccupied fighting the chili burns that it couldn’t taste anything else. I tried to tone down the flavor with sour cream and salad but the salad seemed permeated by the same spice only hotter!
2. Fish strips were [...]
Restaurant Review – Stevie Rays of Colorado Springs
I enjoy restaurants that make effort in providing healthy and natural dishes. Stevie Ray’s Eastside Grill is one of the few mainstream restaurants that put forth this effort.
It’s “mainstream” because it’s not another Adams Mountain Cafe, Dale Street Cafe, Gertrudes or Olive Branch. In other words, it doesn’t appear to cater specifically to health nuts. [...]
October 1st – World Vegetarian Day
October 1st is World Vegetarian Day. It started in 1977 to bring awareness of the benefits of living a vegetarian life style ranging from the treatment of animals to health importance.
Other than veggies I enjoy a good fish, which technically makes me a pescitarian. I’m not disturbed by bear rugs or mink coats but [...]
Jelly-making in the Rockies
High altitude is great for crisp dry air, beautiful winter snow and alpine flowers. It is not good for baking, candy making or jelly making. I nearly fumbled the jelly this year by trying to follow the recipe. I don’t see any high-altitude directions, so assumed there weren’t any major differences. How wrong I was!
Trying [...]
Organic Pick-Your-Own Farms
A large windmill spun overhead as we pulled in past the gate. Parking our van we quickly spied over the metal bar fence. Picnic tables adorned the lawn to the side of a large red barn. Nestled on the barn’s porch were white rocking chairs and a table with a box of freshly pulled garlic [...]
Little Wonders
In the small town of Richfield Utah on 101 main street there is a little green-roofed restaurant that if not for a classic storefront sign jutting over the sidewalk would be easily dismissed. But that red and white sign beaconed out. As it was approaching 1 and this looked like a salivary adventure, we took [...]
Living on the edge
When I bake brownies they usually end up a bit soft in the center, if you know what I mean. I’m talking gummy. (Note to self – chocolate flavored gummy bears… hmmm). But for many others suffering the same result, that’s changing.
The Baker’s Edge pan has been reviewed by nearly every baking company and [...]
