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Chocolate Peppermint Cake with Minty Glaze

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Well, I might have said last week was my final holiday recipe. But don’t worry, readers, I have one more left for ya...

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Zesty Orange Whipped Cream

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They say true love is hard to find, but I must say I have never met a chocolate I didn’t truly love. I would never say I wouldn’t snag up a Hershey bar every now and then, just because a chocolate snob might be mortified, but I must admit, I do like good, quality ...

Dark Chocolate Cake with Blueberry Pinot Noir Chutney

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People, people, people. This week you are going to be so happy with my creation that you might just want to name a street after me...

The better-than-restaurant-pizza project, part 1

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Wood-fired, brick oven Napoletana. Put this in front of the word pizza, and people will pay about $18 for a tiny 12-inch pie made with less than $4 of ingredients. The problem is, in my experience, the success rate for traditional ’za, good enough to bring a tear to ...

A local book buyer’s guide to the best children’s books

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Liesl Freudenstein spends a lot of time reading children’s books. And not just because she has a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old at home...

Vote 2011: Local elections, big issues

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It’s been a steady few years of incessant complaining about government and all the things government fails to do well for its citizens. Now we’re heading into an election in which very few people will take time to vote. It’s not that they have to brave death threats ...

Carr goes off the rails

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In the past couple of years, the city of Boulder has done a number of things not to help the homeless, but rather to make life much more difficult for them...

Shooters should clean up their act

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A shredded television. Shattered glass bottles. Empty ammo boxes. Endless shotgun shells. Brass bullet casings sprinkled across the forest floor. Orange bits of clay pigeons...

The people’s park

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It’s 7 a.m. on a summer Saturday...

New season, new faces

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Colorado head coach Jon Embree released the first depth chart of the 2011 campaign on Aug. 22, and many inexperienced freshmen and first-time starters will walk onto the field a week from Saturday, when the Buffs travel to Honolulu to face Hawai’i in the season ...

Banning the dirty frackers

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If a group of Longmont citizens has its way, Longmont will become the first city in Colorado to ban hydraulic fracturing, aka “fracking,” within the city limits...