Recipes

So, summer is here, according to the calendar, with 90-degree temperatures and the chocolate slowly and surely melting in my cupboard. I guess back in the day Colorado homes didn’t need air conditioning. (So why would we need it now? So glad I fell for that one...

It’s been an Applepalooza of a month. I can’t get away from the apple desserts. They have been requested for parties, picnics and potlucks. Sounds like a bad Food Network show, but no, it’s just where my creations have been showing up. This week, my friends, it is...

Is it wrong to use words like yummy, yummers, nummers and the oh-so-widely-used phrase “yummers in the tummers...

 Well, it’s that time of year again. Ghouls, goblins and high-fructose corn syrup...

Happy Pomegranate...

Breakfast for dinner? That certainly isn’t uncommon for most of you, including my own love-to-eat-anything-anytime family. How about breakfast for dessert? That’s what I’m talking about. I guess it could be a breakfast for dinner and dessert combo, if you really ...

Man, the search for Halloween costumes can be simply exhausting. A Playboy bunny, a naughty nurse or a witch. What to do, what to do...

Alas, the new year is here...

Does the thought of a healthy cookie conjure up images of dry, tasteless and small culinary concoctions? Come on, I know you buy that “healthy” little green box of cookies and eat every last one because you think you can. I’m not being Judgy Judgerson, I just ...

Ah, Halloween is over, and on to Christmas we go. Wait, Thanksgiving comes first, even though these days, who would know? I happen to love Thanksgiving and everything that comes along with it. Some things just go together naturally, sugar and spice, football and beer...

So, pumpkin month is over...

Well, I missed it by one stinking month. I am a day late and a dollar short, or maybe two scoops short of a waffle cone is more appropriate. July was national ice cream month, and here I am about ready to gush over some hometown Boulder deliciousness. In August...