DIG IN
Q: What did I make on December 14, 2017 you ask?
A: I baked a spectacular Gingerbread Cake Roll topped with Eggnog Whipped Cream.
Here’s where you can find all the recipes I’ve made since February, 2011. Admittedly, even I’m impressed by that.
JUNE is BUSTIN’ OUT in the ROCKIES
Mary+I need a Time Out to serve up some Joy. While processing the waywardness of our planet this week, it’s not disrespectful, to my mind, to search for an alternative to hand-wringing and strain. Who wants anxiety and sadness to become constant companions. Although I’m...
LIFE on the SAFE SIDE: A LIST
Mary+Can you handle a How-To List? Realizing you’re involved in your own lives, I can hear heavy sighing. Take a deep breath. Grab that leap of faith. Today’s post is loaded with gems of wisdom. Lifesavers. For you. And, loved ones. It’s also CooktheBookFridays. Our recipe...
IT’S A REVOLUTION. (Not Politics. Food.)
Mary+Thankfully I’ve always been able to grow where I’m planted. Iowa. Florida. Georgia. Nevada. California. Stick me in soil and I’ll sprout. What is true, however, is that I seem to grow best in Colorado’s High Country. There is something profoundly solid about...
ROAD TRIP: MARIN, SONOMA to PITKIN COUNTY
Mary+Not much can leave me speechless. SALTED BUTTER CARAMEL-CHOCOLATE MOUSSE. Words. Cannot. Describe. Since every drool-worthy dessert needs a simple meal as its prop, I’m nominating this old-timer, Pasta Citron avec Jambon and Olives from Le Procope in Paris. Claiming...
MY LEXUS & ME: 7,200 MILES LATER
Mary+Where to begin. This is my last LIGHTSonBRIGHT postmarked from California. In mid-November I left Aspen, barely escaping the first snow flurries, knowing it would be springtime before my return. The left side of my brain, where my logic is warehoused, kept telling me...
HOW TO PICK & CHOOSE DELICIOUS
Mary+If you’re ever in Aspen and receive an invitation to have dinner with Cathy O’Connell and her husband, Fred Venrick, say, “Yes.” Until last September their back door was a short two blocks from my front door at The Gant. Although I never heard her complain, Cathy’s...
MY PARIS KITCHEN KISSES THE BLARNEY STONE
Mary+HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY Gotta be honest. I’ve not a smidgen of blood - red cells, white cells, platelets, or plasma - that runs Irish. I’m pretty sure David Lebovitz, an American living in Paris and author of My Paris Kitchen, is not Irish either. This week, however,...
WELCOME to MY FOOD BLOGGING UNIVERSE
Mary+The Good News: For the first time in my Adult Life I have no one to care for. The Bad News: For the first time in my Adult Life I have no one to care for. One of my dearest friends recently lost her husband. In our frequent conversations she once lamented that she has...
BIRTHDAY BASH: CAMBRIA COTTAGE CHIC
Mary+When our first grandchild was a year old, she and her parents visited us in Aspen. While Melissa and Stephen probably saw this as a vacation and relief from 24/7 parenting, I viewed their visit as an opportunity to introduce sweet Emma to our friends. I planned a...
LET’S CELEBRATE: WINTER SALAD & MISSISSIPPI ROAST
Mary+Dear Readers, Although I admit to flaws, you must agree, I am no complainer. In fact, I am often obnoxious in my upbeat-ingness. Let’s just throw it out there…January was the pits. That towel I’ve never thrown in almost got hurled. While I realized there would be...
HUGH, BEES & WILDLIFE REFUGES
Mary+My end-of-month post is often a favorite since I’m meeting unique recipes and buying ingredients that have never graced my pantry. Michael was a meat and potatoes, Oreo cookies, chocolate marshmallow pinwheels and Häagen-Dazs guy. If there was a bag of Snickers...
HOPES, DREAMS & GOOD LUCK LENTILS
Mary+Last summer a good friend returned to Aspen after a week of sifting through, sorting and discarding boxes she’d left behind in her mother’s attic. “I had so many dreams and hopes back then,” she told me rather regretfully, “that I’ve never fulfilled.” Color me...
