I recently purchased an indoor shiitake mushroom kit. Growing mushrooms is perfect for me, because my home doesn’t get a whole lot of natural sun. I’ve harvested a couple of mushrooms and thought I’d share the pictures.
Here’s my shitake cooking recipe so far.
Ingredients
fresh shiitake mushrooms
oil or butter
Directions
Wash the mushrooms
Cut off their stalks, save for boiling [...]
I went to a birthday party over the weekend and saw this marvel of cake making and decorating. Truly a work of edible art.
I asked where such a beautiful shimmering cake could come from, and then I heard about the Denver Cake Nazi (a la Seinfeld’s “soup nazi”). If you are interested in a one-of-a-kind, [...]
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Just two of many incredible house made desserts at Pasquini’s.
Chocolate Espresso Torte (above), is a wedge of deliciously dense velvety chocolate with just a hint of espresso.
Classic Chocolate Cake (above) is moist and fluffy with a light and creamy frosting, not too sweet.
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Last Saturday, at the Cherry Creek Farmer’s Market, it was time. Corn dropped to 4/$1. To me, that means it’s the peak of the season and time to buy as much as I can carry home. When I was a kid, my dad and I would sit on lawn chairs in the back yard and [...]
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Last night when I went to visit my plot at the Whittier Community Garden, I found that I had an eggplant ready. cool! Except, I’ve never cooked eggplant. Growing up on a farm in Ohio, we ate sweet corn and green beans. and tomatoes… not eggplant.
So I decided to get crazy. (I’m on the [...]
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Last night I treated some new friends from LA to one of Denver’s finest restaurants, Sushi Den. We dined on spicy firecracker rolls and Bincho (seared tuna) accompanied by chilled sweet plum wine and ice cold Kirin. Our tuna appetizer was drenched with a light and tasty Ponzu-like sauce — yum! Nat & Rob suggested [...]
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So a couple of us had a birthday recently. We decided to celebrate at Sushi Sasa. There were 13 of us and it was good that we had a reservation. Their small dining room filled up quickly as the lunch crowd came in.
positives:
• fresh, fresh, fresh. and yummy sushi.
• their space has a very nice [...]
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step 1: Stop at St Marks (on 17th Ave) for a croissant (raspberry if I get there in time) and make my grocery list.
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This past summer growing season, my household and some of my friends joined a CSA. CSA, community-supported agriculture, is a model where local families and individuals buy a “share” from a farm before the growing season starts, and then get regular disbursements of fresh food throughout the season. I like the idea of supporting local [...]
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Here is my attempt at making that yummy couscous. I have come to 2 conclusions: a) it takes a lot of olive oil – the quality matters, and b) it needs to sit overnight.
Here is what I put in it: butter, EVOO, salt, italian parsely, walnuts, currents (because I didn’t have golden raisins,) mint, cherry [...]
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