A welcome sight on a cold winter day: Orange Cake with Whipped Mascarpone
Citrus is a welcome sight on a cold Winter day. Between November and March, there are all sorts of lemons, oranges, limes, and grapefruits. I especially love the sweet navel oranges during the Winter. This cake can be made year round but is especially welcome during the Winter.
Cake
1 cup baking sugar
1/2 unsalted butter, softened
1 tsp [...]
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Duck 
For Valentine’s Day, may I offer a suggestion? If you don’t dine out
at one of the fine restaurants in town because you can’t get into your
favorite (I hear D-Bar has reserved all three seatings already), make
duck breast for your paramour. I’ll just throw it out there – duck is a
sexy meat. It is even sexier when it is prepared medium rare with spicy
berbere and tangy pomegrate glaze.
A Super Bowl of Gumbo
I will be the first to admit, I am not a football fan. While I
understand enough of the game to understand why it takes six months to
go from practice to championship each year, I am pretty much in the dark
when it comes to how anyone got to the big even known as the Super
Bowl. Indeed, I still need to google what time the game starts tomorrow.
Local Mom, Sophia Gettys to compete on Food Network’s ‘Worst Cook’
Worst Cook recruit Sophia Gettys’ husband won’t eat when she cooks. Twelve of the most hopeless cooks in the country will compete in a high-stakes elimination series in Worst Cooks in America. At stake for the last two standing is the chance to cook for a panel of esteemed culinary critics and win the grand prize of $25,000. This six-week series will put the “recruits” through a culinary boot camp led by two acclaimed chefs: Anne Burrell, host of Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, and Beau MacMillan, executive chef at elements in Phoenix.
Paella — easy to prepare and layers of flavor
I have had paella on my mind for the past few weeks since I came back from New York, where I had some of the best paella I have ever tasted at a restaurant called Soccarat.
The case for making your own sausage
It’s a sausage lover’s world out there, right? Especially at this time of year, nothing goes better with a great cold beer.
Oktoberfest kicks off possibly for the last time
After 40 years of sponsoring Oktoberfest Denver, Larimer Associates is saying danke schön to the annual festival. This year’s event, which starts tonight in the Ballpark neighborhood, might be the last.
Boulder-based author takes aim at allergens, food industry
Robyn O’Brien never thought too much about what was in her food until her youngest daughter suffered an allergic reaction to eggs one morning.
