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When In Doubt, Add Bacon


I had a fantastic group of women here for class last week. They came with many different food concerns, from how to make family dinners less stressful when everyone is so busy to whether or not we all should be buying organic chickens. If there was one common theme among all of them, it was feeding picky eaters —

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Flourless Chocolate Cake


What is that thing they say about people who do the same thing over and over and expect different results? Right. Well, that would be me when it comes to making chocolate mousse on Valentine’s Day. Or should I say, attempting to make chocolate mousse on Valentine’s Day?

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Feeling SAD?


Okay, are we sick of getting up in the dark yet? I don’t know about you, but I am. Don’t get me wrong, I love winter — especially when I’m skiing powder on a bluebird day — but I have to admit I’m getting sick of being cold, sick of wearing turtlenecks, and sick looking at of my

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For Your Viewing Pleasure


 

In case you weren’t sitting around eating bonbons and watching TV at noon yesterday, here’s the segment featuring me on “Colorado’s Best.” (It’s kind of long, so you might want to get comfortable and grab some bonbons before you hit the play button.)

On the show, I made three of my

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Soup-Free Stroganoff


I don’t know if this automatically qualifies me as a snob, but I’m not a fan of recipes that call for cans of cream-of-anything soup. First, if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know about my concern with canned foods in general (if not, you can read one of my BPA-related posts here). And then of

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Meatball (or whatever you’ve got) Soup


First, I want to preface this post by saying that I in no way expect anyone to make this soup recipe exactly as I am writing it. Not because it isn’t delicious (it is), but because the idea behind this soup — and this post — is that you can make soup — really good soup that’s way, way better than store-bought and of course a lot better for you — out of just about anything. And on a day like today, when it’s 23 degrees

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