Recipes

Farmer's Market

I Baked a Cake

Not being a baker, I kind of need a reason to do something as challenging as baking a cake. But recently I’ve felt like celebrating — and not just the fact that I have a case of glorious Palisades peaches sitting on my kitchen table, although if you live in Colorado, you know this is a cause for celebration worthy of a cake in and of itself.

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Family Dinner

Various Things with Walnuts and Lemon

The combination of lemons and walnuts (and a little parm) is going to be good on just about anything. Feel free to dump it over a salad, a pan of fried canned beans, roasted vegetables, artichokes, pasta, and definitely boring baked chicken thighs.

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Beverages

Weirdly Life-Changing Things

I’ve been keeping a list of “life-changing” things for a minute. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek and kind of silly but also useful. These are things I’ve found or discovered or enjoyed recently that have an outsized effect on my life relative to their price or size (i.e. I’m not talking about the swimming pool in my back yard that I know would be life-changing if I had it, which I do not).

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Eating Green

Anything-But-Normal Gazpacho

Gazpacho is one of my current obsessions. But not just any gazpacho. Unlike most gazpacho I’ve tried, this one is rich and velvety and bright orange — and not anything like cold tomato sauce.

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