Journey to Arugula: Part Two

January 23, 2010

My next arugula encounter was at a small pizzeria here in Colorado, just South of Denver, called Via Baci. I had been to Via Baci a couple of times before because they happen to be one of the few restaurants in the Denver area that gives discounts to teachers. Right away this restaurant [...]

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Journey to Arugula: Part One

January 22, 2010

I have to say that arugula had me fooled. It comes lookin’ like a fancy lettuce that you might find on a plate of gourmet salad that is served at a wedding reception before the highly over-rated chicken cordon bleu and asparagus sprouts wrapped in bacon. Quite frankly, I wasn’t impressed (even though [...]

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Fresh Ginger in Kung Pao Chicken

January 5, 2010

Now that I had purchased my little knob of fresh ginger, it was time to make some re-vamped Kung Pao Chicken.
I wanted to capture the flavor of the ginger and not the texture of it in the Kung Pao Chicken, so I decided to grate it rather than chop or slice it. I peeled [...]

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Fresh Ginger…The First Step

January 5, 2010

I have to admit that I am completely intimidated by fresh ginger. Yes, those small, gnarly (in the gnarled, not “cool” sense of the word) things in the produce section have always been a bit of a mystery to me and I was quite happy to allow them to remain that way. Let’s [...]

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A Pumpkin Success

December 22, 2009

After taking quite a while to get over the failure that was my last batch of pumpkin pancakes, I decided to get up off the couch and try again.  Because the original batch had a great flavor but didn’t cook well, I decided to stick to the same recipe but change the way I cooked [...]

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A Pumpkin Failure

December 3, 2009

The first place I ever tried pumpkin pancakes was at our favorite breakfast place in Chicago…the Bongo Room. Ever since we had these I have wanted to try making them. Being as that I needed an idea for dinner tonight I decided I would try making chocolate chip, pumpkin pancakes with a vanilla [...]

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A Hike in Amalfi

November 18, 2009

At one point in my life I thought that taking a ride on a local bus in Mexico would be the scariest bus ride I would ever experience.  Come to find out, after venturing from Sorrento to the coastal town of Amalfi, a bus ride in Italy takes the cake.  After barreling along a cliff [...]

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Into the Homeland

November 15, 2009

Italy is one of those places that I had waited my entire life, all big whopping 26 years of it, to visit. My family talked about it growing up and I knew that was where a large part of my family traditions came from. So you can probably imagine my surprise and ecstatic, [...]

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Ciao Italia

November 12, 2009

If you have been reading this blog for any period of time you may have picked up on the fact that I get pretty passionate about everything that is Italian. I jump for joy when I see that salami is on sale at the grocery store. I crave pasta and often feel a [...]

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The Trans-Siberian Orchestra

November 4, 2009

Last night Jim and I went to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert.  This is the second year in a row that we have seen them live at the Pepsi Center in downtown Denver for their Christmas concert, and it was every bit as amazing as the first time we went.  Nothing else has ever [...]

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