Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook
There’s Mexican and there’s “Sort of” Mexican.
When it comes to cooking up Mexican recipes I often tend to wonder, “Is this authentic, or another recipe that has been Americanized?”
Let’s get real about American food. It basically came about from other countries and cultures that immigrated to...
Several hours after visiting Smoke Pizza Company and DaYz Desserts, I still found it difficult to begin this newest of restaurant review articles.
Why? Reeling from great conversation with owners Jon and Colleen Raisor (owner Daylen Carter was not present), and employee Vincent, plus the amazing...
On August 10, 1848, the Mormon pioneers that had traveled to Utah, celebrated their first season’s harvest.
Remember, when they entered Utah in 1847, all they had, in provisions and livestock, was what was in their handcarts and ox-drawn wagons.
They had to make it through a harsh winter with what...
The Opera House – aka Young’s Theatre – has a history rich in entertainment. Originally built in 1907, it was a community center for Monticellians to play basketball, put on plays, hold dances, or watch movies (silent ones of course).
In 1918 a severe snowstorm dumped so much upon the building’s...
Alright, fans of the 1960s television series, Time Tunnel, and the ever-popular English series, Doctor Who; we are going time traveling! So, whether it’s by tunnel or TARDIS, set your time/location devices to September 1898, Monticello, Utah, corner of 100 South and 300 East….and away we go. (...
August seemed to be a month where the spirits of San Juan County influenced my writing.
For example, the article I just wrote on Three Sisters Stew; research on Paiute and Ute foods began at the beginning of the month.
Just as I thought I had a handle on a particular item, something stayed my hand...
The end of August is almost here, and we are never too sure what the weather for September and October will be bringing to us.
Anyone home gardening should be considering what to harvest now, and what can wait a bit longer. Our summer has not been overly heated, but we never did get our annual...
My friend, Marsha Birch Frank, in Minnesota, and I were discussing recipes and she sends me a recipe calling it “meatloaf”.
Now I was thinking about making meatloaf, so that’s funny right there that she gives me her recipe.
Well, the story gets funnier. I follow all her directions, but for the...
“Into the great wide open . . . Under them skies of blue . . . Out in the great wide open . . . A rebel without a clue”
Into the Great Wide Open, by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1991
Since around June, hubby and I have taken short riding trips, with our dog, just to get away from the town....
When making new adventure discoveries, whether in food, travel or both combined, I try to find a direct link to a name.
Take, for example, the April 25, 2018 article on “Spaghetti alla Puttanesca and Lone Rock in the Kane Creek Canyon Rim”. Lone Rock, aka Prostitute Butte, and puttanesca loosely...
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