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Christmas Day in Denver began with snow lightly dusting the city to give us a beautiful white Christmas! Over Christmas Eve and Day we had our traditional pierogis and borscht with apps and then ham with roasted rainbow carrots and garlic mashed potatoes. What is not pictured this year is the pierogies, chocolate torte, gingerbread whoopie…
Christmas is almost here and you might be looking for something different to bake than the usual gingerbread anything or fruitcake. Well the wait is over, I give you cannoli pound cake. It has a rich flavor and it seems like a fancier bread but it has pretty basic ingredients. Once you put this in the oven…
Khaosan road is unlike any place I have ever been. I had booked a lot of our Thailand trip but my friend Becky took charge with Bangkok so I didn’t do much research on where our hotel was located or the nightlife. We had booked a room at Dang Derm Hotel because her flight attendant friend had…
I’ve fallen for the jar; I love my mason jar salads. I don’t use it the way you are supposed to but I still love it. The idea behind the mason jar is that the dressing will not make the rest of the salad or ingredients soggy and then you can make a weeks worth…
On my way over to my sister’s house to watch the MSU football game on Saturday I decided we needed to make some good football apps. I decided to call my brother-in-law John instead of Kara because he’ll have better suggestions and by better I mean more delicious. We decide on wings and nachos and…
When I go camping I always want to bring a baked good. Actually whenever I’m going anywhere I want to bring a bake good so this isn’t that different. I decided to make something for breakfast and dessert when we went camping in Telluride in August (Telluride post to follow). I wanted to bake something…
Sunday I brought out my large-and-in-charge dutch oven to make one of my favorite soups— Italian wedding soup! This recipe is from the amazing Ina Garten and therefore obviously creates an incredible soup that is so flavorful and hearty. I would also suggest making it a few hours before serving so it has time to sit and the…
Here is my most recent post for the Equator. The Coordinates Almost smack-dab in the middle of Brazil is Goiânia, the 11th largest city in the country, located 15 hours northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Like many cities in Brazil, on Sunday afternoon you’ll find families gathered around one of the country’s most popular dishes,…
The best thing I ate in Costa Rica was chifijo (pictured below) and from what I heard this is the most classic Costa Rican dish you could try. It is composed of chicharrón, which is crispy fried pork, regular pork, beans, rice and then topped with chimichurrri (which tasted exactly like pico de gallo to me). The…
The final stop on my Europe tour was Switzerland. We started in Zurich. Well I technically went to Zurich but in reality I stayed at a hotel that was about five minutes away from the airport. Instead of exploring Zurich we went to the Rhine Falls in Neuhausen. It was a pretty fun excursion and…