Tag: Denver dining

Best Tastes of 2015

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I try my best to do some sort of recap/superlative list at the end of every year and while I won’t bore you with a month-by-month list of 2015 highlights — I’m saving that torturous activity for Joey 🙂 — I thought I’d dole out a list of the best tastes!  Just know that this is a post where I act like everything was the best thing I ever ate.

Best Food Lover’s Cleanse Meal: Roast Chicken with Butternut-Tahini Purée

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This is where it all began with roasting a whole chicken and that butternut-tahini puree is life changing.  I would (and did…) eat it by the spoonful.

Best Family Recipe Meal: My Uncle’s Red Beans and Rice

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We made this for Mardi Gras and it was our best batch yet!  Need to restock on pickled pork so we can make more this winter.

Best Vegan Meal: TIE between the Roasted Veggie Bowl and Garlic Mac N Cheese

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Weekend Things

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First things, first.  We went to three Rockies games this week and I’m feeling very qualified to say being a Rockies fan is ROUGH right now.  Remember at the beginning of the season, when I said I was trying to focus more this year?  Yeah, I totally picked the wrong year to start paying a lot more attention to the Rockies.

In other news, non-Rockies related pieces of this weekend were quite blissful.  It might have something to do with that “Autumn in August” phenomenon, that allows me to live out both of my favorite seasons at once — fall by morning, summer by afternoon — or it might have been a combination of a burger dinner, time with friends, a painless training run, lavender, baking and the best soy chai latte that you ever had.

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