Author: Stephanie March

  • Santa Dog

    This is my last dispatch from Denver: #1 Thing to Do in Denver When You’re Hungry. Find Biker Jim’s hot dog cart on the 16th Street Mall, he’s out in front of Palomino. Order a Reindeer Dog. He’ll happily give you a bun with a split alaskan caribou sausage. In the split he’ll caulk a…

  • American as a Squishee

    Taken in a real live Kwik-E-Mart in Denver! Is there anything more American than a Squishee? My daughter just got back from Spain where she and her host family went to the Grandmother’s house and watched The Simpsons (in Spanish, natch) and then rushed home to watch the same episode again. Whether or not they…

  • Brewhaha

    Last night I had a particularly tasty brew. I’m in Denver and while dining at the Denver Chophouse and Brewery, I happened upon their Wild Turkey Barrel Conditioned Stout. After home-brewing the stout, they “cure” it for a time in used bourbon barrels. Being a bourbon girl, and a stout girl, it was like winning…

  • Cold Fish

    From the Why Don’t I Make This More Often category: Tuna Poke. Over the past few stifling days, the last thing I’ve wanted to do was fire up Ol’ Bessie and heat up the kitchen. Oh, maybe I should stand in front of the rocket-fueled grill which has withered the leaves in a five foot…

  • Flower Cooking

    I passed up these farmer’s market jewels again and again, even though they were right there under my eyes the whole time. Not one for plate decoration, I figured the papery squash blossom to be a useless bit of frill, destined to sit prettily and quietly beside some pallid piece of fish. Talk about misjudgment.…

  • Summer 'Sicle

    pugsicle I wouldn’t call it a theme as much as an obsession. Somehow, every year we end up with a pattern that defines the season. Two years ago it was the Summer of Lemonade, and then Summer of Homemade Ice Cream even an odd Summer of the Turkey Melt after we got the panini press.…