Simply delicious.  Orange, Lettuce, Blueberries, Cranberries, and a little water.

Turn the Vitamix up to high, hold on tight…

And enjoy.  Drink to your health!

If you have a cabinet full of Savory Spice Shop products like I do, you know that making unique spice rubs is fun and easy.  For 1.5 pounds of chicken breast I blended:

1/2 TB Granulated Onion

1 tsp Garlic Powder

1 TB honey Powder

1/2 TB Aleppo Pepper

a pinch of Fennel Pollen

a pinch of Mexican Oregano

1 tsp Spanish Sweet Paprika

1 TB Peanut Oil

Mix well, coat the chicken, and let it marinate a little while before grilling. Drizzle with a little lime juice before serving. Delicious!

When grapefruits are juicy and abundant in the store, I tend to buy a lot of them to make some “healthy” cocktails.  For years I had been hooked on Greyhounds, (or my version, the Greyhound Spritzer).  But all of the time I spend bringing food tours to SALT in Boulder has changed my perception of creating cocktails, especially because of the Cocktail Element.  I mixed it up this time and made a Tequila Grapefruit Collins.

I mixed:

 1 shot of Reposado Tequila

1 shot of Gran Gala

Juice of 1/2 grapefruit

Juice of 1/2 lime

a little club soda

Serve in a tall glass over ice.  Enjoy.

There is simply nothing I look forward to every autumn more than a bottle of Killer Penguin.  I’m pretty serious about that.  When I first moved to Boulder I read something about the release of Killer Penguin and that it was limited, killer, and not going to be on the shelves long.  I found a bottle at Liquor Mart and started an annual tradition in my home.

I am a big fan of barley wine, and Boulder Beer produces a smooth, complex, sippable beer.  If only I had a secret to easily removing the wax coating.

I bought two bottles in November 2010 and consumed them.  Then, this week (February) while stocking up at Liquor Mart for a Vail ski vacation, I saw 4 bottles left in the fridge.  I grabbed two more.  Gotta share this with my dad!