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.