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Dorie’s Chowder & Eataly Picture Book

January 11, 2019 by Mary 21 Comments

EVERYDAY DORIE, The Way I Cook, by Dorie Greenspan With apologies to Dorie Greenspan, I re-titled this week’s CooktheBookFridays recipe choice. It’s called Potato Chowder Lots of Ways. I’ve chosen to re-name it A Chowder for All Seasons. This soup is worthy of the name. Here’s Why? A chowder is a rich, chunky soup traditionally made with onions,… 

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Filed Under: CookTheBookFridays, Doris Greenspan, EATALY, Everyday Dorie, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Uncategorized

LET’S WELCOME TOO-OH-WON-NINE*

January 4, 2019 by Mary 15 Comments

It’s a new year, a fresh beginning and it’s going to be noisy. With 7.5 billion people hanging out on Planet Earth, why are we surprised? Here’s a thought. Let’s bring joy and wonder into each day, making it sparkle. Let’s laugh louder and more often. Let’s try on Happiness until it fits. What we… 

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Filed Under: Aspen, Beverages, CookTheBookFridays, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Uncategorized

BOWLED OVER by TABBOULEH

November 30, 2018 by Mary 12 Comments

  Let’s be clear. Blogs are blogs. Power Point Presentations are not. According to my more seriously-minded techie pals, PPP are something else entirely. They are more, well, seriously minded. Humph! After watching a PPP listing ten potential benefits of them, we seemed almost on the same page. I especially honed in on (1) Broadening… 

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Filed Under: Appetizers, CookTheBookFridays, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Salads, Uncategorized Tagged With: International Space Station, Presidential Libraries

LAST STOP: GRAND RAPIDS

November 9, 2018 by Mary 19 Comments

  Everyone has a brussels sprouts story. This is mine. When we moved to Aspen from Des Moines in 1988, we bought a house that wasn’t grand but situated on lovely property abutting Red Butte Mountain and surrounded by 40-some evergreen trees. Along with moving too many belongings, we also packed up our shovels, pitchforks… 

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Filed Under: Aspen, Breads, CookTheBookFridays, Desserts, Doris Greenspan, Everyday Dorie, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Uncategorized, Veggies

HERE WE GO AGAIN, with DORIE

October 25, 2018 by Mary 22 Comments

  Who doesn’t keep some kernels of wisdom tucked into their hip pocket to pull out when needed. For me, my pocket runneth over with pithy tips. Here are just two: 1. PEOPLE LIKE TO BE THANKED. (My mother) While growing up, I knew whenever someone gave me a gift, a thank you note was… 

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Around My French Table, Aspen, CookTheBookFridays, Doris Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, The Way I Cook, Uncategorized

THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT to MARKET

September 7, 2018 by Mary 11 Comments

Not long ago, when walking to a music concert with my friend Wendy, she asked, “Do you miss your garden?” That question, out of the blue, had nothing to do with our ongoing chatter and was rather innocuous. “Yes,” I answered. “Yes I do.” Although we quickly moved on to more important topics – her… 

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Aspen, CookTheBookFridays, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Platters & Boards, Uncategorized

FIRE!

July 7, 2018 by Mary 19 Comments

In my last post I discussed my summer responsibilities as a volunteer USFS wilderness ranger in Colorado’s White River National Forest. “With full-on fire restrictions already in place,” I wrote, “we’ll be on the lookout [for fire].” Of major concern were lightening strikes, tossed cigarette butts or campground mishaps caused by uninformed tourists. We never… 

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Filed Under: Aspen, CookTheBookFridays, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Snacks, Uncategorized Tagged With: Lake Christine Fire

A GRATITUDE ATTITUDE in EVERY FLAVOR

June 1, 2018 by Mary 14 Comments

Memorial Day is now a memory. Hopefully, a joyful one. Now it’s time to get serious about summer. That’s why I just made my first batch of ice cream. This past winter I treated myself to more scoops at Berthillon’s (Paris most famous glacier) than necessary and regretted not one lick. Missing that occasional flavor… 

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Filed Under: Aspen, CookTheBookFridays, Desserts, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Meats, Uncategorized

BEETS, BAGELS & BIRDS

May 19, 2018 by Mary 6 Comments

“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” Fennel Huston Today’s post is a full-on Happy Meal. I need that, don’t you? This week Mother Nature shot Springtime out of a cannon into the High Country. We went to bed in Winter and miraculously woke up to this… 

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Filed Under: Aspen, Chef Yotam Ottolenghi, CookTheBookFridays, Desserts, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Main Dishes, Uncategorized

LIGHTS on BRIGHT in ASPEN

May 4, 2018 by Mary 13 Comments

For the previous four winters I’ve emptied my Aspen condo of personal belongings, parking them in my down valley storage unit, and handed my keys to The Gant’s front office personnel. There’s no way to make this easy. Physically, it’s double-duty difficult, packing for a 51/2-month journey while converting my home into rental space. Mentally,… 

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Filed Under: Aspen, Breads, Breakfasts, CookTheBookFridays, Desserts, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Snacks, Uncategorized

SEVEN YEARS of BLOGGING & SAN MIGUEL

January 30, 2018 by Mary 13 Comments

SEVEN YEARS OF BRIGHT LIGHTS Can we agree that seven years of blogging about food is worth 250 calories? Thus, the cake. Lately I’ve been reflecting on this lifetime of growing, cooking, eating and sharing food, realizing it’s the frame work I’ve used to build and re-build my life. Most of my happy memories are… 

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Filed Under: CookTheBookFridays, Cottage Cooking Club, Doris Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Power to the Polls 2018, Uncategorized

A COMFORT LIST for THE ROAD

December 1, 2017 by Mary 8 Comments

During the Thanksgiving holiday my friend Meredith explored Patagonia, a meandering territory in the southern tip of South America. This rugged area of spectacular national parks in the Andes mountain range is shared by Chile and Argentina. Forty years ago English author Bruce Chatwin wrote IN PATAGONIA, ‘a masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the… 

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Filed Under: Aspen, CookTheBookFridays, General Post, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Soups, Uncategorized

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