About Ingrid
Hi, I’m Ingrid. I’m what you might call an at-home-gourmet. My husband and I go nuts cooking most days of the week, especially weekends. We’ll be eating an amazing breakfast we just made discussing what culinary adventure to take on for dinner. During a rare dinner out, we usually look at each other and say “I can make that better.” My posts will lean toward the culinary along with my usual random observations.
Posted on June 17, 2010 by Ingrid
For the last couple weeks I’ve been listening to my Northwest friends complain about the rain in Oregon and Washington and the fact that it is June. After this weekend, I completely understand what they mean. Here in Colorado we had the sunniest, warmest Memorial Day weekend in years and it has been hot and sunny since. Up until Friday, that is.
The rain started Friday afternoon and kept falling, and falling, and falling through Sunday afternoon. That kind of rain feels a lot more like Oregon weather than Fort Collins weather. It was actually fun to have… Read More
Posted in Food and Drink, Life |
Tagged Choice City Butcher, Equinox, rain, Taste of Fort Collins |
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Posted on June 14, 2010 by Ingrid
Some people love eggs. Some people hate them. Personally, I love eggs and believe there is truly an art to cooking them well. Fried eggs are okay but I think most people don’t cook them right. They are either overcooked or undercooked. There is a real precision and finesse to making delectable eggs.
My favorite eggs are poached, but again this takes skill and finesse. Usually I go for scrambled because this is hard to mess up. But I’ve been to many a restaurant that has made them disgusting.
My husband and son are not egg eaters.… Read More
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Tagged deviled eggs, potluck |
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Posted on June 9, 2010 by Ingrid
Warm temperatures, sunny skies and long hours of daylight all add up to me maximizing my time outside. I avoid cooking indoors as much as I can during warm weather. My house just gets too hot when we use the range and oven, plus that means I’m inside and not out enjoying the nice evenings. To remedy this, we do as much cooking as we can on our backyard BBQ . For our first major outdoor meal of the season, we slow cooked beer can chicken, ribs and a favorite side dish of mine, grilled stuffed chilies.… Read More
Posted in Events, Food and Drink, Life |
Tagged BBQ, chiles, Recipes, ribs |
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Posted on June 4, 2010 by Ingrid
I love to make bread. I’ve been doing it for years and have only had one really bad loaf. In my household I’ve been the bread maker and I consider myself the bread expert.
My husband recently acquired (we are the king and queen of hand-me-downs and cast-offs; consider it our way of doing our part for the environment) an automated bread machine. It’s been great because he’s been making a fresh loaf of bread for the family each Sunday night. And, there’s nothing like bread fresh out of the oven.
I hate to say this but, I think my… Read More
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Tagged baking, bread |
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For the last couple weeks I’ve been listening to my Northwest friends complain about the rain in Oregon and Washington and the fact that it is June. After this weekend, I completely understand what they mean. Here in Colorado we had the sunniest, warmest Memorial Day weekend in years and it has been hot and sunny since. Up until Friday, that is.