+ Cooking out back

I got a new camera! Student loans helped fund a new camera so I will be able to take quality photographs of my projects and build a good website for my blossoming design career.  In the meantime I tested out the manual settings last night while we had a big salad and stuffed zucchini on the grill with a fire crackling in the background. And of course, we have to get a picture of Otis in there. 

+ food snapshots: november

hot and fresh with a little cream. life is good and there is much potential in the morning with a cup of coffee in your hand.

heirloom apple with cashew butter is a great school snack

you cant have your avocado and eat it too

lavender mate with steamed soy

elephant garlic

    

+ food diary update

ive been making lots of smoothies and taking one with me to have on my morning commutes. when i dont have OJ for the mornings blending up a melon with alittle water and ice makes amazing fresh juice for breakfast. Cantaloupe and watermelon are out of this world. jewish style bagels with cheese and veggies, wild mushroom tacos...

+ native seeds

Glass Gem heirloom Corn

Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves, distributes and documents the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seeds, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico. They promote the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by gathering, safeguarding, and distributing their seeds to farming and gardening communities.

Native Seeds/SEARCH is a non-profit organization based in Tucson, Arizona.

Native seeds helps Native Americans of the Southwest grow plants that are healthy and help reduce risk or diabetes, something that plagues around 250,000 Native Americans.

-nativeseeds.org

+ roost

+ An Anniversary: Brown Butter Strawberry Cake with Swiss Meringue Cream

+ lentil cakes

http://www.roostblog.com/

+ beet box

at the Wash Perk, we get denvers best donuts delivered to us every week. these handmade, baked vegan donuts are delicious.

Where to Find them in denver:
Pablo’s Coffee, Wash Perk, Paris on the Platte, Sweet Action Ice Cream, The Queen Anne Bed & Breakfast, Fluid Coffee Bar, Crema Coffee House, Hooked on Colfax, Yellow Feather Coffee, Coffee at the Point, and Dragonfly Coffee and Tea.

for wholesale orders: (303) 332-7963.
www.beetboxdenver.com/

+ food diary

early april


missed the trash after a pot of french press



hard boiled, still hot with alittle butter, S&P



acai juice on the rocks in a belguim beer glass



almond milk with a cashew and blueberry jam sandwich. dont knock it till you try it. it'll blow your mind.

+ food diary

food diary

fancy dinners aside, my other meals are grazing the fruit bowls, tea, treats from the coffee shop, stevia pop, etc.

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Chocolate Syrup painting by Vik Muniz

cute of the day

from celestialfaun

Blue bottle coffee

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MR. COFFEE
How one San Francisco man turned his jones for java into a booming business.
Ten years ago, James Freeman was roasting his own coffee beans on a baking pan in his Oakland, Calif., kitchen. Today the former clarinet player and owner of Blue Bottle outposts in the Bay Area and Brooklyn (Williamsburg, naturally) is the leader of the artisanal Japanese-style, slow-drip brewing movement. Using organic, shade-grown beans that are sold within 48 hours of roasting, Freeman and his wife, Caitlin, a pastry chef, are converting customers one perfectly brewed cup of joe at a time. About his cult status among the caffeinated, he maintains an aw-shucks attitude. ‘‘I got burned out on the music playing,’’ he said. ‘‘This was my wacky Plan B.’’









PHOTOGRAPHS and INTERVIEW By THE SELBY
NYC Times magazine website

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