Eat Like Ben

Most of the keepers we’ve been selling at the coop over the winter came from two Longmont Farms: Rough & Ready Farm and Sunflower Farm ....

The round-bottomed wife tries to eat local as much as possible but at this time of year she begs for big earthenware bowls of Arizona...

We meet people on market days that don’t eat lamb because they think lambs are babies. “Baby lambs” are the young animals they are...

In case of emergency, do not break glass! The round-bottomed wife is a bit of a chipmunk. Hearty food in small bundles disappear into her...

Sometime in early February, spring fever sets in. The sun-deprived wife pesters me to go out and hunt around between retreating patches...

To relax in the evening, my wife watches films and TV series on her France channel – that is, when she’s not watching her German,...

Soma (pronounced “Shoma”, it’s a Hungarian name) wanted to smoke a Thor’s Hammer, which is a specially prepared beef shank. That’s...

Having grown up in New England, I remember making candy coated apples using a sticky caramel sauce. Worse, I recall eating store-bought...

A few years back, we held a Valentine’s party where we invited guests to bring red food. Our contribution was the main dish, a set of...

This time of year, we remember a tiny bodega, with one forlorn window on the street. Visible in the window was an electric crock pot with...

Around our house, I am the pie-crust maker. We make our crusts out of organic white rice flour. Mary cannot have gluten and I can't...

Some days I just don’t plan. Then, ravenous, I have to do food, fast. Last night I was lucky. I found ground meat thawing in the fridge....

The round-bottomed wife has been irritable for days. She got a project in her teeth like a puppy with a juicy marrow bone, only...

My estimable, round-bottomed wife is a bit of a kitchen witch. She keeps a half dozen large pots busy with all manner of things. Today,...

Originally published 31 October, 2024 My neighbor's dad knows many good streams here along the continental divide. He catches trout. When...

On Saturday while I headed to Denver to run a pop-up farm stand at Nurture Wellcare Marketplace, my wife Mary was rendering beef fat into...