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A blog on food, photography, and living life to the fullest by Jen Yu. It is also partly a personal journal of her random shenanigans since 2004. There is no theme unless "whatever she feel like making" is a theme. She is a freelance nature and food photographer and the overlord of this site. She calls the Colorado Rocky Mountains her home and spend a good bit of time hiking, trail running,..
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2y ago
Recipe: baked oats Time is doing strange things because of my intense focus on my health, diet, and exercise of late. I feel as if all the moods of spring have been smashed into the past few weeks. As we stare an approaching heat wave in the face, it’s hard not to reminisce about the ..read more
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Recipe: green chile chicken enchiladas peony tulips for kris on may 1 While it might seem quiet around here, it has been anything but. Three months ago, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and began medication that sent my GI system on a 6-week roller coaster ride. I changed my diet, increased my exercise ..read more
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Recipe: chow mein How can so much time have passed so quickly? Jeremy and I puzzled over this on our 25th wedding anniversary earlier this month. We celebrated with a low-key home-cooked meal. My parents congratulated us. The pups were business as usual. The past several weeks have been busy and roller coaster-y (and that’s ..read more
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Recipe: bakery-style butter cookies I hope you all had a restful holiday and were able to recharge as needed. After all of the cookies were baked and distributed, we holed up in Crested Butte as 100 inches of desperately needed snow fell on us during Twixmas week. That kind of snow is the stuff of ..read more
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2y ago
Recipe: Roasted Carrots It’s been a rather productive fall for us, which may have a lot to do with the lack of snow. November provided few flakes for the ski resorts and the backcountry. But the high, dry winds delivered some outstanding sunsets and sunrises. Rather than gripe (too much) about the delay in the ..read more
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2y ago
Recipe: crumbled tofu stir fry Thanks to some technologistical hiccups, my last post was published before email subscribers were migrated to a new service, so I apologize if you didn’t receive a notification. But email subscription limbo has now been resolved, and hopefully this is the last we’ll talk about that. Most of our aspens ..read more
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Recipe: huckleberry pie Housekeeping Update: Subscribers may have received an email burp of use real butter post summaries recently. We’re not sure what Feedburner is doing, so I apologize. We are in the process of migrating your use real butter subscription to a new service while minimizing any further weirdness you may encounter. Until the ..read more
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Recipe: meatless meatballs Housekeeping News: Google has eliminated FeedBurner’s email subscription service which means you won’t be receiving emails announcing a new use real butter post from now on. I did research other email subscription services, but soon realized my goal is not to grow this blog; I simply want to document recipes and some ..read more
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Recipe: roasted porcini with gremolata I keep my summer expectations low to minimize any disappointment. It’s a strategy I apply to life in general, but it serves me particularly well when dealing with the realities of mushroom season here in the Colorado Rockies. Some years it’s great. Some years it’s terrible. Some years it’s okay ..read more
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Recipe: gluten-free chocolate chip cookies June went from lovely to horrid and (thankfully) back to lovely. I’m sure we have several swings of the pendulum ahead, but right now I’m truly grateful for the current cool and rainy pattern that is sitting on our faces and keeping smoke from the wildfires at bay. the pups ..read more