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Nosh and La'au's, Colorado Springs

We went to Nosh again for happy hour last week. Of course it was fab. I had a glass of malbec and Mike had some Jim Beam and a beer. We both had cheeseburgers and shared some sweet potato fries. Delish!

Nosh, Colorado Springs

Check out this hair. Sheesh, I spent like an hour washing it, blow [...]

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Slow cooker black beans

I think I’ve mentione that it is really hard to cook beans up here at 6200 feet. So the other day I thought I’d go ahead and try to do them in the slow cooker. I had finished some in the slow cooker awhile back but I hadn’t done them from the start in it before.

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Poor Richard’s and Rancho Liborio, Colorado Springs

So, one place we go all the time but hardly ever talk about is Rico’s Cafe and Wine Bar- it’s part of Poor Richard’s. You know, the bookstore, toy store, and restaurant downtown.

Latte from Poor Richards/Ricos, Colorado Springs

They have all kinds of sandwiches, salads, and pizzas. Their pizza is really good. Their hummus plate is one [...]

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Rancho Liborio Mexican food and my attempt to copy it

Somehow I recently got on a Mexican food kick. But I wanted real Mexican food, not chain restaurant Mexican food. We’ve been to a few local places and remain unimpressed, so I thought I’d go ahead and make it myself. We went down to Rancho Liborio on South Circle Drive to get ingredients (BTW, they are a [...]

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Dinner!

DM liked the dinner I made tonight SO MUCH that he wanted me to do a post about it, so here goes.

Last night I made a sort of veggie tortilla soup with an onion, a carrot, a celery stalk, two cloves of garlic, some mexican oregano, a spoonful of chili paste, and 4 small zucchini. I [...]

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