Notes from the beer tasting of Avery Brewing and Dogfish Head Craft beers for the "Calibration" dinner at Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywine, January 2010 at the Vail Cascade Hotel & Spa Comments: 0
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The newly opened Suza Baja Grill has a modern look to it's dining room that is both casual and chic. Comments: 0
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The Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywine Festival features many different components over the course of the weekend Comments: 1
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Summer Dishin’Entertaining with flair is made easy this summer with simple yet elegant recipes from five top Vail Valley chefs. |
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Head of the HouseThe grand tradition of the “maître d’” continues in the Vail Valley |
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Cooking Up a StormLocal chefs coach award-winning Battle Mountain High School culinary team |

Thanks to Carol for this question: "I am wondering if you are planning to write anything about the current Salmonella Tennessee in hydrolyzed vegetable protein... and how it just might be in 'everything.'"
I wasn't planning to make a big deal of the recall of hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) - and the more than 100 products containing this flavor ingredient in the United States and in Canada because the FDA seems on the job and nobody is getting sick (as far as we know).
But this one now looks like another food safety scandal.
To begin with, HVP is one of those fifth flavor, umami substances. As the FDA explains,
HVP is a flavor enhancer used in a wide variety of processed food products, such as soups, sauces, chilis, stews, hot dogs, gravies, seasoned snack foods, dips, and dressings. It is often blended with other spices to make seasonings that are used in or on foods.
Translation: it is indeed in everything....
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein is found in soups, sauces, chilis, stews, hot dogs, gravies, snack foods, dips and dressings. The salmonella in one company's HVP could lead to the largest food recall in U.S. history.
Dinner just got easier with this no fuss pasta meal. No-cook tomato sauces cling best to corkscrew or penne pastas.
Alice Waters shares a recipe from her cookbook The Art of Simple Food.
Flavored with onion, crushed red pepper, and grated Romano cheese, this dish is perfect with skinny crisp bread sticks and a tossed salad.
Make the choice for health! These quick and healthy breakfast ideas will get you going and keep you healthy. Include superfoods for a bigger health boost.
These tofu recipes offer savory and delicious vegetarian options.
Baked sweet apples taste great topped with chopped dates, brown sugar and cinnamon
Sweet caramelized pears top a rich, delicious butternut squash soup.
Tomatoes become a brilliant vehicle for a coating of seasoned bread crumbs and a quick saute.
We used this year's Best Picture Academy Award Nominees as "snackspiration" and found some great recipes for your Oscar party.
Check your cupboards for these granola bars. Better yet, learn how to make your own granola bars.
How to make granola bars, for a healthy homemade snack.
For flavorful mixed drinks, or a simple sip, try vodka infused with seasonal fruits and herbs. Here's how to do it.
Here's one easy and flavorful skillet dish meant for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner.