Culinary Corner - The Durango Herald

Why she drinks

About a week before Mother’s Day, I saw a sign near the College Plaza liquor store: “Remember your mother with a bottle of wine for Mother’s Day. After all, you’re the reason she...

DATE: Jul 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

The best kitchen tool for speedy summer meals

If you have ever had a really good beef stew in which the flavors were supercharged and the meat was juicy and the root vegetables tender, chances are it was made quickly in a pressure cooke...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Local peach crop arrives soon

The first peaches of the season are on their way to Durango. Matt Hauser of MLS Fruit will open next Wednesday at his usual corner south of Durango High School on Main Avenue, bri...

DATE: Jun 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Gluten-free is no fad

Look in any health food store and you’ll find aisles and aisles of gluten-free products, from crackers to chips to cookies to pasta and on. You might think, wow, what a fad. After...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Veggie chips are gluten-free treat

As more and more people are diagnosed with celiac disease and find themselves intolerant to wheat, where can they turn for well … a snack? Potato chips, of course, have no wheat, ...

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

A shopping primer for foodies

I’m a junkie for kitchen shops. I do not have to buy, but I can seldom pass checking out new finds that make food prep easier or better tasting. My standard for purchas...

DATE: Jun 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

The ugly greens

I’m old enough to remember serving a Caprese salad to guests and watching their forks gingerly pick among the leaves, not sure what to make of this odd green sitting on top of tomatoes and m...

DATE: Jun 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

The cost of options

Karen Brucoli Anesi Most of us do not have jobs that wed choose to do if they paid nothing. But, Im one of the lucky. For decades Ive written about things that i...

DATE: Jun 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

The hottest cold drinks for summer

Ever heard of kombucha? Me neither, until I saw it in all three of the area’s natural food stores and found out it’s one of the hottest selling cold drinks on the market. Sort of ...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Try dessert – on the grill

Four brave teams attempted dessert on the grill at Women’s Resource Center fundraiser last weekend, and they’re all good ideas for your next cook-out. The folks at the radio stati...

DATE: Jun 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Men Who Grill winners

If you were wondering who came away with top honors from the highly competitive Men Who Grill event last weekend, wonder no more. Judges awarded points for presentation and flavor...

DATE: Jun 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Colorado wine sells for $100 a bottle

While Colorado may be new to the winemaking arena, it didn’t take long for it to reach California prices for its product. Canyon Wind Cellars of Palisade is rolling out the first ...

DATE: May 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

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