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This Instant Pot Beef Stew is rich, hearty and ready in 45 minutes

Do you ever give yourself kitchen challenges? Every now and again I impose a set of parameters on myself to see if I can bring a meal in at a certain cost, with a specified number of ingredi...

DATE: Oct 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Halloween at home? Here are some tricks for making treats with kids

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. That’s every child’s dream, right? No school the next day, so they can trick or treat, go to haunted houses and ... But this is 2020 – a y...

DATE: Oct 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Bacon- and chicken-scented masks are here and, really, you shouldn’t be surprised

It was, perhaps, inevitable that food companies would see the masks that we’re wearing these days and envision them as blank canvases onto which they could project their brands’ advertising....

DATE: Oct 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Animas Valley Grange to host weed identification and management talk

Animas Valley Grange will host a talk about weed identification and management from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday via Zoom. La Plata County Weed Control Manager Ben Bain will talk abo...

DATE: Oct 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

CSU gardening programs accepting applications

The Colorado Master Gardener Program and Certified Colorado Gardener Program are now accepting applications. Newly accepted Colorado Master Gardener volunteers begin as apprentice...

DATE: Oct 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

How to make light, chewy, flavor-packed flour tortillas at home

Proficiency in Italian and counted cross-stitch are two things I thought I might learn during quarantine. I don’t know what happened to all those months, but I can’t speak Italian and I have...

DATE: Oct 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

San Juan Mountains Association, businesses launch ‘Weminuche Month’ to support wilderness stewardship

October is “Weminuche Month” for the San Juan Mountains Association and local businesses. The goal is to raise money for SJMA’s Weminuche Wilderness Stewardship Fund to support i...

DATE: Oct 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Navajo State Park makes needed repairs to boating infrastructure

Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently made repairs on facilities to assist boaters at Navajo State Park. The park maintains a grid of 29 mooring balls in the Mooring Cove area of N...

DATE: Oct 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Maple syrup and dates add a healthful spin to baked apples

The autumnal aroma filling your kitchen as this dessert bakes will have you swooning well before its time to dig in. It’s an anticipation that makes eating it even better, priming...

DATE: Oct 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Why making your diet part of your identity is bad for your health - and society

American dieters have a bad case of one-thing-itis. Every diet that has gotten traction in my lifetime, an unconscionably long time, has boiled weight loss down to one thing. Sure...

DATE: Oct 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food