Traditional Chili (Our Family Recipe)
It is a cold, rainy day here in Colorado today, so chili was an obvious choice for dinner. We’ve been doing this recipe since the very first year that we met twenty-six years ago, so it is one of our “go to ” recipes. It is great comfort food and, typical to these types of… Read more
The Draw of Something Familiar
We love going to places that we’ve never visited before and learning about the different cultures. Sometimes, however, it is nice to revisit a place that you’ve been to several times before. We are heading back to Cabo San Lucas in the Baja Peninsula of Mexico during the second week of November. It has been… Read more
We Love Chicago
It seems like forever ago now that our youngest daughter graduated from college and we helped her move to Chicago. That was certainly a memorable trip, not just because our daughter was moving to a big city, but because it was our first trip to Chicago. Amazingly enough, we’d probably flown through Chicago a hundred times, but never actual… Read more
Pumpkin Bread Pudding (Pumpkin Cookie Recipe)
We were at one of our favorite restaurants last night and they are participating in restaurant week where restaurants create special menus with discounted prices. The owner is a friend of ours and stopped to talk to us while we enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine. He asked if we’d seen their menu for… Read more
Wine Tasting in Ronda
There is nothing better than doing a wine tasting, especially when travelling to foreign countries. Two years ago, we spent two weeks in Estaponia, Spain in the Costa Del Sol. It was an amazing time travelling throughout the region and exploring the many sites that the area has to offer. We rented a car while… Read more
Take the Chance and Reap the Reward
The old saying is true, without risk there can be no reward. Perhaps risk is too strong of a word, maybe it should be that if you don’t take the chance, you’ll miss out on a great experience. There have been several examples of this during our travels, but there was one experience that stands out for… Read more