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Door to Door Organics–a Colorado-based company that delivers fresh, organic fruits and vegetables to its customers’ doorsteps each week–is back with their "All Local" Colorado box. During its debut last season, the box was a "huge hit," says company founder David Gersenson. And it’s no wonder why: inside, find an assortment of fresh goodies–all locally harvested–including peaches, cherries, melons, apples, spinach, corn and peppers. Depending on your appetite, go for the "Bitty" ($23.66) or the "Small" ($33.66). Mouth starting to water? Visit colorado.doortodoororganics.com to browse through the company’s complete menu of fresh assortments and delivery options.
In partnership with the Santa Fe based Museum of New Mexico, Kravet has produced its fourth fabric collection inspired by textiles from state museums. Taking inspiration from Navajo and Pueblo Indian rugs and ceremonial costumes at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Kravet has created a series of bold geometric designs and traditional southwestern patterns. The fabrics range from primary bold colors of reds and oranges to an updated indigo blue story fading into a more neutral gray palette. To accompany that, Kravet crafted a group of textural stripes adapted from Peruvian ponchos, Moroccan floor coverings and Turkish tunics found in the ethnic textile collection of the Museum of International Folk Art.
Want to surprise someone on Valentine’s Day? Give these adorable cookies from Rich Design. The Valentine’s gift box includes a chocolate heart dipped in white chocolate and peppermint candy, a chocolate raspberry heart, a sugared lime heart and a gingerbread heart.
These little cookies are so good you should order a box for yourself and your sweetheart!
To order, visit crrichdesign.com. Order by February 7th to ensure delivery for Valentine’s Day!
These adorable little hand-painted treats from John & Kira’s are almost too cute to eat. Wrapped up in a pretty box, they’re perfect for Christmas. The editors at Mountain Living have definitely added these to our wish lists!
The ladybug chocolates have a dark chocolate shell that’s filled with raspberry (red) and garden mint (green) Valrhona ganache. The bees are made from salted caramel that’s touched with fragrant basswood honey.
To order and to find other sweet holiday gift ideas, visit johnandkiras.com.
Are you looking for ways to eat more sustainably? Why not stock your freezer full of grass-fed beef from the Maytag Mountain Ranch in Salida, Colorado. Born and raised on the ranch, the cattle are allowed to roam and eat only grass–no hormones or antibiotics are used.
The beef is available in a quarter or half side. If you don’t have the freezer space, split an order with a friend. It also makes a great gift! The beef is usually available June through October, and you can pick it up at Maytag Mountain Ranch or at their processor in Colorado Springs. They occasionally deliver for additional fees.
Quarter side: weighs about 105 to 110 pounds, approximately $480, uses 3 to 4 cubic feet of freezer space
Half side: weighs about 215 pounds, approximately $965
So many of you loved the beautiful cookie creations by Rich Design that we just had to show you these darling new varieties that are perfect for fall. (My favorite are the bat sandwich cookies — a mocha cookie with dark chocolate espresso liqueur ganache filling!) To order, visit www.crrichdesign.com.
You already know Santa Fe’s Inn & Spa at Loretto for its location just steps from the historic Loretto Chapel (known for its miraculous spiral staircase), its classic Santa Fe architecture and the popular Living Room Bar.
Now there’s another reason to go: Luminaria, the inn’s new restaurant. Part of the property’s recent $7.5-million renovation, Luminaria offers a quiet, romantic atmosphere (think soft candlelight and a flickering fire in the Kiva fireplace) and a menu—designed by Executive Chef Brian Cooper—that blends bold traditional Southwest flavors and local farm-fresh ingredients.
Book the special "Illuminate Your Life" package—priced from $429, per room, per night—and you’ll get dinner and a great night’s sleep with a one-night stay in a luxe guestroom.
We love the cookies by Rich Design any time of year. They’re handmade using high quality ingredients and made in small batches so they taste just like grandma used to make.
We’re finding this year’s Spring collection to be especially irresistible. Each box includes an orange shortbread sandwich with white chocolate and orange liqueur ganache, iced espresso with chopped espresso beans, brown sugar pecan and a chocolate round.
Each little confection is so beautiful, so delicious and so sure to be envied by bakers everywhere, we’re almost tempted to pass them off as our own at the next school bake sale. Not that we ever would, of course!!
If you’re like us, you’re going green by trying to eat more locally. We know, it can be difficult at times, but this September 6-12, 2008, some of Denver’s best independent restaurants are making it easy!
During Harvest Week, participating restaurants from The Denver Independent Network of Restaurants (DINR; www.eatdenver.com) will create a menu that features food and/or beverages grown or produced in Colorado.
You can count on lots of Colorado’s classic ingredients to make an appearance, from peaches and sweet corn to chevre, trout and lamb. Also look for some of Colorado’s less-famous produce, like heirloom tomatoes, berries, greens and potatoes.
Restaurants may choose to do a four-course meal with Colorado wine pairings; a selection of local beers to compliment its regular menu; or a wine tasting with local wines and cheeses. In addition, several restaurants will host individual programs and events including talks with local farmers, presentations by Denver Urban Gardens, pick-and-cook events with kids and more.
All menus will be posted on the Harvest Week section of DINR’s website at: www.eatdenver.com/harvestweek. But don’t go looking right now! Specific menus won’t be finalized until mid-summer.
There’s just one problem we see: There are 33 restaurants on the list below, and only seven days of Harvest Week. Better start deciding now!
Agave Grill
Barolo Grill
Black Pearl
Café Colore
Campo de Fiori
Luca D’Italia
Dixons
Duo
Encore
French 250
Goodfriends
Highlands Garden Café
Izakaya Den
Marczyk Fine Foods
Mel’s
Mel’s Bistro
Mezcal
Mizuna
Osteria Marco
Pulcinella Ristorante
Racines Restaurant
Steuben’s
Snooze, an A.M. Eatery
Solera Restaurant and Wine Bar
Strings
Sushi Den
Table 6
Tables
Tambien
The Dish Bistro
The Fort
The Oven
Vesta Dipping Grill
Spring Training isn’t just a beer-and-brats getaway for the boys anymore. This year, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona, offers the “Bull Durham Romance Spring Training Package,” a uniquely romantic baseball vacation.
The package includes:
Two nights in a premium room
Two tickets to a spring training game
Four-course dinner for two in the Ventana Room, including a bottle of Clos Zero champagne
Two 50-minute spa treatments
A DVD of Bull Durham
Room tax
Rooms start at $625 per night based on double occupancy, with a two-night minimum stay required. Valid until March 30, 2008. loewshotels.com
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In partnership with the Santa Fe based Museum of New Mexico, Kravet has produced its fourth fabric collection inspired by textiles from state museums. Taking inspiration from Navajo and Pueblo Indian rugs and ceremonial costumes at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Kravet has created a series of bold geometric designs and traditional southwestern patterns. The fabrics range from primary bold colors of reds and oranges to an updated indigo blue story fading into a more neutral gray palette. To accompany that, Kravet crafted a group of textural stripes adapted from Peruvian ponchos, Moroccan floor coverings and Turkish tunics found in the ethnic textile collection of the Museum of International Folk Art.
Are you looking for ways to eat more sustainably? Why not stock your freezer full of grass-fed beef from the Maytag Mountain Ranch in Salida, Colorado. Born and raised on the ranch, the cattle are allowed to roam and eat only grass–no hormones or antibiotics are used.
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