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SHRIMP & BUTTERY MASHED POTATOES – YUM!

SHRIMP & MASHED POTATOES – You’ve heard of “Shrimp and Grits,” well this change is just as tasty and much more doable! Grits are hard to cook, for beginners, and many people don’t even know where to find grits. Potatoes are available everywhere and buttery, creamy, mashed potatoes are easy to make at home! Even […]

Mary Ann Docktor-Smith Loves Vintage Costume Jewelry

Mary Ann Docktor-Smith is a Chicago transplant now enjoying the warm climate and beautiful scenery of rural Arizona. She is an avid collector of vintage costume jewelry, a historian and also sells the wonderful pieces she collects, just so she can search out even more unique collectable works of art. Docktor-Smith has been a speaker […]

Crêpe Suzette – Flambé at Your Dinner Party

Crêpe Suzette   Crêpe Suzette is a French dessert consisting of a crêpe with a sauce of caramelized sugar and butter, orange juice, orange zest, and liqueur on top. It is flambé (usually table-side) before being served. Directions: – first make basic crepes, stack & set them aside Ingredients – place 2 knobs of butter in […]

Featured Artist: Winston Harrell – ARTS&FOOD Gallery Exhibition

Our latest featured artist is Winston Harrell: a Chef, Illustrator and Graphic Designer from Mesa Arizona. Below are some of the most popular artworks and food he has created. ARTWORKS All gallery art featured was created using acrylic paint, watercolor and/or colored pencil. He often uses Photoshop to color enhanced his final art prints. WEARABLE […]

Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures at MoMA, NYC

Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so called ‘documentary’…can be fortified by words.” A committed social observer, Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, the first major MoMA […]

Denver Loves Turkey Lasagna for a Cold Night’s Comfort Food Dinner

Delicious Turkey Lasagna Ingredients 2 1/3 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1 yellow onion, chopped 4 cloves garlic, chopped 1 pound ground turkey 3 cups fresh mushrooms, sliced 4 teaspoons dried basil 4 teaspoons dried oregano 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 2 (14.5 ounce) cans diced tomatoes 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste 6 cups chopped […]

Denver’s Cherry Creek Arts Festival – 350,000 visitors a year

This Denver Arts Festival brings together artists from across the USA Every Fourth of July weekend, Denver Colorado hosts the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in it’s upscale Cherry Creek shopping district. It is a very competitive, juried festival and the artists are selected from around the country. The jury selects the artists based on the […]

DENVER / THINGS TO DO / PLACES TO SEE / FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT

DENVER Situated in the South Platte River Valley, this modern city draws openness from the Great Plains to the east and features spectacular Rocky Mountain views to the west. Residents of this mile-high landscape are noted for their sunny dispositions and can-do attitudes. (Downtown Denver, at the capital steps, is exactly 5,280 feet above sea […]

Denverite Jim Milmoe Paints Abstract Art with his Camera

Denver Photographer Jim Milmoe notices compositions as he drives, walks and travels. Then with a precise crop through the viewfinder and a quick click of the shutter a “Photo Painting” is created. These photos are abstract in design, but one could not call them non-objective because they are not inventions of the mind, but real […]