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Just buying what is in season from the grocery store. Lots of squash, root veggies, and hearty greens. I'm looking forward to the spring veggies though!

I will not be having green beans this Thanksgiving. Pass me the winter squash instead.

If I see one more screenshot of Adam Richman grunting and sweating his way through yet another 10-pound plate of food, I'm going to drive straight to the Travel Channel's HQ and bitch smack the head of programming.

Until my husband and I went to San Francisco this past Labor Day weekend, we hadn't paid as much attention to the food on our vacations. (Normally we take vacations with the extended family and just cook at home.) But in SF we made food a priority - we ate fresh oysters at the Hog Island Oyster Co, went to get amazing cocktails at Clock Bar, and ate at a ridiculously yummy late night noodle house. The place played early Britney Spears and had a line out the door at 1 am. That, in my opinion, is the mark of a good noodle house!

I've been frequenting the Cherry Creek market here in Denver, but I've also made trips to the Boulder market, and I've been berry picking around Denver, too, for all my berry and fruit needs for jam.

THAT IS TOTALLY MY HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA.

Yep, Midlothian High School. Land of partially-cooked chocolate chip cookies. We were most definitely NOT served fresh fish there. Not that I would have eaten it anyways, in my Coca-Cola-and-ciggarettes-filled teenage bitchiness.

I'm glad John went first... it was too hard to look at him. It's not that I hate dreadlocks (I think they're pretty amazing personally) but it was the crazy eyes that did it.

All signs point to Angelo being the guy to root for... it's unfortunate he's such a pompous mofo. His attitude makes me want to jump into the TV and strangle his scrawny ass.

Mise en place, omg, MISE EN PLACE. I am forever forgetting that I need a cup of chopped onion or adding a tablespoon of cayenne instead of a teaspoon.

Meat Is Murder! Tasty, Tasty Murder!

so that i don't have to deal with loud and/or angry and/or drunk and/or multiple groups of people.

Wow, congrats go out to Nate Appleman. Not for losing 75 pounds, of course, but for finally being portrayed as something other than a giant asshole.

Having lived in Denver for only two and half years, I don't expect to know all the essential eateries in Denver, but I would hope that I could at least contribute to the list.

I'd say for breakfast, go to Snooze for sweet potato pancakes with ginger butter and bourbon caramel syrup.

For lunch, I'd take them to Illegal Pete's, as their carnitas tacos with poblano pesto make regular appearances in my dreams at night. Plus they serve beer, pretty much as soon as they open (10 am, I think, and no one would judge you).

For drinks and appetizers, I'd take them to Olivea, for the duck liver pate with pickled red onions and fig compote, and at least 1, if not more, of the Ophelia cocktail (gin, fresh rosemary, lemon, and soda).

For dinner, we'd go to Mizuna, which has an always-changing but always mind-blowing seasonal menu.

My Sunday night routine generally involves trying to make something big enough for dinner and a few lunches throughout the week.

And then there's the routine freakout at about 8 pm, in which I reflect on the fact that I have to go back to work all week, when all I really want to do is stay home and cook!