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50 States, 50 Eats – Texas

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Published on February 1, 2011, by in FOOD.

I’m going to end the blogging drought with some food talk! Steve and I visited about 35 states last year, and when I think of each state, one of the first things that comes to mind is food. I like to eat, and when you work on the road, seeking out good food is a hobby. If you know Steve and me, you know that one of our favorite restaurants in Boulder is Khow Thai. Not even because the food is good, but because the food and service are consistently good. I value consistency almost more than the food. It’s comforting to have a favorite restaurant that is consistently good. In any event, our favorite restaurant in Texas (not to mention Rudy’s BBQ, a post unto itself), was also a Thai restaurant: Titaya’s Thai Cuisine. This is the absolute best Thai I have ever had. I might have never been

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Fiji’s For Lovers

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Published on November 10, 2009, by in ADVENTURES in biking, skiing, traveling, thinking.

If you’d like to know what I was doing between September 13 and September 27, 2009, think sand, scuba and lots of other things that start with ‘s.’ Sun, seashells, soft cover books, etc. We traveled to Fiji for our honeymoon, which went a bit like this: – Arrive at LAX, almost don’t board the plane to Fiji because of passport “complications” – One week on the island of Yaqeta (pronounced Yang-etta) in the Yasawa Group in NW Fiji, scuba, kayaking, lounging, sun, rain, 5-star food & drink, almost capsizing in a minuscule fishing boat during a torrential storm, music, walking around the island, periodic adventures. We stayed at the Navutu Stars Resort Fiji. – One week on the island of Taveuni (also known as the “Garden Island”) in NE Fiji, small aircrafts, hiking, kayaking, more reading, chai, Indo-Fijian cuisine, more scuba, sharks, sea snakes, sunsets, day-long taxi adventures with

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Best Burgers

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Published on August 18, 2009, by in FOOD.

Steve and I have been eating many typical summer meals. As part of our CSA, we receive a box full of fresh vegetables every week. Aside from the local, organic and seasonal vegetables, my favorite part of the CSA is that I don’t have to wander up and down the Boulder Farmer’s Market trying to decide what to buy and where to get the best deal. With our CSA through Cure Farm, someone else does my shopping. Thanks to our CSA share, our meals are usually built around vegetables – grilled zucchini and squash, tomato and onion salads, carrots of some sort, braised greens, more salads, etc. These vegetables would be wonderful on their own, and usually are, but Steve and I usually prepare a “side” of meat to go with our vegetables. We’ve eaten a lot of burgers this summer, and have developed a few tricks to make them

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