sunday sweet treats at crema coffee house. what’s your sunday tradition?
besides being the place where ramona first learned to use chopsticks, uncle is a new-ish noodle bar in the LoHi neighborhood of denver. we’ve been twice now and, each time, leave happy and satisfied. the service is a bit aloof but certainly not rude or unprofessional. there are no reservations, which i’m partial to bc it makes it more of a neighborhood place — the place you want to pop into when you want some warm, comfort food. however, it still works great for a fun night out with friends. i’m not a food critic (and neither are you, you delusional yelper) so you can read all about the food at uncle here. suffice it to say, the powerdriver family loves the restaurant: the counter service, the cool cat servers, the limited menu, the sparse decor, the proximity to our home.
easy peasy recipe for chicken tacos cooked in a crock pot. i’ve been eating this a lot (maybe too much) recently.
ingredients
- chicken thighs (3 to 4), frozen or thawed.
- 2 tbs chopped chipotles in adobo with sauce (find them canned in your grocers’ ethnic foods aisle)
- 4 cloves of garlic thinly sliced
- 1 can diced tomatoes (if you don’t want it too tomato-y, halve this)
- 1 tbs chili powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12 good grinds black pepper
directions
- put all the ingredients in the slow cooker on high (phew! that was hard)
- remove chicken after four hours and shred (make sure to get the bones and cartilage parts out!)
- Add enough sauce to make delicious (i usually drench it!)
- serve w corn tortillas, rice, black beans, shredded cheese, avocado, diced red onions, whateveryoulikeonyourtaco!
if you’re designated to bring a dessert for a family christmas gathering or one of the many holiday parties you’re probably attending this december, bring this easy homemade apple pie. it is simple but will wow everyone. i made this for thanksgiving and will probably insist it’s made for christmas eve dinner when we’re back in minnesota later this month.
ingredients
- 8 – 11 medium granny smith apples
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tbs flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- dash of nutmeg
- two ready-made pie crusts (or make your own. but you’ll have to find your own recipe for that).
directions
- heat oven to 400 degrees F
- core and peel the apples
- slice them thinly
- mix together the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg
- add to the apples and mix or toss or somehow move around to make sure they are all equally coated
- line a pie pan w one of the pie crusts
- heap in your apple mixture. pile it high!
- cover this with the second pie crust
- pinch the sides together and make slits in the top for air vents
- bake for 50 min
- let cool for at least an hour before serving
serve with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.
sunday, family day, we three took a meandering walk to the park, little bean. we had no intentions of stopping for ice cream. but after chasing you around the playground and seeing you try to steal a little boy’s cup of ice cream, it was the perfect end to a family stroll. i chose the avo-nilla ice cream in a sugar cone for you and me to share. pretty sure, once i handed that bad boy over to you, our licks were not even near equal. you gobbled that ice cream up so fast the way your papa does — he’s finished with his bowl before i can even get comfy enough on the couch to reach for my late-night dessert.
i love you, funny face ice cream monster.
love, mama.
(little man ice cream is our favorite ice cream shop in denver — a city where you can eat your ice cream outside at the end of november and be perfectly warm.)
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