My first guest is Lee Clayton Roper, Co-Author of “A Well Seasoned Kitchen.”
By mother and daughter, Sally Clayton and Lee Clayton Roper, A Well-Seasoned Kitchen is a gold medal-winning treasury of over 180 delicious recipes, creative menus, beautiful 4-color photos and poignant memories of cooking and entertaining together. This unique book is ideally suited for today’s modern cook who juggles a busy life but finds joy in preparing meals for others. Each recipe is handpicked and tested for uncomplicated preparation, sophistication and exquisite flavor.
If you are like me you spend time (a lot of time) reading cookbooks. While searching for the next best meal or this weekend’s dinner party menu, you sift through just-okay recipes, glad-you-didn’t-try-that recipes, great recipes, and soon-to-be-favorite recipes. It seems more often than not the great and soon-to-be-favorite recipes are the easiest to make and the most delicious. Unfortunately they come few and far between. Lucky for food lovers, an entire soon-to-be-favorite cookbook has arrived! I spent much of the holidays reading and taste testing the recipes from the cookbook A Well-Seasoned Kitchen.
This book was written by a mother daughter team from Denver – Sally Clayton and Lee Clayton Roper. The cookbook is more than just recipes; it’s a memoir of the cooking duo’s most loved dishes and stories from the family kitchen. Most recipes are easy to make with tips and tricks on simple yet elegant entertaining. A portion of A Well-Seasoned Kitchen’s proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Colorado Chapter –Amanda Faison, 5280 Magazine, April 2, 2010
In the second half, and just in time for New Years Celebration – I’ll be talking to one of my favorite Chef-Author-Cooking Guru-TV personality and friend; Rick Rodgers. Rick is the spokesperson for Yellow Tail Bubbly.
Good Life Guy’s Bubbles of the Week:
NV Yellow Tail Sparkling White
NV Yellow Tail Sparkling Rose’
Tried both of these inexpensive wines pre-Christmas and was impressed. This isn’t fancy French Fiz, but it’s got fruit, some sweetness – but not too much, and just the right amount of bubbles to enhance the easy drinking fruit flavors. Made using the Charmat process adding bubbles to the blend for each. Great value to share with a crowd for the New Year or anytime!
Sealed with the handy “Zork” an easy to open and re-seal wine closure that makes serving a breeze and still provide that festive pop when opened.
Pick up some at Jacob Liquor Exchange and enjoy!
Happy New Year!