Denver Christkindl Market & Gingerbread syrup

Denver has a beautiful German Christmas market downtown called Christkindl. They sell food (like pastries from one of my favorite bakeries, Taste of Denmark), crafts, and they have a heated tent with music, German beer, and glüwein (mulled wine). I love going here every year - this year I don't work downtown anymore, but when I did I would go here for lunch :)

Himalayan Fog

I want to recount to you a very lovely memory....

Wild like a goose

I would like to share with you all a lovely snippet of Colorado life that I was introduced to in Hayden, CO.

First, let me make something clear. I do not care for food fads, and one of the ones I do not participate in is the gluten free diet (because I do not have celiac's disease, I don't think that I'll contract it somehow from eating gluten, and on top of it all I think the belief that gluten is unhealthy is just silly. That's just like saying that peanuts are unhealthy for me even though I don't have a peanut allergy).

But the gluten free banana muffins at Wild Goose Coffee at the Granary in Hayden are legendary. Legendary! Like, I-don't-even-like-muffins-but-I-bought-four-at-once-and-they-didn't-last-a-day legendary. They have crunchy, caramelly sides and swirls of ripe banana and brown sugar, and it's not just in one bite, the whole friggen muffin is that way.