Everyday Foodie

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Denver Biscuit Company

When we saw Denver Biscuit Company on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, we knew we had to eat there. It's also been featured on Unique Eats, among other shows. This place is out-of-this-world good!

We had a full day of eating planned, so we decided to share one biscuit sandwich (with fried chicken and bacon), smothered in sausage gravy, along with some cheesey grits.

The server asked if we'd like to start with a cinnamon bun ... it's a good thing we said no, because the things are gargantuan!

The grits were the best we've ever had. Soooo cheesey, so flavourful - perfect in every way.

The biscuit just made us crave more biscuit #foodie problems.

If we ever go back to Denver, this place just might be our first stop.

Have you ever had biscuits with sausage gravy?

Have you been do Denver?

Skiing

We spent Saturday skiing in Breckenridge, Colorado. We took a 7:00 a.m. shuttle from Denver to Breckenridge, which took about 90 minutes. We bought our lift tickets, then ate sandwiches for breakfast:

We had a great time on the slopes, and loved the powder. It has been snowing non-stop in Breckenridge, and they were boasting that they had the best skiing they've had since 1987!

Dig Christopher's ski suit:

We got hungry after quite a few runs, and shared a meal at The Warming Hut, which totally hit the spot:

Meatloaf with mashed potatoes & a mushroom tarragon gravy, and three cheese mac & cheese. Our food was fantastic!

We took the shuttle back to Denver. The 16th Street Mall looks really pretty at night, and we walked around for a couple minutes before heading back to the hotel:

We were way too tired to go out for dinner, so we ordered in to our room:

Do you like skiing? Where is your favourite place to ski?

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Valentine's Day in Denver

On Friday we went to a popular breakfast joint in Denver, Snooze.

We had a 40 minute wait, so we wandered around and enjoyed the beautiful weather. They texted us when our table was ready.

The service was excellent. Our coffees were never empty, and the server brought us a sweet potato pancake, on the house.

Our food was excellent. I asked for crisp bacon, and they cooked it exactly how I like it. Yum yum!

After breakfast we did some more wandering, and shared a mini Pinkberry froyo. It was so nice to be able to enjoy it out on a patio.

It got so warm that I lost the coat and we hung out on another patio.

We had dinner at the romantic, Biker Jim's Gourmet Hotdogs, haha!

Christopher had a reindeer hotdog, because they were out of rattlesnake hotdogs :-( I had a duck cilantro dog. One the side we had fried pickles and fried mac and cheese which BLEW our minds.

It was a lovely Valentine's Day. We went to bed early so that we could be up by 5:30 to catch our 7:00 a.m. ski shuttle the next morning.

Would you try a rattlesnake hotdog?

(I'm sad we didn't get to).

Ten on Tuesday: Travel Edition

1) Before leaving for Denver, we ate up all the perishable food in the house. One of our last couple meals before leaving was spaghetti with meat sauce. We bought some Parmesan cheese to grate on top.

If you want to know if the Parmesan is "real" Parmesan, look for the stamp on the rind:

Make sure you look really excited when you grate the Parmesan onto your pasta ;-)

2) The couple days before we left we had absolutely no groceries in the house. We went out for dinner to Swiss Chalet one day, and to Montana's with friends/family Mel and Steve the next.

3) Our flight for Denver was scheduled to leave on Wednesday. We went through security, where I got the full pat-down, we grabbed coffees, and waited to board our flight.

4) We sat on the plane for a good 2 hours, waiting for the weather to improve. I read a couple magazines and prayed that we'd get off the ground.

5) The weather didn't improve and everyone was invited to get off of the plane and wait for more news. We didn't want to get off!

We stuck around a little longer, but eventually our flight was delayed until the next morning :-(

6) We were so sad. We went out for supper to Lancaster to try and pretend we were on vacation.

This pretending was ruined when we had to go home to sleep. Boo!

7) Our new flight was scheduled to leave for 9:00 a.m. Thursday morning. We were at the airport for 5:30, as we still didn't know if we were confirmed on the flight, and we were told to show up very early. We boarded late, around 9:45, which was frustrating. We then sat on the plane for hours - again. The engine was not covered the night before and it froze. They blew hot air in the engine to melt the ice. Once that problem was fixed, the engine has a major malfunction! We were asked to get off the plane again, and were told that our flight was cancelled and wouldn't be rescheduled until Friday morning, at which time they hoped it would be fixed!!

8) We spent the entire day in the airport, stressed out, waiting in lines and on the phone for hours, and looking at flights to Vegas, Toronto, etc., in a desperate attempt to just get away somewhere. After Christopher waited in a line for about two hours for food vouchers and a hotel voucher (we were NOT going to go home to sleep again), a kind soul told him that she had one seat on a flight to Denver for 3:30. He took that seat and went on the standby list. Eventually, after a string of stressful events, the kind soul pulled a few strings she didn't have to pull and got us both on the flight. We were so relived that we didn't have to go home again and lose two days of our trip.

9) By this time, we were both exhausted. I got a coffee with cream, and was a little disturbed by the ingredient list on the "cream".

I didn't use it.

10) This third flight took off without incident. We arrived in Denver and headed to our beautiful Hotel, The Warwick. The room was huge with a walk-in closet, separate bedroom and balcony. It also has a rooftop pool that is open year round! Nice!