creative cooking

Here I am in Vail for the week. We missed our flight here (6am flight) and ended up going to Denver via Chicago and then driving three hours to Vail in the snow. Today-great ski day. 35 degrees-beautiful crystal clear blue skies perfect snow-what else could you ask for?

How about the hot tub and Champagne! After that we are totally exhausted. But not too exhausted to cook.

In the oven is a big oven roaster chicken with garlic pressed under the skin and a cut up orange in the well seasoned cavity. On the stove, the giblets for a little broth mixed with the orange juice from the oranges to baste the chicken with shortly. Hope it tastes good!

We were way too exhausted to go out to eat. besides-we are saving ourselves for the wed-sat activities on the mountain! happy hour is sure to be more fun as the week goes on. Well at least this is what we tell ourselves. in reality, we'll probably be on the couch tomorrow night too! :).

Oh and the story wouldn't be complete without telling you about He ski lift down the mountain. It was definitely an E-ride. Of course the most exciting part was that we took the lift down at 4:00 and about halfway down, in the middle of nowhere, the lift stops. All we could think was that they forgot we were on the lift and we were going to be stuck there for the night. It was really a scary experience. But after a couple of minutes the lift "ride" started again. Tomorrow we take the cat walk down!

I pre-appologize for typos. Can barely keep my eyes open! Let's hope I don't forget that chicken in the over,,,,,

jb