LINKS

Here are some of my favorite links:

FOOD
All you cooks out there must already found the Bon Appetit/Gourmet page, Epicurious. You can find recipes for anything there...and lots of them. Here's one of my favorite shopping sites, EthnicGrocer. This is my friend, John's dining column in the Rocky Mountain News. Chocolate and Zucchini is my favorite food blog and the first blog I ever joined. Here's a link to Slow Food Boulder, the group I belong to that celebrates passion for food, life and pleasure.

My absolute favorite chocolate is Leonidas. It's from Belgium and is amazing! As always, I love the dark chocolate the best, with the white chocolate "pralines:", which is there specialty, coming in as a secret favorite (it's not truly chocolate after all). Luckily, I believe they come in every assortment. I used to make Belgian co-worders bring it back for me, but thankfully you can now order it in the USA!

FUN
Here are some sites for a few of the hot springs I like to visit. Strawberry Park Hot Springs, Cottonwood Hot Springs and Valley View Hot Springs.

I love Puffins and here's a place where you can download a Puffincam. It's not always up or working properly, but when it is I get a kick out of working with birds squacking in the background.

OTHER
Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center is close to my heart. They save large animals, mostly large cats, from a life of abuse and neglect. They have had a really tough time in 2005-2006 and really need your help. Please consider helping these amazingly beautiful animals.

Here's a link to the home page of one of my favorite musicians, Michael Tomlinson. His music is a mix of wonderful lyrics that you can relate to and make you think, with beautiful, yet energizing melodies. He's been catagorized as a folk musician, but I used to hear him on my local Jazz and Rock stations. I don't really know who to compare him to, other than maybe other male vocalists/guitarists like James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg...but he's different and refreshing. Big in Seattle!

Here are three sites you can check before forwarding any of those questionable e-mails. They list the hoaxes, urban legends etc.. so you can qualify what you read before you pass it on. I usually check more than one since not everything is on all sites. Urbanlegends, Snopes, Hoaxbusters.